Cleaning up London’s toxic air

Excellent idea - we should be creating car-free areas more often - e.g. every Sunday in central London during the summer. Please make the car-free area large enough that is actually has an effect, and gives a useful space for people to walk and cycle in

Will this mean that bus services through the area will be restricted? It is great that those who can walk or ride bikes are catered for but not every can do that and are dependent upon bus services to get around.

Nice idea but not necessarily properly though through.

Do any of the people who come up these fantastical ideas give any thought to the real world....?

People don't sit in stuffy cars and vans for fun.... The vast majority of people who drive around in London do it because they need to... not becuase the want to !!!

I guess the theory is that if they put everyone in London out of business no one will need to use vehicles to deliver or move anything to anywhere... maybe they don't care - they probabaly work on the tax payers tab in govenrment or one of it's quangos...

I think this is a dreadful idea. In a city where drivers are penalised at every turn and the entire joy of driving has largely been destroyed, I can’t think of anything worse than another day of impossible travel. Moreover this is no doubt costing us, the taxpayers, money which would be far better deployed in the NHS, police etc. 

I think it’s another of the mayor’s vanity projects. 

Dear London Mayor, Please can we also have other 'vehicle free days' too such as 'No Aeroplane Days'? That way London, being one

of the worse overflown cities on the planet with constant noise and plane fuel pollution, can have nice quiet days where we can hear

urban birds sing and the whispering of the breeze theough the leaves of London's trees that are planted to soak up London's pollution.

Thank you  

I would like to see some serious funded improvements in good quality public transport that everyone can afford, and everyone can access. I have a car. I've cycled in London for 40 years and been knocked off several times. I walk in London a lot. I am tired of cheap gimmicks, often run in one Borough but not others and incoherent planning. I'd love to be able to get a bus that is clean, pleasant, smells nice, runs to time when I need to. Not to find that the bus routes locally are being reduced, as has just happened. What really iritates me is the GLA and my local Borough implementing small, meaningless gestures that make it seem they are acting but that make drivers lives more difficult, and chanting something about most people in my area not being car users. The reality is complex. Some people have cars because they have to. I've had to be able to reach my Mum who lives 70 miles away with dementia, needing emergency support at short notice at any time of day/night over 2 years). There's a man in my street who has a car, is not wealthy, because his wife is seriously disabled. Others have other good reasons too. I support a single central zone 1 car free day by the way, as I think it helps show what life could be like. To get to that as more regular reality for more areas there though needs some serious analysis, thought and genuine political will to generate support and lead change for how Londoners get about. And, lets have solutions that don't just, as usual, export our problems to other parts of the country (where the extra electricity is generated), or other parts of the world (where the extra materials to generate energy are mined

How about a Khan and c.dick free London? Not just a day but permanently

The mayor and head of the met collectively fail to get a grip on crime and yet the media basically give them a free pass. 

Car free day- hmmm let me tell you how dumb this mayor is,  earlier this year he goes on TV saying his biggest priority was air quality ( I guess that is worse than being stabbed in his mind)

The same week the idiot announced the end of congestion charge subsidies for electric cars,  the only incentive to own one! How's that hello air quality! 

Also, I forgot to say that there seems to be a worrying trend of motorbikes and cars being fitted with special exhausts that make an incredible noise around London. 

At the very least this should be outlawed and fines imposed on anyone seen causing this noise nuisance - not just on no car day, but any time of the year.

Really this is something that should be done at Government level but the Mayor could impose it earlier in the London area.

Think of it it as an armistice day to remember the 131 people killed on London's roads in 2017 alone, and to ackowledge the life-changing impact of large heavy metal boxes hurtling around our public spaces on the 3,818 people (including 245 children) who were seriously injured (figures from TfL). A car-free day also helps us all to reassess our transport choices.

This is a stupid idea. London is a working city. It's not some little country village you can shut for the annual fete. Stop messing around. Surely there are more pressing issues that could use the administrative efforts going into this futile project?

ok. So does this mean as a blue badge driver and quite mobility disabled living in central London that I am locked into my flat on September 22nd?  Which brilliant able-bodied person came up with this idea?  Does the EQUALITIES ACT mean nothing to City Hall?

How about forcing takaways to only have cyclists for deliveries or at least electric vehicles?

I have many near me and they all use multiple vehicles resulting in hundreds of short journeys from 11am until the early hours.

Far mor journeys than the residents make.

In essence it is an idea worth exploring - but what are we doing to reduce pollution going forward? Think idle Taxis at stands all burning diesel, private hires (yes, you drivers from Addison Lee) keeping their engines running to charge their phones or ipads so they can watch movies whilst waiting, buses crawling through central London, white vans etc. I pay congestion charging and T-charge when I drive.

And we think that air pollution is an issue, what about the litter and dumping in central London? It is becoming endemic...

One thing, if this car free day goes ahead please don't organise some loud music concerts or parades leaving the streets 3 feet deep in garbage....

what a silly idea coming from an equally silly department , transport for london . The City is purposely bought to a standstill by roadworks that never get finished so it causes maximum grief to people traveling by car or van or lorry . These university graduates working at tfl should be removed from policy and planning because they are brainwashed by anty car mindset.

 London is a shambles led by a deranged mayor who should be focusing on the  carnage of stabbings going on  . Oh lets focus on making driving even more impossible than it already is . 

BRAIN GAMAGE .