Comments on: More On Parliament Square

By: Smoothing Traffic Flow Cake And Eat It Part #9400

Smoothing Traffic Flow Cake And Eat It Part #9400 — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:58:44 +0000

[...] ’smoothing traffic flow’ – putting in traffic lights, pulling out traffic lights, keeping gyratories and of course removing gyratories. It’s like the Hokey Cokey on asphalt: The latest project [...]

By: Diamond Geezer Visits The Aldgate Gyratory

Diamond Geezer Visits The Aldgate Gyratory — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 08:36:45 +0000

[...] mentioned TfL’s plans (strongly supported by the London Cycling Campaign) for replacing Aldgate [...]

By: Guano

Guano — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:56:46 +0000

Page 11 of the Parliament Square Framework for Action document:

– gyratory increases bus travel times
- square is intimidating and not conducive to cycling

And page 10

- some of London’s highest pedestrian movements by day observed in the study area
- current bias towards space for vehicles at expense of easy pedestrian movement.

So that’s three large groups of people inconvenienced by Boris’ decision.