Lib Dems call for new Kensington & Chelsea Transport Strategy

There is now an urgent need for Kensington and Chelsea Council to come up with an integrated and comprehensive transport strategy for our borough.

“Stations (like Earl’s Court) are being closed at critical times. Trains are often overcrowded. Buses take forever to reach their destination, stuck in traffic - that is the ones not scrapped by cuts” says Christophe Noblet, local Lib Dem campaigner.

“Many of our roads are permanently busy, going through residential areas, creating both air and sound pollution adversely impacting residents’ health. Some of our neighbourhoods are exposed constantly to pollution levels 3 to 4 times over WHO thresholds. And RBKC has the worst record in terms of cyclist safety among all London Boroughs - being the only London Borough with not a single meter of protected cycle lane.”

The upcoming delivery of two significant sites in Earl’s Court and Kensal Rise is expected to bring in 20,000 and 10,000 additional residents or local workers respectively to our borough in phases over the next 10 years, with construction traffic hitting us from 2027. These will put even more pressure to our struggling local  transport system. We need a plan, and an implementation roadmap.

It should include implementing safe school streets and safe routes to schools to provide a safe alternative for school runs, actively sponsoring moving parcel delivery to e-cargo bikes, delivering an overdue safe cycle infrastructure with a connected network of protected cycle lanes and public racks for bike and e-bike parking, or re-instating bus services in these parts of the borough not covered by the tube.