On Saturday, 18 July 2020 01:31:33 UTC+1, JNugent wrote:
On 17/07/2020 08:06, Mike Collins wrote:

On Friday, 17 July 2020 00:42:39 UTC+1, JNugent wrote:
On 16/07/2020 18:52, Simon Mason wrote:
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They were talking pop-up cycle lanes on the World at One this lunchtime.

Crispin Blunt MP – who helped force the removal of a pop-up lane in Reigate after just three days – paid lip service to the importance of new cycle lanes, before confidently asserting that they ,“can’t come at a catastrophic cost to existing traffic flow; nor should they come at a catastrophic cost to the business of a town centre.”

Chris Boardman was on too, talking about the one on the A56 in Manchester. (There’s a bit more about that one further down the page.)

There’s been talk about the A56 lane being binned, but it’s actually just a short stretch south of Sale that’s been abandoned.

Boardman pointed out that most of it is still up and in use.

“This isn’t actually a cycle lane at the moment,” he said. “It’s an alternative to public transport.”

He highlighted the fact that one third of households in Greater Manchester don’t have access to a car.

“On a normal day, there’s 320,000 people who travel around three miles to get to work, to shops etc,” he said. “200,000 of them – if we are to obey all the social distancing measures – either have to find another way to get to work or they don’t get to travel.

“So right now this is actually about social justice and giving people an alternative – a safe alternative – to public transport for the moment by reallocating road space for them.”

Pop-up bike lanes a necessary form of social justice says Chris Boardman.

https://road.cc/content/news/cycling...16-2020-275491

Who elected him?

I thought Chris Boardman lived in Merseyside.

Who elected him?

In an ideal world no one from Merseyside would be allowed to vote as they are all unemployable.