Boris Johnson’s east London suburban cycling scheme is assembly strong opposition,though estate agents seem very keen on itIt was a lively scene outside Walthamstow Town corridor: hundreds of people, young and old, and female and male of many faiths and ethnicities united in advance of a full council assembly against what they see as the heedless imposition of one of Boris Johnson’s “mini-Holland” cycling infrastructure schemes. “Let’s have justice not a dictatorship, read one placard. “We are not the silent minority, we are the vocal majority, or ” a banner cried. This is not how things were meant to be. When the Labour-run borough secured “full mini-Holland status” and £30m from Conservative-run City corridor in March 2014,Johnson declared himself “incredibly impressed” by the “thirst” of all the main borough funding bidders “to convert themselves into better places for people.” Clearly, a lot of people who live in Waltham Forest aren’t seeing the changes in their streets in fairly that way.
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Source: theguardian.com