London Banter - View Single Post - Mayor sets out plan for 22-mile ring-road tunnel under London

JNugent[_5_] · May 25th 14, 05:37 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On 14/05/2014 12:31, wrote:
In article ,
(David Cantrell) wrote:

On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 02:46:55PM -0500,
wrote:

What a hare-brained idea! What would the portals do to their
localities and why would it divert anything from the streets in
central London?

It would certainly make a big difference to the bits next to the
laughable south circular. That road is sufficiently awful that I often
find it quicker to just drive straight across London instead of using it.

I don't think you have absorbed the lessons of how roads generate new
traffic.

Or, as saner people describe it, they allow people to go where they
actually want to go, rather then where they have to settle for.