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requently congested rat run for taxis delivery vans and cars rat run around the university college london campus but we are so accustomed to traffic clogged streets in london that we don t even think about how crazy it is to have allowed this situation to develop in an unplanned fashion through the carelessness of successive governments torrington place without the two one way cycle tracks is a monument to the complete failure of the generalized governance of london s public space it is good to see the london borough of camden trying to do something to change its streets and to think about creating better conditions for cycling and walking as transport modes indeed even if one has quibbles with some details the proposals out for consultation are radical not just in the idea of giving pedestrians and cyclists more space and safer space but also in the aesthetics of the road design in the area challenging the standard british urban road design of a central channel for motor vehicles abutted by available space for a pavement some 50 000 to 60 000 students are based at the ucl bloomsbury buildings many of them travelling there by foot or by bike over 1 800 pedestrians were counted during the morning peak hour in torrington place at the heart of the campus the number counted between 1pm and 2pm in the same place was 2 580 it is obvious that we need to cater better for the large numbers of non motor vehicle users as a society we have chosen to dump heavy debts onto students in the form of tuition fees the least we can do is enable them make use in safety of cycle routes so that they can enjoy the benefits of exercise and flexible as well as a very cheap means of getting around the city in which they study trial cycle route with two one way cycle tracks and one way for motors note lack of congestion despite contrary claims of gridlock by taxi lobby photo hackneycyclist similarly there is every reason to provide the same opportunities to people who work in the area many at ucl uch but also at the thousands of small businesses that make this such a vital location for one of britain s most important export industries in media publishing music etc and in other sectors hardly any of these people drive to work here apart from those with expense accounts and the affluent who may arrive by taxi nearly 100 of tourists and visitors to the british museum arrive on foot with just shy of seven million visitors last year it is the most popular museum gallery in britain counts conducted by the council show that cycling as a mode of transport accounts for 43 of all users on the tavistock place route pedestrians for 41 and motor vehicles for just 16 but before the current trial system was introduced cycling was accorded just 13 of the actual road space pedestrians 44 and motor vehicles 43 under the proposed upgrade these figures would be rebalanced with 33 of road space devoted to cyclists 46 to pedestrians and 21 to motor vehicles but this potentially game changing scheme faces visceral opposition from the cabbie lobby one wing of which the london taxi drivers association ltda bizarrely has launched its own parallel and unofficial consultation full of leading questions question number 0ne sets the tone thinking about the area as a whole do you believe prioritising cycling on tavistock place and torrington place has made neighbouring roads busier ltda s leading question it can be assumed without further explanation of course that they actually mean busier with motor traffic but that is to be expected they only think about motor vehicles thinking about the whole area as per their leading question they do not wonder why we have allowed every side street within it to become a rat run their only concern is the ability to drive unimpeded everywhere regardless of suitability of the area for through motor traffic the ltda which set up this survey of cabby opinion does not represent all cab drivers in london of whom there are about 23 000 but clearly it is trying not to gather real evidence of motor traffic levels by counts but by asking london cabbies for their opinion this opinion will then be presented as fact this is not very convincing according to ltda statements they want to return to the pre trial situation which would mean restoring the two way cycle track unless they really want to go back to pre 2002 with no cycle track at all but back in 2002 the ltda was among those who opposed the two way cycle track being installed ltda opposition to cycle schemes is a deeply ingrained reflexive action as are anti cycling views in other bodies which organise cabbies including the unions unite rmt and gmb here it is objecting in 2002 to the two cycle lane it now wants to revert to the ltda is quite open about the fact that it is conducting an information and marketing war against cycling and war is always very nasty cabbie views on the tavistock place scheme it s worth looking at another closely related cycle scheme on the embankment and run this time by transport for london tfl the london wide authority with responsibility for main roads this was implemented around the same time as the tavistock place trial and we can see that the arguments now being deployed by the cabbie lobby were pre prepared for the embankment here we can see one aspect of the information war in action taxi lobbyist geoffrey riesel chairman ceo mountview house group radio taxis xeta taxis one transport director london chamber commerce vice president taxicab limousine and paratransit association chairman european radio taxi association published a series of wild claims about the embankment cycle scheme among his assertions riesel said that it will not only cause delays but it will thus raise costs for every business in london difficult to calculate the total amount of financial damage to london s economy riesel s grounds for making this claim was that that a senior tfl official leon daniels managing director of surface transport had told him that while the scheme will be good for cyclists and possibly some pedestrians it will however be bad for all other users of what is a very contentious and limited amount of space causing additional traffic congestion costs and delays for passengers in buses in cars in taxis and in phvs however according to tfl mr daniels said i have no recollection of such comments in the information war truth is the first casualty daniels added i was charged with delivering segregated cycle superhighways to cope with the growing number of cyclists and to improve their safety the final results are excellent and we are now moving on to further schemes to benefit walking and cycling thus the man in charge of implementing the scheme sees its benefits and is keen to do more early reports https www theguardian com uk news davehillblog 2016 sep 21 how many londoners are switching from public transport to bicycles cmp share_btn_tw show that cycling levels are increasing on the new tfl routes just as happened with the earlier tavistock place scheme chronic congestion on the underground railways is being reduced by people switching to cycling even with the limited short sections of safe protected cycling space that have been installed calculated to be on about just one fifth of one percent of london roads given that the underground regularly has to shut stations at peak periods due to dangerous overcrowding on platforms and trains the cycleways are the best possible investment in improving public transport for all users but the taxi lobby was predicting doom and dire congestion even before a single bit of work had been done now they are gathering their evidence by asking cabbies for their opinions to back up their claims taxi lobbyists at work confusing camden council with former mayor boris johnson the taxi lobby paints as fraud any evidence of upper photo cyclists queuing for red lights on the trial layout and lower photo reduce pollution levels elsewhere in his rant riesel says in my view a press and radio campaign would have a similar effect in reducing accidents as the proposed cycle superhighway and would not cost a fraction of the proposed cycle scheme in terms of capital outlay nor in terms of the on going additional costs to london s businesses at least this time he admits it is his own view but it shows how the taxi lobby will put forward any ill informed nonsense in their blanket opposition to improving the city and to preventing any road space being given over to non polluting non congesting forms of transport if the cabbie lobby is able to overwhelm the council with negative opinions about tavistock place however fanciful and however false and the liveable cities lobby fails to get in lots of positive responses this pioneering scheme may meet its end please spread the message and get lots of people to take part in camden s consultation https consultations wearecamden org corporate services torrington place tavistock place route proposed im supporting_documents detailed 20information pdf hospital bus bypass operation goes awry 16 friday sep 2016 posted by paulgannonbike in bus stop bypass cycle superhighway floating bus stop space4cycling uncategorized 3 comments thanks to the freedom of information act an email from the chief executive of a major london hospital trust to a colleague has cast some light on things normally shaded from the public gaze for obtaining this information thanks must go to francis gaskin misterfrancis https letzterkunstgriff files wordpress com 2016 09 re bus stop protest support pdf and tom kearney comadad https twitter com comadad status 775684979498029057 the background to this story is the opposition of guy s and st thomas hospital trust on the south bank of the thames to the design of a cycle route passing the main entrance to the hospital transport for london tfl proposed to use the tried and tested system known as a bus stop bypass or floating bus stop this involves running a cycle track behind a bus stop allowing buses to pull up and pull away unimpeded by cyclists and also means cyclists don t have to deal with large motor vehicles pulling up in front of them forcing them out into the lane of motor traffic to pass a stopped bus and pulling away dangerously a bus stop bypass scheme in london photo terrypatterson bus stop bypass at a dutch hospital photo hackneycyclist however the design requires those who want to get on or off a bus to cross the cycle track and this feature has engendered opposition from the some quarters to their use in britain despite their being quite common in continental europe the evidence suggests that bus stop bypasses do not pose any threat to the safety of pedestrians also they are popular with both cyclists and bus drivers the latter having one less hazard to deal with in their testing job of driving all day round the streets of london or other city trl research backs the safety and ease of use for pedestrians cyclists of bus stop bypasses yet the hospital trust has fought a determined campaign to prevent this type of solution being applied in its neck of the woods so what one might well ask corporations frequently oppose such proposals what s different here in an email to colleagues tasked with producing the trust s media strategy for fighting the bus stop bypass peter allanson the trust s secretary and head of corporate affairs begins by saying thank you for this and particularly the effort that has gone into producing it new territory for me to be a community activist this is a very revealing statement not because the hospital trust is running a campaign but because it is quite consciously employing the methods and spirit of a real community campaign the hospital trust has set up a petition and organised a street protest the hospital trust emphasises that it is particularly concerned about impact on patients carers the elderly disabled and families with children in buggies and wheelchairs a local community activist from the lambeth pensioners action group is quoted as saying all londoners especially the most vulnerable have the right to safety on the roads and not to have their safety and lives compromised and professor john porter the lead governor of the hospital trust s council of governors says that we are very concerned that having to cross a busy uncontrolled cycle lane will often put people at considerable risk guy s and st thomas hospital trust s web campaign in its publicity about the bus stop bypass proposal the hospital trust says we believe that tfl s transport for london plans for cycle lanes and so called floating bus stops on westminster bridge pose risks to both pedestrians and cyclists this is where we need to refer back to peter allanson s community activist email in one paragraph commenting on the draft media strategy document allanson questions a statement in the draft that claims that floating bus stops are unsafe allanson suggests that i don t think we ve any evidence that they are unsafe even though we think they are would it be better to talk about posing unnecessary risk and could be unsafe or is that too pusillanimous setting aside the spectacle of a senior nhs health service manager describing telling the truth about the absence of evidence for its campaign as pusillanimous we gain an insight into the reality of the hospital trust s community activism it s a sham borrowing the tools of community activism petitions letters to the local papers protest demonstrations etc for a corporate purpose as a follow on from its petition the hospital trust also issued a press release and organised a street protest actually a staged photo shoot an email from peter allanson noted that we ve fixed the date in consultation with kate hoey mp so she can be there so no worries we need to make sure we have at the front of any photo those we think will be most affected wheelchair user blind person mother with lots of children including a buggy etc have you any of these you could field the documents uncovered by the foi requests show that there was disquiet within guy s and st thomas hospitals with the hospital trust management s programme aimed at preventing implementation of the bus stop bypass and at some of the language used by the hospital trust management but these views were disregarded as you can see from the documents reproduced here these dissenting emails have been censored to remove the name of who sent them so we remain unaware of whom within the trust opposed its pretence of community activism and some of the emails were totally or almost totally redacted also we get a hint of the pressure of mid level management charged with running day to day hospital services as well as contribute to the senior management s community activism yet despite the nhs being in a crisis of capacity and of funds the hospital trust used nhs funds to run its campaign furthermore one foi document revealed that the hospital trust has spent nearly 10 000 of nhs funds on legal advice for its unsucc...