One council has started removing controversial Covid-19 lockdown cycle lanes while London MPs call for the road restrictions to be ripped up in the capital city. The Government provided money for pop-up cycle ways in May in an effort to reduce demand on public transport and encourage more people to shift to bikes. Officials in … Read more
Victory for drivers! Council finally removes hated Covid lockdown bike lanes that caused traffic jams while also seeing a DROP in numbers of cyclists Government gave money for pop-up cycle ways in May to encourage bike use West Sussex officials decided earlier this month to remove lanes from five towns Pictures show workers removing the … Read more
Covid cycle lanes HAVE been chaos: Grant Shapps admits new routes brought in during pandemic have caused traffic jams and hit 999 calls Grant Shapps criticised councils causing gridlock with badly designed schemes He blamed the London Mayor Sadiq Khan for some of worst cycle lanes Department for Transport will spend £2billion on cycle lanes … Read more
As my wife and I strolled down our local high street with our dog Charlie early one morning last week, the November air was clogged with fumes. The smell of pollution wafted from hundreds of cars, vans, lorries and buses which were stuck nose-to-tail in a horrendous traffic jam. It never used to be like … Read more
Fury as government grants ANOTHER £175million to fund new cycle lanes and road closures during pandemic despite congestion chaos clogging cities Ministers unveiled a £175million package for new cycle lanes and road closures ‘Active travel’ scheme will turn over sections of road to pedestrians and bikes Department for Transport’s decision prompted outcry from motoring groups But scheme … Read more
Now even CYCLISTS turn on Sadiq Khan’s cycle lanes: Furious biker launches petition to end ‘chaotic’ green city plan… launched as capital ground to halt with lockdown traffic Motorists have become weary of huge tailbacks caused by pop-up cycle lanes Cyclist Georges Assi has taken matters into own hands by launching petition It is focused … Read more
Council REMOVES hated Covid lockdown bike lanes because they cause traffic jams while being ignored by cyclists West Sussex Council is removing pop-up cycle lanes from at least five towns Residents complained the cycle lanes were causing major traffic congestion Special monitoring equipment showed very few cyclists were using the lanes Officials said as a … Read more
Every day, more than 80,000 cars and lorries pass along the busy Marylebone Road, a major arterial trunk road that has run into and out of the Home Counties since the 18th century. It travels past major landmarks including The Regent’s Park and Madame Tussauds before becoming Euston Road and ending at King’s Cross in … Read more
Grant Shapps has hit out at ‘unused’ cycle lanes clogging up traffic – blaming some town halls for misusing special funds for ‘green’ transport. The Transport Secretary declared he was ‘not prepared to tolerate’ badly designed road closures that led to traffic being ‘backed up’. He also vented his fury at new cycle lanes that … Read more
A cycle lane brought in as lockdown measures eased to try and reduce car numbers in London is being removed after causing traffic chaos. Less than six months after Transport for London announced a series of measures to cut traffic in the Capital, the Euston Road bike lane is set to be removed. Changes to … Read more