Cyclists in the City just came up with this Boris-seeking missile: Outrageous: 33% more pedestrians killed, 60% more cyclists killed and 21% more cyclists seriously injured. Boris Johnson - your traffic smoothing policy is killing people.Personally, I'm not sure Boris or Ken made much improvements -or to put it correctly, they slowly gave in to pressure but both failed to redesign the city to put bikes first. Because you see, this is what the Dutch have done, something that even the LCC don't really recognise.
In essence, the infrastructure is still grossly inadequate -something I've blogged about previously. In a nutshell, I think TfL has absolutely no idea whatsoever on what a "cycle track" is. I don't think any of their engineers actually cycles. Can't be. Or that would be an all time height for ineptitude.
And those sad numbers? As far as I am concerned, the fact there's been a huge increase in cycling can not play a contributing factor. Many of those cyclists are not that proficient either, nor are the drivers.
Related posts:
- Kennington People on Bikes: Why didn't we use the cycle path?
- Sustainable transportation in Richmond?
- Cycling in London: it's about time to do something!
- Has cycling reached a critical mass in London?
- Good to see cyclists campaigning against road planning
- Cyclists living in fear
- Cyclists to be given the right to ride the wrong way
- TfL still has little ideas about cycling lanes...
- Cycle superhighways: an expensive joke?
- When are we going to see this in London?
- Reversing the burden of the proof would encourage cycling
- Some hope for London cyclists?
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