http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: "Sunday Times front page says road jams caused by segregated bike lanes" en Sun, 31 May 2026 19:00:02 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17036#post-234074 Sun, 16 Oct 2016 11:40:30 +0000 Rob 234074@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Illustrated with a photo containing no cycle lane, hardly any white vans and more private cars than anything else. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17036#post-234073 Sun, 16 Oct 2016 11:05:21 +0000 chdot 234073@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p>Congestion is inefficient, polluting and dangerous. So why not reduce it? Removing just 5% of traffic at peak times could substantially reduce or even eliminate rush hour congestion from many cities. One approach that is beginning to stoke interest among municipal leaders, even in large metropolitan capitals like Paris and London, is road pricing. The theory seems sound enough: introduce a price on bringing cars into congested areas that incite drivers either not to travel unnecessarily or to vary their times of travel or, indeed, to try public transport, walking or cycling. With the right approach, drivers who incur higher prices during rush hour periods would benefit from reduced congestion and travel time, while non-essential travel would take place at less congested and cheaper times.</p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="http://oecdobserver.org/news/fullstory.php/aid/647/Road_congestion:_What_s_the_deal_.html" rel="nofollow">http://oecdobserver.org/news/fullstory.php/aid/647/Road_congestion:_What_s_the_deal_.html</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17036#post-234072 Sun, 16 Oct 2016 11:02:01 +0000 chdot 234072@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p>The articles in the Sunday Times and the Daily Mail are similar to many other motor-centric pieces that have been published down the years, written by the kind of folks sitting in their cars looking to blame anyone but themselves for the amount of cars in front of them, or, as car satnav maker TomTom put it in a 2010 outdoor poster: “You are not stuck in traffic. You are traffic.”</p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="http://www.bikebiz.com/index.php/news/read/sunday-times-front-page-says-road-jams-caused-by-segregated-bike-lanes/020207" rel="nofollow">http://www.bikebiz.com/index.php/news/read/sunday-times-front-page-says-road-jams-caused-by-segregated-bike-lanes/020207</a> </p>