Transport for LondonAppendix 3 - Priority G
Skip to navigation << Back to indexPriority G: "Supporting local transport initiatives, including improved access to town centres and regeneration areas, walking and cycling schemes, safer routes to schools, road safety improvements, better maintenance of roads and bridges and improved co-ordination of streetworks"
- Street Management produced a draft Walking Plan as part of the Mayor's commitment to make London one of the most walking-friendly cities by 2015 is designed to promote walking as a viable, alternative, healthy and environmentally friendly method of transportation. The Plan will be developed and realised in partnership with the London boroughs and other organisations
- The Walking Plan includes guidelines for the integration of walking into both local and strategic planning and transportation policies (including the improvement of the pedestrian environment) and the promotion of specific headline initiatives, such as the completion and enhancement of six strategic walking routes
- In line with the Mayor's Transport Strategy and the London Road Safety Plan, a wide range of communications campaigns targeting potentially vulnerable road users was undertaken including riders of Powered Two Wheel Vehicles (P2Ws), cyclists and teenage pedestrians
- The London Cycle Network has been refocused to provide fast, safe, comfortable conditions for cyclists on the main transport corridors. The changes provide the framework for other local route and infrastructure improvements such as cycle parking
- 500 new cycle stands were installed
- In 2002/03 the boroughs received £130m through the Borough Spending Plan. This supported an agreed programme of investment in bus priority, road safety, maintenance, walking, cycling and other local projects such as town centre improvements
- TfL piloted a series of innovative walking maps that integrated a whole series of new features (including 3-D elements) designed to make routes easier to understand and navigate
- Safer Routes to School saw a 100 per cent take-up with all the boroughs and an agreed programme in October 2002
- The Mayor part-funded Camden's Safer Routes to School scheme. This helps to provide new crossing facilities close to six schools, traffic calming outside four schools, improved cycle access to a secondary school including a toucan crossing and improvements to a pedestrian and cycle route across a bridge serving a school
- TfL supported the Lewisham Walking festival. It also promoted the Walk to School week including funding an in-school theatre production aimed at primary school children
- The London Safety Camera Partnership was formed in April 2002 as a partnership between TfL, the Metropolitan Police, the City of London Police, the Association of London Government and the Greater London Magistrates Courts Authority. It aims to reduce the number of people killed or seriously injured on London's roads by 1,125 in five years through the co-ordinated management of London's network of safety cameras (including the introduction of new sites where appropriate) and the launch of educational campaigns
- The London Safety Camera Partnership operates according to criteria set out by the Department for Transport (DfT) in selecting sites for safety cameras. The London Safety Camera Partnership has identified a potential 1000 sites in London as 'hotspots' which meet the DfT's criteria for Safety Cameras. Independent surveys show that installed cameras result in an average reduction of 35 per cent in the killed and seriously injured statistics at such 'hotspot' locations
- The expansion of London's bus network has improved access to inner and suburban shopping centres, together with serving new areas, making access to jobs and services possible
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