London Mayoral election: Why a vote for Susan Hall is a vote against cycling

The Conservative candidate has pledged to scrap the ULEZ expansion and rip out protected cycle lanes – in this opinion piece, long-time road.cc contributor and London resident Simon MacMichael tells us why he thinks cyclists should steer clear tomorrow

Visit a city in France, Italy or Spain in the run-up to local elections and you can’t help but notice posters on every street urging you to lend a particular candidate their vote. Here, away from social networks and the established media, you’d be hard-pressed to find any sign that polling day is almost upon us.

According to the opinion polls, Khan’s lead over Hall is strongest in Inner London, but narrower in the Outer London boroughs. In part, that is a reflection of historic Labour and Tory voting patterns, in turn determined to some extent by the demographic make-up of individual boroughs as well as factors such as income and type of housing tenure.

That latter route would of course benefit from a protected stretch running along Kensington High Street to link with Cycleway 9 at Hyde Park, thereby creating a safe cycling route across the capital from east to west – but the Conservative-run Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea has refused to allow such permanent infrastructure on the road, and a temporary cycle lane installed in late 2020 was ripped out after a matter of weeks.

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