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Old August 19th 08, 08:35 AM posted to uk.transport,uk.transport.london
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Default TfL Admits Livingstone Regime Deliberately Obstructed Traffic Flows

JNugent wrote:
Brimstone wrote:

JNugent wrote:
Brimstone wrote:
JNugent wrote:
Brimstone wrote:


Strange, I'd always got the impression that you were in favour of
more people being allowed to travel easily by road between
various points in London? Maybe I've misunderstood.


That does not include allowing pedestrians, cyclists,
horses-and-carts, moped-riders and milk-floats to use motorways.


Which motorway is such traffic allowed to use?


The former A40(M), M41 and A102(M) - or at least, the automatic
motorway restrictions no longer apply.
All achieved by stripping those roads of their motorway status and
handing them over to Mad Ken.


So they're not motorways?


I was wondering whether you would try that line.

They used to be motorways and had the traffic-flow efficiencies of
that category.

Then they were reclassified as non-motorways precisely so that Mad Ken
could get his grubby mitts on them and downgrade the speed limits,
narrow them, or anything else of the sort of thing you'd expexct from
him (he never had authority over any of the London motorways - eg, M1,
M3(?), M4, M40, M11 - except the ones which were nobbled and handed
over to him.


I used the Westway in both directions yesterday and noticed no diminuation
in traffic capacity compared to their previous status. In fact the only
change I saw was in the designation and numbering of the road and the
consequent alteration in the direction sign colour.

What is your evidence that there has been any such diminuation? Is there any
point to your ranting other than to poitlessly and unjustifiably castigate
Livingstone?