Lynne Featherstone

Richard Bourne of Transport 2000 came into see me and have a chat about my intentions with the Committee for the next year and to brief me on Transport 2000′s take on this. Obviously, Richard is very keen on the so called ‘soft measures’ which include cycling and walking. I do my best on these (I am very keen on individualised travel plans myself) but flag up to him what I believe to be the real reason that cycling and walking are not getting their fair share of the booty – no one at Transport for London (in a really high-up position) champions those modes. They don’t really care about them. The right words are in the Mayor’s transport strategy but the budgets and the speed of progress show the true situation – bottom of the list. The TfL boys only really like the boys toys………