Was Khan’s Two Car Free Days The Main Reason Behind The Massive Surge In Covid Infections ???

Sadiq Khan Tweets : 1 in 20 people have COVID-19 in some parts of London. Around a third of those will have no symptoms.

It’s absolutely essential that we stay home to protect ourselves, our families and every single person in our city.

We cannot let up now. Please follow the rules.

Also.....

Transport For London revealed m, 57 of their staff have been killed by Covid including 42 bus workers and one in 10 of their staff is absent due to sickness, self-isolating or shielding.

Was it not TfL who back in March, were advising people to travel on the Tubes and Buses saying, “We have a new enhanced cleaning regime to make travel even safer”.

Yet two weeks later Khan was saying Tube travel must be stopped or more will die. 

But only 40 stations were closed out of the 270.

Why wasn’t unsafe travel such as tubes, buses shut down to save lives. 

Key Workers????

TfL could have used the perfectly safe 14,000 London black cabs (which have sealed screens between the passenger and driver, chemically disinfected between trips) to ferry key workers around the capital? 

Surely TfL and The Taxi trade Orgs and apps could have come up with a reasonable, safe  scheme, which could have been implemented. 

But instead of making it easy for Taxis to get key workers about, on the shortest, cheapest possible routes, TfL, Local councils and the City of London council, put obstacle after obstacle in the way, day after day. 

Instead many agencies went for the low cost, dangerous private hire cars, many without TfL approved screens, plus passengers sitting next to drivers. It wasn’t until June, that Uber bought in a rule that passengers couldn’t sit next to drivers. 

Not quite socially distanced!!!

Then, just before Christmas, Sadiq Khan introduced “Car Free Days in Regent Street” encouraging people to flock to the shops... and oh boy, did they flock!

But was this car-free enticement the cause of the massive increase in positive Covid cases in the capital?

Was Khan’s decision to get people to flock to the West End, responsible for the many thousand of infections and the hundreds of deaths, being recorded in London this January ?

To say this situation (which has resulted in many deaths) has been mishandled, is a massive understatement.