Livingstone lays out stall for re-election

12 March 2008

London mayor Ken Livingstone has launched his transport manifesto for a third term, confirming his commitment to Crossrail, cycling, hybrid powered buses, and 20mph zones.

He pointed to his record of ‘successfully delivering major improvements in London’s transport system in the last eight years’, and suggested that electing Conservative rival, Boris Johnson, would spell ‘transport and financial’ disaster.

‘As already shown in an incredible £100M a year error in Boris Johnson’s transport manifesto, there are risks not only of a transport but a financial disaster for London from incompetence in running the transport system,’ Livingstone said.

As part of a £500M cycling investment programme, he promised a central London bike hire scheme, with 6,000 bicycles available over 300m, and free to use for the first 30 minutes. This would complement a network of new cycling corridors into central London and new, safer bike zones around urban town centres.

He pledged to put 500 hybrid buses on London’s roads by 2010, with all new hybrids by 2012 at the latest, and underlined his commitment to installing 20mph zones around schools and on residential streets, replacing speed humps with camera technology.

Livingstone recently announced a £25 charge for high-emission vehicles to enter the congestion charge zone, which would begin in October, pending re-election.

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