Kate Hoey may have instigated hospital’s costly legal campaign against floating bus stops

Hoey interferes in local affairs to the cost to the NHS of over 10 grand. What censure will she face in parliament for this? None, because parliament is also strongly anti-cycling (although many MPs often pretend to be pro-cycling, for the positive PR).

Even the All-Party Parliamentary Cycling Group, whose members imagine themselves as superheroes, has done almost nothing at all for cycling in the UK in their entire history.

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In May, St Thomas’s Hospital angered cycling campaigners by claiming that vulnerable people would be put in harm’s way by proposed ‘floating’ bus stops on Westminster Bridge. Also known as bus stop bypasses, the design means pedestrians must cross a cycle lane to reach the bus stop.

As the pavement is currently shared use (cycle and pedestrian), a seperate cycle lane and pavement would be better for vunerable people. But as St Thomas's haven't done any reserch, so they wouldn't know.

The article states the following as though it was a contradiction

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While she has previously said that she supports segregated bike lanes, she has also said that bicycles should be registered and that riders should pay road tax and carry insurance.

A lot of motorists are very happy to see segregated bike lanes installed.  Anything to get bicycles off the roads and out of their way.   It continually perplexes me that some people that claim to cycle are in league with segregationists like Hoey.

Didn't Kate Hoey campaign against a cycle docking station because it was tremoving a couple of car parking spaces and because of the "noise"?

Kate Hoey also needs to go.

She was in favour of the leave campaign, even going as far to share a platform with Farridge, despite Lambeth (her constituency) voting overwhelmingly to remain (was the 2nd highest remain vote in the UK with 78.6%).

She has previously called cyclists "lycra louts" saying, "[...] don't just break the law; they often do so in an aggressive and threatening manner", while being fined for blowing through a red light

Shes a POS, doesnt represent the people of Lambeth (me being one of them) and needs to go.

As I've mentioned on Twitter, £10K is about 4 months worth of a senior/specialist nurse's salary & close to half of a health care assistant, and that £10K is presumably without any internal staffing costs.

It's frankly disgusting that an NHS trust can burn money like this on something which is so beneficial to society. It's like taking legal action against a proven drug because you listened to a smoker

So a health service that is complaining of a lack of funds spends >£10k on a poorly researched campaign. Wouldn't that £10k+ have been better spent on patient care?

When are the chief executive and the minion that decided to run the campaign going to resign  due to the scandalous waste of public funds?