London Banter - View Single Post - Mayor sets out plan for 22-mile ring-road tunnel under London

Robin9 · May 18th 14, 09:43 AM

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(David Cantrell) wrote:

On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 06:31:52AM -0500,
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(David Cantrell) wrote:
It would certainly make a big difference to the bits next to the
laughable south circular. That road is sufficiently awful that I often
find it quicker to just drive straight across London instead of using
it.

I don't think you have absorbed the lessons of how roads generate
new traffic.

So do railways. So clearly it's pointless to build or upgrade railways
because they'll only get clogged up with pesky passengers.

Not at all. As has been demonstrated over the last 20 years, the railways
have handled huge increases in traffic surprisingly easily.

But anyway, you, my friend, appear to have not absorbed the lessons of
how junctions and conflicting movements impede traffic flow. THAT's the
problem of the south circular.

Ho, ho! How simplistic!

--
Colin Rosenstiel

The railway industry and its supporters seem to disagree with you. They are
always trying to whip up a panic about the need for still more tax-payers'
money to cope with the overcrowding and general lack of capacity. In fact,
a supposed lack of capacity is now the pretext for HS2 as the need for higher
speeds and shorter journey times is no longer credible.

As a fairly regular user of parts of the South Circular - the parts which have
not been ruined - I can't see what is simplistic about David Cantrell's
assessment of the road.