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Your trips are not limited. You have 100 free passes and then pay for others (much like the congestion charge) you can use alternative including the ring road for free its only in Cowley & east oxford

Penguin's interpretation of the Oxford rules is wrong. They've made this misinterpretation several times. An Exeter MP is now getting death threats over the small number of LTNs being piloted there, even with better communication about how they work. The police arrested someone for the threats.

Yougov polling from yesterday Con: 24% (-3% following the roll back on environmental pledges) Lab: 45% LD: 11% reform: 8% green: 7% SNP: 3% it's going to have to be a big dead cat. Cones Hotline 2.0

Except that they massively lost the Senedd no confidence vote against the changes last night.

Man who benefits from market forces doesn't like it when market forces affect him. He's a landlord, he doesnt make, or produce anything. He buys things using credit (unavailable to others) and then restricts supply to increase profit. Am i right to assume that your post was a polemic, otherwise you're almost both siding an argument for feudalism.

Lordship Lane in 1860

So many non sequiturs in your response i'm not sure where to begin

What did the Romans ever do for us etc (apart from expand the iron age road network). And the existence of turnpikes disproves the built for public benefit theory and even then they weren't built for cars. The boom in tarmac roads came from the uptake of cycling at the end of the nineteenth century who lobbied government for better roads. Its not until the 50s that you see roads built for cars primarily in mind. /typo edit

Within a 12 month period between 2016 & 2017.

You didn't correct anything at all.

You're having a reading comprehension lapse again.

Again this is all untrue.

You must be exhausted after all this goal post moving.

Rockets, thanks for agreeing London isn't the most congested city on the world. As for INRIX, I don't know. Does that report tell you? It tells you in one part that major road works (nb not LTN) stopped in one city, resulting in a large reduction in congestion from the last year. It tells you that the majority (>75%) of uk cities had increased congestion. I'm not sure 75% of cities in the uk have LTNs do they? It also says that there's a significant impact in different cities and the way they returned to work post covid. But how does INRIX measure congestion? Oh yes, their methodology (apart from ignoring data from China and India) for their congestion rankings is based on an assumption that you should be able to travel at the same speed at peak time as off peak. Their methodology then uses that difference to create a ranking. Can you see a flaw? They also don't factor in the length of the journey taken. So sprawling carcentric cities get lower rankings (which is why LA doesn't feature and we all know what Dione Warwick's pithy transport evaluation of that city was). Inrix say that global road gridlock is getting closer and that road pricing (not means tested) is the answer.

And yet the INRIX research you are quoting also says that the busiest london roads causing the majority of the delays are nowhere near LTNs. It says that that worst effect was on the Fulham Road as Hammersmith Bridge was closed by - guess what, too much vibration from vehicles. [INRIX also doesn't include cities in China or India, so 'most congested in the world except for those other pesky bits of continents with cities in']

Half of this isn't true true is it? Driving is a privilege not a right, recognised by the fact that a license is revocable and that compulsory insurance required to operate a vehicle on the road. If it were a right, you could have your license revoked and still justify driving. Try that and see what happens.

All of which are speed limited and require actual ID linked to an individual to hire - unlike a car - which is registered to an owner not the operator. Simple answer to the library junction is to add a green light bike filter - a cyclists only crossing phase.

You're funny! I would say that you post like a teenager, but that's disrespectful to teenagers You get caught posting a video without watching it properly first. That video has your hero character calling someone a scumbag and hoping that they get hit by a bus. Serious personal injury was not the argument that you were really trying to make but you have an inability not to always last word every conversation you have. No one here is not calling out poor road behaviour. That's all in your imagination. And your examples don't qualify your actions. Driving to the speed limit? Certainly proving the adage that not all heroes wear capes. Anyway, to the point you were trying to make when not sulking - it's policed less than you want because the govt and the police don't think its a priority because its proven severity and impact are of lower consequence than risk and harm caused by other road users. Its policed proportionally. Which means that you are down to a sort of Schrodinger's cyclist argument - allegedly their numbers are down, so provision for infrastructure should be reduced, but offenses by cyclists are up and therefore should be policed. Given that a fixed penalty notice is what a cyclist would be fined , why aren't the police / southwark seeing them as a great cash cow?

Such projection

Don't try to change the subject. You watched that video in which he says that he "hopes [someone] gets hit by a bus" and thought, 'i know thats just what i want to post on the EDF'. Right?

I wonder whether Rocks agrees with his opening comment of "scumbag, i hope you get hit by a bus" towards a cyclist?

Now this is an Alan Partridge / pedestrianisation of Norwich City Centre argument we can all get behind. Extrapolating it, all cul de sacs are discriminatory, no through road council estates are the work of the devil and De Beauvoir Town is high up in Dante's circles.

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Good to see the current Work and Pensions secretary is clearly an EDF reader - today they're suggesting the over fifties might like to work as Deliveroo riders.

Its not though is it - its the basis for traffic management applied globally. Also, I'm Spartacus