Reducing emissions from transport

Your survey could ask a couple more questions that might give you more information. For example, I have said that I would not be willing to change my patterns of behaviour, but the reason for that is because I already walk or cycle for journeys of up to an hour (sometimes more as I commute over an hour into central London by bike in the summer), and I own an electric car, so it isn’t congestion that is the issue for me, rather the number of petrol vehicles on the road.

The powers who constantly preach about reducing congestion, air pollution and climate change. They are given a golden ticket to do so by usage of electric scooters and they cover the opportunity in red tape, refusing to legalise private ownership.

It certainly makes you think they don't actually care about the climate or congestion as these will enable all 3 issues to be reduced in such great numbers, even more than cycling. It's like they can see that they will lose so much revenue from tubes/busses/taxis that they are preventing the solution on the basis of financial loss.

Outer London is not the same as inner London. I live in LB Bromley and a lot of our area is rural. No public transport and long travel distances even to the nearest shop. Cars are essential out here and we can't all afford expensive new cars let alone electric ones.
How about doing something positive for Londoners rather than keep on taxing us. By the way good luck with installing ULEZ cameras round here. It will cost a fortune to cover every country lane and find an electricity supply for them

Quite easy, Ban all cars from the capital. Other areas of the uk have things like park n ride. Why not here on the outskirts. And while we're at it, reduce the number of bus stops to reduce congestion. Is it really necessary to get on a bus at one stop, travel 100 yards and have another stop? A further 150 yards ANOTHER stop. Totally ridiculous. And regulate the buses more. There are numerous operators operating the same route who all turn up at the same time. It's not rocket science really is it? NINETEEN buses I counted recently in rush hour in Hackney central, all queueing up, all servicing bus stops 100 yards apart. No wonder it takes an hour and half by bus to get anywhere.

Stop penalising Londoners. Penalise those travelling into London. Londoners pay full price for everything and pay to the London Assembly. So many drive into my borough from outside London, park for free and then catch a train. It’s the congestion you need to deal with not the pollution as the ULEZ has not decreased any of those cars parking near me. So to increase the ULEZ will only penalise Londoners that have to cross London borough for hospital etc not the traffic that comes from outside. The scrapage scheme is unfair, I’m not low income but I can’t afford a new car?
It just feels like the Londoner is being punished again.

1) Could they not use cars less/share transport (-cars or other means) more..? 2) Couldn't new lower-carbon transportation be used increasingly...? 3) Could trains, or larger scale goods conveyance means not be adopted more...? (-possibly through the vehicle upgrades to more carbon neutral resulting trips/business...?). 4) Could people not have more of their meetings via remote/web platform media more...? 5) Could the ULEZ rules not be tailored more, to promote electric vehicles, in conjunction with far ore widely available charging points, across London's/the South East's suburbs...?

The mayor is disingenuously conflating greenhouse gas emissions (which will be very hard to tackle) with pollution (which is rapidly falling anyway and the ULEZ makes a negligible difference in the long run).

Talking about "active travel" is a waste of time as walking and cycling are only suitable for short journeys and will have a minimal impact on traffic levels. However, all the cycle lanes and pedestrian crossings lead to extra traffic congestion and pollution which far outweighs any marginal modal shift achieved. The promotion of cycling has been a triple whammy for public transport:
- The cost of cycling schemes are largely met from public transport fares, so means higher fares and/or worse services
- Most 'new' cyclists are people who previously went by bus, so TfL has suffered a reduction in revenue
- Cycle lanes often harm buses, e.g. removal of bus lanes and bus stops, making the waiting environment at stops unpleasant, and more cyclists on the road delay buses e.g. difficulty accessing bus stops.

The only way a 27% reduction in car use can be achieved is for people to travel less. You might be able to achieve a 5-10% reduction by further improving public transport, but London's public transport system is already extremely comprehensive.

You could do worse than simply reverting the road network largely back to how it was 30 years ago - it worked far more efficiently then. Bus journey times have risen continuously for 20 years despite traffic levels falling. This is largely due road layout changes and traffic calming/20mph speed limits. All bus routes should have a 30mph speed limit and no speed humps of any kind. This will save TfL hundreds of millions a year that they can use to improve services.

I am someone with a breathing issue and other disabilities, The Mayors plans have made my life worse since his internment. He is in love with the cyclist, buses etc. and anyone needing a car for whatever reason is seen as the enemy a cash cow or both.

LTN's just move traffic to the next street pollution is airborne not because a car is on a certain road, the LTN's, excessive Bus & Cycle lanes just create more congestion which in turn creates more pollution contributing to climate change.

bus and cycle lanes are empty more than they are occupied you then see several busses all bunched together because the rest of the traffic isn't moving so that the buses stop "to even out the service" which then leaves a bus sat there churning out pollution in most cases because the system isn't regular and people run from bus to bus because it makes them late.

I cannot use a bus or train as I cant get on them so I have to use a car if I want to work and not live on benefits and have seen my journey increase from 20 minutes to 1 hour for the same commute.

If the mayor is serious about pollution and climate change he needs a different approach because the system has been broken by his existing changes. I leave for work at 6am to avoid traffic where I wouldn't see much congestion I now sit in queue after queue. Cars aren't going away from London for lots of reasons so instead of demonising the car look as the use of the road a moving car creates less pollution than one that is forced to idle in queues or moves at 5MPH or creeps along a few feet every minute whilst lanes sit empty that cannot be used.

Some of us have no choice other than a car because of unreliable, striking or overcrowded unusable public transport. to get a wheelchair off a daytime bus needs 20+ people to get off/out of the way that they don't do because of overcrowding. trains are worse, and the tube needs you to travel miles out of your way for accessibility only to not be able to get on/off them.

Stop building out bus stops on red routes causing traffic to sit and create more pollution behind a bus at a stop.
Stop reducing road width to put in cycle ways that are vary rarely used and ultimately cause more pollution from cars which are restricted.
listen to the public when you have these consultations and not just do what you want to. (recent consultation on increasing red route fines where the huge majority were in favour of leaving fines as they were, you decided to increase them anyway.)
Do away with 20 mph zones which probably cause more pollution as vehicles cannot get into a higher gear to reduce pollution.

I am a 66 year old resident of RBKC. I get FREE use of TFL transport, and it really has changed the way I move around the city and outskirts.
Having TIME as a retiree to travel on the top deck of a London double decker is a privilege.
But so too is EXERCISE a privilege in this day and age, we just need to change our mind set, which is what I appreciate the Major is trying to do.
I do most of my local <10mile excursions by bike, and know how to confidently navigate slow moving 20 MPH restricted traffic.
There is a lot of satisfaction knowing I can get from A to B quicker by bike than by car or public transport.
Thanks for introducing the 20 mph limit!
We use a small EV with 200mile range for out of London trips. The Ubitricity charging network is very easy to use and accessible and cheap.
As empty nesters, we don't need a large car, but younger families do. But large EVs are available with 300Mile range. To my mind, we need to target the SUV owners who have not considered the environmental impact of their vehicles. My neighbour drives to his Swiss Chalet with his three kids every winter, and to his north Italian home every summer. The two long trips dictate his vehicle needs so he drives a large petrol powered Volvo estate around London 330days a year.

The major now needs to get SUVs off London's roads to reduce traffic pollution by changing peoples mind set and by offering alternatives to these type of large family issues.

Start by removing the ludicrous blanket 20mph speed limit, there is no safety benefit, modern cars cannot grind along in second gear all day pumping out much higher exhaust gases, in my car at 30mph my engine is at 1700 rpm at 20mph it is 2700rpm, next take out all the fake traffic calming measures, chicanes, speed humps etc, they are designed to annoy and contribute nothing, finally, Khan to resign at once and someone with some brains take over.

Make cycling and walking more pleasant. It feels dangerous to do either now. It should be easier to cross the road as a pedestrian. There should be zebra crossings at every junction like there are in most European countries. Better walking and cycling infrastructure are a feminist issue as well - parents have to take their kids everywhere as it’s not safe for them to walk or cycle on their own and it’s usually the mum who has to take the time to do that.

That was the biggest waste of time.

This was a typical TFL/ Mayor of London 'Survey'. Many of the questions were along the lines of 'have you stopped beating your wife' -skewed so that whatever you chose confirmed the views that the supported the Mayor's agenda.

You want to make public transport more effective and attractive? Do what has been done in other countries and make the tube a bus networks complimentary rather than competing against each other. Tubes for longer trips and buses radially outwards from tube stations. One ticket per journey with a free transfer from one mode to the other within a certain time. Cheaper less waste of resources and less clogging of the streets with empty buses

In recent years two-way traffic has been reinstated in many central London streets including Aldwych, Tottenham Court Road, Baker Street, Gloucester Place, Portman Square, Piccadilly, Pall Mall, and St James's Street.
Many streets of two, three, or four lanes wide have been reduced to just one lane in each direction - Regent Street may be the most obvious example.
Transport emissions could be significantly reduced is most streets in central London were reduced to just one lane in each direction as the new 'standard', with a bus lane alongside where space permits.
But TfL needs to up its game big-time: its embarrassing to read written reports such as TfL's 2017 response to the Mayfair Neighbourhood Forum,
where TfL demonstrates how clueless it is about major London infrastructure - factually wrong about the history of Park Lane, for example - as can easily be seen if you search "1957 BFI travelogue Summer in Mayfair".
Hyde Park Corner, Park Lane, and Marble Arch can all be pedestrian-friendly if TfL were to follow Government guidelines and put pedestrians first, in fact, not in TfL's fantasy. The current major dog's dinner that is Park Lane is a direct result of TfL being highly unprofessional when it come to urban realm.
The West End could have had 1000 metres of outdoor hospitality potential to help businesses during the pandemic, but instead they had zero - courtesy of TfL's dog's dinner. TfL should be ashamed at how much you harm London and Londoners.
If you search "Future Streets Prophet - New London Architecture" you can hear/see how it should be done.
If TfL are professional enough to do it is a different matter.
Maybe TfL should consider employing some professionals, for a change?

Who decided emissions must be reduced by 27%? All the previous numbers have proven incorrect. Have you taken into account the reduction of point of use emissions by use of more EV's and Hybrid vehicles each year? I suspect the 27% does not include this change.

I can go on about London being (or supposed to be) a working town attracting visitors from the rather than a theme park, many people need to use cars in London due to lack of mobility etc, the relative lack of public transport in the outer boroughs (and of course virtually no tube south of the river) and the fact that outer London decisively rejected Mayor Khan.
but this whole scene seems to be a revenue raising tit for tat as the Government is continually trying to stop the waste of money by Transport for London and it's overpaid strike happy unions.

We should concentrate on world wide reduction of pollution and at the same understand there are much wider and serious issues to solve.

It is important to consider older people, those with disabilities and those who are unable to get around without good public transport.