Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about London

Outer London’s Huge Bike Plan Could Break the Cycle of Bad Suburban Transit

By Michael Andersen | Feb 25, 2015 | No Comments

Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. You may have heard that London has just approved a spectacular crosstown protected bike lane. But another part of its plan has, ironically, gotten little press in the United States. As London’s […]

Boris Johnson Commits to a Protected “Cycle Superhighway” Crossing London

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 28, 2015 | No Comments

London Mayor Boris Johnson is showing cities what it looks like to commit real resources to repurposing car lanes for high-quality bike infrastructure. Yesterday, Johnson announced the city will begin building a wide, continuous protected bike lane linking east and west London when the weather warms this spring. When complete, it will be the longest […]

Removing Center Lines Reduced Speeding on London Streets

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 15, 2014 | No Comments

On some streets, getting drivers to stop speeding might be as easy as eliminating a few stripes. That’s the finding from a new study from Transport for London [PDF]. TfL recently examined the effect of eliminating center lines on three London streets. The agency found it slowed average driving speeds between 5 and 9 miles per hour, […]

The Heart of London Adopts 20 MPH Speed Limit

By Brad Aaron | Sep 13, 2013 | 11 Comments

The City of London, the square mile in the heart of Greater London that is home to the city’s finance sector, is resetting the speed limit to 20 miles per hour on all streets. In New York, this would be the equivalent of, say, lowering the speed limit in Manhattan south of the Brooklyn Bridge […]

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