Boris Johnson plans to make London more attractive
November 19, 2009
Mayor of London, Boris Johnson has justified new plans to spend £220 million transforming areas of the capital into oases. He says that making the capital more attractive to the people who live and work in it as well as those visiting has become necessary at a time when the government is doing its best to make the city as unattractive as possible to people who are likely to leave because of the new 50p tax rate. The mayor’s plan is to establish fifty projects around the capital which will look into making roads more user friendly for pedestrians and cyclists and make London’s parks and green areas more accessible to the public. He said that he wanted to transform public spaces by removing clutter such as railings, traffic lights and even pavements so that everything could become a little less restricted. He continued to say that he would like to see a London where motorists, pedestrians and cyclists negotiated with each other as they used space on the streets.
Jenny Jones, a member of the Green assembly has however said that Johnson’s new schemes were simply a reannouncement and continued that the mayor would have to start trying a bit harder if he really was going to leave a green legacy. Liberal Democrat, Mike Duffrey was also lacking in enthusiasm for Johnson’s schemes saying that he does a great job talking about them but never seems to follow through with any action that actually sees the ideas realised.
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