The Mayor and Transport for London (TfL) have launched new plan to significantly reduce road danger and prevent deaths and serious injuries on the capital’s roads over the next five years.
In partnership with the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) and London boroughs, the plan builds on foundations laid by London’s first Vision Zero Action Plan in 2018. As well as highlighting what has been learnt so far, it sets out areas where partners will concentrate efforts over the next five years to drive further progress, prioritising schemes with the potential to reduce the most harm.
The new Plan reviews road casualty data against a 2010-14 baseline figure and demonstrates how London has made significant progress in reducing road danger over the past 10 years, with streets becoming safer more quickly than the rest of the country – and equivalent international capitals including Paris, New York, Brussels, Warsaw, Dublin, Montreal, Barcelona, Rome and Lisbon.
London’s evidence-led Vision Zero approach has already made the capital’s roads safer – especially for children and people walking, cycling, motorcycling or catching the bus. Since 2015, an estimated 262 deaths have been prevented on London’s roads thanks to the Mayor, TfL and Vision Zero partners collectively taking action.
In 2024, the number of people killed or seriously injured was 24 per cent lower (1,162 people fewer) than the 2010-2014 baseline, marking the lowest number of serious casualties ever recorded outside the pandemic-affected years (2020 and 2021). Provisional data indicates 2025 matched 2023 for the lowest number of road fatalities in London ever outside the pandemic.
On average, six fewer people each year have been killed in collisions with HGVs while walking, cycling or motorcycling since the introduction of the Mayor’s Direct Vision Standard and targeted enforcement by TfL and MPS. The introduction of 20mph limits on borough roads at current levels of enforcement has led to 34 per cent fewer people, and 50 per cent fewer children, being killed or seriously injured on those roads.
The Mayor and TfL have also quadrupled the size of London’s cycle network since 2016, so it now spans 430km and nearly a third of Londoners live within 400m of these safe cycling routes. This growth has supported a boom in cycling, with 39 per cent more journeys in 2024 than the 2010-14 baseline, while the risk of cyclists being killed or seriously injured has fallen by 23 per cent in that same time period.
However, further action is needed to drive greater progress and tackle new challenges in order to deliver the ambitious Vision Zero goal of eliminating death and serious injury on London’s roads by 2041. The new plan outlines 43 essential actions required to reduce road danger – including rolling out more safer speed limits, redesigning high streets, addressing danger on side roads, and strengthening enforcement against dangerous driving. TfL also sees this as a strong opportunity to align and strengthen joint working with national Government, who are responsible for many of the most significant road safety levers and have a key role to play in supporting the delivery of Vision Zero.
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said:
“I’m proud that we have saved lives through the important steps already taken to deliver my Vision Zero goal, making our roads safer more quickly than the rest of the country and equivalent international capitals including New York and Paris. But every death or serious injury on our roads is unacceptable and we must go further and faster to eliminate this heartbreak across the capital. I’m pleased to have the support of vital partners on this new plan to further reduce road danger as we continue building a safer, fairer, better London for everyone.”
(Picture: Mayor of London)
