Whatcha mean it's not supposed to work like that?

For the first time in some months, those drivers that insist on visiting central London during the day time must be pleased. I don't know how much the Congestion Charge is these days, but in the Victoria area at least, it's gridlock. Finally, the congestion they've spent all this money on, and it's clearly worth every penny. I assume that organising proper traffic congestion has become more expensive and that the GLA have been saving up so that they can organise a really good one.

Well, it's worked. I'd be dead chuffed if I was visiting the city today by car. I would have every penny's worth of congestion I could ever have wanted. There have been days when the level of traffic and the speed of movement was such that I thought that drivers should get some kind of rebate. Not today. Today's a corker.

And bless!

In an attempt to include pedestrians in the fun (and we get it for free, too. What a bargain!), the increasing number of 'bendy buses' traveling in convoy means that vast swathes of road are blocked in their entirety, so that just crossing the street is a major adventure, even when the traffic is at a standstill. Just crossing Wilton Road this morning entailed walking an extra couple of hundred yards up and down the length of several parallel and stationary bendy buses like some horrible mobile maze in the middle of the road.

I never did understand what the problem was with the old Routemaster buses every one liked and which everyone in the rest of the world still thinks we have.

Still, can't have everything, and as I say, it's free to pedestrians. As long as the drivers are getting the congestion they're paying so handsomely for, can't complain.

Whatcha mean it's not supposed to work like that?

For the first time in some months, those drivers that insist on visiting central London during the day time must be pleased. I don't know how much the Congestion Charge is these days, but in the Victoria area at least, it's gridlock. Finally, the congestion they've spent all this money on, and it's clearly worth every penny. I assume that organising proper traffic congestion has become more expensive and that the GLA have been saving up so that they can organise a really good one.

Well, it's worked. I'd be dead chuffed if I was visiting the city today by car. I would have every penny's worth of congestion I could ever have wanted. There have been days when the level of traffic and the speed of movement was such that I thought that drivers should get some kind of rebate. Not today. Today's a corker.

And bless!

In an attempt to include pedestrians in the fun (and we get it for free, too. What a bargain!), the increasing number of 'bendy buses' traveling in convoy means that vast swathes of road are blocked in their entirety, so that just crossing the street is a major adventure, even when the traffic is at a standstill. Just crossing Wilton Road this morning entailed walking an extra couple of hundred yards up and down the length of several parallel and stationary bendy buses like some horrible mobile maze in the middle of the road.

I never did understand what the problem was with the old Routemaster buses every one liked and which everyone in the rest of the world still thinks we have.

Still, can't have everything, and as I say, it's free to pedestrians. As long as the drivers are getting the congestion they're paying so handsomely for, can't complain.