Originally Posted by
genec
Is it also possible that the congestion charges in central London have managed to reduce the amount of motor traffic, and that because more people are cycling that again there are fewer cars on the streets, thus central London is now more conducive to cycling?
That's the theory but in practise I found the time it took to take the bus from the City to Waterloo station remained resolutely the same before and after congestion charging was introduced. There's still quite a lot of central London where cycling is quite a hair-raising experience.