London Traffic

I don't know what it's like in other parts of town but the traffic jams in and around SW3 are a nightmare and have been so since at least the beginning of last year. It is not because of the traffic itself but because of the endless unharmonised road works. Sloane Street was dug up at least five times last year and the King's Road has been dug up at least that number of times this year. Numerous holes have been dug this year in the Royal Hospital Road as well as on the Embankment and the Fulham Road. There are road works again somewhere today in the area causing jams in the New Kings Road, the Kings Road, Lower Sloane Street, Chelsea Bridge Road and no doubt elsewhere. It's chaos out there and unless the road works are completed quickly it will no doubt get worse on Thursday when the rage of the lazy, overpaid, underperforming public sector workers is to be unleashed on us all in the first wave of strikes due to be held on that day. It was great to read yesterday though that Francis Maude says the government is set to ban the practice of paying Union officials out of the public purse. Good to hear too that Pickles has refused to allow one of the union boss's into the Department of Communities and local Government to persuade his members to join Thursday's strike. The public will have their revenge on these pampered skivers who think they have a greater right than the rest of us to pensions that no one else can afford.