London's six new cycle routes unlikely to be delivered until 2023

The real reason is the government policy of austerity. TfL has had its budget massively cut by the current government after Boris left:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-42975661

It's made delivery of any programs a real problem. TfL is having to run as hard as possible to stand still. It's not a conspiracy.

Maybe if Boris hadn't wasted so much money on the useless Dangleway and the dodgy Garden Bridge, and maybe if TfL's budget hadn't been slashed, the current Mayor could have got on with it faster.

But it's much easier to blame the Mayor, isn't it.

The six new cycle routes announced by Transport for London (TfL) and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan earlier this week are unlikely to be delivered before 2023

Fixed that for you.

(I'll attempt to be brief...but..)

In response, Khan blamed the “unnecessarily confrontational approach” of Gilligan and Boris Johnson for many of the problems now faced by CS11.

At risk of repeating the above comments, this is a complete pile; the only problem faced by CS11 has been caused by simply ignoring the fact that the consultation was passed overwhelmingly (60%).

London’s Deputy Mayor for Transport, Val Shawcross, has previously said that greater consultation was a means to end the “bikelash” which has hampered construction of some London cycle routes

Shawcross has been a total disappointment, but par for the course with a boss who chose Will Norman over the likes of Boardman, Gilligan and London campaigners and councillors with many years experience.

She has uttered perhaps a one sentence statement in her tenure that got expectations up at the LCC AGM two years ago. All promises of impending announcements of great stuff for cycling were pretty hollow, considering the urgency of the task.     

Meanwhile, in Camden this week, the council voted to become: 

              the first local authority in the UK to vote to to meet the WHO’s recommended limits on air pollution.  

Camden’s poisoned air: Town Hall declares war on car drivers | Camden New Journal

THE Town Hall is set to declare an unprecedented war on car drivers blamed for ­Camden’s poisoned air. Council chiefs were urged to embark on radical steps including closing off roads, slashing the number of parking bays, charging a levy on driving to work and banning traffic around school.

One of the targets of new measures will be parents accused of clogging up the streets during the school run. It was noted with dismay how some parents ignore Camden’s state schools on their doorsteps in Hampstead and Highgate to drive to private education further afield. As the debate went on, the practice of using cars for non-essential journeys was branded anti-social.

....Cllr Julian Fulbrook called for Camden to get tough: “As a borough we need to be much more aggressive about actually closing roads and need to stop this borough being used a public parking lot...

Only one councillor (a deselected Tory oddball who some years ago argued against Camden's introduction of borough-wide 20mph speed limits), but apart from him....

.....Everybody else in the council chamber on Monday night was on board with the notion, as they agreed to try to hit the WHO’s limits – tougher than the European Union’s recommended safe level, on levels of nitrogen dioxide and particulate matter in the air by 2030.

(ok...so I'll save the brevity for next time...)

But rest assured,  the infrastructure for driverless cars will be delivered pronto, and well before 2023 !!

"Fully driverless cars" on UK roads by 2021 says Philip Hammond

http://road.cc/content/news/232521-fully-driverless-cars-uk-roads-2021-s...

“Unnecessarily confrontational”, or “doing something”. 

As others have said, how much of a cunt do you have to be to be worse than Boris?

I really think its time for a new approach.  You could trial a lot of these schemes with concrete sparators/ bollards, paint and some fiddling with traffic lights and implement them overnight.  Forget modelling and all the intricate design work that is effectively procrastination.  On first implementation you sweeten it with it being"a temporary trial, completely reversible, then when it comes to upgrade to full implementation you rfurther sweeten it because you are removing the "ugly concrete non permanent structures".  

But of course I am missing the point, the point is Kahns "do nothing whilst celebrating progress" approach.  

Quelle surprise.

Despite hopes he would expand on Johnson's efforts, Khan constantly manages to dissapoint through inaction.  What a political eptitaph, to be considered a failure compared to BoJo!

> "unnecessarily confrontational approach"

Sorry, but that's how you have to be when dealing with people who see any removal of road space from motorists as lunacy.  You have to confront their stupidity with simple facts.