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Mayor's Transport Strategy Mayor’s Transport Strategy Draft for public consultation Executive summary JUNE 2017 3 Copyright The Mayor’s Have your say Transport Strategy Greater London Authority The Mayor would like to hear your views June 2017 The Mayor’s Transport Strategy is the on his draft transport strategy. To fill in statutory document that sets out the the consultation questionnaire, go to Greater London Authority policies and proposals of the Mayor tfl.gov.uk/mayors-transport-strategy. City Hall of London, Sadiq Khan, to reshape Alternatively, you can email your The Queen’s Walk transport in London over the next 25 comments to [email protected] More London years. It builds on the vision for a better or send by post to FREEPOST TFL London SE1 2AA London that the Mayor outlined in ‘A City CONSULTATIONS. for All Londoners’, and takes forward the www.london.gov.uk approach set out in ‘Healthy Streets The public consultation will be open until enquiries 020 7983 4000 for London’. 2 October 2017. It is an ambitious strategy that puts Paper copies of this executive summary, people’s health and quality of life at the full draft Mayor’s Transport Strategy the very heart of planning the city’s and the consultation questionnaire are transport. Along with the new London available on request. Please get in touch Plan and the Mayor’s other strategies using the details above if you would like for economic development, the information in alternative formats. environment, housing, health inequalities and culture, it provides the blueprint for Following analysis and consideration making London a city that is not only of all the responses received, the Mayor’s home to more people, but is a better Transport Strategy will be published place for all of those people to live in. in 2018. This executive summary provides an overview of the draft strategy but does not substitute the full draft strategy, which can be viewed at london.gov.uk/transportstrategy. MAYOR’S TRANSPORT STRATEGY – EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2017 5 batch 1 1.03 By 2041, rising public transport Transport and quality of life The vision FIGURECURRENT 1: AND MODE EXPECTED SHARE 2015MODE AND SHARE, 2041 demand means that, without (EXPECTED)2015 AND 2041 further action: London’s transport system helps to Reducing the need to use cars will shape the city. As well as allowing people provide huge benefits for all Londoners. to get around, it has a big impact on More walking and cycling can make of travel on London quality of life – street space defines what everyone healthier. Older people, the 36% 71%Underground in the morning peak London is like as a place to live and work, very young, disabled people and those would be in crowded conditions and public transport is part of many living on lower incomes are most likely to 2015 people’s daily routine. Creating a city for be affected by the problems associated all Londoners will require an approach with a car-dependent city, such as poor 26.7 million that will help London to grow in a way air quality and road danger. Therefore, daily trips of travel on National that benefits everyone. reduced car use will make London fairer. 65%Rail in the morning peak would Streets will function more efficiently, with 64% be in crowded conditions less congestion and pollution. Public London’s challenges transport and essential commercial journeys will run more easily and there In recent years, there have been will be more space for people. important changes in the way people 20% travel, but car use is still too high London will grow in a sustainable way, for a growing city. People remain not only improving people’s lives but dependent on their cars because street supporting London’s growing economy, environments are not designed to the benefits of which will be felt across promote walking and cycling, because the whole of the UK. 2041 overcrowded or unreliable services make 32 million public transport unattractive, or because For all of these reasons, this new draft daily trips parts of London have been planned transport strategy aims to change the around car use to the extent that few way people choose to travel so that, alternatives are available. As London’s by 2041, 80 per cent of all Londoners’ population grows from 8.7 million today trips will be made on foot, by cycle or by to an estimated 10.5 million in 25 years’ public transport. This will be a significant 80% time, pressure on the city’s transport change from today, when only 64 per system and the demand for new homes cent of journeys are made by these and jobs will increase. Limited space healthy, efficient and sustainable forms Walking, cycling & Car/taxi/private means that building more roads is of transport. public transport hire vehicle not an option. For London to function well and be a great place to live, the way people move around needs to be re-examined. MAYOR’S TRANSPORT STRATEGY – EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2017 7 Central London vision: High levels of public transport connectivity are essential to central London’s success. Given its limited space, a steady reduction in private car use is necessary, and walking, cycling and public transport use must increase. Deliveries must become more efficient through consolidation, rescheduling or switching to more sustainable vehicles. Back Next MAYOR’S TRANSPORT STRATEGY – EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2017 9 The Healthy Streets Approach FIGURE N 2: AL THE TEN TREET HEALTHY NATORS STREETS INDICATORS Improving air quality delivers benefits London’s streets should be Making streets easier to cross is This draft transport strategy uses the for everyone and reduces unfair welcoming places for everyone important to encourage more walking Healthy Streets Approach to prioritise health inequalities. to walk, spend time in and engage and to connect communities. People in community life. prefer direct routes and being able health and quality of experience in to cross streets at their convenience. planning the city. Good performance Physical barriers and fast moving or heavy traffic can make streets difficult against the ten Healthy Streets to cross. indicators (Figure 2) shows that streets are appealing places to walk, cycle A wider range of people will choose to walk or cycle Pedestrians from and spend time, and that the transport if our streets are not all walks of life Providing shade and Ea dominated by motorised r sy shelter from high winds, system as a whole is accessible and ai t n o traffic, and if pavements and a cr heavy rain and direct le o inclusive to all. Improvements against all cycle paths are not C ss sun enables everybody the indicators across the city’s streets overcrowded, dirty, cluttered to use our streets, S or in disrepair. d h whatever the weather. e a will radically transform the day-to-day x d a e l e a r n experience of living in London and will l d e e s f h help to create a city that is not only home e e l l t p e o to more people, but is a better place for r e all of those people to live in. P T h p i o n t t a g s s n s Applying the Healthy Streets Approach o e d r t t o d s d means that this transport strategy will o s e n e c a e a l create streets that are appealing to P people because they are not dominated People are more likely to use P A lack of resting places e our streets when their journey o y can limit mobility for certain p is by cars. It will mean improving public le o is interesting and stimulating, fe n groups of people. Ensuring el oo transport services and better linking with attractive views, buildings, sa Pe o t t there are places to stop fe ople choose t No planting and street art and walk, cycle and and rest benefits everyone, them with the walk or cycle to the stop u where other people are using se public transport including local businesses, or station, so that the whole journey the street. They will be less as people will be more dependent on cars if the shops willing to visit, spend time becomes a more attractive option than and services they need are in, or meet other people using a car. It will mean planning new within short distances so on our streets. they do not need to drive homes and jobs around walking, to get to them. Walking and cycling are the healthiest cycling and public transport so that and most sustainable ways to travel, either for whole trips or as part of London’s growth does not lead to longer journeys on public transport. greater car dependency. A successful transport system encourages and enables more people The whole community should feel to walk and cycle more often. This will Reducing the noise impacts of motor Outer London vision: Improving walking comfortable and safe on our streets at only happen if we reduce the volume traffic will directly benefit health, all times. People should not feel worried and dominance of motor traffic and improve the ambience of street and cycling environments and providing about road danger or experience improve the experience of being on environments and encourage active better bus and rail services will reduce threats to their personal safety. our streets. travel and human interaction. car dependency. Source: Lucy Saunders MAYOR’S TRANSPORT STRATEGY – EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2017 11 By mode of travel, the amount of Healthy Streets walking – will transform the convenience A shift away from car use will help time spent being physically active and healthy people and experience of cycling for all types London’s streets work more efficiently, during an average journey is: of trips.
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