Transport Manifesto: Getting Londoners Moving

London's roads, river and rails are the arteries that keep our great city alive. Our Tube, buses and trains together carry over 10 million Londoners every day. Our roads are some of the most intensively used in Europe. Our transport system is the lifeblood of our city.

Yet after eight years of a Labour Mayor, we too often spend our mornings and evenings in cramped, overcrowded carriages or sitting for hours in traffic, and we pay the highest fares in Europe.

It is a fact that it takes Londoners almost twice as long to get to work as anyone else in the country, which is why it is essential that we get Londoners moving - because the time we spend stuck in traffic jams, or stuck on trains is time we could be spending with our friends and families.

Our challenge, therefore, is to make our transport system better to improve our quality of life.

However, in response to this challenge, we hear nothing but the same old out-of-date solutions from a Labour Mayor who has run out of ideas.

We have had to watch as vital reports and fresh ideas have been suppressed, while this Labour Mayor has pursued far-flung projects, completely out of touch with Londoners' concerns.

We have had to sit through incompetence and financial mismanagement on a gargantuan scale. London's transport networks deserve a change for the better.

My vision is of a London that is not subject to the same old rigid approach, but is run according to new ideas and fresh thinking.

My vision is a London where children and adults cycle and walk to school or work and feel safe to do so.

My vision is a London with trains and buses that can compete with the very best in the world - for speed, reliability, quality of journey and basic aesthetics.

I believe we need a fresh approach, and I will enact the following measures;

I will:

1. Put The Commuter First

• By focusing on making traffic flow more smoothly through measures like re-phasing traffic lights, allowing motorcycles in bus lanes and cracking down on utility companies who dig up the roads.


• By tackling congestion to reduce emissions.


• By re-instating tidal flow at the Blackwall tunnel and opposing increased tolls at the Dartford crossing.


• By improving public transport in outer London through orbital bus routes and campaigning for better rail services.

2. Make Public Transport Safer And More Secure

• By spending less on press officers and more on police officers to patrol the network - increasing their presence on buses and station platforms in outer London.


• By introducing 'Payback London', a scheme that will require under-18s who abuse their right to free bus travel to earn it back through community service.


• By cracking down on illegal minicabs.

3. Tackle Problems With A Fresh Perspective

• By supporting different forms of transport like river services, and renewing traditional forms by commissioning a 21st century Routemaster with conductors.


• By making London a truly cycle-friendly city through increasing secure cycle parking and introducing a bike-hire scheme.

4. Make Transport More Convenient

• By improving the daily commuter experience through better information, and extending the Oyster top-up network.


• By halting the proposed Tube ticket office closures, and ensuring there is always a manned ticket office at every station.

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