Mayor announces £146m for local transport improvements across London
This funding will allow the boroughs to make real improvements to town centres
The Mayor of London has confirmed £146m of funding which will allow boroughs to transform town centres and revolutionise roads across the Capital.
The money was allocated by Transport for London (TfL) for the London boroughs to spend on local transport improvements.
It will fund local projects which support the Mayor's Transport Strategy, including improvements to local town centres and public spaces, new cycling facilities, safer roads and measures to smooth traffic flow.
Today's funding announcement of £146m will mean the vast majority of the boroughs' proposed schemes for 2011/12 will be delivered.
To support this, the Mayor has given greater flexibility to the boroughs so that they can prioritise projects according to local need.
Following the Government's Comprehensive Spending Review, the funding allocated to London boroughs will fall over the next three years to reflect the new reduced grant TfL receives from the Department for Transport.
However, the funding for programmes such as road maintenance, bridge strengthening, major schemes and the borough discretionary fund have all been safeguarded.
Local improvements
Funding to benefit all London boroughs is also being made available for modernising traffic signals and partnership initiatives such as completion of the London Strategic Walking Network.
Mayor of London, Boris Johnson said: 'This funding will allow the boroughs to make real improvements to town centres, provide better cycling facilities and make roads safer across the Capital.
'I'm especially pleased we have been able to cut the red tape that used to surround these schemes and give the boroughs more freedom to choose how they want to spend money to improve their local communities.'
The funding supports hundreds of local transport projects, including:
- £400,000 to make improvements to the Cheapside Area to widen pavements on either side of key streets and completely redesign the Cheapside/New Change junction to make it safer and easier to use
- £267,000 for plans to develop Wellesley Road in Croydon as a greener, more accessible route, by creating more crossings, removing street clutter, while maintaining its use by buses and other heavy traffic
- £540,000 to develop Fulham Palace Road including measures to smooth traffic through this busy and congested route, upgrading pelican crossings to puffin crossings and waiting and loading improvements
- More than £1.3m to improve East Ham Town Centre in Newham, including better lighting, paved roads as well as installation of CCTV cameras for improved safety and in readiness for the 2012 Games
- £550,000 to improve Wood Street and the surrounding area in Waltham Forest including removal of street clutter, improved access to public transport, new lighting as well as new trees along the road
London's Transport Commissioner, Peter Hendy, said: 'Delivering the Mayor's vision for transport in London is an ambitious task and it is essential we work in partnership with the London boroughs to make it happen.
'This investment will play a significant role in continuing to improve transport across the Capital.'
Notes to editors:
- Each borough produces a Local Implementation Plan (LIP) to demonstrate how they plan to implement the Mayor's Transport Strategy locally. While TfL allocates funding for individual schemes, the LIP and delivery of individual projects is the responsibility of each borough
- Following the Government's Comprehensive Spending Review, the funding allocated to London boroughs will be reduced over the next three years to reflect the reduced grant TfL receives from the Department for Transport. It will fall by £4m (-3%) in 2011/12, £8m (-5%) in 2012/13 and £18m (-12%) in 2013/14
- A detailed breakdown of funding for bridge strengthening projects (£7m) will be finalised in February 2011 which will be allocated to the bridges in most need of work
- Total allocation by programme area:
Programme Allocation across London (£m) Principal road maintenance 15.3 Bridge strengthening 8 Major schemes 26 Signal modernisation 8.1 Local transport funding 3.3 Borough Officer training 0.3 Partnerships 0.87 Strategic Walk Network 0.8 Corridors, neighbourhoods and supporting measures 83.3 Total 146 - Funding allocations for 2011/12:
Borough Corridors, neighbour-
hoods and supporting measures(Thousand)
Principal road maintenance
(Thousand)
Major schemes
(Thousand)
Local transport funding
(Thousand)
Total
(Thousand)
Barking & Dagenham 1,741 355 0 100 2,196 Barnet 3,888 653 0 100 4,641 Bexley 2,074 726 270 100 3,170 Brent 2,711 590 190 100 3,591 Bromley 2,949 645 300 100 3,994 Camden 2,522 345 2,120 100 5,087 City of London 867 88 1,285 100 2,340 Croydon 3,297 577 0 100 3,974 Ealing 3,417 518 30 100 4,065 Enfield 3,251 780
1,310 100 5,441 Greenwich 2,739 570 550 100 3,959 Hackney 2,343 195 1,250 100 3,888 Hammersmith & Fulham 2,072 364 72 100 2,608 Haringey 2,259 380 100 100 2,839 Harrow 1,749 469 1,610 100 3,928 Havering 2,588 356 1,030 100 4,074 Hillingdon 2,952 580 900 100 4,532 Hounslow 2,837 424 0 100 3,361 Islington 2,094 249 150 100 2,593 Kensington & Chelsea 2,038 187 1,550 100 3,875 Kingston 1,610 341 1,000 100 3,051 Lambeth 3,065 310 1,685 100 5,160 Lewisham 2,814 245 1,300 100 4,459 Merton 1,851 414 1,151 100 3,516 Newham 2,417 590 618 100 3,725 Redbridge 2,568 431 245 100 3,344 Richmond 2,023 645 0 100 2,768 Southwark 2,997 350 319 100 3,766 Sutton 1,613 120 0 100 1,833 Tower Hamlets 2,622 199 500 100 3,421 Waltham Forest 2,330 470 950 100 3,850 Wandsworth 2,962 236 440 100 3,738 Westminster 4,069 592 5,000 100 9,761 Total 83,330 13,994 25,925 3,300 126,549