Transport for London is offering £50 million in funding to London boroughs to improve the safety of their streets.
Part of a larger £80 million investment which will also be used to improve buses in the capital, the ‘Borough Safer Streets’ fund will be awarded to schemes between £0.5 million and £5 million over the next three years.
The funding aims to support the Mayor’s Vision Zero goal of eliminating deaths and serious injuries from London’s transport network and improving safe and active travel in the capital.
“To improve the safety of those using greener means of transport such as walking and cycling, the focus must be on removing conflict,” Jamie Hassall, Executive Director of the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS) told Zag Daily. “Therefore, those schemes that have new or improved cycleways and footpaths should be high on the list.
“Where conflict can’t be removed then reduced speeds are likely to play an important part in managing the risk.”
Examples of schemes that will be considered by TfL include those that improve road safety by reducing speeds and reducing the risk and severity of collisions, those that protect vulnerable road users and improve the safety for walkers and cyclists, and those that make road safety improvements in high risk-locations.
TfL is also offering £30 million in funding under its ‘Better Bus Partnerships’ programme which makes £10 million available for three successful London boroughs that will make improvements to bus infrastructure and operations to encourage public transport.
The funding is in addition to TfL’s Local Implementation Plan funding of £80.4 million allocated to London boroughs in 2024/2025, which aims to support local schemes in meeting the aims of the Mayor’s Transport Strategy.
