Peter Hendy, commissioner of TfL, today defended his £348,444 a year salary and announced measures to get more bicycles into London as part of their plans "...for a new cycling millennium".
"We realised that one person per bike wasn't going to achieve our targets. Being all too aware that we need much more commitment to more environmentally friendly forms of transport, we're pleased to announce TfL's new 'mass bicycle' scheme".In response to TfL's latest safety reports Peter Hendy explained "Clearly cycling is dangerous in London so we had to come up with a new plan; one that would ensure the safety of cyclists and match up with our current vehicular-prioritised strategies around the capital city". He continued "What we're proposing is implementing a new solution our engineers are calling 'The Big Bicycle' whereby we can achieve our goal of getting more bicycles into the city, safely and without compromising our current road plans.At a press conference today, TfL unveiled the 'The Big Bicycle':"What we're suggesting", an engineer explained, "is that single-occupant cars would be fitted with a rack enabling the driver to carry up to three bicycles on-board the vehicle. So this would mean that for one single person three bicycles would be 'in use' on London's streets".
However later in the presentation the engineer did admit "To be honest, I'm not even sure what we're doing anymore. Was this about the Channel Tunnel?".
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