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@ackneycarriage @telbo7 @The_LCDC They don't provide it but they dictate the CoF

@telbo7 @The_LCDC What can TFL do?Im shocked they didn’t know the extent of the problems with LEVC it’s not TFL responsibility to provide s vehicle .They should be seeking a alternative vehicle if LEVC can’t provide one

@BBCLondonNews Nothing compared to the damage he's done

The mayor of London, Sir Sadiq Khan, has called for Labour to go into the next general election promising to rejoin the EU. bbc.in/4dfn2PV

@betterstreetskc @RBKC 9 million people living here. Not content with taking Albert Bridge out of action, now wants to address the traffic on Battersea. It's almost like these people see traffic in a city the size of London as optional.

3/3 traffic in the area and on Battersea Bridge (still) needs addressing. The ultimate answer? Fewer private car journeys, better options for bus, walking and wheeling. That’s what @RBKC should be focused on. For some traffic plan ideas therantyhighwayman.blogspot.com/2023/08/batter…

Albert Bridge - never intended for cars - has been damaged by them. It’s now a great bridge for pedestrians and people on bikes. Let’s keep it that way. 1/3 c.org/pwCT2cCLBD

Having worked in the public sector, I can confirm it operates as a mafia. A giant holding pen for mediocre people with mediocre degrees to wear suits and create work for each other so they can steal an ever larger chunk of taxpayers' hard-earned money. Of course they spent £180 million deciding not to build a road tunnel. When I worked in public sector management consultancy, we were tasked with finding efficiencies in the IT department of a large government agency. One man we spoke to had two laptops on his desk. He said one was for forex trading and the other one was to monitor his chicken farm in Ghana. There was no shame as he told us this, no realisation that he was actually being employed to do a job that didn't involve forex trading or managing a chicken farm in Ghana. We were struck by the number of people sitting around doing nothing, even for a public sector organisation. Then we discovered that the man running the IT department also owned an IT recruitment consultancy. Every man he hired into this IT department from his recruitment consultancy put money in his own pocket. So there was a huge incentive for him to just hire as many men as possible to get as rich as possible. Never mind being prosecuted over this - I don't think he actually lost his job. And there's an incentive in the rest of the public sector to hire as many people as possible because the more people you manage, the more important you are, the bigger budget you get, and the greater your salary. (On the plus side, as a management consultant, finding efficiencies in the public sector is a piece of piss.) When you hear about public sector investment, this is money taken from the real economy and given to people to produce very little. This isn't "investment" any more than a bank "invests" in bank robbers. It's not done to make a profit. It holds the real economy back, not just in terms of the tax burden, but also in the huge numbers of workers tied up in this false, public sector Potemkin economy. Those workers should be in the real economy producing something of value. Britain could be a paradise. We could all be rich. There's no need for mass immigration. The workers we need are already here doing nothing, on benefits or in the public sector. We just need to fire everyone in the public sector and scrap all benefits.

@DaleVince @NJ_Timothy Useful idiot 👆

Hey @NJ_Timothy, how did you feel about Rishi Sunak celebrating Diwali outside Number 10 when he was PM? Your leader was practising a non-Christian religion outside one of London’s biggest landmarks - did you complain then? Trafalgar Square is regularly used for Christian stuff – you know that right? You and your party clearly have Islamophobic tendencies. Thank God - any god you care to name - that you have no chance of leading our country any time soon. Britain deserves better. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@CityHallTories Most of the people pushing for it to be pedestrianised won't use it or go anywhere near it.

Sadiq Khan continues to push ahead with Oxford Street pedestrianisation, and continues to ignore the views of local residents…

@libdemdaisy Not many women participating were there?

This racist post - praised by Tommy Robinson - tells you all you need to know about the state of today’s Tory Party. Trafalgar Square is used for a wide variety of religious gatherings. Singling out one religion to make a political point tells you everything you need to know.

@RossLydall 'You will own nothing, and be happy'

Lambeth council to convert 136 on-street car parking spaces into parking bays for dockless e-bikes - enough space for almost 2,000 Lime, Forest and Voi bikes - in bid to tackle pavement parking problems standard.co.uk/news/transport…

@Boenau Not if they got off public transport. They're just taking up more space.

People who don't ride bikes should be delighted when other people ride bikes. Less car traffic for you to deal with. 🥳

@JakeJK666 @TheRoadPadrone Headgear, hi-vis, lights, cycle lanes. There's always a reason not to use them for the vulnerable road users.

@TheRoadPadrone There is a dangerous obstacle in the cycle lane. Front wheel hits that and instant fall. Cyclists always use the safest lane, if they aren't in the cycle lane most likely it's not the safe option. Car drivers don't see what cyclists see.

£6m for this cycle lane, and they use the road

@CHAIRRDRF Which you're allowed to use

Actually road space reallocation is has been almost all for buses (bus lanes, bus priority, bus gates). Very little for bicycles.

@Boenau This has to be a parody account

Anyone who uses a bicycle for transportation understands why this is true.

@Qagggy It's as if those in power haven't grasped that a city of 9 million people need a functioning road network.

London is continuously pedestrianizing streets big and small, from Oxford Street down to these small streets and alleys behind Holborn Station.

Bus Speeds in London Another failure by TFL , caused by displaced traffic from LTNs & removal of road space for cycle lanes !

@zarahsultana Antisemitism is strong in this one

Greggs > Gail’s

If you want Baroness Michelle Mone removed from the House of Lords and to repay the £136,000,000 owed to taxpayers, please RT!

@critithinkstar @SocEnvJustice The mayor has ruined the bus network

@SocEnvJustice So improve public transport

Traffic congestion in London is causing significant financial damage, with recent estimates suggesting it costs the capital roughly £3.85 billion to £4.9 billion annually. london.gov.uk/who-we-are/wha…

@B2BMikeW @AlastairMorgan @metpoliceuk @EmilyThornberry @MayorofLondon Legal, illegal, pedalled or not, it's the fact they're used on the pavement that's the issue

@AlastairMorgan @metpoliceuk @EmilyThornberry @MayorofLondon I would suggest they are not e-bikes but illegal electric motor bikes.

I am heartily SICK of seeing e-bikes ridden on pavements (often at speed) in my area of London. I'm equally sick of seeing NOTHING done to prevent this by @metpoliceuk. @emilythornberry @MayorofLondon Enough is enough!!

@GazTheJourno @AndyRoden1 Just the tip of the iceberg if the anti-car ideologists get their way.

@AndyRoden1 PWC says NCP locked itself into lots of "long-term, inflexible leases", and people aren't driving as much post-COVID. Guess that's a natural consequence of the public transport modal shift...

NCP, one of the country's largest car park companies, has crashed into administration. PWC, the administrator, says "a sale of all or part of the business will be explored as one of the options to secure the best outcome for creditors". Employs 682 people at 340 car parks.

@michaelblackcab @TfL @metpoliceuk Been saying the same thing for ages. They come up either side regardless if you're indicating or not.

@TfL @metpoliceuk It’s so dangerous having 20mph speed limits that only applies to one type of road user. Nearly every time you make a manoeuvre you have cyclist travelling faster than 20mph overtaking or undertaking you. All the new road rules have made roads more dangerous !