Darren Johnson


Green Party's Darren Johnson raises concerns over TfL's claimed figures on cycling spend (+ video)

London Assembly Member says amounts include sums not spent, and also says budget for coming years is deliberately underestimated

Why isn’t Transport for London spending more on cycling? asks Green Party's Darren Johnson

A combination of pressure by cyclists and London Assembly members successfully achieved an increase of £52m in the cycling budget during the next three years. On the 18th of February the Mayor confirmed that the budget for the three years was £334m, after two weeks of pressure in support of an Assembly motion proposed by Jenny Jones AM, that total had increased to £386m. We didn’t get the 2% of the TfL budget that a cross party Assembly report said that cycling deserved, but it was still a big success.

An Olympic Park legacy for cycling

An amazing post Games legacy for cyclists is within easy grasp of the Mayor and Transport for London, writes Green Party Assembly Member Darren Johnson. They have the chance to bring Amsterdam’s cycle friendly roads to a whole area of east London. The London Legacy Development Corporation, run personally by the Mayor of London, has the ability to build whatever kind of roads it wants.