London has embarked on an ongoing quest to remake its busiest districts with high-quality public space, taking real estate that used to belong to cars and designing areas where people come first and drivers behave accordingly. The Aldgate project is the latest example.
There's a symbiotic relationship between road pricing and better bus service. Congestion pricing can speed up buses and reverse the decade-plus decline in bus ridership in New York.
In 2014, there was an intense bikelash in London in reaction to groundbreaking, high-quality protected bike lanes in the city center. London CyclingWorks played a critical role in countering this pushback, gathering endorsements of the new bike infrastructure from a wide range of businesses in central London.
The number of automobiles entering London’s center each day has plunged by 44 percent since the start of congestion charging, even as the total number of people entering grew 23 percent.