Tuesday 30 June 2020

Covid-19 Emergency Active Travel plans































The council has received £652,314 from Transport for London for emergency Covid 19 active travel schemes. The bulk of the funding will go towards the Uxbridge Road strategic cycle route. Fifty thousand pounds will pay for an experimental traffic order to convert the bus lanes to 24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week operation, and £396,600 will pay for other measures to improve cycling on the road. At the moment we have no details of what they will be. The remainder of the funding will go towards social distancing on King Street in Southall, creating three street parks (low traffic neighbourhoods), and filter schemes to limit traffic on a few residential roads. Two of the street parks will be in West Ealing, one north, the other south of the Broadway. These may be the only legacy of the West Ealing Liveable Neighbourhood scheme. Due to TfL's serious shortage of money, this is postponed for an indefinite period of time. The scheme was awarded £6.5m of funding from TfL in 2017, but has made little visible progress since. 




This is the list of schemes receiving funding from TfL. 

Uxbridge Road 24 /7 bus lane

£50,000

Strategic Cycle Route

Uxbridge Road - other measures

£396,600

Strategic Cycle Route

King's Street - Southall

£84,852

Space at Town Centres

School measures - 2m footway markings

£10,800

Space at Town Centres

East Acton Golf Links LTN 33

£6,324

Low Traffic Neighbourhoods

Mattock Lane LTN 35

£11,994

Low Traffic Neighbourhoods

Junction Road Area LTN 32

£10,118

Low Traffic Neighbourhoods

Bowes Road LTN 34

£4,658

Low Traffic Neighbourhoods

Adrienne Avenue LTN 48

£6,338

Low Traffic Neighbourhoods

Loveday Road LTN30

£15,830

Low Traffic Neighbourhoods

South Ealing LTN - Olive Road

£8,300

Low Traffic Neighbourhoods

West Ealing: LTN South

£33,000

Low Traffic Neighbourhoods

West Ealing: LTN North

£13,500

Low Traffic Neighbourhoods



This allocation from TfL is below-average and puts Ealing at 17th place of the 30 London boroughs with funding announced so far. 

1

Lambeth

£2,639,000.00

2

Waltham Forest

£2,078,563.00

3

Kingston

£2,077,000.00

4

Enfield

£2,057,930.00

5

Hackney

£1,952,000.00

6

Islington

£1,461,153.00

7

Camden

£1,426,722.00

8

Southwark

£1,080,500.00

9

Hounslow

£1,062,500.00

10

Haringey

£983,034.00

11

City of London

£948,744.00

12

Sutton

£844,241.00

13

Newham

£843,100.00

14

Wandsworth

£818,450.00

15

Richmond

£786,500.00

16

Redbridge

£669,059.00

17

Ealing

£652,314.00

18

Harrow

£638,000.00

19

Croydon

£400,000.00

20

Bexley

£190,000.00

21

Westminster

£151,616.00

22

Brent

£125,000.00

23

Merton

£115,000.00

24

Bromley

£113,000.00

25

Barnet

£77,986.00

26

RBKC

£55,464.00

27

Greenwich

£46,615.00

28

Tower Hamlets

£40,020.00

29

Lewisham

£20,683.00

30

Hillingdon

£11,825.00




The council has also applied to the DfT for funding other schemes. We understand that it received the full £100,000 allocation in the first tranche at the end of June.