Nigel Farage blasts ‘insane’ cycle lanes in London as he shares video of ambulance stuck in traffic outside hospital next to empty bike track A man filmed traffic including a blue light ambulance piling up in central London But footage shows widened cycle lane adjacent to the road completely empty Nigel Farage shared the clip and … Read more
Council chiefs rule that hated High Street Kensington cycle lanes will NOT be reinstalled despite Sadiq Khan-led survey claiming more than half of local residents support scheme Temporary lanes installed last year using cash awarded from transport scheme But they were removed in December after some 322 complaints were received This then sparked a huge … Read more
Hundreds of miles of bus lanes will be built to discourage driving, Boris Johnson will announce today in one of his first acts of ‘levelling up’ Britain. In a major transport shake-up, the Prime Minister will also unveil simpler fares with daily price caps for multiple journeys across different types of public transport. Councils and … Read more
Now for bus lane bedlam! After cycling chaos, now Boris Johnson finds £3bn for ‘clean, green’ revolution to put THOUSANDS more buses on British roads (and keep motorists off them) Boris Johnson to unveil new plans to hundreds of miles of bus lanes later today Councils and operators to be urged to run more frequent services for … Read more
The Beast can’t go to Bodmin! Joe Biden’s £1.1million presidential limo ‘won’t fit down Cornwall’s lanes’ for the G7 summit in June Joe Biden’s presidential limo set to stay in US for his first overseas trip in office He is attending the G7 summit to be hosted at Carbis Bay, Cornwall, in June Expected to … Read more
Sadiq Khan‘s ‘Streetspace’ scheme was ‘seriously flawed’ and ‘took advantage of the pandemic’ to push through ‘radical’ and permanent changes to London‘s roads and should be quashed, the High Court ruled today. The judgement followed a legal challenge by organisations representing black cab drivers who were angry about being banned from a new bus-only route … Read more
Patient with a life-threatening condition sues over bike lanes near a hospital that could be ‘matter of life and death’ if narrower road causes congestion Amit Shah has said that the move could be a ‘matter of life and death’ for him Removal of parking spaces means he can’t rely on a friend to rush … Read more
We will ditch Boris Johnson over bike lanes, say 27 percent of Tory voters, as council pays ‘gatekeeper’ van to monitor road barely used by cyclists in Surrey One in four people who voted Conservative say they will not do so next time Public support lost amid anger over the cycle lanes introduced during pandemic … Read more
It’s the narrow battleground that sparked a passionate debate in this newspaper between actor Nigel Havers and broadcaster Jeremy Vine over the cycle lanes springing up all over Britain. After Havers blasted a West London council for turning Kensington High Street into a ‘fume-choked Bedlam’, cycling celebrity Vine hit back by saying that if the new … Read more
Council bosses are facing growing calls to refund £300,000 of Government money following their decision to remove the ‘disastrous’ Covid cycle lanes on Kensington High Street. Kensington and Chelsea council confirmed the lanes would be removed by December 2 after Tory politicians, Tony Devenish and MP Felicity Buchan, said the the scheme ‘hadn’t worked’. The initiative, … Read more