Green Assembly Member Darren Johnson urges Boris Johnson to complete cycling superhighways and extensions swiftly, with two fatalities in the last year on a route due to be improved.
Ludgate Circus has been the site of the death of two cyclists in the last year and eight deaths or serious injuries since Boris Johnson was elected Mayor.
Darren Johnson AM, will be asking Boris Johnson to bring forward plans to finish all the proposed cycling superhighways and extensions, at Mayor’s Questions on Wednesday morning.
In June, Darren asked the Mayor if the proposed north-south superhighway would be finished within a year of the death of a cyclist at Ludgate Circus in April. The superhighway will segregate two arms of the junction, but will not segregate the east-west route through Ludgate Circus.
Darren Johnson commented, “We have had two fatalities at Ludgate Circus within the last year and a total of eight people killed or seriously injured since Boris Johnson was elected Mayor. Every cyclist death is an individual tragedy and I feel for their friends and relatives, but all of them add up to public scandal of neglect on our roads. We need to put a stop to deaths and serious injuries on our roads and the first step to doing this is to push through the plans for segregated cycle lanes. If the price of safer cycling is an increase in minor delays for motorists, then we should have no hesitation in creating Dutch style cycle lanes.
I am concerned that Transport for London and the Mayor are acting so slowly to create safe spaces for cycling. All of these plans need to be fast tracked. Every delay in the superhighways and safer junctions potentially could costs lives and risk further injuries. That is simply not acceptable.”