Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about London

Cycling Booms in London, and the City’s Not Looking Back

By Angie Schmitt | May 2, 2016 | No Comments

Boris Johnson says that one of his goals as mayor of London was to make cycling “more popular and more normal.” As Johnson’s eight-year tenure winds down, it looks like the progress he made in his second term has accomplished that mission. If current trends continue, bike commuters will outnumber car commuters in central London by 2018, according to a […]

Street Safety Benefits of Congestion Charging Are Bigger Than We Thought

By Charles Komanoff | Mar 9, 2016 | 2 Comments

Evidence keeps mounting that congestion pricing can catalyze major reductions in traffic crashes. A year ago I reported on research that vehicle crashes in central London fell as much as 40 percent since the 2003 startup of London’s congestion charge. The same researchers are now expressing the safety dividend in terms of falling per-mile crash rates, and […]

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Central London Streets Transformed: A Walking Tour With Iain Simmons

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Sep 16, 2015 | No Comments

While filming an exciting Streetfilms update about the progress of the “20’s Plenty” campaign in the UK, I got to interview Iain Simmons, assistant director of city transportation for the City Of London. What was originally supposed to be a few short clips for that piece turned into an unexpectedly generous two-hour walking tour of central London! I seized […]

After Another Cyclist Dies, David Cameron Considers Truck Ban in UK Cities

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 21, 2015 | No Comments

Following the death of 26-year-old cyclist Ying Tao, British Prime Minister David Cameron said he would look into a truck ban for city centers throughout the UK. In a meeting with the British equivalent of the Congressional Bike Caucus, Cameron promised to ask Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin to come up with recommendations for improving cycling […]

The Case for Baking Bike Infrastructure Into Vision Zero Projects

By Stephen Miller | May 21, 2015 | 12 Comments

London is surging ahead with big plans for protected bikeways that span the city. By comparison, New York’s bike plans, while moving forward incrementally, feel piecemeal. Has safe cycling infrastructure become an afterthought in the city’s Vision Zero program? The question came up yesterday during a seminar on cycling policy hosted simultaneously in the two cities, organized […]

Just in From London: Congestion Charging’s Street Safety Bonus

By Charles Komanoff | Mar 11, 2015 | 10 Comments

Add street safety to the list of benefits from congestion pricing. That’s the takeaway from a new “working paper” analyzing traffic crash rates in and around the London congestion charging zone by three economists associated with the Management School at Lancaster University. “Traffic Accidents and the London Congestion Charge” slices and dices the monthly changes […]

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