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London’s Growth Plan and active travel (2)

  • Reference: 2025/1795
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 22 May 2025
Thank you for your answer to my question 2025/0883. Your London Growth Plan promotes both polycentric growth and walkable ‘innovation districts’, yet it fails to include any actions to deliver walkable districts other than Oxford Street. How will this transport aspiration in the London Growth Plan be delivered?

Implications for the MTS in the English Devolution White Paper for all Mayoral Strategic Authorities

  • Reference: 2025/1794
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 22 May 2025
How are you assessing the development of Local Transport Plans as proposed in the English Devolution White Paper for all Mayoral Strategic Authorities and any impact on your Mayor’s Transport Strategy (MTS), which is a statutory document required by the GLA Act 1999?

Oxford Street pedestrianisation and legal powers

  • Reference: 2025/1793
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 22 May 2025
What legal powers are you considering using to ensure that if Oxford Street is pedestrianised, space and priority on surrounding streets is reallocated to buses, cycling and walking?

Boroughs and active travel schemes

  • Reference: 2025/1792
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 22 May 2025
What assessment have you made of the capability of London’s local authorities to deliver active travel schemes well, and do you have any plans to take up the offer in the English Devolution White Paper for Active Travel England to provide capability assessments for London's local authorities?

Cycle network in London (2)

  • Reference: 2025/1791
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 22 May 2025
What proportion of the cycle network in London you claim to have delivered meets the Department for Transport (DfT) Cycle Infrastructure Design (LTN 1/20) standards in full, and do you have any map showing which sections do and do not?

Cycle network in London (1)

  • Reference: 2025/1790
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 22 May 2025
What proportion of the cycle network in London that you claim to have quadrupled since 2016 was in fact on paths or roads that already had a signed or designated cycle route then?

Southwark cycle lanes width requirements

  • Reference: 2025/1789
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 22 May 2025
Is Transport for London (TfL) planning to fund Southwark Council’s scheme for Peckham Rye that proposes cycle lane widths which are half the minimum requirement for current cycling flows, despite being in an area that TfL has identified as having the highest potential for growth?

Healthy Streets delivery plans and MTS targets

  • Reference: 2025/1788
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 22 May 2025
How have you ensured that borough Healthy Streets delivery plans and proposals are aligned to deliver the Mayor’s Transport Strategy (MTS) target for a 27 per cent reduction in car use (and associated increases in sustainable modes) by 2030?

Healthy Streets delivery plans and Vision Zero targets

  • Reference: 2025/1787
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 22 May 2025
In light of reports in the press about increased pedestrian road deaths in London in 2024, how confident are you that the borough Healthy Streets delivery plans that Transport for London (TfL) has approved, will not only reverse this, but also put London on track to meet your Vision Zero targets?

LIP funding 2025-28 and MTS targets

  • Reference: 2025/1786
  • Question by: Caroline Russell
  • Meeting date: 22 May 2025
Your March 2025 note on the legal context of Local Implementation Plan (LIP) funding says that you can only approve ‘a LIP (including initial delivery plans) if adequate to implement the MTS [Mayor’s Transport Strategy]’. In this legal context how did you ensure you only approved borough follow-up delivery plans that were adequate to meet MTS targets?
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