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On 20/07/2011 16:36, Bertie Wooster wrote: > The London Assembly today rejected Boris' plans to increase the speed > limit over Blackfrias' Bridge from 20mph to 30mph. > http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/5431

FFS! It's *not* an "increase"! My god, if anyone did actually try to increase a permanent speed limit anywhere in London then the car-haters would be having even more of a screeching, dishonest tantrum than they are about this.

This just shows that the loonies have been running the asylum for too long, and are now so accustomed to getting their way that if anything goes against them, no matter how small (even the removal of a temporary speed limit which was always going to happen), they think that all they have to do is make enough fuss, attack enough people and tell enough of the same old lies about road safety (e.g. "slower is safer") and eventually they'll get their way. It's very important not to let them. What do you do with bullies? Stand up to them, because in the end they're just cowards.

The amount of hysteria that the car-haters are displaying over this one speed limit on this one bridge is just RIDICULOUS, more so because 20mph is so clearly inappropriate. I only wish that those who care about real road safety, and about keeping traffic moving, would make such an intolerable racket every time TfL tried to inappropriately reduce a speed limit, introduce unnecessary traffic lights, remove roadspace by introducing bus lanes or hatchings, reduce parking availability, etc, etc. Road safety policy is currently dictated not by what is right or in the public interest, but by which vested interests screech most loudly, and that is invariably the car-haters, who have long since worked that out and are nothing if not determined.

I fear that we will end up with 20mph on that bridge, despite (as usual) the safety case for it not being proven. Unfortunately it seems that no-one is prepared to stand up to the shrill, lying bullies in this country anymore. The more I look the more I see reasons to emigrate to somewhere where democracy isn't dead.