New campaign urges London’s drivers: save lives and cut carbon emissions by switching off engines when parked
A London-wide advertising campaign has launched today in a bid to cut air pollution and carbon emissions. Led by the City of London Corporation and Camden Council, and funded by the Mayor of London, the ‘Engine Off, Every Stop’ campaign features posters, bus rears, and billboards on roadside sites and petrol stations across the capital. Drivers are also […]
Khan urged to give ULEZ amnesty
Conservatives in London are calling for the city’s Mayor to give a one-month amnesty for drivers caught within the expanded Ultra Low Emission Zone. Sadiq Khan expanded the zone to 18 times its earlier size yesterday, with people who drive vehicles which don’t meet emissions standards charged £12.50 per day for doing so. When ULEZ […]
Children in London four times more likely to go to school in a polluted area
New analysis for the Mayor of London suggests that children in London are four times more likely to go to school in areas with high levels pollution levels that exceed World Health Organisation limits, than children in the rest of England. The City Hall report says this poor air quality stunts the growth of children’s lungs […]
London Mayor could review TfL pensions
London’s Mayor Sadiq Khan could be about to battle tube driver unions over Transport for London’s pension scheme. The Telegraph reports that a review has found the pensions “expensive, unreformed and generous”, with his own advisers saying Transport for London retirement benefits are better than those on offer to others in the public sector. However […]
Labour members in London vote to cancel Silvertown Tunnel
One of London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s flagship transport plans is being opposed by his own party in the capital. The Labour London conference has voted 74%-26% in favour of a motion to cancel the Silvertown Tunnel project despite construction only just getting underway. MyLondon reports that the motion was brought forward by local branches of […]
TfL poised to shelve “significant” number of projects – adviser
The Mayor of London’s main transport adviser is warning a “significant” number of schemes will have to be shelved by Transport for London because of its funding crisis. The London Standard reports that Deputy mayor for transport Heidi Alexander has told the London Assembly transport committee that tube station schemes, road maintenance programmes and the […]
London getting hydrogen double-deckers
England’s first ever hydrogen double decker buses are being launched in London, marking what the Mayor calls another major step towards making the bus fleet zero-emission and “cleaning up London’s toxic air”. The 20 new environmentally-friendly buses, the first of their kind to be launched in England, will produce no pollution from their exhausts and […]
London business leaders call on Khan and Shapps to come together to deliver sustainable and long-term solutions for the capital’s transport system
Business leaders in London have called on newly re-elected mayor, Sadiq Khan and Transport Secretary, Grant Shapps to come together to sort out the capital’s transport system. They have urged Khan and Shapps to devise long-term and sustainable transport solutions, in a letter signed by 37 chief executives of some of the top London-based companies. […]
TfL bailed out till May
The government has offered to extend its emergency funding deal with Transport for London until May, to ensure services can continue running. London financial paper City AM reports the proposed deal would be TfL’s third bailout in the past year, after the body’s revenue plummeted by more than 90% last March during when the Government […]
Labour Group comes out against Khan’s border charge plan
A group of Labour councillors have voiced their concern at the Labour London Mayor’s plans to introduce a £3.50 charge for cars not registered in the capital to enter it. Kent Online reports the Dartford Labour Group has voiced its opposition and has now requested a meeting with Sadiq Khan. The report quotes Dartford Labour […]
