TFL Announce £100m 'mini Holland' Winners

Winners have been announced for the ‘mini Holland’ competition which gives £100million to councils that can think the best way to improve road-design coupled with cycle safety.

 

And the winners are… Enfield, Ealing and Waltham Forest LBCs; they collected £30million each for their innovative proposals. Bexley and Merton LBC were recommended for ‘exceptional proposals’ and Transport Bosses committed to using the remaining £10million to implement some aspects of their ideas.

 

London mayor Boris Johnson’s cycling commissioner, Andrew Gilligan said: “Councils across outer London have stepped up to the plate and we are thrilled with how many want to redesign their town centres around cycling. There is enough money available to deliver dramatic change in the chosen boroughs, and make them places that suburbs and towns all over Britain will want to copy.”

 

Enfield will create a cycle hub in their town centre by changing traffic routing and turn the Edmonton Green roundabout into a Dutch style layout where cars and bicycles are separate.

 

Waltham Forest will bring a semi-segregated London Superhighway route along Lea Bridge Road, measure to make residential more cycle friendly and ‘Hackney-style’ low traffic neighbourhoods.

 

And finally Kingston Council will be laying down a 700 metre cycle path across the Thames and producing a new town square at Surbiton station which will relocate a taxi rank and car park.

 

Green Party London Assembly Member, Darren Johnson, said: “These mini-Hollands should be a test bed for idea to make cycling safe and enjoyable, but there is no money and no plan to roll this idea out to the rest of outer London. The mayor needs to increase the cycling budget in Transport for London’s ten-year plan, so that we get safer cycling rolled out to the other boroughs as soon as possible.”