The Mayor of London was very careful at today’s City Hall Question Time to stick to his brief. He said that the rate of cyclists killed and seriously injured on Transport for London roads has gone down since he was elected. Those roads are 5% of the road network; that means the Mayor is ignoring […]
Will the London 2012 Games be the greenest ever?
I get asked this several times a week, and there isn’t an easy answer. Colleagues on London Assembly committees and the Commission for a Sustainable London 2012 have both spent years scrutinising the organisers’ delivery on the green promises. Can the world’s biggest sporting jamboree really go green in a city like London? It all […]
Jenny Jones: What we are seeing is mindless vandalism
Jenny Jones, Green member of the London Assembly and the party’s candidate for Mayor in 2012 has issue the following statement on the looting and disorder in London: What we are seeing is mindless vandalism, spreading first within London, and now in other cities, with no regard at all for the safety of other people. […]
Cuts threaten London’s road safety success
Jenny Jones, London Assembly Member and Green Party 2012 Mayoral candidate, warns reducing spending on road safety schemes could reverse the capital’s trend of reducing road accidents and fatalities.
Mayor puts squeeze on transport funding for road safety and local cycling budgets
London Assembly Member Jenny Jones argues that a recent cut in the level of City Hall funding for borough transport schemes will see valued schemes axed and risks slowing the take-up of cycling in the capital. The reason why a 29% cut in local transport budgets hardly makes a splash in the regional media is […]