London Assembly Transport Committee Report - 'Quality streets: improving London’s pavements'

Transport for London (TfL) set out its plan to make London the “world’s most walkable city” when it published its Walking Action Plan in 2018. The plan also set a target to increase the number of daily walking trips to 7.5 million by 2024.  Yet, there has been little to no progress in achieving this target since, with the number of walking trips in London having plateaued for the last seven years. 

The London Assembly Transport Committee has published the report: ‘Quality streets: improving London’s pavements’ - calling for a range of measures aimed at improving the walkability of London’s streets and pavements.

Recommendations include:

• TfL should commission and publish research on the reasons behind the plateau in walking trips, as well as the barriers to wheeling, and use this as the basis for a new Walking and Wheeling Action Plan, to be published in 2026.
• TfL should include estimated daily wheeling trips as part of its annual ‘Travel in London’ reports.
• During 2026-2027, TfL should launch an awareness campaign for FixMyStreet and Streetcare, which encourages the public to use these tools to report instances of street clutter or damaged pavements and where these issues have caused them to be injured.