gaz
Cycle Camera TV
- Location
- South Croydon
ATTENTION London cyclists. Protest ride again on 16th of july
- Thread starter gaz
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Our London mayor is failing on his promises at the cost of human life.
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
TfL; Traffic flow London or Truck fatalities London?
Black Country Ste
Senior Member
- Location
- West Midlands
If it was Friday I would have made the journey on the basis that where London goes, the rest of the country drags its feet in a provincial whine. Tongue out of cheek, it's not just a London thing and LAs across the country need to pull their fingers out and start providing us with useful, safe infra. The more bodies down there getting that message across, the better.
jefmcg
Guru
Seriously? It's on in 11 hours and it's still "more details soon"?
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
A little forebearance might be in order here. A protest cycle causes traffic delays, and routes and policing takes a lot of work and planning. We might not know the route yet but we do know where it will start from.
Looks like it belongs to the forum/content software they're running on their website. More likely than not a false positive.
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
This was the provisional route, meeting at 18:15, leaving at 18:30 from Russell Square south (obviously details may change later but for now....):
Route (provisional)
Meet in Russell Square (south side)
move off in Russel Sq south,
turn right into Southampton Row
turn left into Theobald's Road
turn right into Proctor st
site of crash at south end of Proctor st
turn right into High Holborn
turn left into Kingsway
turn left into Remnant street
End of ride in Lincoln's Inn Fields
Route (provisional)
Meet in Russell Square (south side)
move off in Russel Sq south,
turn right into Southampton Row
turn left into Theobald's Road
turn right into Proctor st
site of crash at south end of Proctor st
turn right into High Holborn
turn left into Kingsway
turn left into Remnant street
End of ride in Lincoln's Inn Fields
Any fatality is awful, and the roads could be safer, but I think he's trying his best. In the 8 years I've been cycling in London for, it's improved massively. I have far fewer people pulling out on me, vehicles generally give me more space than they used to. There just seems to be far more general awareness now.
Obviously there's always more that can be done, but having a fatality rate of zero is a very, very difficult thing to achieve. Either way, I think things are moving in the right direction fortunately. Although, my thoughts go out to the victim's family - it must be terrible for them.
There is improvement in that the number of cyclists has increased. I'm not sure the road conditions have improved. More cyclists however means more political clout and we should use it. In the past our numbers have been too low for the politicians to pay any attention.
Bullshit.
I'm sorry but that is not a convincing argument for the proactive bike mad mayor you seem to recognise.
He and his cronies have sped up the traffic, stacked cars and HGVs at junctions and made cycling a sometimes terrifying prospect for some Londoners.
Just watch he is setting Andrew up for a fall, blue paint is about as good as it gets right now.
If only the UAE were mad about cycling.
