Reducing emissions from transport

People are quite resistant to being told what to do, so could more be done messaging wise to make people feel like they're part of something bigger? Eg could use social proof to prompt positive actions -at a taxi rank 'did you know 96% of london taxi drivers always turn off their engines? Thanks for doing your bit too'. Or '1,986 londoners are walking more to help make our air cleaner to breathe. Thanks for doing your bit too'

Increase taxes for higher polluting vehicles/ expand ULEZ
Expand charging point network for electric vehicles and make it easier for vehicles which don't have off-street parking to get access to charging points; make the public one's more affordable
Modernise the tube network (I know that will be very challenging) and make it more reliable to get cars off the road
Charge road tax for road usage
I own an electric vehicle and charge it through my solar panels as much as possible

Abandon road closures and bicycle lanes which have simply added to the congestion on roads. Improve availability and network of public transport. Introduce more electric charging points. Consider school buses to dissuade people from "the school run".

All the above but also abandon surveys which purport to seek views but are skewed to provide the PR answers the Mayor's office wants.

Remove some of the bike lanes and let traffic flow better

Stop the introduction of LTNs, it’s proven that they increase emissions as just relocate traffic and make people drive further

Reinstate 30 mph limits and train children on the green cross code

Make Khan give up his Range Rover and see how hard it is to travel around London after he’s screwed up the roads

I represent the London Forum of Amenity and Civic Societies, and would be very happy to be consulted informally before the main consultation begins. I believe there is considerable support for extending the current congestion charge and low emission regime both to reduce pollution and to help reduce TfL's serious financial problems. I have significantly reduced my car usage over recent years, and walked, cycled and used public transport more, limited only by not wanting to become infected with Covid through crowded buses and trains (not helped by the number of people not now wearing masks). The London Forum is committed to improving London's environmental quality through reduction in car use. I have not made use of the scrappage scheme

We need to communicate the issue in a way that's emotive and relates to people's every day lives/the way they talk about the world around them. Talk about climate change and air pollution can seem abstract/boring/policy-ish to the average person and they switch off. Instead of talking about air pollution, talk about how fumes from your car are hurting 6 year old Sara's lungs - or how the level of co2 from traffic in london is equivalent to xxx coal mines, etc. Make it tangible and relatable.

I have a car for family emergencies - I can't afford to use my car now because of ULEZ charge .I have always used Public transport where feasible.
My diesel car is better than petrol for C02 emissions but is penalised by TFL.
Road pricing like Singapore is the answer charge all road users a daily fee and more at peak times.
we need to get London moving.
We are already doing enough in UK and suffering enough costs - India China Russia USA continue to pollute UK isn't the problem
Congestion and air quality are only issues for Londoners - Climate change is an international problem not specific to London

Make it easier to walk and cycle. Make it harder to use a car, and that includes electric cars. Improve public transport, especially regarding the underground south of the river. Cancel the Silvertown tunnel; no one wants it.
I don't have a car. I travel entirely by bike, walking and public transport.
I didn't use the scheme because buying new cars isn't the answer. Reducing car use as much as is possible is.

A simple and effective way of reducing vehicle emissions would be to remove Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) which force vehicles to take longer journeys to get around them. Worse, the extra traffic on what are residential streets causes congestion and the slow-moving traffic which results further increases emissions from engines operating at inefficient speeds.

Everything I have seen to counter climate change seems to be aimed at trying to continue the current high consumption way of life with many jobs located in a few central locations; we risk wasting a lot of time, resource and effort for what I believe is inevitable crash in supply some of which such as chip manufacture we are starting to see now. Change sooner and change less or change later and need to change more at greater cost. Tell every Bank to pick a city outside london and move there (one per city, trading arms can remain as distance is a factor for them) and partner up with the local university to drive down costs and reduce population migration and transportation requirements, then repeat for every significant employer. Take the work to the employees, not the employees to the work. It should be documented exception process to gain approval to travel more than 10 miles to work by any means of transport that isn't muscle generated. Then look at how simple, effective and cheaper all your other problems become. No other solution can achieve this, not even hydrogen. Battery vehicles are a short term sticking plaster, the planet cannot supply 7.5Billion people with resourse to live the way we are when all aspire to level up, when do we recognise some nations need to level down to a sustainable level on a planetary wide level, let alone 8 or 9 Billion. Anything else will be a sticking plaster on a gaping wound.

My apologies to anyone subject to depression or anxiety, this view doesn't help you. And feel free to ignore this, your grandchildren won't have that option.

TFL has created too much congestion on main roads where those with lower incomes and predicted worse health outcomes live. Councils should not have been allowed to decide which roads were assisted with lowering pollution as they have chosen those with very little to start with but still allow those residents to pollute other areas. Communities should have been consulted not just mouthy resident groups in wealthy areas and main roads should have been the priority. My road went from busy to a standstill and this week with tube strikes has been a nightmare.

I have a large family (6 children) and I live just outside the current ULEZ. I was encouraged by the government in 2015 to buy a diesel car; we bought a large people-mover in early 2015 which is 3 months too old to be ULEZ-exempt. I cannot afford to change the car and it is in excellent condition. I cannot run our family life without this car. The current ULEZ prevents me going into the ULEZ zone with the family; I cannot afford the ULEZ cost. If the ULEZ is extended to all of London, we will have no choice but to move away from London. The ULEZ has had no noticable impact on air quality and already inhibits our use of parts of London which we cannot get to with young children and a large family.

The principal difficulty with a policy to reduce ill-health by using more public transport is the level of pollution on the underground. On the line most useful for me the level of small particulates (PM2.5/m3) is 194 according to Kings College research published just before the pandemic. This is 18 times higher than the surrounding surface level of such pollution, as found by other research at the end of 2019. Therefore the best way to avoid harm to health is not to travel by the Northern Line. The Victoria Line is even dirtier - and several other lines are well above the surface levels of pollution.
Since discovering this I have moved to using buses - but for the 20 years up to 2020 I have been travelling to work by the Northern and Central Lines. TfL has known about the levels of pollution but has failed to inform people and has does very little about it. This should be the Mayor's number one pollution priority. ULEZ is doing nothing for this, except making the tube more crowded.

More stringent requirements on all road vehicles to reduce emissions. Both London bus and taxi fleets are too leniently regulated and not subject to sufficient emission requirements and so continue to contribute disproportionately to the overall level of air pollution in the capital.