Transport for London (TfL) has reviewed its plan to renovate the most
dangerous junctions in London and has instead said the programme will deal with
just 33 locations, deemed 'high priority'. This is instead of the 100 junctions
it had previously said it would deal with.
In the light of these comments, personal injury solicitors London have
called for TfL to seriously engage with the need for road safety improvements
in London, and to take prompt action to deal with the rising number of fatal
cycling accidents in the city.
TfL's delivery schedule calls for 25 of these new 33 junctions to be
delivered by 2015 to 2016, with the remaining 8 earmarked for 2020 to 2021.
London Mayor Boris Johnson has also pledged to invest another £100 million on
his junction review scheme, with this money to be spent by 2015 to 2016.
Last year, TfL pledged to complete improvements to ten of the region's
junctions before the end of 2012, and by the end of 2013, it has pledged to
update 50 junctions.
personal injury solicitor compensation London note that the London Assembly unanimously
agreed that the government should boost the level of funding cycling
infrastructure receives and to allocate 2% of TfL's budget to providing cycling
provisions. This reflects the fact that 2% of all journeys in London are
undertaken by bicycle.
While Boris Johnson has pledged to improve the safety of cyclists and to
deal with the problems posed by dangerous junctions, the downgrade of the
junction improvement will see only one-third of the junctions he promised to
improve actually improved at the end of his administration.
Personal injury solicitors London point out that the Mayor has already given
the green light to a lot of different public transport projects, including the
Arab Emirates Thames Cable Car and the Crossrail schemes, and should invest a
substantial amount of money into cycling infrastructure alongside these
schemes.
