TfL official report "Approximately 75% of congestion on the Capital’s roads is the result of too much traffic for the road space available" It should be mandatory for everyone to put this fact up front before they start raising issues on things like cycling causing congestion.

@MalcolmBacchus Space is reduced for car and given to make space efficient modes. It makes perfect sense really. How much space do you think TfL and councils require to build an uncongested highway network (if there is such a thing!)?You think that's viable for London to build?

@HanneyDP I didn't mention building more road space, I asked, why in the light of their findings that there was not enough road space, they should seek to reduce it further.

@MalcolmBacchus @HanneyDP Nobody's reducing road space overall. They're simply taking road space away from the very inefficient forms of transport, so efficient forms of transport can use it instead. That's called smart thinking.

@WilliamNB @HanneyDP Did I say reducing the road space overall? We were talking about traffic which is normally meant to mean motor vehicles. And road space for motor vehicles had been reduced.

@MalcolmBacchus @HanneyDP Providing more road space has never been found to be a permanent solution for congestion. 3 years, maximum before the same congestion returns. The level of congestion currently existing is therefore what drivers will tolerate,

@MalcolmBacchus @HanneyDP You could open up another ten lanes and cars would fill them all. Induced demand. Been known since the 1930s and yet people still think that giving more and more space to cars will magic the congestion away. It won't. It will make it worse.