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I suspect Boris is well familiar with the city's gyratories, because he does actually cycle around a lot - unlike Posh Dave, who only ever did it for show, with his briefcase following in an official car.
So it does beg the question - why doesn't Boris actually do womthing about London streets? From what I can gather he is not a hardened vehicular cyclist (far from it - apparently he is amazingly slow) who is content with the road conditions amnd doesn't wannt his freedom to zoom curtailed. He might be a real pertol head at heart but I doubt it.
My theory is that all politicians feel inadequate in the presence of "experts". They're afraid to display their ignorance (of engineering, or modelling, or whatever arcane topic the "expert" is expert in) so they just nod their heads and agree to whatever bullsh*t the experts spout to them.
"Yes Minister" lives on!
I think Boris Johnson, Peter Hendy (TfL Commissioner) and Leon Daniels (Managing Director, Surface Transport) should all take a cycle tour of some of Londons gyratorys (Parlament Square, Vauxhall, Elephant and Castle, Hyde Park Corner, Aldgate, etc). Then they can go back to the drawingboard on how to redesign the roads on London.
I've said this a couple of times to people over the last few days:
It seems that TfL's motivation to keep car traffic flowing, at the expense of pedestrians and cyclists, is because they are a (congestion charge) revenue stream and the situation will remain the same until either people quit driving en mass or TfL are deposed and disposed of.
@ Zanf:
Not a particularly compelling argument vis-a-vis King's X, as all the Euston/Pentonville Rd traffic is CC-free. Only the Gray's Inn Rd side is in the charge area.