Westminster council accused of playing politics over bike route

Westminster council accused of playing politics over bike route

London mayor’s office calls last-minute legal bid to halt CS11 cycleway ‘disgraceful’

Westminster council has been accused of political game-playing after it emerged that the Conservative-run local authority had made a last-minute legal bid to block a new cycle route despite it being supported in a public consultation.

The council’s decision to seek a judicial review to halt construction of the long-planned scheme risks further poisoning its relations with Sadiq Khan, a week after Westminster also sunk the London mayor’s flagship plan to pedestrianise Oxford Street.

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Source: Guardian Transport

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