transportation
Transportation covers a wide-ranging list of ways that we get around our city - whether by sidewalk, bike lane, public transit, or personal vehicle - we all depend on the maintenance of aging infrastructure and the benefit from the investment in improvements to these critical networks
Personal cars (both ICE and EV) cause the majority of issues people commonly complain about in a city - traffic, noise pollution, air pollution, public safety, parking, and smaller-scale concerns like housing forms and availability of other municipal resources when cars are prioritized at a loss to other services
As cities grow and expand both outwards and upwards, it is necessary to ensure that everyone has the option to use reliable, attainable, and accessible transit as an alternative to car ownership
By mixing in the use of active and public forms of transportation, we have the ability to reduce our dependency on personal vehicles - ultimately opening up a wide range of benefits across all areas of the city
Strong Towns London is a community organization with an interest in bicycle advocacy and reducing the need to drive a car for every daily errand or work commute
Through collaboration with existing bicycle advocacy groups in London, we have the expertise to share support and knowledge to push for scalable improvements to infrastructure such as the cycling network
London is a bronze-level bicycle friendly city with disconnected bicycle infrastructure, a chronically underfunded transit commission with internal operational concerns, a diluted bus rapid transit network under construction, sprawling underfunded road networks in disrepair, a lack of safe pedestrian prioritization, and a city council that lacks the foresight and community support to push for significant improvements to the areas of transportation that have the best cost-to-benefit ratio