Boroughs to get £80m to make streets safer and improve bus journey times

London boroughs are being offer a total of up to £50m over the next three years to improve road safety by reducing speeds and tackling the most dangerous roads and junction. Transport for London (TfL) is offering a further £30m to improve bus journey times and increase bus ridership. The funding is in addition to the £80.4m of Local Implementation Plan funding allocated to London’s boroughs in 2024/25, said TfL.

The fund will be open to projects between £500,000 and £5m. Examples of schemes TfL will consider funding through Borough Safer Streets include:

? Projects that look to improve safety by reducing speeding and help to reduce the risk and severity of collisions

? Projects that develop improvements to protect vulnerable road users and improve safety for people walking and cycling

? Road safety improvements in high-risk locations

Alongside this, TfL is offering £30m to a new programme called Better Bus Partnerships, which will make up to £10m available for three boroughs to deliver “transformational bus infrastructure and operational improvements”.

This includes new bus priority measures to improve journey times, better management of road works to reduce delays to buses, improvements to stops and stations to make it easier to change between buses and other modes of transport, and improvements to streets to make it easier to walk to bus stops and stations.