London Borough of Brent Council’s transportation service has been crowned the most improved transport borough in London.
It picked up the accolade at the London Transport Awards last week, in recognition of its efforts to decrease fatalities and improve sustainability in travel. The service has already met the 2010 road safety targets by cutting (KSIs) killed and serious injuries from an average of 244 a year between 1994 to 1998, to just 98 last year.
It has also introduced 31 car clubs and 170 travel plans to make transport ‘greener’ within the borough. Three hundred new cycle stands have been made available, and traditional road humps replaced with ‘sinusoidal’ humps to benefit cyclists (Surveyor, 28 August 2008).
The Wembley Stadium protected parking scheme encourages visitors to the stadium to use public transport, while protecting residents’ parking spaces in a 1.5m radius.
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