Kensington & Chelsea Council refuses to reinstate High Street cycle lane

St Chris says it best https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=saved&v=1074267179724802

The excellent RantyHighwayMan has an interesting take on consultation

https://therantyhighwayman.blogspot.com/2021/03/turn-it-on-its-head.html

It's almost as if RBKC want TfL to take over the running of this road - they're certainly going the right way about it.

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Senior councillors at the Conservative-controlled borough have now voted unanimously not to reinstate the lanes but instead to “Develop plans to commission research” – although not before the summer – which could potentially “lead to a feasibility study in the longer term.”

or...

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“But the plans were on display…”
“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”
“That’s the display department.”
“With a torch.”
“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”
“So had the stairs.”
“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”
“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”

Quick before the new laws come in.  Peaceful protest with a cycling related rolling road block

What did you expect from a council that has no shame and whose decisions already killed so many people in the Grenfell fire?

It's about time TFL stepped in and took over the High Street. Although that's then a poison chalice for Khan.

History will not judge these people kindly. Unfortunately it will be of no consequence to them, given that the majority of them will be elderly enough to be pushing up the daisies...sorry, concrete, by the time climate change actually affects their corner of the planet.

Despicable reactionary nimby cocktards.

Does anyone with a better understanding of the law than me know whether this would be amenable to a judicial review challenge?

While councils do have the right to implement policies as they see fit, as I understood it their decisions have to meet the Wednesbury test of not being ones which no reasonable public body could reach. It seems here that they have ignored some cogent evidence that their decision to remove the lane has had results opposite to their stated reason for doing so, i.e. improving traffic flow for motorists. 

They need on street parking

Remember folks:

"Lanes will get jammed and outdated pretty quickly. Which is expensive and means putting residents at risk
Cycle lanes are dangerous because they are mixing slow and fast traffic and different directions. "

One would hope that several cyclists with possibly unreliable cars or prone to flat tyres don't all decide to drive that route, rather than cycle, and suffer a break down.

“Develop plans to commission research”  JHC, that is the weasel words phrase of the century right there.  So they are considering about promising to think about possibly doing something about maybe getting someone sometime to look at having research done on a subject which has already been exhaustively researched.

Then they follow it with “lead to a feasibility study in the longer term.”  Presumably long after their rotten borough is six feet under water due to climate change.

“It’s pretty clear the consensus is we will not be reinstalling a temporary cycle lane,” only if you talk exclusively to Kensington and Chelsea tractor drivers.

Surely even a member of Boris the Liar's party would be embarrassed by this?  All councillors who voted for this appalling travesty of their sworn duty to do the best for their constituents should resign immediately, but being hypocrites like their boss, they won't.

I wonder when the BBC's Chief Environmental Correspondent will produce an article exonerating them.