Reducing emissions from transport

The barriers to cycling and walking need to be understood better - for those 2/3rds of journeys I'm sure there are reasonable reasons e.g. it's raining/there is no cycling infrastructure/I had lots to carry/personal health. This information would be very interesting and more insightful than the headline statistics.

Cycling on a nice day on quiet roads is pleasant, but I'm conscious of the damage being done by the amount of pollution from non-electric vehicles when I am cycling on busy roads.

The cycle highways are mostly excellent, if a little idiosyncratic, but the centre outwards design makes travel from NW to NE very difficult, more radial superhighways would make travel much easier. Google maps often takes me down the canal in central London which is a hair-raising experience even on quiet days, so a central alternative would be much appreciated. The highways have definitely made it easier to commute and travel by bike.

Theft and secure parking are massive problems as a cyclist. Cycle hangers help, but getting a space in one is difficult.

Better road planning would reduce congestion by 40%. I got rid of my 7 seater Mercedes SUV due to CC & ULEZ. Now the rail workers I used to move around can all do so in their 5/6 cars. The charity work I did for the elderly which involved shopping for the home is now cancelled as my current car cannot fulfill their needs. This Mayor is a clown and reactive NEVER proactive. Might as well be a news reader because all he does is repeat what ever he hears.

Road pricing and tunnel tolls. No changes to the way I travel, always cycled and walked, more healthy option, with rarely using a car usually if a long-distance not easily tackled by train and cycle. Unless the frequency and quality of trains and tubes return to pre-pandemic levels I will use public transport less. Didn't use the scrappage scheme as my car met requirements even though 12 years old, but I rarely use it anyway, less than once a month. Would more likely use tunnel for distance travel north if tolled and queues reduced by tolling, though would be a rare occurrence. Don't understand the need for a second tunnel, just price the current Blackwall to a level where usage reduces, spend income on local safe walking/cycling. people would be prepared to pay a toll if queue reduced, then non-essential travel would be cut, or alternatives used like public transport. Needs to be an incentive financially to get people out of their comfortable/ convenient motor vehicle.

Why is public transport regarded as something that should financially break even? That is ridiculous - we do not build roads and require that, we invest for the good of all.

I would suggest all public transport should be free to users. Imagine how much money would be saved overall by getting rid of all the ticketing infrastructure, quite apart from the extremely progressive benefits to the poor.

Due to the pandemic I am no longer able to use buses and rarely use the tube. I hope to return to buses and tubes in due course, but in the meantime my main transport method is therefore walking. I don't have and don't want a car due to the pollution and congestion that they are responsible for.

In theory, I welcome more cycle lanes but the one outside my door (CS9) has been poorly designed: instead of replacing car space on the road and thus reducing pollution, it has been put in the bus lane, making journey times for bus users much slower and increasing the danger for riders of motorbikes and scooters, who must now ride amongst the cars, vans and lorries. Bus users, of course, are far more likely to be from protected groups than cyclists.

The eventual plan is to widen the cycle lane by removing part of our pavement; again, nothing is taken from the main polluters, cars, vans and lorries. It is a government plan and I have gradually realised that the real aim is to reduce the bus service by making it so slow that only those with no political agency will use it as they will not have a choice. The 'active travel' moniker is a smokescreen as the cycle lane is regularly used by illegal electric scooters, making it very difficult to cross the now 4-lane traffic to the other side of the street. Other problems are poor traffic light phasing which leaves queuing traffic outside my house every day, something that only used to happen when the A4 was closed, and the arbitory moving of bus stops so the one near me has moved from a wide part to a very narrow part of the path.

I welcome the ULEZ and also the scrappage scheme for those who cannot use public transport for their journeys, but it is not enough. All those driving private cars in London should pay a daily fee, though perhaps reduced for cleaner vehicles.

Please focus on removing the private cars taking up space on our public roads!

You've been lying to London and have exaggerated the problem. A few years ago Professor Anthony Frew head of Respiratory diseases completely took apart your claim that 40,000 people a year are dying from air pollution. When you drill down the figures, the truth is that your life expectancy might be reduced by a few weeks at the very end of your life. The reality is that vehicles have been getting cleaner as well as the air and life expectancy is going up. This is all about trying to micro manage our lives while getting us to pay for the latest congestion causing traffic scheme. A sanctimonious, virtue signalling Mayor who gets chauffeured to his latest freebie while ordinary working men and women can't get to work. He's flooded the streets with Uber and then wondered why less people take public transport. He's taken away road space for non existent cyclists and demonised the motor car. He has brought London to its knees.

I note pressure to reduce personal private vehicle use disappears if you have enough money.

I have always walked or used public transport when possible and only use a small ULEZ compliant vehicle to drive in London when absolutely necessary and usually in the suburbs which seems unavoidable. However further reduction is being incrementally imposed. I can see a time very soon when we will hardly be able to leave our own home.

We have a larger vehicle used for a limited number of trips out of London. We live on the outskirts. Due to its age it is not ULEZ compliant despite physically having extremely low emissions. We are in historical Hertfordshire but politically Greater London. We face punitive charges every time I use this vehicle.

I have a family member with mobility issues making the use of buses next to impossible and walking any distance or cycling impossible. I also can't cycle due to ageing knees. I prefer not to drive into central London but am finding it increasingly difficult to use London Underground due to access issues. When TfL completes closure of all its car parks and station drop off points it will become completely impossible.

The seemingly constant reduction in blue badge spaces at London hospitals and there frequent use for parking mobile medical facilities is making hospital appointments a complete and utter nightmare.

Maintain congestion charge exemption for EVs. Increase number of electric car only parking/charging bays exponentially . Pressurise motor industry to tackle issues from tyres and brakes. Improve interchanges between bus and tube services which in many places is appalling. Do not scrap Park and Ride – the only proper independent study on the subject was carried out 22 years ago and indicated private vehicle usage was reduced. Everything I have heard since is completely unsubstantiated socio-economic claptrap.

No one involved with such policy at City Hall will be interested in anything I say.

Once again it is the poor old motorist who is going to be hit the hardest.
Where I live the bus PTSB is 1B, which is nearly the lowest. To make matters even worse, the 3 buses arrive within minutes of each other then a 15 to 20 minutes wait for the next. IF we had the same service and reliability of buses in Central London, out in the suburbs more people might use them.
Why not go after the big polluters that come out of Heathrow Airport?

We desperately need to cancel the Silvertown Tunnel. It will make things much worse and we will not achieve our climate goals if we proceed with it. It MUST be stopped.

In my part of North London, it seems to me that a great many people depend enormously on the provision of Piccadilly Line and Great Northern trains. This has become very obvious in the last few weeks when the Government invited people to return to their work places and I've found the above two train services often inadequate, resulting in overcrowding.

Do something similar to Upper Edmonton at the junction of Green Lanes and the North Circular Road in Palmers Green. This makes me reluctant to use the No. 329 bus route, especially in the northbound direction. If I miss a Great Northern train at Highbury & Islington or Finsbury Park, the alternative is an unreliable bus service from Southgate to Winchmore provided by Routes 125 and W9. Even so, going home by bus is often faster than waiting for the next Great Northern train.

Provide more parking stop building blocks apts with no parking or car share spaces or delivery spaces even car free use cars taxis delivery vans. Restrict on street parking where it impacts road use by parking both sides street. Stop amending local roads preventing access building up traffic adding to congestion and poor air quality. Address diesel on boats in canals polluting air. Have dedicated cycle lanes for complete route not abandoned half way and separated from traffic but not by halving road space for cars which are needed as a mix of transport options.

Increasing access to car/van sharing schemes that use electric vehicles would be good. Not only do electric cars reduce pollution but they can be used by the growing number of people who drive automatic cars - schemes that use manual cars/vans are a disincentive to some drivers. Widespread and well used car sharing schemes would reduce the cost per trip and if there were plenty of designated parking spaces with charging points then people would be more inclined to use the schemes rather than buy an electric car and pay to install charging points on their property. Car sharing also reduces the number of vehicles on the road/occupying parking space and is good for the growing number of people who live in accommodation that has no parking. An additional benefit could be a reduction or reversal of trend to convert front gardens into parking spaces - increasing planting and reducing rain water run-off.

Survey seems set up to allow the anti-var brigade and other agenda-driven special interest groups to ram their political opinions down the rest of London's throats. It's typical bureaucratic nonsense to make attempts at banning (or making very difficult) an action or activity that people are dependent on without offering a viable alternative.

This is a globalist takeover of the left. A globalist Criminal syndicate working through the hysterical-left policies is using a presumptive climate crisis to bring in a digital technocracy and central bank digital currency that will imprison the middle and working classes including those processing this questionnaire. Covid was a globalist created and controlled pandemic almost entirely orchestrated through hype suppression and heavy I democratic censorship. Climate change is phase II

It is claimed that the ULEZ system targets vehicles which don't meet Euro 3,4,5 or 6 standards, but in reality, there is no way of assessing individual vehicles. It is assumed that all vehicles of a specific age are heavy polluters, but this may not apply to all of them. A well-maintained, low-mileage vehicle may comply with the Euro standards but there is no mechanism for applying for an exemption. I absolutely accept the dangers of air pollution and agree it must be tackled, but I think the "one size fits all" attitude to older vehicles is wrong, although it would be an expensive project to allow exemptions. A way to achieve this might be to create a database which would be automatically populated by computerised MOT emissions data, which already exists.
Another exercise which I think has been badly implemented is the LTN areas across London boroughs. They may reduce exhaust fumes in the covered areas, but they do not have much effect in reducing traffic. All they do is divert vehicles to the main roads which bound the zones, creating day-long jams where far fewer previously existed. Stationary or slow-moving traffic is far more polluting than free-moving traffic. Most of the closed roads would not carry a high volume of vehicles, and allow reasonably fast throughput, subject to speed limits and road humps, so pollution levels would not be unduly high. Also, there is a deal of inconvenience to residents of those areas who may be older or disabled so need to either own cars or be picked up from their doorsteps. Not everyone can, or wants to, walk or cycle.
One solution to all of this would be better and more comprehensive public transport, perhaps with some smaller buses, eg. 16-seaters, able to cover side streets. However, given the financial problems TfL is facing, this would have to be a long-term program and could not be implemented in the foreseeable future.
I hope my comments have made some impact, and thank you for taking the time to read this.

As a non driver I always use either public transport or I walk. Very occasionally I use a taxi.
I have some concerns
1) the ongoing problem with funding public transport in London could result in less frequent services and/ or higher fares at a time when one would hope to be encouraging/ enabling greater use of public transport and less use of cars.
2) While I do walk for all local journeys at present, I am no longer able / or feel safe to ride a bike. As I am getting older I worry that closing local streets to care and buses will impact on my ability to travel freely.
3) It can be simplistic to give the idea that all car journeys are ' bad'. Many people have no option but to drive - for example having reduced mobility for reasons of age of health, having complex journeys not easily completed by public transport, living in areas with less access to public transport.