An excellent letter to Livingstone from Stephen Bayley. The article is quite long, but is well worth the time.
We need trees but you give us fireworks. We need flexible transport, clear roads, clutter-free spaces. You give us an Orwellian nightmare of no proven benefit. The pedestrianised Trafalgar Square is a much less human place and now it takes even longer to cross it, in any form of transport. This great city is filthy and is micro-managed by Philistines. I wonder, Ken, have you been to Barcelona, Washington or Paris? Did you notice anything different?
End. The full article can be viewed here:
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/gla/comment/0,9236,1125750,00.html