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As a cyclist, you do get very angry about the way the traffic treats you, that cars cut you up and buses get in the cycle lane. Another big, related, issue is Central London road deliveries. Likewise, it hardly works for taking children to school. If you did that, you could refine the transport offer. Some sort of mechanism for achieving that in the centre would be desirable, she thinks. Valentine is radical on road space management in a way no mayoral contender for is likely to dare to be, except perhaps whoever runs for the Greens.

I would do more sophisticated road pricing than we have at present more widely. The Hammersmith flyover becoming a flyunder would just be a way of sorting out that flyover. On housing, she wants London to follow the example of Kate Barker, who wrote an influential report for Gordon Brown eleven years ago. More public investment could be part of it, allowing councils more freedom to build could be another.

A new London First report called Carrots and Sticks suggests incentives and penalties to get boroughs delivering more homes. What we ought to do is re-pitch the London Plan to say that everyone should have easy access to some nice safe green space, which is very important for children, and you sort out the green belt behind that. Chunks of it are just grotty or under-utilised. This biography of a life peer is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

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So as we approach a general election — and in London next year a Mayoral election — we need our political leaders to act on the conclusions set out in this report from London business, and to go for growth. Holding London back will hold back the UK as a whole. Enabling growth in the capital will help maximise our national economic potential, delivering jobs and opportunity for the entire country.

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