On 18/11/2018 17:18, Simon Jester wrote:
On Sunday, November 18, 2018 at 4:21:10 PM UTC, JNugent wrote:
On 18/11/2018 05:30, Bod wrote:
Transport chiefs are planning to slash the speed limit and introduce a
cycle lane on a key central London road in a bid to prioritise buses and
cyclists.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/tran...-a3992371.html

I knew that was going to be Tooley Street even before I went to the URL.

Can traffic actually reach 20mph for most of the time in that street
(which has already had lots of sabotaging attention from the TaL)?

Maybe at 03:00...

The image is fake, it shows motor vehicles parked on the footway and that never happens.

Where?

If you are thinking of the licenced taxis on the south side of the
street, they are in a carriageway lay-by dedicated as a taxi-rank. IOW,
they're not on a footway (have you ever seen a taxi-rank on a footway?).
This was in force during the construction of the Shard complex, the
refurbishment of London Bridge station and the laying-out of a new bus
terminus in that immediate area (accessed from Borough High Street).

Since that stock photo was taken, some years ago, that temporary lay-by
has been reconstructed as part of a new and repositioned footway. The
taxi-rank has been moved round to the area immediately in front of the
station concourse (where there was a taxi-rank before the redevelopment).

Happy to help. You need it.

PS: The photo shows quite a few bicycles parked on the footway.