Removed London bike lane blocked by parked cars most of the time – study
Analysis shows average car journey times have also increased after Kensington and Chelsea council took out lane
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Removed London bike lane increases average car journey time
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Yeah, this has been studied. It's called Induced Demand.
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But we keep building wider roads and highways and electric cars are not going to be mass market anytime soon. All while we are facing a climate crisis.
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But we keep building wider roads and highways and electric cars are not going to be mass market anytime soon. All while we are facing a climate crisis.
This is interesting; they added a ton of cycle lanes up in Hull and the local rag are constantly making out like it's an issue as are the commenters (People have been like no one uses them, cyclists don't obey the rules, pay road tax. Cyclists have also been attacked). There are of course bad cyclists but personally I find indicating, checking before turning right, stopping at lights etc fairly easy and if cyclists are using the pavement (A bug of mine, one killed my cat) then the police need to step in (Their is of course no resources).
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The road tax one always blows my mind. I can't believe people still say that.
Far fewer powers as I understand it. Worth noting that the UK is more generally a very centralised nation when it comes to setting and implementing policy - and throughout the country local government has very specific and often limited powers.
I'm not an expert on this, but London's a weird situation where it's divided into 32 separate municipalities (we call them councils in this country) with a sort of additional layer of governance on top (the Greater London Authority) that the mayor heads up. He has a good deal of control over some things but in other areas (for example what's happened here) the local borough council made this decision themselves, and they're notoriously conservative and anti-cyclist more generally.
Not shocking coming from Kensington and Chelsea council, they've been openly against making things better for cyclists for years now. They even stopped an East-West superhighway going through their boundaries, so if you want to go through the borough you'll be forced onto the roads again for large stretches.
I read somewhere that building more road doesn't ease congestion simply because you can't physically build enough concrete to house the amount of traffic that society demands. The cars just fill up the extra space like a liquid.
Depends on the state. In some places, individual municipalities have free-reign over their city so long as city law doesn't conflict with existing state or federal law. In other states, the state (usually state legislature) has complete supremacy over cities and can pass laws to modify city boundaries, zoning, and laws, even in ways that would be illegal for cities themselves to do.
Yeah, a conservative council blocked part of the cycle path plan the mayor was rolling out. They seem desperate to get Sadiq out.
Mayors in the USA generally have very strong powers.
The councils are generally only employee with land use decisions.
Mayors in the USA are typically sued for every policy change they make that affects parking and travel lanes.
Then you have useless mayors like NY's.
