London Biking Boroughs

I’d like to hear Green AM Jenny Jones comment — this week she submitted a question for next week’s Mayor’s Question Time asking him again if he would provide funding for the biking boroughs:

http://mqt.london.gov.uk/mqt/public/question.do?id=35238
http://twitter.com/#!/greenjennyjones

I’ll ask her.

Previously the “biking boroughs” funding was just about enough to pay for one full-time member of staff for each borough — but not enough for a borough to actually do anything. To be fair, I think that was the point — the biking boroughs have had a year and £25k in order to prepare ideas — now they have a few pennies to spend on implementing them.

£4m is about enough to rip up four existing bike paths ;)

It’s about 0.6% of the cost of the five mile M74 extension into central Glasgow, and about 0.08% of the cost of the current M25 widening farce — less than 1% of the overspend on that project alone.

Jenny Jones has been pestering the mayor for ages to provide the £60m needed to complete the London Cycle Network: http://waronthemotorist.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/utter-tripe-in-the-oute...