Environment, transport and clean air

I agree with post below about trees. Every London borough should have a massive and consistent tree planting policy. Every road in London should be lined with trees such as the hardy and beautiful London plain tree. In Paris you often see streets with trees planted almost by law every few metres with attractive metal tree guards protecting the trunks. The mass planting of trees whereever possible on London streets would help to really enhance some of the poorer and run down high streets in outer London. Too many new pavements have been laid without any trees. Even when the pavements are wide often no trees are planted. Often mature trees are cut down on streets for no reason then replaced with poor quality thin looking ones. Let's enhance every borough in London with the most massive tree planting on streets ever. Its now or never. 

I think we need to address the issues of private cars early in the attempt to make london green and there is nothing about rolling out power generation, distribution and charging points for vehicles. London needs to generate electricity within the city and we should look at how that can be achieved we should also provide staging areas outside the ulez for electric vans to provide SME businesses logistics stations so we can practically expel deisel vans. Ensuring all contractors carrying out work for the london authority are using electric vehicles whede they can. Where is our offsetting budget?

The proposals do not mention anything about the huge problem in central London of fly tipping and general littering. 
my local council, Southwark, does not prosecute fly tippers  and as a result this is a huge environmental issue for residents. 
 

All diesel cars, old black cabs and trucks should be outright banned from Central London. Plus ZERO idling. No ifs, ands or buts. Just banned ASAP.

Mature, healthy street trees must be seen as an asset and protected. There needs to be consistency in tree policy across all London boroughs and proper funding allocated to maintain our existing trees. 

Mature tree provide value and huge environmental benefit from the carbon they store, the pollution they remove and the rain water they hold.  

My local council Brent has declared a climate emergency but they do not have sufficient funding to maintain their street trees. 

London's 8.42 million trees are worth £6.1 billion to the capital and contribute over £132 million in wider benefits (data from London i-Tree Eco Project). So how much are we loosing financially every time a local council cuts down a healthy tree?

Please allocate sufficient funding and create policy to protect London's existing healthy mature tree stock. 

Air pollution is my biggest concern. When coming back into London from some time I need the country I get a sore throat and a cough.

 Taxis are one of the biggest polluters in London. They must be replaced as fast as electric ones can replace them and any that don’t meet the current best diesel regulations must be taken off the road NOW. 

congratulations on the new all electric buses. 2 of the 4 services serving me are now electric. 

Diesel white van deliveries must be scrapped. I understand electric vans are now available so it should be mandatory to use these. There are many different delivery companies, why are so many allowed surely it would be better for all if parcels were pooled and all parcels in one area delivered by one van. 

I am also concerned about very loud noise on some tube lines. I believe some of these noises are above the legal limits for workers. 

A connected network of usable, quality cycle routes is urgently needed across the whole city (not just pockets of central and inner London). The Mayor has a Transport Plan that recognises this, but its timescale for building (by the 2040s) is too long. The climate emergency is now. There should be a credible programme of accellerated delivery in the next 5 years, with credible short-term targets.

As a start,TfL should add protected cycle tracks to all the roads that it controls (the Red Routes). It should have a transparent and credible plan for doing this within the next 5 years. Where necessary, new land should be compulsarily acquired to enable this (e.g. around the North Circular). The Mayor should take a far tougher line with boroughs that refuse to prioritise walking and cycling on their road network, and refuse to build protected cycle tracks on their roads (significant culprites are Westminster, Kensington & Chelsea, Barnet and Bromley). He should use all the powers he has to make them adopt low-carbon roads policies. If he needs to, he should request further powers from central government to force recalcitrent boroughs to clean up their roads. He should also use all the powers and influence he has to make the Royal Parks Agency and Crown Paving Commission ban through-traffic in the Royal Parks (particularly Regent's Park and Richmond Park). He should also try to get the Corporation of London to facilitate cycling in the parks that it controls.

The ULEZ should cover the whole of London, including outside the North and South Circular. There should be a project to return electric trams to major routes, removing motor vehicles from them entirely where ncessary. A prime candidate for this treatment is the A5. The North Circular was originally planned to have trams on its middle two lanes, and this should be seriously looked at. There needs to be far less caution about restricting motor vehicle space.

Cleaning up London's toxic air has to be the no 1 priority for the Mayor.
This is an improvement that will benefit us all .
We have a fabulous transport system in our city.
We have to make it non polluting and working by giving more road space priority to buses and cyclists.
The centre of London should be restricted to electric and hybrid vehicles only.

Pay as you use service for green bin collection, as I only use mine about 3 xs a year. Save on collection emissions. 

I agree with Tjones that we should promote working from home more. So many people go to the office unnecessarily. But in order for working from home to be achievable, we need to provide a fast and reliable internet connection to all areas in London. My area only has 30mbps, which isn't enough for Video Calls or screen sharing.

Lots more car fee zones, car fee days , instant penalties for idling, massive improvements for pedestrians and cyclists. Target dates are not ambitious enough. Buses need to be all electric by 2024 and we need lots more trees and green spaces

Proposals seems sensible but what are the milestones to ensure we hit the targets i.e. a zero carbon/zero waste city by 2050;  zero emission buses by 2037 etc etc

Transport across all London boroughs needs to be reliable & affordable for all (thanks for freezing fares & the Hopper fare).  Improvements in transport will hopefully reduce road traffic – although i find that the majority of traffic local to me is due to wagons involved in building work or delivery vans parking in silly places (!) on main roads..

There is not enough publicity given to the pollution caused by motorists and coach drivers idling their engines. Often when I politely tell motorists that I used to teach children with breathing difficulties and explain how much the quality of their lives was impacted by air pollution, they will listen and turn off their engines. They look surprised as if they were not aware. My main concern is the coach drivers who keep their engines running all day in winter for heating and summer for air conditioning whilst the tourists from their coaches enjoy the sights of Greenwich. This can often involve 20+ coaches, whose drivers enjoy the free parking outside the gates to Greenwich Park overlooking the Heath and pump out filthy air all day and every day. I have tried Greenwich Council, Lewisham Council, Clean air for London, The Mayor's Office, Transport for London, Friends of the Earth, Friends of Greenwich Park, The Royal Parks Association etc etc. Any ideas of other avenues I could try? Apparently no signage can be put up and no one can be employed by the Council to issue a few hefty fines. Word would soon get round the coach companies if they did. Stopping coaches idling near tourist sights in London and informing motorists of the damage they are doing due to idling their engines, could prove a really cheap cost-effective way of improving the quality of the air in London. Why can't this be implemented?

I wonder if there's any way to encourage business to have more people work from home - wherever possible of course - with today's technology this should be possible across a number of sectors. In many cases it's culture and habbit standing in the way. This should ease the stress on transport, and hopefully help pollution levels too. Less infrastructure and deliveries into central London would also mean less lorries, waste, etc. The third runway at Heathrow is totally unnecessary and a shock to all Londoners! 

Dood idea to promote cleaner forms of transport, with both improvements to roads and paving. Recognition however is needed in seeing that a large minority of cyclists need to have their bad behaviour curtailed, which impede pedestrians making their way.

For example, cycling on pavements, crossing pedestrian crossings when pedestrians have the right to cross and ditto for red lights. Some of the major offenders are on hire bikes. particularly TFL ones. Should be a way of reporting offenders to TFL (and other hire firms) with a change to hire rules so they forego their deposit. Enforcement is useless if left to police.

Also too many dockless bikes impede narrow pavements and the firms should be made to enforce their own claimed rules and remove their offending items quiclKy.They could set free to call report lines.

Too often as well, wider pavements are then reduced to as before any improvements, by their parking in incosiderate places. This applies to privately owned bikes.

Many ciurier bike riders are also free and easy and should have to wer high vis jackets, with unique identifiers on them, which should be part of any cycle firms licence to operate. 

- Scrap the Silvertown Tunnel
- Overground and DLR extension to Thamesmead
- Bakerloo line extension and make the Old Kent Road a European style boulevard (tree-lined, wide pavements, cycle lanes, better crossings)
- Make bus lanes 24hrs
- Pedestrianise shopping streets in the West End
- Build segregated high-quality cycle lanes on all TFL roads
- Build a cycle network with councils that actually care (don't bother with timewasters at RBKC, they'll soon realise in 10 years how backwards their roads are)
- Extend the Congestion Charge zone west
- Extend the ULEZ to the M25. Make zone 1 a Zero Emmission Zone
- ULEZ charges to apply to taxis, they pollute as well
- Electrify the buses ASAP (17 years is so unambitious) and all public service vehicles
- Ensure all schools are 'School Streets'. WIth catchment areas, children should be walking or cycling in.
- Bring back the 'Mini-Holland' scheme. Waltham Forest has been transformed by it for the better.
- Have a 'request street trees' website where people can put in suggestions on a map for their roads to be actioned where they are required.