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FFDF London News Number 79—April 2021 FFDF London News Click on any index item below to go directly to the article in The Mayor has very wide dictatorial a digital edition. Editorial powers and Transport for London (TfL) who develop his policies is an In this Edition Next month is when London goes to unaccountable body stuffed full of the polls to elect a new Mayor and a public transport enthusiasts ever More Changes at Bank new London Assembly. We cover since Ken Livingstone was in power. most of the Mayoral candidates on Why LTNs are Failing page 13. When TfL depends on income from bus and tube fares, it is irrational that Times Covers Delays to I have been covering transport issues they should have control of the road Emergency Services in London since the directly elected network in London and be able to London Mayor was first installed in impose taxes on road users. They Lies, Damn Lies, Statistics and School Streets the year 2000. We first had the car have no interest in improving the road hating Ken Livingstone, then the cycle network and reducing congestion but LTNs Force Vehicles into enthusiast Boris Johnson and lately would prefer to force people onto Poorer Roads the incompetent Sadiq Khan. Mr public transport. Khan has used scaremongering over The Safety of LTN Roads air pollution to raise millions of This situation will only change if a pounds in taxes from road users. Mayor is elected who wishes to have High Court Hearing on JRs The result of these three regimes a revolution. That person is certainly and Camden Road Closures has been a degradation of the road not Sadiq Khan so my recommenda- tion is “vote for anyone than Khan”. Greenwich LTN and Opposi- network with more traffic congestion, tion to Enfield “Regime” and limited improvements in public As regards the other candidates, transport. The finances of TfL were Horn Park and Weigall Road put on a knife edge and hence there are certainly some who would LTN in Greenwich/Lewisham caused a major deficit when the scrap Low Traffic Neighbourhoods Covid epidemic hit. (LTNs) and the ULEZ FOI Request Ignored expansion. But it’s Road users have been paying a lot your choice so please Albemarle Road, Bromley more in taxes already from the make sure you vote if Congestion Charge (a.k.a. tax) and you live in London! A Better Deal for Bus Users? the ULEZ tax. And they will be paying Roger Lawson even more soon with the expansion of Profits from Parking, Black- (Editor) wall Tunnel Fire and Police Bill the ULEZ if Khan is re-elected. Towing Away of Vehicles Quotes of the Month London Elections “They don’t even want bollards with keys as it takes too long. When it comes to strokes or heart aacks, every second counts”….. Emergency Service Change of Name and Address Worker on LTNs ‐ see Page 4. “Five minutes probably doesn't seem long to whoever came up with the idea See the last page for of the barriers, but to a London Ambulance Service publisher and contact (LAS) crew trying to get to a cardiac arrest paent information. and give that first shock, it slashes our chances of a viable resuscitaon”….. Leer to Private Eye. See P.4 Copyright © Freedom for Drivers Foundation —www.freedomfordrivers.org Page 1 London News More Changes at Bank The City of London Corporation have been working assiduously to remove all traffic from London’s streets in the last few years regardless of the impact on residents, businesses and visitors. Bank Junction has already been subjected to severe restrictions on all vehicles except buses and cycles, thus effectively closing this key junction in the centre of the City. Even taxis - The closure of Queen Victoria It includes proposals for widening have been excluded much to the Street between Bucklersbury and pavements around the junction annoyance of taxi drivers. The Bank Junction for motor vehicles, which the road closures will Corporation are now proposing to except those vehicles exiting enable (artist’s impression go a step further and close more Walbrook in a westbound above). Bus routes will also of the roads, even to buses. direction. have to be changed. The latest changes include the following: - Closing Princes Street except For more details and to respond for buses and cycles northbound; to a public consultation go here: - The closure of Threadneedle and except as a route for servic- https://tinyurl.com/5h5hmwpf Street to motor vehicles that runs ing to Cornhill in a southbound along the south of the Bank of direction. England. Comment: It was certainly the The latest changes do not The support for LTNs comes case that Bank Junction was a improve matters but will make from a desire to reduce traffic, problem on two grounds: 1) the things worse. For example if particularly on residential streets. volume of pedestrians using the Threadneedle Street is to be This is promoted by their support- junction with the station being closed it should also be closed to ers as a way to reduce air pollu- enlarged when pavements are cyclists to avoid conflicts with tion and to tackle climate change. very narrow (at least until the pedestrians. recent epidemic); and 2) as A number of London councils regards road safety with frequent Please respond to the public have declared “climate emergen- casualties including fatalities. The consultation if you have an cies” which they say justifies an complex nature of the junction interest in these roads. attack on the use of vehicles, with many buses passing through particularly internal combustion it and high pedestrian traffic were Why LTNs are driven ones. But this has extend- partly to blame. ed to halting the use of all vehi- Failing cles which it is argued will reduce It therefore was not unreasonable traffic accidents, enable children to look at simplifying the junction to play in the streets and encour- Low Traffic Neighbourhoods to enable more pedestrian space age people to walk and cycle, (LTNs) are still spreading over and improve the environment. thereby making us healthier and London but opposition to them is However, the removal of all traffic live longer. Even those who own growing. Some have even been was very damaging to the road vehicles (about 50% of London removed or substantially reduced network in the City of London, households own a car) would like already due to local opposition. and has caused traffic to simply to see less traffic as high traffic It’s worth reviewing why they move to other roads with levels cause congestion and have failed or generated such additional congestion. hence extended journey times. opposition, and why they are even being installed in the first Continued on next page. place. Copyright © Freedom for Drivers Foundation —www.freedomfordrivers.org Page 2 London News Those roads become more are frequently ignored by council Why LTNs are congested and as the traffic is planners who tend to be young slow moving or stationary, it and unsympathetic – indeed the Failing (Cont.) creates more air pollution for Equalities Act which protects residents of those roads, not minorities is often not properly Many residents who own cars less. considered. want to drive via the shortest and least congested routes possible LTNs do not reduce the demand Of course it does depend to but don’t want folks from for travel. They might encourage some extent on how well adjacent neighbourhoods the use of walking or cycling by designed is an LTN. It has been driving down their street. the healthy and young cohort of long standing practice to close the population but there is very some minor roads to avoid There are undoubtedly good little evidence of a significant excessive traffic which should be arguments for encouraging change in the habits of existing on major roads. At least that is healthy life styles not just for your car drivers. In other words, the the theory but in London even personal benefit but because it claimed “modal shift” generated major roads are commonly roads reduces the cost of the NHS by “modal filters” and such like is on which people live in apart- which we all pay for out of taxes. frequently a mirage. The traffic ments, i.e. they are residential However the introduction of LTNs does not “evaporate” as claimed roads also. as a solution to excessive traffic but gets redistributed or delayed has followed the law of unintend- as circuitous routes are taken. Other roads such as major shop- ed consequences. Firstly they The elderly and disabled are ping “high streets” have been tend to simply redistribute traffic particularly disadvantaged as pedestrianised to the from minor roads onto surround- they may be unable to walk or advantage of shoppers ing major roads. cycle far, if at all. But their needs and retailers. This writer certainly has no Even public transport has Follow the Blog objection to such measures become heavily congested while which remove traffic to other buses are delayed and become The FFDF London region has a roads as long as the needs of the less attractive to use because of blog where many of the articles disabled are taken into account. the traffic congestion. The rise herein first appeared. It is present of deliveries of internet orders by here: Although overall vehicle owner- LGVs has also increased https://freedomfordrivers.blog/ ship and traffic volumes have markedly leading to higher use To get the latest news as it actually not been rising in of minor roads which has also appears, follow the blog.
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