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Christ, it's rare enough in this life that you get someone speaking any sense. But you have. Second paragraph, in particular.

See, I'm actually a bit more hardline on this kind of thing. I think drivers who steer their cars into bus lanes should be shot, preferably by a couple of front-mounted machine guns on the bus itself. Arses.

rumour has it that public transport will be free in belgium in the very near future, and this includes trains.

good move, if you ask me, especially with the expected rise in numbers of expats as a result of the expansion of the EU.

Public transport is for lesbians and losers.

What about Jeeps (and other Four Wheel Drive vehicles) designed for mountains other than Welsh ones?
Could you also add people who think the rear view mirror is optional after they pass their test and people who don't seem to know what their indicators are for?

I'd like to be able to hit and kill the people who jaywalk out in front of my ambulance while I have the Blue lights and loud sirens going.
And ram the taxi drivers who think that their fare is more important than my patient.
And stab people who moan when I block the road with my ambulance because there is no-bloody-parking-anywhere.

And...breathe...

Breaking news... Jasmine's been found strangled in the pensioner's basement.

As a raging leftie, I'd love to say that Red Ken has done a damn good job, and that the Congestion Charge is fantastic.

But I'm still not entirely convinced.

I go into London about once a month, and in the last year, I have noticed that I am still just as likely to be nearly run over by an arse in a jeep running a red light in the bus lane as I was before.

Just now I am less likely to be run over by a C reg Astra with no tax disc or brakes.

Mr&Mrs Arse are still picking up little Jasmine Arse in the car so big it needs a postcode. The people who are getting their arses on the busses are not the Arses. The charge is affecting the people who cannot afford to pay the fiver and so instead are paying for public transport (which, though better than ever, is still too damn expensive by at least 50\\%.)

To be fair...our response times to emergency calls in the city have increased quite a bit - so much so they are boosting the flagging times in the rest of London.
I've also had less accidents...

and cycling on the pavement should be punishable by death.

Sounds to me like pedestrians have even more road rage than drivers.

I own a car, but I live out in the burbs of South East London - where there are no tubes!

I don't tend to drive *into* London, though I have been known to drive through the city and out the other side - only at weekends or during the evening though...

Agree about your bullet points (except the South of the river bit - though I am from E17 originally so can understand your sentiment) especially the cyclist, bus stop and jeep. One day, mothers will be dropping their kids off in armoured tanks for God's sake!

Oh, and could we please sprinkle some snipers over Hyde Park/K. Gdns to take care of all the cyclists who do not stick to the designated cycling paths?

I thought it was tough driving in Paris (80\\% of drivers are homicidal maniacs), but at least there are roads designed for a driving population of more than 10--and even there the traffic jams are horrid. Why anyone uses a car to commute to the centre of London is beyond me. Sad it took £5/day for people to see this...

So, basically, I think the headline summary is this:

We're going to kill all car drivers.

Marvellous. Vive la revolution.

Rubbish. Driving in London is an absolute piece of cake, and easily possible for anyone with a slight sense of direction and a modicum of driving ability should be able to naviagate with no problem.

A car is often quicker than public transport (no signal failures, strikes, leaves on the line, etc, etc), quieter (no drunks blaring their voices, or people playing rap music at full volume on their getto-blaster earphones) cleaner (no soot, sneezing, coughing, germs, BO etc) cooler (air con) and safer (no bombs).

If you want an example of a city which is hard to drive in, try Hong Kong, Delhi, Tokyo, etc. London is a absolute doddle.











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