Legwork needed to keep capital moving

02 April 2008
 
The next mayor of London needs to revise Ken Livingstone’s transport strategy to ensure that walking trips increase, buses meet local needs, and car journey times improve, according to London Councils.

The body representing the capital’s boroughs said there was ‘not much evidence of any significant increase in walking or the active pursuit of any policies to improve the walking environment’.

It was ‘critical’ that the second mayoral transport strategy addressed this. ‘Public transport is not going to keep pace with demand, so encouraging more people to walk will be necessary,’ according to London Councils’ detailed critique of the first mayoral strategy. London Councils also pointed out that little had been done to tackle congestion in outer London and, while the central London congestion charge had reduced the number of vehicles, journey time reliability had not improved. While bus service capacity had been increased, there were ‘frequent complaints about large buses running on narrow residential roads, to the detriment to the community’.

Bus services ‘do not always meet local need’ according to the critique, because ‘decisions on bus planning are too far removed from the local level’. In outer London, ‘the extent to which the bus systems meet needs remains questionable’.

Livingstone’s two main rivals, Boris Johnson and Brian Paddick, have both pledged to improve vehicle journey times and reduce local pollution by re-phasing traffic signals. Paddick said: ‘A congestion charge should do what it says it will do – tackle congestion.’ Livingstone, however, has pledged to increase the congestion charge in order to reduce carbon emissions.

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