Green Mayoral candidate Jenny Jones today launched the Green Party’s policies for outer London at Wimbledon Broadway.
Jenny Jones said: "Green Assembly Members have consistently stood up for the needs of those living outside of Central London, and by electing more Greens in May we can make sure strategies on transport, housing and pay take into consideration every community across the capital."
Policies for outer London include:
– More train services: work with the Government and Train Operating Companies to ensure that train services start as early as the tube and end as late as the tube with at least four trains per hour for all stations so that Londoners can get home swiftly and safely wherever they live.
– More investment for outer London transport: Start bringing all local neighbourhoods up to a basic level of public transport access to essential local services. Introduce a ring-fenced Outer London fund to invest in areas where half of trips are still made by car.
– Safer streets: Introduce a 20mph limit on all streets where we live, work and shop and put speed limiters on all public service vehicles to reduce danger to pedestrians and cyclists, reduce rat-running through residential areas, smooth and calm the flow of traffic in congested areas, and let parents and their children reclaim quiet residential streets as public space for play.
– Getting children cycling: Expand cycle training in schools, and prioritise improvements to the road network around them, so that an extra 100,000 children and their parents cycle to school.
– Hire bikes further afield: Expand the Cycle Hire scheme north and south to reach all parts of outer London where there is considerable demand.
Green candidate for Merton and Wandsworth, Roy Vickery, said: "Green votes in Merton and Wandsworth constituency will demonstrate that we care about our local environment and creating a secure world for our children and grandchildren.
"Greens on the London Assembly will push for improved cycling and pedestrian facilities which in turn will help enhance our communities. We will also work towards providing affordable sport and recreation facilities for young people, and creating a wide range of local jobs."
Other campaign policies include:
– Making London more equal with a job or apprenticeship for every young unemployed Londoner, and a Fair Pay Mark for companies.
– Making housing affordable with new housing, the refurbishment of more than a million homes to cut energy bills and a radical shakeup of the private rented sector.
– Brining down fares so that public transport is always cheaper than driving and make suburban rail services more regular.
– Let’s transport our streets by reducing traffic in congested areas, cleaning up London’s dirty polluted air and making streets safer for walking and cycling.
– Improving our environment by completing a network of green spaces, planting more trees to cool our streets and generating clean energy from food waste.
– Rebuilding trust in policing with more officers on the beat through greater use of lower-cost office staff and police resources for road safety, not unnecessary surveillance.