Are they moving traffic from wealthy neighborhood too poor ones?
And damn isn’t everyone who lives outside of London indignantly pissed off that the city is being designed for its residents rather than them. Funny that a lot of them also suddenly seem to care about the plight of the working man unlike never before—just so long as we’re talking about the plight of the white van man being able to drive around London.
This same thing is happening in Kansas City, where the city’s been building a streetcar system the last five years. The suburbanites spent a ton of money trying to get residents to vote it down, but we like having better public transit, so it got expanded instead.
And couldn’t they use trains to London, or is the infrastructure lackluster? Or is it just the convenience of a personal vehicle? I’m genuinely curious
The public transport infrastructure is good enough to handle most people’s needs. Trains and buses cover the entire city and are regular enough to rely on.
There will always be journeys that require cars, but a lot of people just want comfort, especially if they come from more car-centric parts of the country
And tower hamlets mayor started to close ours down… What a fucking cock
Oh cool! Our town does something similar in the summer. One street is dedicated to the farmer’s market, and several chunks of parking are converted to outdoor seating.
They used to do that here too on the street in front of the movie theatre downtown where’d they’d block off the street on weekends for the farmer’s market or other events. Eventually, they just put permanent bollards up and now it’s not a drivable street at any time. Too bad it’s just a single street on a single block. That area has way more stuff that would benefit from not being cut through by constant traffic
