TfL considering modifying cycle lane on Blackfriars Bridge

signed. it's probably all that can be done right now, but I believe the 20mph will be fairly useless unless it's enforced with speed cameras. my street is 20mph and the councillor has admitted there is nothing they can really do to enforce the constant speeding that happens up and down the street.

signed. it's probably all that can be done right now, but I believe the 20mph will be fairly useless unless it's enforced with speed cameras. my street is 20mph and the councillor has admitted there is nothing they can really do to enforce the constant speeding that happens up and down the street.

Same problem on the street I live on, but I've still signed it. Maybe it takes lots of little things to add up to something better on Blackfriars?

Thanks all for your support. This is a really important campaign if we're going to persuade London's government to make places rather than motorways. Blackfriars Plaza has huge potential as one of the most attractive locations in London and the political priorities (unnecessary worrying about 'motor traffic capacity' (*) tends to always defeat worthwhile schemes) are still all skewed.

(*) For those who don't know, this is the idea that unless you design streets, and junctions in particular, so that large amounts of four-wheeled motor traffic can be pushed through them, there will be more congestion. This is not the case, as research has shown, as creating more motor traffic capacity also attracts more motor traffic. People switch to other modes if car use isn't constantly prioritised and incentivised.

Oliver
LCC

well, that was a fiasco

boris and the tory members walked out rather than debating the 20mph motion. so much for the cycling mayor.

time for a new flashride/sitdown protest?

well, that was a fiasco

boris and the tory members walked out rather than debating the 20mph motion. so much for the cycling mayor.

time for a new flashride/sitdown protest?

Unfuckingbelievable.

Just tweeted and re-tweeted the rage at that move. Talk about a democracy fail.

sorry to hear it, attendees well done for campaigning

what a joke... and utter disgrace from the 'cycling' mayor.

What did he attend instead?

well, that was a fiasco

boris and the tory members walked out rather than debating the 20mph motion. so much for the cycling mayor.

time for a new flashride/sitdown protest?

Get to the media first. Being first to be publically outraged is good for adding weight to a campaign. If they literally walked out and anyone had the presence to videophone it, whack it up on youtube and splash it across the media. Play the anti-tory card, play the underdog card and play the broken promises card.

Then set up a flashride/protest/whatever.

Here is the audio record of the walk-out, including the chair reading out the names of all the Assembly members who walked out.

That's brilliant, now chuck it on a blackscreen with some rolling text commentary and upload it to youtube.

In the current environment immediacy is an advantage not to be squandered. Get them on the back foot, get the toothpaste out of the tube.

i;d like to have subtitle so i can actually understand them.

fucking hell.

we need a protest - block the damn bridge.

Dam up the damn bridge, flood east london

use the hipster as archer, the nodders' battling ram and the roadie as knightmens.

neu - You do know where Blackfriars Bridge is and which way the Thames flows don't you?

ed, fixieskidders as a bunch of queens?

neu - You do know where Blackfriars Bridge is and which way the Thames flows don't you?

Depends if the tide is coming in or not. If it's coming in, then a dam would flood east London. But I know what you're saying.

neu - You do know where Blackfriars Bridge is and which way the Thames flows don't you?

You're right, maybe it's not such a good idea

Depends if the tide is coming in or not. If it's coming in, then a dam would flood east London. But I know what you're saying.

I don't know. There are probably enough cnuts in Shoreditch to stop the tide.

is cunts stopped the tide, then city hall is well placed to beat them to it

BANGRIGHTBACKONTOPIC

i;d like to have subtitle so i can actually understand them.

fucking hell.

Ed, there's a fully-captioned version here:

http://static.london.gov.uk/webcast/jun11/assemblyplenary_080611.asx

Go towards the very end of the cast, I think about 3:45h or so, which is when the Conservative group have suddenly disappeared.

That link just download a movie files, and while playing, no subtitle, unless i can find the option to turn it on in windows media.

and it's 3:15 hours.

Instructions how to turn captions on on this page:

http://www.london.gov.uk/who-runs-london/the-london-assembly/webcast-captions

Sorry, I assumed that you knew how to turn them on.

You only have to watch the last five minutes or so of the total three hours and fifty minutes.

It's a fucking disgrace alright.

The LCC and various bike bloggers have been working really hard on Blackfriars - first to get the old plans re-opened for consultation, then consulted on, then getting the cycle lanes re-instated. Hundreds of people have written, petitioned and protested. The 20mph motion, whilst not binding, was potentially a big stick to waive at the Mayor and TfL and would have passed if the Assembly stayed quorate. Instead of having a democratic debate, and then facing possible defeat, the Tories just got up and left so that the motion couldn't be debated or voted on.

Apparently the Tory AMs have 'discussed the issue with the Mayor and TfL'. But didn't feel it necessary to do so in front of their electorate or account for themselves to all those people who took the time to write / protest etc.

And TfL, who are totally unaccountable and unelected, have so far refused to release any modelling data on which they are basing their assumptions that our proposed plans will cause traffic anarchy.

The whole thing is a disgrace. There's lots of characters in this play and lots of weirdly subtle but outrageous bits coming out of it, but the exec summary is this: Boris, TfL and the Tories are screwing over cyclists and cyclist safety and don't give a damn.

Anyone up for a bit of angry mobbing outside City Hall / on the Bridge any time soon?!