Transport

Sadiq Khan’s greatest direct influence as Mayor of London is over transport. It touches everyone who lives in and visits the capital’s streets, its stations and bus stops. It determines where the city will grow and how quickly we will tackle air quality, climate change, obesity and physical inactivity. And it is Sadiq’s biggest budget: £10bn of the mayor’s £16bn budget this year. In a few weeks this draft strategy should be released, so what should we expect?

Tough times ahead

First off, the transport strategy is no simple declaration. At 361 pages, Boris’s strategy came two years after his election in 2008. After one year Sadiq’s first draft is good progress in developing policies to cover off a vast range of services: the Underground, Overground, TfL run railways, DLR, trams, buses, cycle hire, taxis, London’s main roads and funding to London’s boroughs to spend on their streets, for instance.

A new research project into future-proofing the UK’s road system has been launched by the Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning and Transport (ADEPT). It will help local government to drive much needed change, explains Neil Gibson

When it comes to our road network, local authorities are facing a very difficult challenge.