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
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
The beginning of the end of London’s cycle lanes? Congestion-causing bike route on Euston Road will be removed – prompting calls for OTHER lanes to be axed London Assembly hears Euston Road bike lane will be axed after causing delays It was brought in at the easing of lockdown to encourage cycling around London There … Read more
Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner but I love whizzing around London town. Get me behind the wheel of my (fully electric) car and – toot toot! – I’m practically Mr Toad. I gaze through the windscreen with a huge smile on my face as I whir through the city. I adore every chimney pot … Read more
Pop-up cycle lanes set up as part a £225million plan to get Britain moving again are lying empty while traffic is squeezing onto narrowed streets, bringing the capital to a halt, it can be revealed. MailOnline visited some of the key cycle lanes across the country at the height of the rush hour to gauge … Read more