Funding London’s priorities

Transport staying affordable is my number one concern. If the tubes increase price, bus needs to be more frequent and not increase price ; 1.75 is alreayd expensive 

Crime needs to be taken seriously in London, but statistically it is investment into youth groups and communities that best helps prevent that, not more police on the streets. Furthermore, investment into culture and community could give criminals,  and young people, more places to work and spend time rather than turning to crime, which does not happen when social mobility is possible and one’s social life is fulfilling. Another way to combat this crime is by keeping costs down as much as possible, so nobody has to turn to crime to pay their bills and rent/mortgage. Furthermore, rather than introducing ai and slashing jobs, the creation of more jobs and teaching of real critical thinking and individual skills will allow more money to flow back into London’s economy. 

maybe ... should be like MR TRUMP J a beautiful bill - for all inclusive and en frame to underwrite for them budget

Need more step free access it’s awful people should be able to get around without having to rely on people’s kindness. Also just bcs u drop a curb doesn’t mean it’s accessible most are too steep go round London for a day in a wheelchair and see how  get on. Also make more spaces for people to go in the evening that aren’t just drinking like late community cafes etc. Stop allowing the gay culture in soho to die out. Promote small businesses there is no reason a big chain should be able to open up next to or very close to a similar small business such as Joe and the juice opening up next to smoothie factory in the Brunswick small businesses can’t compete 

Something needs to be done about thief’s it’s awful. Specially phone theft the met do not care there is nothing in place that is stopping it they feel entitled to take from people. It is making London a very unpleasant place. I got mine taken out of my zipped up pocket outside the soho fire station they don’t want to help so walked to police station where they said immediately oh phone theft scam the qr code… I didn’t have a phone so how would I do that. Something needs to be done as a preventative measure the punishment for theft needs to be harsher. And when people report that their phone is in a specific building police should be able to enter and go get it because I guarantee there won’t just be one there. So u know how frustrating it is to know my phone is sat in a building where I can see it but you guys won’t do anything 

Extend drink licensing times. Increasing growth in the industry which is struggling with menu closing, causing young people to have a lack of places to socialise.

London out of all global major cities closes up far too early! It should be transformed into a true late night to 24 hour city! 

The priority has to be increasing law & order and reducing crime. The only way this can be done is by increasing funding to get more police officer on the streets and increasing their stop & search powers. It has become embarrassing as a Londoner to see the reputation my city now has internationally due to the rampant crime e.g. phone snatching and knife crime. Which the Mayor has yet not done anyway near enough about. Please sort that. And the litter.

Tackle reckless cyclists! So many of them cycle on the pavement, don't use lights when dark or run over red lights. A lot of food delivery riders use illegally modified bikes. I've only seen law enforcement in the City of London but not elsewhere in London.

Campaign to join the EU. London very much needs it, as does the country 

Nightlife in London is dying if not already dead. London is sadly no longer a 24/7 city. We need to support pubs and nightclubs by doing what is possible to remove taxes, fees, and levies on them. We need to run the night tube across more lines and more often. We need to make sure our streets are safe late at night. But most of all, we need to make sure that Londoners can afford a night out. 

Funding is very much needed for ending knife crime and phone snatching. Everywhere I goi in Europe has made me feel safer than in London. I would rarely go out at night because of this.

Also TFL should not be allowed to raised their fare every single year given the quality of their service and the disruption tube drivers has caused. Its a disgrace how much these people earn. TFL is such corrupted this needs a thorough investigation and changes to implement for citizens!

Something needs to be done to protect London's cultural history and iconic trade districts . Limitations  need to be introduced that stop areas from being bought out by endless chains, and instead incentivise and encourage independent businesses, with an oversight to an area's local personality . London is swiftly losing all the things that make it a city worth living in. Camden Market is now an unrecognisable shopping mecca carbon-copied from any other city in the world, Denmark Street has been in danger for years of losing its historical musical significance, Berwick street - once the beating heart of London's fabric trade, has been homogenised into luxury flats, with rising costs pushing the all but the last remaining traders out. And with Deptford market next on the hit list, I'd like to see more oversight into protecting London's cultural heritage and character, whilst simultaneously supporting the city's independent businesses and cultural venues. That's what always made the city great. 

Invest in young people, in prevention and early intervention, and in making our city more accessible (from a disability standpoint and an affordability point of view). Would love to see rent controls, more social housing, investment in art, youth and community centres that celebrate local communities and create spaces to develop a pro social city, where young people can afford to work and stay, to build lives. 

Where those community built services already exist, fund them! 

More MET police on the streets will NOT make our city safer, as so much evidence points to the racial and gender discrimination running deep in the MET. 

Improving safety on the roads - lime bike users should definitely require a licence to register with the app and enable police to crackdown on traffic violations. As a lime bike user myself I still think this! It’s by far the most convenient mode of transport but not safe while so many people use it haphazardly … a small amount of intervention could go a long way 

Addressing crime is a really difficult one when the met have been literally shown to be systemically racist and misogynistic. I want to feel safer as a top priority but investing in police feels like it will achieve the opposite for women and minorities, unless systemic issues are reformed

It's been sad to watch the closure of cultural venues, and the slow increase in ticket pricing. Our writers, artists and performers are a crucial part of our city and they are all having to move to different parts of the country because they can no longer earn a living in London. A city without culure is a city without a heartbeat.

Pedestrianise Oxford Street! Walkable mixed areas in big cities around the world are always the most attractive places, and typically become cultural centres. We could have popup markets, events, exhibits, all sorts of things on the street. 

An upheaval of council tax applied to residential areas would help in discouraging the purchase of "affordable housing" by speculative investors and instead encourage working and salary-earning people to buy instead. You could do this by increasing the tax rate based on the number of square feet in a property, IE if you own one 800sqft flat you pay £X per sqft in tax per year, but if you own say 3200sqft from 4 flats you would pay £3X per square foot. 

Furthermore, delays in public transport cost London enormous sums in productivity hours, so maintaining punctuality is key to maximising productivity from what we already have. It will also take cars and taxis off the road.

Social housing, decommodify public transport, decrease wealth inequality, give everybody a chance to do well in life, invest in communities, tackle crime in the short term but make sure you do the above because crime doesn't happen in a vacuum, it's an effect of inequality rising.