Every London borough should have the capital’s version of a local transport plan in place and approved before the end of the summer.
~Ken Livingstone~ last week endorsed Kingston’s local implementation plan – London’s first LIP (Surveyor, 16 March). Indicating a ‘completion date of late summer’ for all 33 LIPs, a ~Transport for London~ spokeswoman denied their introduction had slipped from December 2005.
‘The main aim was to get the forms completed correctly, rather than focusing too much on a deadline’. LIPs cover a four-year period, from 2005/06. The plans are burdensome, according to the London Technical Advisors Group. The first was going to be most difficult, but TfL needed to resist changing the rules or adding ‘further layers of form-filling’.
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