Cut traffic by blocking roads?

[saaby93]

Clever Lewisham decide that closing the roads to traffic is the best way to reduce traffic on that road - guess what'll happen to neighbouring roads

Motoring public has different ideas
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-london-53...

[saaby93]

Surely there has to be a good reason for a road closure other than 'because we can'

[saaby93]

sociopath said:

red_slr said:

There has been a policy round here of reducing road capacity for the last 10 years after a failed CC proposal. The LA want to screw the roads up as much as possible.

The main way they are doing this is taking any major road that has 2 lanes in each direction and bringing the pavement out into lane 1 thus taking 50% of the capacity away straight away.

Should be illegal to do this, and there is often zero reason to do so.

Here is an example. 4 lanes, 2 each way reduced to 2 lanes 1 each way. Was there a lot of accidents. No. Was there some local protest about traffic. No. Has traffic been sent on another route to ease congestion. No.

And guess what, traffic is now a nightmare and it can take up to an hour to get through this section. Madness. I could name 4 or 5 places within 5 miles of this one thats had the exact same treatment.

Fancy making space for pedestrians! What a bunch of bds!

At least you can see all the pedestrians in that image that need the space.