Reducing emissions from transport

I’m part of JoyRiders, an organisation which is supporting women to become more confident to cycle in U.K. cities. Would be great to see the mayor of London talk in social media about all the volunteers who are doing these things.

You can do more to help with reducing the emissions by not making bus/train journeys so expensive, everything is going up now and making it harder for the poor to get around will not help with the emissions, you need to think about the cost you are imposing on the poorer people (which is increasing day by day)
I wish I could travel by bus more, however my health means I need to drive to work and church.

why do we not make the buses electric. (why are only cars/trucks/vans being charged extra)
why do we not reduce the amount of aeroplanes that causes a lot of pollution(this wont be done because the government benefit from the amount of flights that leave or come into London.

I think the mayor of London needs to think about the people he is serving, which are mainly the poor and stop making things harder for us.

More bike lanes and cycle super highways

Increased congestion zone - longer hours and up until North and South Circular

Increased and stricter ULEZ - make the cut off dates for petrol vehicles 2012 and diesel 2018. ULEZ should cover up until M25

- Tax the rich more for better funding.
- Take away 24hr bus lanes, it causes more congestion and it not necessary.
- Stop making cycle lanes where there is traffic, they’re dangerous for both cyclists and cars. Invest in cycle highways that are off the road, which will give people more confidence to cycle to places.
- Force government officials to use public transport so they actually know what it’s like.
- Stop closing rat run roads that were reducing traffic.
- Stop fining regular people around schooling areas, focus on parents and encourage none driving to school.
- Stop increasing congestion and ULEZ zones, it’s causing more congestion on the outskirts and this will just continue the further you do it. People only drive through London if they can afford to or if they need to for the likes of work, no one wants to travel into congestion.
- Please stop making it sound simple to just ‘ditch’ older vehicles. Cars are expensive and as previous government funding has showed us with the U-turn on Diesel engines can be unpredictable. Cars are evolving to fast to make any sense of buying cars unless you are wealthy.
- Improve these surveys, they’re designed just to get what you want out of it and not designed to create a discussion or let people get there point across

There are many Londoners who do need their cars to get to work and sharing a car comes with problems - insurance premiums, cost of fuel - it is not always the case that people you give a lift to will offer to help with fuel costs, any accident...minor or otherwise it is the driver/owner of the vehicle who is liable and their is nothing to stop your passenger suing you. There is already too much stacked against the motorist including the traffic caused by roads that are constantly been repaired because the job is never done thoroughly to start with.

I would prefer if traffic was allowed to move more freely than having to stop because of bottlenecks, either historical or as a result of reduction in the number of lanes that cars can use.

I also don't understand why planning permission has been given for aggregate hubs in London. I would have thought that it would be more appropriate to address the pollution from the hundreds of lorries and the damage they cause to road surfaces than targeting people who need their cars to get around.

How about reviewing logistics of moving goods in and out of London to include having goods delivered to railway depots and then distributed locally instead of having thousands of lorries driving up and down the country on a daily basis?

Not applicable as I wasn't eligible

Your survey seems to assume that every respondent walks or cycles very little. That is perhaps very revealing, showing how much room for improvement there is. I see a lot of very angry posts on local social media by people who feels as though it is their human right to drive everywhere regardless of impact on others, but I think they are a very noisy minority and most people would like to walk and/or cycle more about more needs to be done to encourage people to feel they can do it. For previous generations it was normal yet now some people's mental picture of 'a cyclist' is a stereotype based on cycle couriers and the like. Ordinary Londoners like me - a grandmother in my 60s cycle to work daily, having always done this or used public transport in combination to get around - sometimes crossing right across London for work. People need examples they can identify with, practical support and encouragement - things like walking clubs to get them back into better fitness and normalise walking again, cycle buddy schemes, images of grannies and kids cycling as normal to get around, cycling proficiency schemes for all kids in all schools, cycle awareness built into the driving test. cheap secure cycle parking; integrated ticketing between bus/tube/overground; incentives for more companies to use cargo cycles for deliveries.

What biased questionnaire! Nothing about the methods of how to refuse pollution! How about you remove the silly cycles lanes along Euston road so traffic doesn’t sit stationary for hours on end adding to pollution in the capital? There’s no innovation! Use old tube lines for cycle lanes. This is the greatest city in the world, a hub of ideas and you want to add greater restrictions and a cycle lane? Bravo for your ineptitude!

Get rid of cars. It’s simple. ENCOURAGE cycling. Decriminalise use of PEVs.

Car sharing is difficult to get going. Probably a small proportion of people can take this up quickly. However most people probably first need to know and trust the person they are sharing with, and if it is a routine event, they probably want to be able to share costs, or take turns whose car to use.
TFL would need to advertise the benefits of car sharing in TV, Radio and social media for people to get them to think about it seriously. Talk about cost and time saving, as well emissions and congestion; for example if two neighbours go to their weekly shopping together. Or two neighbours share even just a part of a route to work every day.
In some instances, if large employers surveyed their employees' mode of travel to work, they may be able to arrange passenger vans of their own from key locations to work, encouraging employees not to use their cars. This would serve as a form of sharing of transport. TFL would need to encourage such employers to do this.
People need to realise the collective interest as well as their individual advantage to take transport sharing seriously.
Of course it will still be out of the question for many people for all sorts of reasons.

There are interlinked factors in urban areas that effect congestion which in turn increase emissions.
For example:

* Deficiency in provision of toilets is a direct health concern, but it also adds to number of commutes. A person with active bladder, older people etc ... may be travelling from A to C. The person has a shopping errand in an intermediate location B, however because they cannot find a toilet or are unsure of proper toilets in that location, they continue to C and at another time or date commute back to B for that shopping or other business. An added commute whether by car or public transport can add to both congestion and emissions. Multiply that by thousand and thousands of people amongst the millions who commute every day and then multiply it again by multiple times for a year to get an image of the scale. Provide good public toilets both for better health and indirectly also reduce traffic ...

* Location of businesses that use large vehicles for delivery can have an effect. Such as long vehicles used for delivery of goods to supermarkets. When these business are located in narrow streets without proper stopping and unloading locations, traffic is interrupted. New developments need to factor in not only the mixing of business and shopping spaces with residential but also delivery arrangements to avoid traffic and congestion. Currently this is not considered with strict rules.

Bring back unused tube stations across London into use and make all stations accessible. This will further enable and encourage older people, people with certain disabilities, people carrying weights (shopping, luggage, prams... ) to use public transport instead of using cars and taxis...

Build Large parking spaces near key tube stations in zones 4 and 3 for people coming in by car from suburbs and outside London to have a good option of leaving their cars further out of central London and travelling the rest of the way on tube/overground to the centre.

Bus services are sometimes extremely slow. As part of encouragement of public transport usage and also to reduce congestion on the underground system during pick hours, consider introducing fast bus services in zone 3/4 connecting underground, overground, national rail stations directly and diagonally. There are already some bus services that serve these areas but they are normal services with many stops. They are slower.
For example a bus service that directly connects the following stations without stopping in between apart from possibly main institutions/centres: Silver Street (near North Middlesex hospital) to New Southgate to Finchley Central to Middlesex University to Brent Cross to Wembley Park to Wembley Central to Ealing Broadway to Kew Bridge (near West Middlesex Hospital & Kew Gardens). In this hypothetical bus route, the bust service will provide a fast service across North to west of Zone 3.
Would such a service not have reducing effect on car congestion, reduce some traffic on underground / rail services and make it more convenient for people to travel across zone3?
There can be many useful fast bus routes that do not need to have all day service but can run during hours with high demand as a faster alternative.
This method can also be applied for connecting zone 2 - 3 - 4 crossing various underground lines as direct services e.g. Finchley Central to Golders Green to Finchley Road; allowing people to connect between various tube routes with a fast bus service.

Hi there from milan,
First of all i would like to recommend people to walk, but in the modern bussier situation this one coudn't be not much practicable. There for i suggest use your vehicle or public transportation, because time is essential, also to make monkey, howevere within the releasing air pollution from vehicles to the cities, which can be reduced fitting some catalytic converter in cities, these can be found from the vehicles told and modern vehicles, Also this one related to automobile machanics as well to fix a catelatic converter technician need a stand and it is better fix the converter top of the stand or in bus each bus stops. This can be fix in certain km to km.

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* Give incentives or in some other way encourage businesses - hospitals etc to give priority in employing people who live locally in their area.
* Stop gentrification which results in people on lower income not being able to live in central parts of London due to high rents/house prices and have to travel from outer areas to centre for work.
These policies should result in reduced traffic and therefore emissions.

Congestion is partly due to timing of activities during the day. For example if 100 people go into the street at the same time they produce more congestion then if they left during 10 minutes – 10 every minute.
If at all practical an idea would be for the Mayor and/or London transport and/or local councils to gather data on the start and finish of working hours of various businesses and using that data encourage some businesses or districts – on voluntary basis – to slightly vary their start and end of work timings within a set scheme in order to increase the flow of traffic and reduce traffic congestion? Some businesses may do this naturally while others may need encouragement by being briefed on the benefits that it can bring them.

Road works create a lot of congestion. Many road works take a long time, with roads fully or partially remaining closed. On many occasions one can see none and sometimes just a few workers on these sites. Why is this. Is it that some contractors take more projects then they can manage at any one time, so it does not go to their competitors and start a project but do not have the resources to continue rapidly.
Some instances must be due to bad management, particularly if different parts of the work are carried out by different services when there is a delay between one service ending work and next starting their work and so on.
There is also a problem with utility companies such as Thames Water who possibly to save on their profit margins, sometimes dig up and perform little repairs in a stretch of road multiple times during a year, instead of changing the old pipe in a stretch of road in one go. The multiple diggings and road blocks cause increased nuisance, congestion and therefore pollution.
There should be a more effective mechanism by which local authorities check if a road work is managed with fullest possible resources. Standards for timing of utility work in the streets and road works needs to be upgraded. These mechanisms need to include timely inspections perhaps sometimes simply through traffic cameras. There can also be fines when contractors perform below standard.
In short blocking streets for repair and maintenance should become shorter in duration, to reduce congestion and pollution.

Bicycles, scooters and tricycles in narrow streets cause slowness for cars thereby reducing the flow of traffic. With new driving guidelines regarding the distance between cars and bicycles, this is going to get worse. While cycling needs to be encouraged and more and better cycle lanes made for safety, it may also be necessary to limit the use of bicycles and similar… in some streets at certain hours, encouraging them to travel from alternative routes (where such routes exist), this could benefit both reduction of congestion and the safety of cyclists and users of other small modes of transport.