Celebrating World Car Free Day across the city’s provides an opportunity to showcase global leadership in these areas, and to support local communities to implement their own visions for improved public realm, health, place-making, and mobility. London is not yet showing the leadership it is capable of to transform the city into a model of healthy, safe, sustainable, and more equitable urban growth. It is also one of the world’s wealthiest, most powerful, and unequal cities. It is one of the world’s great cities with an exceptional public transport system. London is a global leader in transport planning, urban design, art, architecture, and public health research. By demonstrating what is possible, the #600HealthySchoolStreets campaign seeks to encourage school administrators, parents, and students across the city to consider adopting a new paradigm for use of our most abundant public space - the streets. Streets in front of schools can be closed to traffic and turned into safer walking streets, new recreational space, and community gardens to encourage more outdoor activity before and after school. With over 3,000 schools across London, we have a target for at least 600 streets to be requested in time for Car Free Day (around 20 per borough).
Some of these roads can be permanently converted to new landscaped public realm and green space. Healthy School Streets mean that the roads around a school are closed to motor vehicle traffic and opened up for safe walking & cycling, starting during pick-up and drop-off times. Our partners at Mums for Lungs are leading the way on asking for pilot programmes at the most polluted primary schools in each local authority. We are encouraging all London Councils and the City of London Corporation to commit to the systematic roll-out of Healthy School Streets in time for Car Free Day. Make getting to school easy with 600 Healthy School Streets Our work throughout the year focuses on 8 key pillars, each of which are developed, communicated, and led by residents, community, local government, and business partners across the city.Ģ. Encouraging systematic action on these two opportunities is core to the eight pillars of our work. Play Streets and Healthy School Streets are among the simplest and most joyful celebrations of the streets as public space. Our goal is to see the expansion of pedestrianised and pedestrian-priority zones across London and other global cities, starting with the Square Mile and the 200 town centres identified in the London Plan. With over 8,000 hectares of land devoted to parking alone, we think there is a great opportunity to shift land use away from private cars to other uses. Here in London, we are dedicated to promoting regular car-free days and celebrating the opportunity to convert redundant road and parking space across the city to more socially and economically productive uses as new public parks, affordable housing and commercial space. In cities like Los Angeles, around 60% of all urban land is taken up by concrete, representing a huge opportunity to convert this land to more productive, equitable, and climate secure uses. Our work focuses on the urban land use transition opportunity away from concrete, with parking and road space currently taking up between 30%-60% of all urban areas. We are committed to championing traffic-free city centres and active travel in London, and in cities around the world.
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