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Article: Trafalgar Square traffic chaos is 'just the start'; GRIDLOCK LONDON.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 24, 2002
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Byline: ADAM BLENFORD
LORRIES and buses queue for hundreds of yards in all directions.
Tourists grimace as they pose for their souvenir photographs to the sound of pneumatic drilling.
Pedestrians baffled by contractors' signs clamber over barriers in an effort to cross the road.
Welcome to Trafalgar Square, one of London's biggest road junctions and most-visited tourist attractions.
The plethora of temporary traffic lights, dug-up pavements and new traffic islands - and the congestion they contribute to - is a taste of what will soon be happening all over London, a road transport expert warned yesterday.
Kevin ...