Reducing emissions from transport

It is really important to keep investing in good public tranport to get people out of their cars.

We need to encourage more cycling with safer routes and better protection for cyclists. I used to cycle a lot but now that I am older I am more nervous and don't use my bike

I sold my car 12 years ago when I retired. I have never regretted this. I use a shopping trolley when I go to the supermarket.

We need to live our lives in London on the basis that we do not need to drive. This may mean making changes to our behaviour.
As well as having more Low traffic neighbourhoods, we need to think up more ways to get people out of their cars.

Home deliveries and on line deliveries contribute to traffic congestion in London.

One of the main cause of pollution is that there's too many road works/closures in the same area at the same time. This is causing an absolute traffic jam and pollution.

Bikes and cities are a combination that just makes sense. Induced demand is as real for bicycle traffic as it is for car traffic; the easier and safer biking is, the more normal it will become and the more people will do it. We are not Amsterdam, as another commenter has noted. That's right: the reason we are not Amsterdam is because we have not invested the time, energy, and, more than anything, money into making bicycles a truly alternative mode of transport for all as Amsterdam has done. Once we do, those who choose to drive will be able to do so with far less congestion around them.

Invest in ubiquitous, widely available, cheap and reliable electric public transport that goes where I need it to and has space for all my shopping up tp and including an Ikea flatpack, and I'll use it.

Cycling - no way, unless proper cycling routes are built IN ADDITION and separate to the existing roadways, rather than stealing space from them and causing chaos - including actually endangering cyclists and pedestrians.

I walk if the distance is reasonable, and I don't have to lug shopping back. If longer and public transport actually goes where I'm going, I'll use that (same exception for bulk shopping). Otherwise I use the car. Horses for courses, no ideology.

Charges like ULEZ and the Congestion charge are a form of extremely regressive tax, that impacts the least-well-off the most. In any event, such charges are blunt and ineffective, and miss the target. Another misbegotten charge in the same vein that I have to pay is the graduated pollution-related residents parking charge in my borough. What? Firstly, a parked car emits nothing, and secondly 80% of the vehicle-sourced air pollution in the borough is emitted by vehicles from OUTSIDE the borough, passing through. You couldn't make it up!

I don’t own a car and I don’t drive, I strongly agree to extend the ULEZ zone to the whole London, starting next year with the current emission standards but the standard must be more strict year after year where at the end, after few years only a ZEZ, zero emission zone must be implemented in the whole of London.

Stop these loaded surveys

Q. Do I think emissions are a problem
A. Yes
But because Khan has screwed traffic so much, if they remove all of the ridiculous bike lanes that slow traffic and stop Ambulances responding then traffic would flow and emissions would go down

Totally loaded surveys to get the tick box answers that they want

I am not very impressed with the ULEZ. I got a leaflet saying something like 85% of vehicles meet the standard to avoid the charge. That's not ultra low emissions then, is it? An accurate name would be the slightly lower emissions zone.
I don't own a car and use foot, bike, public transport and a car club when I need to. Since the start of the pandemic I've been working from home and not travelling much. I have a young son and want him to grow up being able to walk and cycle around safely, and breathe clean air. That's more important to me than convenience for driving. We live near the south circular and I think about the tragic case of Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah a lot.
I would love to see London follow Paris's example and ban cars from central areas. Be bold!

I don’t know why you all think London is a good place for cyclists it is not Amsterdam with small streets and canal bridges we are a commercial hub with some people who have no choice but to drive in London all that making roads smaller does is makes deliveries for business late and harder for people like me getting to hospital appointments on time as I am disabled and depend on my car cycles no good to me

Stop reducing road capacity and this will reduce pollution overnight. Park Lane is one of numerous examples of bad planning by reducing lanes for traffic Which is causing congestion and pollution all around Hyde Park Corner and Park Lane. There is a whole car sized lane for bikes which is hardly used! My local council, Harrow put in a bike lane on Honeypot Lane at great expense but it was removed a few months later because of the massive congestion it caused, wasting a huge amount of public money! If the traffic in London was allowed to flow properly then congestion and pollution would be considerably reduced! A no brainer really!

Improve public transport to encourage more use. Greater investment in flexible working to avoid ‘rush hours’. More transport options for the less mobile. Retrain bus drivers to ensure they stop at the kerb to enable the less mobile to ge able to get on/off bus.

Convert all vehicles to electric using hydrogen fuel cells to keep batteries fully charged. This means no range problems.

Use alkaline fuel cells which are cheaper, more reliable and more rugged than any other form of fuel cell.
Alkaline fuel cells are perfect for large HGVs, buses, trains, boats and stationary applications.

All large municipal vehicles should be converted in this way.

Build a hydrogen infrastucture.

There's one very simple answer to this. Stop coming up with chronically stupid road schemes in entirely inappropriate places. The average emissions from vehicles, of whatever fuel, are vastly less than they were 10, 20 or 30 years ago. Despite this, and with fewer car journeys, you've managed to not improve air quality at all! Could this be because nothing moves now? You've managed to create mayhem even on the main routes in and out of London by putting cycle routes in them all. Why not have the cycle routes running parallel to these main routes rather than in them? I reckon you would halve air pollution if you hadn't created such a mess. Road signage in London is also dreadful. Too many signs, many incomprehensible and, as for diversion signage; most must have been put out by a maze designer! Basically, try using some common sense.

If this Mayor wants to clean up the air then plant the correct trees stop using
cherry trees salix are far better for the air they do much better at cleaning / scrubbing the air of carbon.
stop HS22 destroying the trees at the least plant trees NOT twigs as for ULEZ well its
Not hitting the most polluting cars vans lorries its only aimed at age of a vehicle i have seen
cars under 3 yrs old polluting far more than a 15yr old vehicle so if he wants to reduce pollution
he is going about it the wrong way.
My van had to be scraped but when checked produced 1/3 of the emissions on a 4 yr old van
but it was non compliant and I could not afford the mayors wonderful scrappage scheme so no van= no job.
I would ask how many people forced to give up there vehicle will also lose there job?

I think a large proportion of vehicles used by councils, utilities industry , tradesmen etc drive up and down London getting between jobs all the time. I think these should be part of an enhanced scheme (similar to black cabs) where they can switch to electric.

My local council vehicles, in Tower Hamlets, (and I am not talking dustbin lorries, but little vans mainly) drive around the borough all day. Switching these council vehicles to electric would have a significant impact on pollution.

Electric charging for canal boats is needed too. One goes for a walk along the canal and the fumes can be terrible from damp wood being burned as well as diesel fumes at head height (not on 20ft high chimneys!)

This is just a money making exercise for the Mayor.

Extending the ULEZ will lead to more issues with extra delivery vehicles and increased prices for services. The current ULEZ is OK as it is a high density area with good options such as the tube and busses etc. In the southern parts of Greater London we have no tube connections, poor bus services and limited Over ground trains yet we have to pay more for using vehicles that we cant avoid using.

We should be issuing fines to people on the same monetary scale of parking fines and traffic violation fines ($80-£300) for idling in vehicles. There should be a big "Don't Idle" campaign across London and then fines should be rolled out. All of the companies that use delivery vans or large lorries should make special pledges to train drivers not to idle during deliveries etc. This seems an easy win- money collected from idling fines could go into a green transportation fund. This could also be added in to all driving license tests to ensure that new drivers are trained to not idle.

I don't think the mayor is serious about air pollution in London, all he has put aside for this is £20 million, you are now looking to expand the ULEZ why, outside of the N/S boundary it is more open, I live in Dagenham, and we have the large open roads there is no air pollution here, our borough has said it is doing tests but that will take 5 years to get results?.
If you are really serious about the air pollution why not ban all cars, vans etc that don't reach the ULEZ, oh sorry, that will cause funding issues for the TFL.

The selection of questions was not neutral. For example, when I use a car, apart from weekly trips when I will be carrying more than I can comfortably hold (shopping and to sports fixtures, the latter usually giving lifts), it is because I am travelling from inside London to outside. National train journeys would take longer and be much more expensive. So if the war on the car in London continues, I am likely to move out of London.

I didn't see the scrappage scheme, but I am not low income, I live outside the current ULEZ, and my car meets the ULEZ criteria, so it would not be relevant.

I try to walk for any journey up to at least a mile (2 miles if the return is factored in) for the exercise because of my weight, but this does not affect my car use - the alternative for journeys of that length is buses (I am old enough to have a free pass).

One easy way to address emissions would be to try to reduce congestion - some of the schemes in S London, eg on the A24, are calculated to produce jams. Deterring car journeys already happens more in London than the rest of the country; the most effective means is to reduce the availability or increase the price of parking.