Different capital cities, the same asinine mentality, which ignores the importance of quality cycling infrastructure:

In Rome a bridge half-way into an important cycle way has been closed for fourteen months, with no notice nor work to fix the problem. Roma Pedala is obviously angry that the makeshift barrier (ignored by everyone) has now been made permanent, making the cycleway useless.

In London, new drawings have been released of the much hyped Super-Cycleway project. If a high-school student had produced such a joke for a school project, he would have been given an “F”. Any teacher would have responded, “Your big idea is changing the colour of the tarmac from green to blue? How is that going to make a new rider feel safer?”

We can only hope that the imminent financial meltdown in the two countries will bring a total devastation of the present political classes and the civil service, which will allow new administrations run by people with surnames that start with ‘van’ or end with ‘sen’.

Romans and Londoners do not deserve to be ruled by asses such as Alemanno and Johnson.

Realistic mock-up of the Superhighway drawings by Ade at the LFGSS forum

UPDATE – Rob has a very good post on the subject. And if you think it is just a joke, look at this shoddy paint-job which heralds the Mayor’s Super-Project