Life during lockdown

Ensure that the gains for the environment during the pandemic are not lost. Make sure that London's recovery is clean and green. Reduce car traffic and increase cycling. Even more priority for busses to make them faster. Business support for green businesses'. Focus on supporting vulnerable children 

Work to improve relations between police and policed with a priority on eliminating racism from stop and search operations.

Encourage a local approach to covid recovery initiatives like testing and tracing;  value essential workers like waste disposal, cleaner and care workers by finding ways to ensure they are properly paid.Increase bus services so that buses can be used safely for drivers and passengers and we can stop the craziness of encouraging people to use cars.  My asthma was fine during extreme lockdown!

Support our arts sector .. particlarly concert halls theatres BFI   which are so badly hit and will be the last to come out of lockdown 

Make sure that every business we support comes back greener , and that it is benefitting the community , rather than harming it 

Please consider the disabled and the elderly dependent on using a car. Closing roads may be great for the able bodied but not for those less fortunate. Also, too many cyclists have scant regard for pedestrians, especially those hard of hearing or visually impaired. This problem is not helped even for those with perfect hearing by the fact that most cyclists don't bother to buy a bell (cheap!) which I thought was a legal requirement. I have a Brompton bike and it came complete with bell (good!). I would not want any relaxation of roadways and pavements to lead to further encroachment on pedestrian space and danger to walkers.

Local government can't sort the poverty gap but it can recognise it and take every step possible.  Stop treating big business and the City of London as a 'community'.  It isn't. We are the community.  

Take the current move against racism seriously.  Not just by removing statues but by making serious inroads into why black people are not on that mythical 'level playing field', despite years of race relations legislation etc.  Tackle school exclusions. Stop the type of policing which operates on the premise that 'black equals suspect'.

Fund youth services.  Fund community groups.  Do not involve the police in these things. They have no progressive role to play there.

Give more space to people, less to cars, particularly on narrow streets with lots of shops. Broadway Market is so much better since the council blocked it to traffic - this should be happening everywhere. Also, stop dragging your heels with cycling infrastructure. Might not be a travel solution for everyone, but it could be for many - look at the transformation that's happened on that front in Paris. Move more quickly on making all buses zero emmissions.

The aims seem fine. In an ideal world, I'd also like any new London to be more courteous and respectful to others. And if the pandemic lockdown has shown us anything it must include the blighting, stressful, poisonous and anti-social effects of hundreds of airliners flying low over central London every day. The city cannot say it seriously intends to be "green" while allowing this any longer. And the security risks remain huge. London would be much better without London City Airport altogether, and any expansion to Heathrow should be stopped and approach routes changed..

I'd suggest that asking for opinions on a platform like this favours the vocal minority quite severely. But at least the discussion is for the most part civil, which is a bit unexpected.

For what it's worth, the unique value of London is in its culture - especially so now so many people who were based in London offices are working from home and will likely to continue to for some time, if not permenantly in some cases. There should be an aim which covers reducing the loss of cultural heritage - performance venues, cinemas, galleries, festivals, museums and so on.

In a world where so many people have realised they don't have to be in the same physical space to work, cities are going to need a new reason to exist - and diverse cultural experiences are one of the things that cannot be done from home.

I'd like to add another important point, I hope it might be considered
 

'The inner well being of people' after all we've been through. This point might come under the 'Support our communities, including those most impacted by the virus' or it might be a another topic on it's own.

All the other points are great but do please consider the "inner well being" or even wealth, "inner well being" is, in way, a wealth, a non monetary wealth of each person that needs nurturing, it can be hidden but it's real.. Standing on the strength of "inner well being"(there may be another way of putting it) a person can move forward, see things ahead more clearly, deal with issues that arise and issues will arise. It would be great to see the citizens in London feeling the benefit from something like this.

Someone once said how beautiful London looks when you fly into it at night, all lit up, then added, all those lights are made up of individual bulbs. In a way that's who we are, individuals that make up the extraordinary demographic of London. So adding to the other points in the list, let's try and help Londoners feel well in themselves, if we can we'll see a different London in my opinion.

Keep all roads open to London Taxis

I would urge you to consider the following:
• don't make plans for our neighbourhood based on a Postman Pat view of town-planning, where everyone lives and works in a 10 minute radius, and age, disability and COVID-19 do not exist.
• don’t make the glib assumption that making driving harder will stop motorists from doing it: you run the risk of creating more emissions as cars idle in traffic or drive round endlessly in search of a parking space. You also simply displace traffic onto neighbouring streets or the edge of the zone.
• don’t do anything to damage lockdown service that local restaurants, fruit and veg traders, stall traders and merchants have been providing to those shielding, delivering food to people in their own homes. If you make their delivery routes difficult and choke main roads with traffic, they will simply not be able to keep up the number of deliveries.
• do protect TFL staff and anyone who must use public transport to travel to work while COVID-19 is a constant fear. Therefore don’t do anything which will force people out of their cars and onto tubes and buses until the highest priority is no longer controlling the spread of the virus.
• do accompany any plans to increase the number of cyclists on the road with training for cyclists (an equivalent to driving or motorcycle tests) and a system for enforcing breaches of safety and the Highway Code. One reason that there is such antipathy to cyclists is that they are the only road users who can endanger other road users without any repercussions; I routinely encounter cyclists on the pavement itself, the wrong side of the road, jumping red lights and ignoring cycle lanes provided for them.
• do regulate Jump/Lime bikes. While pavement space is so limited, the fact that elderly have to navigate round these dumped on the road makes no sense.
. don't lose sight of how many people have been able to work from home

The overall aims are fine, as far as they go.  Extension of the congestion charge through night-times and weekends is essential to protect central London residents from air and noise pollution. This is particularly important as scientific evidence has pointed out that the pollution increases vulnerability to viral infections, and has negative impacts on our immune systems.  

I am shocked that our local council is not making it safe for residents to move around their own neighbourhoods by widening pavements and/or by closing mixed and wholly residential roads to through-traffic.  Most pavements are not wide enough for social distancing - even if it is made meaningless by reduction to ONE metre.  

Everyone, including shielded people, should be able to go outside safely. 

I am sure the Mayor cannot impose them, but councils should be making hundreds of local areas into Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, safer for residents to walk around in.  Right now it is getting harder and harder to move around my neighbourhood as pavements are narrow and people just stand around on them.  With more and more traffic on our local roads, it is no longer possible to step into the road to achieve the 2 metres social distance.   It would not be possible to keep 1 metre apart on pavements by my home.

Residents, especially those who are medium-level vulnerable, have been forgotten in the rush to support businesses.

Non-essential goods businesses should not open until about 11am to allow residents time to shop for food etc safely; deliveries should be limited to between 9am and 8pm.   Sacrificing residents' right to a healthy living environment instead of keeping air clean and streets quiet is NOT the way to go.  Businesses have had several months in which to work out how to do business in an environmentally friendly way. 

In order to help London recover, the High Street needs to be supported. The increased congestion charge and introduction over the weekend is counterproductive. It is shortsighted and will stop people coming in. Also very mixed messages: don't use public transport, don't drive - just cycle and walk. That's fine when you live in central London and don't have a family.. 

It is also ridiculous to narrow roads which causes sitting traffic - a nightmare for cyclists and pedestrians anywhere near traffic lights. It would be more useful to regulate traffic lights to facilitate flowing traffic rather than making cars stop at each one. This is straightforward but somehow not done in London - how about checking what other big cities do?! 

Build more houses as promised. Cut crime as promised. Cut murder rate as promised. Make buses and trains cheaper, stop charging people more for driving in London, when that is the safest way to travel. Sack the Mayor.  

I live on a very busy road and the traffic levels are as bad as before the pandemic. I am sick of it. I've written to Barnet Council in the past and they have planted dozen of trees in adjacent streets but not on ours which is a black spot on their own map of most polluted areas (Colney Hatch Lane, N11 DB). I want councils to do something about levels of traffic and limit noise and harmful toxicity from cars. More trees, fewer cars without residents having to resort to writing emails that Councils ignore. You ought to draw a map of black spots and make councils act by law. 

The broad aims are laudable enough, as far as they go (although I agree with another member that the third bullet should be "Keep All Londoners Safe".

A vital additional aim must be to support and restore the crucial Arts and Cultural sector that makes London what it is, and that can support all members of our communities in the widest sense.

The list is large - and all are in severe difficulties at present: Music venues and Musicians; Museums, Galleries and Artists; Theatres and Performers; Cultural Meeting Rooms and their users; etc. 

London must play a central role in transitional and post-Covid-19 support and stewardship of these resources and individuals, who are an essential part both of London's economy and its community.

It can and should work in partnership with Central Government (not clearly coming up with solutions as yet ...!) to secure and sustain this important sector.

Keep young people safe????? So at what age do you stop wanting to keep Londoners safe???

Otherwise I cannot comment as there is no substance to the commitments stated

Please make the improvements to cycleways permanent.  I would love to cycle safely around London more often.