“SORT IT OUT, BORIS!”
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There is, as they say, many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip, and the streets of London are littered with traps for the kind of vehicle that Lee Blackston is carefully threading through town. Apart from the black cast-iron gun-barrel posts that pop up all over the City, Blackston’s favourite are what he calls the iron bells, which are all over the City to prevent kerbing.
“That’s fine,” he says. “But they need to re-shape the corners to accommodate longer vehicles that legitimately need access.” The City of London’s road, highways and pavements department proudly declares that “the street pattern of the City has changed little since the 17th Century” and cites the purpose of its street furniture as “the protection and convenience of pedestrians”...