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Posted 7 years ago #
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Steve McNamara, general secretary of the Licensed Taxi Drivers Association (LTDA), told City AM
"It's probably the craziest scheme anyone has suggested for some time. The reality is that taxis are driven by professional drivers, and they are easily accessible vehicles that drive at low speeds. Buses have more accidents than taxis... If it is based on the number of accidents, then buses should be excluded."
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Posted 7 years ago # -
Best comment:
'"taxis are driven by professional drivers" - so are getaway cars!'
Posted 7 years ago # -
London really is leading the way in the UK*. But there's no reason why it should be. What's stopping other cities/regions from trying schemes like these?
* West Midland police aside.
Posted 7 years ago # -
London as a whole has raised cycling by 53% in eight years. Not bad. But the new cycle superhighways have seen the same % rise in SIX MONTHS
Posted 7 years ago # -
MP on transport committee suggests that the reason for more congestion is that there is less tarmac.
Uses the weird idea that individual journey distances have decreased by 10% but that journey times have increased... Not anything about the NUMBER of journeys.
Pretty much every study I've seen blames construction traffic and vans (plus roadworks) for most of the congestion.
Posted 7 years ago # -
Sadiq Khan (not to be confused with Sadik-Khan in any way whatsoever):-
"Mayor says previous regime had "unnecessarily confrontational approach" to introducing cycling schemes - won't be so under new czar"
of which Sadik-Khan has much eloquence about all the reasons for inaction. You cannot get a friendly consensus from all parties when you are taking from what one party considers their entitlement - 2 metres of road space, a parking place etc.
Bring back Boris J (and get him out of the foreign office where he embarrasses us all).
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"Bring back Boris J"
You don't really mean that, just because this is true - "(and get him out of the foreign office where he embarrasses us all)."
Clearly Boris was in favour of cycling, but it was Andrew Gilligan who did most of the work - notably getting TfL to take GOOD cycling infrastructure more seriously.
It may be that the reference below means that the new Mayor will have less influence and perhaps that TfL will have more control (not necessarily in a good way) -
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The job is this time a Transport for London role, as opposed to one with City Hall.
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Posted 7 years ago # -
Andrew Gilligan tweeted the quote above with his own tweet.
"Think this must mean no longer doing anything that is objected to by anyone. Looking forward to four years of non-stop achievement!"
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