Dear Mayor,
I'm shocked that five ordinary Londoners have died cycling on our city's streets in the last nine days.
Those deaths are the sign that, contrary to election promises, you do not care about cycling in our city.
Why has no progress been made toward increasing cycling and cycling safety by "the cycling mayor"? Paris and New York, Chicago and Barcelona, Berlin and Copenhagen, the list of cities both small and large that manage it grows by the day, yet there is nothing but inaction, or inappropriate action and victim blaming, from both yourself and TfL.
And that is only the immediate threat of death or maiming by collision with motor vehicles. When we add to this your inaction towards air pollution, which kills thousands every year, your behaviour is very close to criminal neglect. You are in an extraordinarily powerful position, yet you do not use that power to make the life of the people you represent any better.
However, you can change all this. If you cannot do this yourself, have your advisers and TfL's planners go to the Netherlands, see what is best practice in cycle lane design. Create real Cycle Superhighways, safe for all to travel on from 8 to 80, separated from HGVs and fast traffic. Show the world that London can be, and will be a cycling city. So far you are failing, and in doing so you are failing all Londoners.
I'm shocked that five ordinary Londoners have died cycling on our city's streets in the last nine days.
Those deaths are the sign that, contrary to election promises, you do not care about cycling in our city.
Why has no progress been made toward increasing cycling and cycling safety by "the cycling mayor"? Paris and New York, Chicago and Barcelona, Berlin and Copenhagen, the list of cities both small and large that manage it grows by the day, yet there is nothing but inaction, or inappropriate action and victim blaming, from both yourself and TfL.
And that is only the immediate threat of death or maiming by collision with motor vehicles. When we add to this your inaction towards air pollution, which kills thousands every year, your behaviour is very close to criminal neglect. You are in an extraordinarily powerful position, yet you do not use that power to make the life of the people you represent any better.
However, you can change all this. If you cannot do this yourself, have your advisers and TfL's planners go to the Netherlands, see what is best practice in cycle lane design. Create real Cycle Superhighways, safe for all to travel on from 8 to 80, separated from HGVs and fast traffic. Show the world that London can be, and will be a cycling city. So far you are failing, and in doing so you are failing all Londoners.
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