The 20mph limits in London are an utter joke. There are some roads in which I seriously question why.Lots of changes happening in london too with money being wasted as usual. In central london they spent 6 million on the marble arch mound which looks like an absolute eyesore, with cheap plywood and artificial grass stuck to it.
Re traffic- down the other side of park lane they’ve made it from three lanes into two with one just for cyclists and put the speed limit from 40 to 20. To get to St Mary’s hospital my dad had to go through a lot of side roads. Same thing as we drove through Camden yesterday. Lots of diversions and road closures.
30mph on the A40 westway, a road that at one point in time used to be 70mph - utter madness.
As for the ULEZ, all this will succeed in doing is make the North and South Circular roads continually gridlocked. As if they aren't currently bad enough.
TfL are now mulling over a £3.50/£5.50 a day charge for driving within the M25, this is on top of the ULEZ and congestion charges. Plus a pay per mile driving charge. They are utterly greedy.
If they want transport to pay in London, they need to start enforcing people having tickets. I've been on a few TfL services for which the barriers were open at both ends. No wonder their services lose money.
Instead they find ever more ways to hammer motorists to pay for their failings.
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