The Mayor's Transport Strategy sets out his transport vision for London and details how Transport for London and partners will deliver the plan over the next 20 years.
Mayor's Transport Strategy
10 MAY 2010
It is a key part of a strategic policy framework to support and shape London's social and economic development.
How the strategy was developed
- In 2008 the Mayor published ‘Way to Go’, a consultation which took a broad approach to London’s transport. The following year, to build on that work, the Mayor delegated responsibility for developing a detailed draft strategy to Transport for London (TfL), part of the GLA group.
Read Way to Go here.
Read the Draft Transport Strategy here. - In Autumn 2009, following a statutory consultation with the London Assembly, there was a public consultation on the draft Transport Strategy. TfL then delivered a report to the Mayor detailing the responses to the consultation.
Read TfL’s Report to the Mayor on the Consultation.
- During the consultation period, an Integrated Impact Assessment was produced to inform the development of the policies and processes laid out in the Transport Strategy.
Read the Integrated Impact Assessment. - The London Assembly has given numerous responses throughout the process of developing the Mayor's Transport Strategy.
Read the Assembly's response to Way to Go
Read the Assembly's response to the Mayor's Draft Transport Strategy
Read the Assembly's response to the Mayor's Transport Strategy Statement of Intent
- The final strategy document was published on 10 May 2010.
Read the Mayor’s formal decision to approve the strategy.
- Moving forward, London boroughs will play an important in making the ambitions of the strategy a reality for Londoners.
Read the guidance for London boroughs.
How to read the strategy
The strategy is a large document, reflecting the broad area of work it addreses. To make it easier to navigate we’ve separated the report out into twelve downloadable sections.
There are three broad parts of the Transport Strategy:
Part One
This is the first two PDFs and features the Introduction, Table of Contents and Executive Summary (Chapter one), the Vision (Chapter 2) and Context (Chapter 3) of the strategy.
Part Two
This section is divided into eight documents, and looks at the Challenges and strategic policies (Chapter 4), Transport proposals (Chapter 5, pt1), Proposals to encourage more cycling and walking (Chapter 5, pt2), Proposals to improve safety and security (Chapter 5, pt3), Proposals to improve London's environment (Chapter 5, pt4), Proposals to reduce transport's contribution to climate change (Chapter 5, pt5), Proposals to manage the demand for travel (Chapter 5, pt6) and the Expected outcomes of the strategy (Chapter 6).
Part Three
This is divided into two documents and looks at Delivery of the strategy (Chapter 7, 8 and 9) and the Annexes which includes a Table of figures and glossary.
You can also download the full strategy in rich text format. This version doesn’t have any of the photographs, charts or tables included in the PDFs.
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| Executive summary | 2.28 MB |
| Vision and context | 3.09 MB |
| Challenges and strategy policies | 3.37 MB |
| Managing and enhancing the transport system | 7.49 MB |
| Encouraging more walking and cycling | 423.67 KB |
| Improving safety and security | 3.67 MB |
| Improving London's environment | 579.59 KB |
| Reducing transport's contribution to climate change | 653.16 KB |
| Managing demand | 349.62 KB |
| Expected outcomes | 3.83 MB |
| Delivering the strategy | 655.67 KB |
| Table of figures and glossary | 721.23 KB |
| Mayor's Transport Strategy.rtf | 1.16 MB |
Comments
In the East the biggest problem is the lack of tunnels and bridges that connect the north and south of the river. The area very much needs more links and an extention to the existing DLR that currently stops in Lewisham. This should have been extended at least to Catford a long time ago. This huge gap undermines any effort to improve transport in East London.
3 September, 2011 12:55
Comment submitted by Anonymous
Centralised efforts to encourage cycling for health, congestion and pollution reasons are being let down by at least one London borough. Each borough is helping people overcome personal safety fears with measures such as traffic calming, bespoke road markings and signage and rider safety instruction schemes. But what about the basic condition of road surfaces?
I suffered painful injuries in November 2009 due to a large, unmarked hole in the road in Tower Hamlets. I applied to the council for compensation, who told me to present my claim to the utility company responsible for roadworks at the accident site. 9 months later I am still waiting for the council’s loss adjustors to give me the details I need. After much correspondence they are now saying "we have done all that can be reasonably expected", and have left it to me to take any further action as I see fit.
This undermines a policy to encourage more Londoners to cycle. Suggestions to beat a wall of silence welcome.
17 September, 2010 12:39
Comment submitted by injured cyclist