…is competitive and promotes opportunities

How do we encourage greater uptake of public transport?

  1. Not sufficient cycling provisions.
    - Limited cycle racks and CCTV coverage
    - Limited safe cycle lanes. Surely we should be aiming for a point where all London roads have cycle lanes.

    Worker (46)
  2. There are three deterrents. Cost, time and convenience of routes and connections. Get the last two right and cost becomes less of an issue.
    Smaller buses would help to reduce congestion and delays and support the introduction of new routes to avoid changing and to inter conect with tube and rail routes.
    On the cost issue, consider greater discounts for season tickets based on income levels.

    Business (63)
  3. Affordability and reliability are the 2 main issues, with the second being the most important.

    People will pay for a service that they can rely on.

    Worker (44)
  4. Public transport usage is probably already higher in the City than anywhere else. Sticks are much more effective in changing behaviour than carrots so, to change travellers’ modal choices, using the more-congesting and less-environment friendly alternatives (basically cars)has to be made more expensive and more difficult - e.g. by denying them parking spaces and charging much more heavily for road (and/or fuel)use. The biggest deterrent to greater uptake of trains and buses is lack of comfort arising from crowding, which is a time-limited problem stemming from the fact that so many journeys are concentrated in peak hours. Why passengers behave in this lemming-like manner is not clear to me, when they could travel much more agreeably an hour ir two earlier or later, so we meed some research into why (e.g.) the idea of staggered working hours has never really taken off.

    Worker (58)