On Fri, 28 Nov 2008, John Rowland wrote:
Tom Anderson wrote:
On Thu, 27 Nov 2008, Andrew Heenan wrote:
"Tom Barry" wrote ...
Boris to announce today. Bye bye public transport improvements,
hello happy petrolheads.
Happy for a week or two. Then the penny will drop. Back to all day
queues at Kensington Church Street. Hoist With Their Own Petar.
Plus more income (and less congestion) in the original zone.
Lager and crisps all round!
Quite. As a resident of northeast London who works in central London,
i'm happy that inner-west Londoners will be discouraged from driving
into my bit of the city, and quite content to watch them stew in
their own juice in theirs.
Stew in what juice? Most of the extension was ridiculously quiet before the
CC was extended.
Er, well, steam in their own juice then. You need less of it.
There is talk of a loss of 70 million in charge revenue, though. I'd
like to see this made up by increasing the central charge, but
there's no prospect of that happening, so i suppose it'll have to
come out of the budgets for public transport, cycling, and black
lesbian mime groups or whoever it is that Boris hates this week.
Yeah, that cycle-hating *******.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph...ke_667500n.jpg
http://themotorreport.com.au/wp-cont...ing-a-bike.jpg
http://www.everydaycycling.com/web/M...ON_BIKE_DR.JPG
http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/20...is-johnson.jpg
http://www.marinbikes.com/cms/_image...in-bike_v2.jpg
Oh, he rides a bike. That means his policies must be good for cyclists.
Oh no, wait.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2...-boris-johnson
http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/3613
http://www.channel4.com/news/article...gerous/1829747
And i have yet to hear a peep out of him about reducing the danger posed
by HGVs.
Still, here's a splendid article by the Great Helmsman:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...mment.politics
Apparently bendies are "odious, inhuman, socialistic 18-metre Frankfurter
buses". Perhaps he thinks that they're inherently communist because
they're red? Oh, and "the greatest menace, much more lethal than the
motorcar, is the catatonically oblivious pedestrian, in particular the
foreign tourist". He's right, of course, pedestrians kill and injure far
more cyclists than motor vehicles.
Oh no, wait.
tom
PS Apologies for the number of Grauniad links, by the way.
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