Responding to the announcement that the Mayor has cut the budget for car club funding from £1m to £500,000 for 2010/11, Green Party member of the London Assembly, Jenny Jones, said:
"This cut in funding is disappointing news. Car club membership offers real financial benefits to Londoners, especially in times of recession, and now is an ideal opportunity to expand the funding rather than cut it. The fact that 84% of all car club cars in the UK are based in London is precisely because of the sustained levels of investment by Transport for London over the last few years.
"The cut in car club funding is part of a bigger cut in the smarter travel budget which fell from £30 to £22m last year. I don’t understand why the Mayor seems to be pulling back on schemes which encourage people to volunteer to cut down on car use."