In the latest CTC newsletter comes the good news that Ken has listened to the deluge of complains and criticism, and has decided against his plan announced a week or so ago to require London cyclists to register their bikes and display car-style number plates.
Ken's U-Turn: One week (and many complaints) after announcing his plans to force cyclists in London to have number plates, Ken Livingstone has shelved the idea. He agreed with CTC's concerns over the prohibitive cost of such a scheme and now wants to launch a 'Share the road' campaign which will encourage all road users to obey traffic regulations and advise them of the penalties for not doing so.
Nice to find some common sense still sloshing around in this crazy world.
Surely someone at the mayor's office could have quashed that cycle-number-plate farcical idea, before it went public and got absolutely ridiculed!
Embarrassing!
Posted by: Urban-Commuter | 14 September 2006 at 22:24