I agree about the negatives Hal, but there are the many positives, though it seems you don't have any where you cycle. I just see that someone is trying to make things better after half a century of no-one doing anything, and so I'm prepared to be open minded about that.
Central London is a bit of a hopeless case of course, the roads are locked into the buildings and very little can be changed without blitzing it, so I'm at a loss to understand how cycling there could be improved without a congestion charge. Of course Ken had a plan for cycle through-routes, but the voters have stopped any chance of that by voting him out which has to be stupid, given that a chance of improvement is better than no chance at all.
As said, I would hate for things to go back to how they were in all the areas I use, the lack of cycle facilities, the belligerence of car drivers against the previous tiny minority of cyclists, the battered old buses and lousy eratic service, and the large numbers of buses on our primary east/west routes before the trams replaced many of them.
I'd like to see congestion charging in my zone to cut the traffic, the sooner the better.
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