This chapter sets out the Mayor's approach to ensuring London is a city where it is easy, safe and convenient for everyone to access jobs, opportunities and facilities using an efficient and effective transport system which actively encourages more walking and cycling and makes better use of the Thames.
Policies on integrating transport and land use advocate development in areas with current or planned high levels of transport need, encourage boroughs to provide land for transport infrastructure, and allow the phasing of development to ensure that the transport network can cope with the additional traffic.
The delivery of Crossrail by 2017 is the Mayor's top transport priority. To safeguard its delivery the Mayor will ask for contributions from certain office developments to help fund it. The upgrade of the tube network, improvements to London's overground network, and national rail improvements such as Thameslink are examples of other improvements that will help boost the capacity of the transport network.
The plan also reflects the Mayor's well-known opposition to further expansion at Heathrow because of the substantial noise and air quality problems that already exist in and around the airport.
The Mayor believes that smoothing traffic flow and creating more shared road space will encourage walking, and by working with boroughs to develop a network of cycle hire facilities and cycle superhighways the Mayor looks forward to seeing a huge increase in the number of Londoners taking to their bicycles. The ability to move goods around London is essential to London's businesses and the Mayor is keen to work with the freight industry to improve distribution.
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