The Mayor’s Budget for 2024-25

I would like to see the removal of LTNs blocking our streets The removal of ALL 20 mile an hour zones except for sensitive areas for example around schools and hospitals.  I would like to see more electric car charging points on every street where possible. 

Better, cleaner  public transport  (both in terms of clean buses/trains/trams etc and less polluting more environmentally clean forms of transport). 

It is great to see the development of the SuperLoop network but it still takes far too long to get around London by bus. We should be aiming for a 30% improvement in bus speeds. Too often dedicated cycle lanes are reducing bus speeds by taking too much road space. We need to make buses more attractive to car users to reduce car use and make all traffic flow more easily.

I would have liked there to be more support for the elderly and less-abled, the homebound, and those of them who do not use the internet at all, in London.

There are no supermarkets or frozen food businesses offering telephone-ordering for food and essentials in central London.  Waitrose the John Lewis Food Hall on Oxford Street abruptly ended it's service just before Christmas, leaving people who rely on it in the lurch.  Sainsbury's stopped their phone orders service a while back.  Our local council volunteer food shopping service  is not taking new referrals until the New Year. 

Services and help for people who cannot be online are minimal, and it is getting worse and worse. Businesses, care services, government institutions, local councils - all are excluding the non-online population more and more.  

Having experienced the way Labour has abandoned its voters after winning from the Tories in my area, I no longer have any vestiges of faith in Labour politicians at all.  Not impressed by Starmer at all, or his supporters. I do think Mayor Khan has made some progress in provision of affordable housing, but this needs drastic national government action. 

If Khan was to ensure that the congestion charge was 24/7, and to genuinely prioritise improving the environment that Londoners live in, i.e. noise pollution and air pollution to be reduced, no 24-hour city in where there are residential streets and areas, greater support for residential neighbourhoods in policies that local councils have to observe - then I might feel better about the budget. Else, not. 

There was 1 key area that funding needs to be given to that was not in the options to choose from and that is funding for our roads, pavements, green spaces and ensuring they are well maintained, well lit and well used. Making the areas we live in better kept encouraging the right behaviour in those that use it to respect and keep it well maintained. This is an area i think has slipped massively over the time the current mayor has been in office. 

There has been a very noticeable increase in vehicle crashes where they have been leaving the road and crashing into buildings / other objects. Very likely significantly over the speed limit.

Need hugely increased roll out of LTNs. Most residential streets should be an LTN. More major roads need traffic calming, especially near and outside schools.

 
It’s time for the city to prioritise people. Everyone is a pedestrian.

Further to this, we need to remove large amounts of street car parking. It’s absurd that we provide free or very cheap 10m2 of space for people to keep their valuable private assets (cars) on public land. We (society) do this whilst there is a huge increase in homelessness. Apparently we can provide space for people to park their cars but we cannot provide space for people to live. 

This is absurd. It must stop. 

The first thing to do would be to charge for parking at something approaching market rates for the value of the land. This would raise large amounts of income, deter private car ownership and as a result free up large amounts of public land for more productive and beneficial use.  

I think one of the most serious issues London faces right now is pedestrian safety and I think something needs to be done about it urgently

I am almost run over daily in London by cyclists mounting pavements and flying over zebra crossings and red lights. I cannot bare to think of the danger risk this poses to blind people, elderly people, babies in pushchairs and children. There is not control over this daily threat to pedestrians and something urgently needs to be done

Defund the met… stop giving the met more money 

There must be much more investing in green projects and protecting green spaces and wildlife. Also, there should be areas where dogs are not allowed so as to protect animals like hedgehogs. 

Perhaps the most concerning worry at this time is the level of homelessness and the threat to Londoners of a drastic increase in this level due to the level of poverty in working families and remember that this now includes property-owning families who have been forced into debt by rising mortgage repayments. I am sad that our housing stock was sold off at a discount and even more sad that in a seriously short-sighted manner, was never replaced. I am no longer convinced that free enterprise is the universal solution for a successful economy.

I am suprised you need a rise in council tax with the amounts coming in from the ULEZ and the associated fines and charges?

If an action of the council sparks continual civil action against it then it needs looking at closely and either revising or scrapping as this is England not France and the transition from the people being scared of authority to the authority being scared of the people is a bridge you are close to crossing.

This questionnaire is not what it seems.  It has one very biased question which will no doubt be used by the Mayor to try support his Mayoral campaign.

The needs that are missing include:

  Speeding up traffic

  Put back traffic lanes where they used to exist (Park Lane is a good example)

  Reducing congestion

  Removing signage clutter from our streets

  Placing bicycle lanes within bus lanes

  Remove bus lanes that only have one bus every 20 minutes

  Add the infrastructure to our city BEFORE building block of flats

  Initiate a plan to build family homes not community living spaces 

  etc 

I am fed up with the massive rises in council tax we are having to pay due to Sadiq Kahn's total mismanagement of the budget.  You are using us as your cash machine.  The school my children attend received a letter from Sadiq Kahn going on and on about how he was funding free school meals.  Not once did he mention that it was actually tax payers money funding this.  He has to be voted out at the next mayoral election.