‘Sadiq Khan must do all he can to avoid a car-jammed city’

• TRANSPORT for London has sent me new data showing that nearly half of all journeys in London were taken by walking or cycling during the first lockdown – that is, 46 per cent of journeys between April and June.

Londoners got a real taste of cleaner air and quieter streets, and these figures show they got on and made the most of it. Given half a chance, many Londoners will walk and cycle as their main way of getting around.

Our streets and parks have been so full of people of all ages walking and cycling, and children riding bikes are no longer an unusual sight.

Now the mayor Sadiq Khan must do all he can to avoid a car-jammed city, and help boroughs provide safe conditions for walking and cycling throughout London for good.

This means bringing forward more money for low-traffic neighbourhoods, smooth accessible pavements with tactile paving in the right places and new cycle lanes to link up a city-wide network.

Traffic-clogged and polluted roads are not inevitable, so long as the mayor takes this important action.

CAROLINE RUSSELL AM
Green Party