As the London Assembly transport committee investigates what Sadiq Khan and Transport for London (TfL) can do to reduce rising levels of road traffic congestion in London, bear in mind that the price of gridlock is not only paid in frustration and pollution. By 2014, the public transport figure had risen to 45% and the private transport figure had fallen to 32%. Just 28% were taken by public transport in 2000 and 47% by private vehicle. So has the volume of motor vehicle traffic in London as a whole according to both Department for Transport estimates of distances travelled in them and TfL’s own traffic flow data (pages 57-60). And yet, for all this progress, the plague of road congestion is now getting worse.

Source: The Guardian September 12, 2016 20:37 UTC