Once the daily destination for well over a million commuters, central London has been eerily empty for the last year or so. Things are picking up again as lockdown restrictions have lifted to a large degree, but people returning to the rat race face a different landscape.
For one thing, crowded, close-contact public transport hasn’t become more attractive since Covid-19 struck, yet while cars are perfect for socially distanced travel, driving into central London was never hugely fun, and has become even less so with the rise of Low-Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs). These and similar schemes have become popular with local councils over the last year and, while each is different, they generally work by closing residential roads off to drivers, diverting them instead on to arterial routes, often fining those who fail to spot the warning signs.
Once the daily destination for well over a million commuters, central London has been eerily empty for the last year or so. Things are picking up again as lockdown restrictions have lifted to a large degree, but people returning to the rat race face a different landscape.
For one thing, crowded, close-contact public transport hasn’t become more attractive since Covid-19 struck, yet while cars are perfect for socially distanced travel, driving into central London was never hugely fun, and has become even less so with the rise of Low-Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs). These and similar schemes have become popular with local councils over the last year and, while each is different, they generally work by closing residential roads off to drivers, diverting them instead on to arterial routes, often fining those who fail to spot the warning signs.
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Grant Shapps ‘must act on embarrassing Hammersmith Bridge closure’ Ross Lydall
The Government will come under pressure today to fund the reopening of Hammersmith Bridge as it was told the two-year closure had become an “international embarrassment”.
London MPs are this evening expected to demand that Transport Secretary Grant Shapps honours a pledge from last September to “take control” of the project and reopen the 134-year-old bridge.
Fleur Anderson, the Labour MP for Putney who secured the Commons debate, said: “It can’t be left to rot. It’s an international embarrassment.”
It came as Tory mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey, who appeared alongside Mr Shapps last September as they pledged to solve the bridge closure fiasco, said he would scrap the £1.55 fare to use a temporary ferry that is due to start operating at the end of the summer if elected to City Hall on May 6.