The inner ring encloses an area stretching from Westminster to Barbican, Marylebone to Southwark. It's roughly 2 miles in diameter, and maybe 3 square miles in area.
Most of those streets were set down and plotted out before America existed. It has been congested with so much traffic, for so long, that they've been digging under it for a hundred and fifty years. There are over thirty subway stations inside the inner ring. At any point inside there, you are never more than about 900 feet (3 football fields) walking distance to a subway.
Most of the streets are narrow enough that you can EITHER have two lanes OR one lane and parking. Short of burning the whole area down and condemning the land it cannot be fixed.
The only solution is to say "no fucking cars, period", which is what they'll eventually have to do.
Saying "no fucking GAS cars" is just staving off the inevitable for another couple years.
While I haven't done London, I've made the mistake of driving into a couple similar-enough areas. From that experience, I can't understand why anyone would even want to drive there. It's more of a pain in the ass than it's worth.
Private and rental vehicles shouldn't be allowed inside the Inner Ring Road at all. Lorries, taxis, and buses only.
Your communism is showing again.
You ever been to London?
You ever been out of it?
I'm from Iowa.
I'm gonna describe for you the London Inner Ring.
The inner ring encloses an area stretching from Westminster to Barbican, Marylebone to Southwark. It's roughly 2 miles in diameter, and maybe 3 square miles in area.
Most of those streets were set down and plotted out before America existed. It has been congested with so much traffic, for so long, that they've been digging under it for a hundred and fifty years. There are over thirty subway stations inside the inner ring. At any point inside there, you are never more than about 900 feet (3 football fields) walking distance to a subway.
Most of the streets are narrow enough that you can EITHER have two lanes OR one lane and parking. Short of burning the whole area down and condemning the land it cannot be fixed.
The only solution is to say "no fucking cars, period", which is what they'll eventually have to do.
Saying "no fucking GAS cars" is just staving off the inevitable for another couple years.
Suck his dick while you're at it.
While I haven't done London, I've made the mistake of driving into a couple similar-enough areas. From that experience, I can't understand why anyone would even want to drive there. It's more of a pain in the ass than it's worth.
I visited Boston DURING the big dig. That was a shitstorm.