Blog - September 2010
I attended a recent meeting of the Transport Planning Society at the HQ of Transport for London at which the speaker was Michelle Dix, Managing Director for Planning at TfL, who gave an illuminating talk about the Mayor’s Transport Strategy, published in May 2010. Projected population growth of London to 2031 is 1.25m, with 750,000 extra jobs, mainly in the inner boroughs. This implies more use of – and substantial investment in - public transport, with car use continuing to decline, from mode share of 43% in 2006 to 37% in 2031.
The London Transport Strategy is an impressive example of coherent, integrated transport planning, not possible in other regions of England because the institutional arrangements do not permit such an approach. Nor is such an approach attempted nationally by the Department for Transport, perhaps because the task is just too big.
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