Bob Davis quotes the Evening Standard as it outs and shames our new Great Minister for Transport:

Minister Philip Hammond:

- Owned up to having 3 points for doing 62mph in a 50 mph area.
- Is not keen on walking “a good 10 minutes hoof” to Westminster Tube station to
- Could he cycle in? “I’ve never actually cycled in London .I’d have to take a deep breath. I think you need to know what you are doing to cycle in London. Cyclists need to be more aware of the risks around them. It frightens me to death when I see them pull out around other cyclists, completely unaware there is a car behind. Maybe they need wing mirrors”
- He is “not sure of the logic” of green bike-only boxes (ASL reservoirs?).
- He wants to encourage cycling: “We have to make it less risky. The more separation you can create between cyclists and motorists the better”.

And finally: Pay-as-you-drive charging on the existing roads network is ruled out: “people feel, rightly, that our present roads are something they have already paid for with their taxes”. He doesn’t say that this is from VED or “road tax”, but it doesn’t help with the myth that motorists have “paid for the road” while cyclists, implicitly, haven’t.

He has also, of course, pledged to “end the (mythical, fictional, non-existent) war on the motorist”.

He doesn’t need the money and we don’t need him. Let’s get rid of this unbalanced dinosaur.