Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Boris Johnson

Cycling Booms in London, and the City’s Not Looking Back

By Angie Schmitt | May 2, 2016 | No Comments

Boris Johnson says that one of his goals as mayor of London was to make cycling “more popular and more normal.” As Johnson’s eight-year tenure winds down, it looks like the progress he made in his second term has accomplished that mission. If current trends continue, bike commuters will outnumber car commuters in central London by 2018, according to a […]

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Boris Johnson Commits to a Protected “Cycle Superhighway” Crossing London

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 28, 2015 | No Comments

London Mayor Boris Johnson is showing cities what it looks like to commit real resources to repurposing car lanes for high-quality bike infrastructure. Yesterday, Johnson announced the city will begin building a wide, continuous protected bike lane linking east and west London when the weather warms this spring. When complete, it will be the longest […]

London Mayor Unveils Ambitious, $1.3 Billion Bike Plan

By Stephen Miller | Mar 8, 2013 | 8 Comments

In some ways, London and New York have each leapfrogged the other when it comes to bike policy in the past few years. London’s bike-share program launched back in 2010, but its bike lanes remain largely sub-standard, with little in the way of physical protection. Here in New York, the bike lanes are gradually forming […]

London Mayor: Get Bigshots Out of Cars, Onto Transit “Like Everybody Else”

By Stephen Miller | Feb 8, 2013 | 12 Comments

London Mayor Boris Johnson, whose entertaining quotes about Mike Bloomberg have been ricocheting around New York’s political circles today, could teach a thing or two to the candidates running for mayor here in NYC. Yesterday, “Boris from Islington” called in to a radio talk show with a recorded question for Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg about Parliament’s profligate […]

Streetfilms: London’s Campaign for People-First Public Spaces

By Ben Fried | Apr 13, 2009 | 2 Comments

In 2002, then-mayor of London Ken Livingstone launched the 100 Public Spaces Programme, a campaign to better realize the potential of the city’s public realm. With guidance from Jan Gehl, the initiative emphasized reclaiming space for pedestrians and enhancing street life. Soon after Boris Johnson defeated Livingstone in last year’s election, the new mayor shook […]