Cash Cow

Transport for London have a new cash cow. They have put up 20mph signs yards before the speed camera at the junction of Marylebone Road westbound, just before Baker Street. It then goes back to 30 mph just after the junction. TfL has also put up 20mph speed limit signs on Park Lane southbound. Are they serious? Traffic is normally gridlocked most of the day, and TfL’s transport planners feel the need to reduce the speed limit!

Johnson’s London Dictionary: M25

M25 (n.) Turnpike that doth retard the progress of its travellers, while claiming to ease the time to transit the Metropolis

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London in Quotations: Anon

To the outsider, London is a sightseer’s theme park, a rich assembly of landmarks and historic buildings, where blue plaques chronicle the passing of time right back to the Middle Ages.

Anon, publicity material distributed to the audience in a preview screening, Dirty Pretty Things