Works on Westminster Bridge protected cycle lanes delayed in wake of terror attack

If anything the segregated lanes should now be wider and have higher protection from the road. That would add to the security around the Palace of Westminster. A few bollards to stop a car getting onto the cycle lane or the pavement would also be useful. Also pedestrianise one side of Parliment Square (by Westminster Abbey) as was planned a few years back.

The gate the attacker ran through is open to let MPs and Lords drive into the underground car park. If no parking was allowed (apart from disabled parking) on the site, security would be improved (and MPs would have more of an incentive to improve public transport and cycling infrastructure as that's what they would have to use to get to work).

Honestly, if the Bridge wasn't there, then the terrorist couldn't have driven up it.  I suggest that all the bridges over the Thames in London should be knocked down to protect parliament and pedestrians.   If people really feel the need to cross the river, then they can get a boat or cross over via a bridge in Berkshire.  It all makes sense.

Honestly, they really will do absolutely anything they can to avoid building cycle infrastructure. Construction can surely begin about a week later than originally planned.

They will take forever fart-arsing around with designs for anti-terror fencing and the like. In the meantime can't they just get on with doing what they said they would do! It's not as if they think ahead and avoid wasting money on redesigns of other government projects is it?

Conflating cycling infra and terrorism is scraping the barrel.

I think the basis of the argument must be that if it wasn't for the cycle lane the bridge would have been far too full of stationary traffic for the attach to be sucessful. Congestion is clearly one thing that London doesn't have enough of already.

Hardly surprising, and entirely understandable. It would be insensitive to start carving up the kerbs so soon after the horrific attacks, but you do have to wonder whether there would be a similar response for a road scheme or an office development.

Let’s hope that this is just a “temporary” delay and that the original plans go ahead. If anything the recent attacks should strengthen the case for putting in segregated cycle lanes and keeping cars further away from where people congregate. It was after all a car that was used as a murder weapon.
 

Extra height kerbings between the road and cycle lanes would help prevent intentional or accidental encroaching. The existing cycle lane IN NO WAY helped the attacker, as if it hadn't been there he'd have simply driven onto the pavement directly.  

If they want to protect people and parliament, install more of the metal bollards like they used in teh days of the ring of steel around the city.  leave enough space that works vehicles can come in at a steeper angle if required, at certain points,  but anything trying to "drift" onto the footpath/cycle route gets a solid metal pole in the bonnet.  

This is not the American embassy, we are not paranoid, so the American's preferred option of simply closing the entire square around their embassy (while refusing to pay the congestion charge) doesn't need considered.  If you over-protect one point in a city, any attacker just chooses an easier one. That's why the IRA never attacked the MI5/MI6 offices in London, they blew up vans and trucks outside less protected buildings.

My personal preference would be raised kerbs (anti-truck ones) or bollards between roadway and cycle route, and an illuminated central bollard in the cycle lane end. One of those nice ones that can be remotely sunk into the road if an ambulance on a blue light call urgently needs access. One radio call from driver/assistant or control room, and bollard is sunk for a few minutes until they are safely through.

Why is no one calling for cars to be banned?

Apart from their now frequent use in terrorist attacks they facilitate the movement of paedophiles and their victims.

Does Lord Carlisle stand with us cyclists against paedophilia and terrorism?

Dear Lord Carlile: why not ban all private motor vehicles from passing Parliament? That might make you feel better? I doubt there's much you can do to stop an SUV leaving the road and going up onto the footpath if it wants to... I know: put all the pedestrians in caged walkways. Or ban them altogether: yes, ban walking - that'll do it. Hmm.