TfL £63m funding for LTNs, bus access, pedestrian crossings, cycle lanes and other ‘healthy streets’ schemes

Transport for London (TfL) has announced over £63m of funding as part of its “healthy streets” investment.

TfL’s Local Implementation Plan (LIP) funding will support boroughs to deliver new cycle routes, school streets schemes, new or upgraded pedestrian crossings, bus priority schemes and 20mph speed limits on borough roads.

£39m of the funding will be allocated to outer London boroughs including £4m to Barking and Dagenham, £1.8m to Hounslow, £2.5m to Hillingdon and nearly £2m to Sutton.

While £24m has been allocated to inner London boroughs, including nearly £1.9m to Islington and nearly £2.3m to Newham.

London buses

The funding will also cover bus priority schemes across London. This includes:

• Funding for the London Borough of Newham to complete the construction of a bus priority scheme on the approaches to the junction of Prince Regent Lane and Tollgate Road, including the provision of approximately 600m of new bus lane.
• Funding for the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames to undertake consultation on the conversion of Hail and Ride sections on route 419 to fixed stops.
• Funding for the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham to complete construction of a bus priority scheme on Wood Lane, introducing 250m of new bus lane and upgrading the existing traffic signals.

Sustainable transport

London’s boroughs have been developing proposals on a number of additional schemes which will receive funding. These include:

• Junction and corridor improvement schemes that will make London’s streets safer, better for active travel and more reliable for buses.
• Five Liveable Neighbourhood schemes in Holborn (Camden), West Ealing (Ealing), Enfield Town (Enfield), Greenwich Town Centre (RB of Greenwich) and Coppermill Village (Waltham Forest).
• More than 150 proposals for new or upgraded pedestrian crossings.
• Cycle training for more than 20,000 adults and 40,000 children.
• More than 3,500 secure residential cycle parking spaces.

Speed limits

TfL says the funding particularly for outer London aims to support more active travel to support the ULEZ expansion on August 29.

This includes working with boroughs to introduce more 20mph speed limits on their road networks, as well as continuing a rollout of School Streets across Barking, Brent, Ealing, Hounslow, Redbridge, Richmond, and Waltham Forest, and more than 50 feasibility schemes for new cycle routes.

TfL will also continue to work with the boroughs to expand London’s cycle network at pace, aiming for 70% of Londoners to live within 400m of the network by 2041.

Walking and cycling commissioner Will Norman said: “I am delighted that we have been able to award London’s Boroughs with more than £63m in funding to make our streets healthier and safer.

“The funding will give boroughs the certainty to deliver improvements to public transport, support Vision Zero and make active travel safer and more appealing.”

Transport for London (TfL)

Alex Williams, chief customer and strategy officer at TfL, said: “London’s boroughs are at the centre of our plans to transform access to walking, cycling and public transport and the Local Implementation Plan programme is vital in providing more localised investment in bus priority, walking and cycling schemes across the city.

“This investment will deliver benefits, especially in outer London and plays a huge role in our determination to provide a green, healthy and sustainable future for all Londoners.”