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@Aroogah

I am not talking as a motorcyclist, I am talking as a user of public transport (bus). I thought a constructive discussion was possible. I was wrong. You have pretty much all confirmed the us vs them aggressive attitude of the nazi cycle lobby. Congrats, guys!

@Brookly_Bay
"Normal traffic" is already penalised, and rightly so. between congestion charge, insanely expensive parking fees in central London, etc, it is already heavily penalised. Quite simply, it is delusional and wrong to think it can or should be entirely eliminated, as there will always be cases where public transport or cycling are not feasible options.

@Brookly_Bayto
to the detriment of all those people who can't cycle and whose bus journeys will take much longer, but who cares about them, since they are not organised in super aggressive lobbies like cyclists are?

@wildwest

With all due respect, so what? Single cases are utterly irrelevant. I am a motorcyclist. If I had received a penny every time I saw a cyclist doing something stupid and worthy of the Darwin awards ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Awards ), I'd be a billionaire by now.
I'm sure you can tell similar stories of motorcyclists who misbehaved on the road, of course.

So, basically, not a single person on this forum is prepared to acknowledge that segregated cycle highways have been and will be inconveniencing users of public transport. The utter disrespect for other road users is amazing.

@Brookly_Bay

Oh, yes, sure, and what happens to 'normal traffic' then? Not your problem, right?

@Hefty

And I'm sure your granny is representative of the tens thousands of grannies who cycle into central London. Odd, I always see mainly people in their 20s to 40s, mainly male and disproportionately white, cycling into central London, while all the other categories seem to be on buses and tubes.

@Thrasher

Define efficient. Efficient for whom?
How about those who can't cycle, eg grannies, families with babies, people with luggage? You don't care about them because you don't belong to those categories, right?

@stedlocks
so asking a question is trolling, yet calling bus users wankers is OK. Are these the forum rules? Am I right in suspecting that if a user were to call cyclists wankers he'd be banned, but a cyclist can call non-cyclists wankers? Congratulations, guys, lovely forum you have

@Aroogah

So asking a question is trolling?

If no comment even remotely critical. Of cyclists is allowed, forum rules should say so clearly.
Otherwise, don't call me a troll just because you don't want to answer an inconvenient question, which, by the way, is the very same the Transport watchdog asked at the time.

And you think it's OK because....?

I find it shocking that the new cycle superhighway from Oval to Vauxhall has, in fact, got rid of a dedicated bus lane northbound. What this does is giving priority to a private means of transportation, however green and eco-friendly, like the bicycle, over a public one, like the bus. Not every one can or should want to cycle; grannies, families with babies and all the other Londoners who have a gazillion reasons not to cycle will be negatively affected because their bus journey times will be much longer. I understand prioritising green over non-green means of transportation; but private over public?

Am I the only one who thinks this is bonkers?