I been thinking about this one for awhile, and taking note each morning, when I ride in rush hour, and I have drawn the conclusion that doing just one simple thing will bring about a massive change to the amount of congestion in London between 6am-10am and 4pm-8pm.
1, Ban Lorries during that 8 hour period.
There is no good reason for that many lorries to be on London’s roads that early in the morning. Deliver after 10am.
I would enforce it like this, massive fine for the company about £2,000 plus £200 fine for the driver and 3 points on the Managing Directors driving licence…not the lorry driver’s licence, the Managing Director of the Company’s licence.
I think everyone would see an improved drive/ride to work.
To be honest im not sure banning lorry’s @ set hours is fair i work in the construction industry & we use a timed delivery method for all delivery’s throughout the day and if they was banned in the above hours it would add to cost & make logistics extremely hard to organise
the true solution would be infrastructure that’s includes both public transport & fixing potholes blah blah blah
What I really don’t understand is rubbish collection vans… I mean they really have to get the one van on the road that is slower than others and stops every 5 metres, with men walking around it at the precise time all of London/ UK tried to get to work and school?
I’m also in favour of banning parents driving their kids to school… I mean just look at half term how empty the roads are.
If you are all okay with higher prices for stuff then ban the lorrys during morning and afternoon , but without those hours available they will need to do it at night , and nightshifts always cost more and then the complaint will be the amount of noise at night from all the trucks while people are trying to sleep . Company I work for already do use the night , trucks run 24hours from various yards and they still need all day too , and they still can’t get everything everyone want’s moved when they want it moved . The trick to ending the congestion is stop wanting things and buying stuff .
I’m thinking you are joking, but in case you’re serious it is a hell of a lot different building roads in Disneyland (because you start with a huge empty piece of land, control where people are entering and leave and you can decide where they need to go whilst on the property).
that would make a huge difference …during holidays the roads are empty. There is no reason we cant have a school bus system or god forbid maybe they could actually walk or ride to school!
the trick would be a return to the old ways of railway freight. If a truck only had to carry stuff from a station at night instead of from another county, they could be more flexible.
