• AMID the controversy raging around the Cycle Superhighway (CSII) scheme one aspect seems to have been largely overlooked – not the least by Transport for London.

At a time TfL is about to reduce the numbers of bus routes using the Finchley Road, it is ensuring by the proposed new road arrangements at Swiss Cottage that the remaining buses will be subject to delay.

I have challenged TfL over these delays which they admit will affect northbound buses by an “up to two minutes” delay (which in my book means at least twice as much).

So why would anybody choose to switch from their car to a bus?

I also think that it is unwise to proceed with the scheme until the question of the HS2 traffic is sorted or there may well be the sort of overspill chaos the scheme’s opponents are predicting especially in view of unknown effects of the monstrous Avenue Road development.

Everyone wants pleasant safe green travel but I’m not sure the left hand of TfL knows what the right hand is doing.

They need to sort it out for the sake of all of us.

Cllr FLICK REA
Liberal Democrat,
Fortune Green ward