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Featured in the Future Transport London Newsletter January 2026 Plans for Oxford Street On Sunday afternoon, 21 st  September, thousands of people thronged Oxford Street eager to experience it totally free of traffic. The closure of this half mile section was a foretaste of what Mayor Sadiq Khan hopes will become permanent. He was present at the opening of the street and said the one-day trial banning traffic from part of Oxford Street marks ‘the day the fight back began to r

Featured in the Future Transport London Newsletter January 202 6 In mid November City AM  reported Housing Secretary Steve Reed as suggesting that housing developments around railway stations would be ‘permitted development’, ie not requiring planning permission.   Mayor Sadiq Khan opposed building on the green belt in his first two election manifestos but more recently has changed his view.  There is some misconception of the green belt.  It is not all green pastures.  It wa

Featured in the Future Transport London Newsletter January 202 6 London’s E-Bike Boom: Convenience Meets Chaos E-bikes have transformed the way Londoners travel over the past few years, offering a convenient, zero-emission way to move around the city. They’ve quickly become a favourite for commuters and casual riders alike, so popular, in fact, that it’s often a race to find one for the morning journey to work.   But this boom has also brought confusion and frustration. Many

Featured in the Future Transport London Newsletter January 202 6 Funding was announced in the Autumn Budget for the £1.7 bn. 3-km DLR extension to Thamesmead. The scheme includes one new station at Beckton Riverside (to serve new housing); another in Thamesmead Town Centre (also to serve new housing). These stations will be linked by twin tunnels under the river. The elevated DLR station at Thamesmead is explicitly designed for further extension and, in response to the most r

Featured in the Future Transport London Newsletter January 202 6 At Clean Cities, we recently launched the Carspreading campaign to tackle a trend that is quietly reshaping our streets: cars are getting bigger, wider and heavier and the consequences of this shift are significant.   Research shows cars are becoming around 1cm wider every two years, while average vehicle weight has increased by around 400kg in the past seven years. This shift is being driven by the rapid rise o

Featured in the Future Transport London Newsletter January 202 6 Part 3 of Dick Dunmore’s look at accessing underground rail stations   By the early 2020s all was not well with the Cutty Sark escalators, and eventually all four were closed. The limited capacity of the single small lift forces most passengers to use up to 121 steps, or use the next station, above ground at Greenwich. The closures have led to several Freedom of Information requests and petitions, many of them a

Featured in the Future Transport London Newsletter September 2025 With the HS2 tunnelling stopped at Old Oak Common, is now the time to...

Featured in the Future Transport London Newsletter September 2025 Express orbital bus routes were not invented with Superloop: the Trans...

Featured in the Future Transport London Newsletter September 2025 Part 1, in the last issue, summarised how the private sector developers...

Featured in the Future Transport London Newsletter September 2025 The development of the Lower Thames road crossing, which has just been...

Featured in the Future Transport London Newsletter September 2025 LTNs work   Research by the University of Westminster and the London...

Featured in the Future Transport London Newsletter May 2025 Bikes through the Silvertown Tunnel   Silvertown Tunnel opened on schedule on...

Featured in the Future Transport London Newsletter May 2025 Neil Roth’s January article asks if Heathrow Express should be absorbed into...

Featured in the Future Transport London Newsletter May 2025 Rachel Reeves is preparing to put short-term economic growth ahead of...

Featured in the Future Transport London Newsletter May 2025 Over the years, urban transport systems such as rail and light rail, have...

Featured in the Future Transport London Newsletter January 2025 Cycle infrastructure in London has negatively impacted bus services...

Featured in the Future Transport London Newsletter January 2025   Organisations should collaborate to campaign against the proposed Lower...

Featured in the Future Transport London Newsletter January 2025 The UK, like much of Europe and increasingly the world, has an SUV...

Featured in the Future Transport London Newsletter January 2025   Direct services on the Elizabeth line between Heathrow, intermediate...

Featured in the Future Transport London Newsletter January 2025   Oxford Street again   Sadiq Khan has resurrected the plan, first put...