I even dread living in London, the best Britain has to offer. it is congested, dirty and lack amenities. Driving here is a nightmare, parking is a nightmare. They started tfl to better the infrastructure of the city. They takes billions out of the pockets of Londoners every year. But nothing has changed much. Apart from cosmetic changes by painting cycle lanes and restricting cars where ever is possible they do nothing at all. In my area, they have blocked so many streets with huge flower pots at the entrances to make them on way, thus thwarting the flow of the traffic. They are gradually closing all the streets, which provides any kind of short cuts to avoid jam roads. By putting the whole traffic on already congested roads what you will achieve apart from more pollution!!
The planners here are whacky, I always pinpoint to my wife what streets are on their target next, and voila, within months or a year, those streets are blocked. My wife laughs, and i fume to see my tax sterling spent on shit schemes.
The recent innovation is to put plastic sticks to separate cycle lanes from the main traffic.
What those sticks have done, have blocked all the parking on the road, including delivery parking and access. whole length of roads in suburbia are now economically damage, shop keepers crying m because customer's traffic is dying down, nobody can park the cars, so now they go to bigger store where car parks are available, the small business had it.
Daft idiots.
Nation of traders and innovation have become by standers and irrelevant. Instead of building better roads and improve flow of traffic they are choking the roads and destroying their own economy. That's what happens when there are too many chiefs and few Indians.
Mean while China have invested into infrastructure so instead of learning from others UK decided to send plane carrier in the south China sea to open up some blocked waterway. Digging their own watery grave to stop others progression what a insane nation.
Why not learn from your neighbours Germany after world war how they developed and reset their mind set. US and Western world should change their mindset from envy and jealousy to stop their own decline and be relevant by better policies, hard work and by adopting to the changing world around them.