The Mayor has announced a shortlist of seven boroughs who are competing for a £100m pot to fund ‘mini-Holland’ cycling schemes in outer London. Three or four boroughs will then be funded to begin work in early 2014. The money is due to be spent over the next five years and the £100m has been allocated by Transport for London to cover the period of their ten year business plan.
London Green Party Assembly Member Jenny Jones said:
“The hundred million pound budget for creating three or four mini Holland’s in outer London is the right level of investment for those boroughs, but what about the rest of Outer London? If the Mayor of London has had seven strong bids, then he should be funding all of them. At this rate, it will be well over a decade before the overwhelming majority of people in outer London see the benefits of significant cycling investment.”