Recent Streetsblog USA posts about London

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

By Michael Andersen | Feb 25, 2015 | 18 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 | 43 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 protected […]

Removing Center Lines Reduced Speeding on London Streets

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 15, 2014 | 24 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, […]

How to Reduce Traffic By 30 Percent: Strike Fear Into Motorists

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 31, 2014 | 11 Comments

Organizers of major sporting events, from this weekend’s “Mass Transit Super Bowl” to the Sochi Olympics a week from now, may benefit from a lesson learned during the 2012 London Olympics: a tactic transportation planners secretly call “the Big Scare.” They don’t like to talk about it in public. But Graham Currie, a professor of public […]

Mapped: Dramatic Changes on London Streets in the Congestion Pricing Era

By Tanya Snyder | May 2, 2012 | 7 Comments

For the last nine years, private motorists entering central London between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. have paid a fee (currently £10 or US$16.22) to drive on the city’s scarce street space. The revenue from the congestion charge is plowed into the city’s transit system, and as Transport for London has amply documented, many Londoners […]

What’s the Secret to World-Class Transit Systems? Congestion Pricing

By Noah Kazis | Apr 30, 2012 | No Comments

Top transportation officials from three global cities — London, Singapore and Stockholm — shared their experiences in expanding the use of transit at a panel at the Regional Plan Association’s annual conference last Friday. Eyeing those cities, it’s easy for Americans to get jealous. Singapore is doubling the size of its rail network in the […]

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