Does anyone else wonder what was in the traffic planners minds when the abortion that is Trafalgar Sq. (or round as it is now) and it's environs was conceived?
I am told that the then mayor decided to pedestrianise the north side of the square in order to make it safer and traffic free for Londoners and tourists alike.
Maybe the thought was that the Congestion Charge would result in such a dramatic decrease in the number of vehicles coming into the centre that the remaining traffic would have an easy ride.
Tell that to the long suffering people on buses, in taxis, or trucks vans and cars that daily endure the slow moving car parks that Strand, Whitehall, Charing X Rd. and Northumberland Ave. have become, and don't get me started on The Mall!
I arrived in this country twenty three years ago, aged twenty two and I think that London and it's population are the greatest, but I remember the words of my father, "the English will stand for anything." I laughed at him then and called him a fool. After seeing the legacy of Commissar Livingstone I begin to wonder if Dad may have been right.