Back from holiday & delighted to join Cllr Susan Masters to celebrate the completion of latest phase of Newham Council's Romford Rd safety scheme: 🚲bike lanes 🚦signalised junctions 🚶‍♀️ped crossings 🌳street trees, planting & drainage Great partnership working with TfL team

Today @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social launched an ambitious plan to clean up London’s waterways. By improving waterside paths & creating a new river walking route, we can help more Londoners enjoy the benefits of walking & wheeling while restoring nature & improving public health. Win-win. 🌿🚶🌊

A big thank you to all our construction teams across London who are enduring this heat to make our streets safer. This team are working on the new Whipps Cross Road cycle lanes in Waltham Forest. Please stay safe & hydrated - we really appreciate your life saving hard work.

Thanks to @tfl for organising the Vision Zero Action Plan conference this week. Great to meet so many new councillors & officers from across London's borough who are keen to make their streets safer. #VisionZeroLDN

E-bikes - with pedal assist with speed & power limited by law - are legal and a great way to travel around London. Illegal electric motorbikes - with much more power, speed & weight and with an auto throttle - are a dangerous menace. Good to see the police taking action.

New separated cycle lanes popping up on Shaftesbury Ave. All it takes is political will + the removal of some unnecessary parking spaces. London is becoming a cycling city, reflecting a generational shift that recognises driving in urban areas as slow, inefficient use of time.

London’s newest cycle lane: Shaftesbury Avenue. We’re busy expanding our network of Cycleways across the capital to make it safer for people to travel by bike. And cycling has soared, now there are an average 1.5m bike journeys every day. 🚲📈🚲📈🚲📈🚲📈🚲📈🚲📈

In the run up to #LondonDataWeek, it was a privilege to welcome representatives from over 20 cities to London for a Google for Cities event discussing how better public/private partnerships can use data & AI to help build greener, cleaner, healthier cities for all. @ldncdo.bsky.social

Cycle Sundays is back 🤩 Every Sunday in summer, we’re encouraging Londoners to get on their bikes. Get a free Santander Cycles Day Pass every Sunday in July 2026: tfl.gov.uk/modes/cyclin...

Building more physical activity into our everyday lives is one of the best things we can do for our physical & mental health - & it will free up £££billions for the NHS. Great to see Department for Health launch this challenge. It's as simple as going for a walk. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

NHS to reward people who walk 30 minutes a day

The "marathon a month" scheme, developed with former Olympic medallist Sir Brendan Foster, will launch early next year.

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Mayor of London, @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social, extends TfL bus & tram fare freeze for another 4 months, alongside our brand new Weekend Hopper fare being introduced over school holidays, making travel cheaper & easier than ever this summer 😎🐸🚌🚋

Great to be at the World Cup tonight - England vs South Africa in the Women’s T20 Cricket World Cup at the Oval. London is fast becoming a beacon for women’s sport. Tonight we broke the record for the biggest crowd at a women’s semi-final. Amazing game & well done England!

New bike lanes. New bike parking. New crossings. New e-bike parking. New sustainable drainage. New trees & planting to come 💚 #London this morning.

I bet this SUV must have been going at quite a speed to do this amount of damage and fully close Waterloo Bridge this morning. I hope nobody was hurt. #SlowDownSaveLives

Greenwich Town Centre has the UNESCO heritage site, the Naval College & Museum, Cutty Sark, market & shops. But it's cursed with too much dangerous traffic. We're working with @Royal_Greenwich to make it safer for visitors, pedestrians & cyclists. royalgreenwich.gov.uk/news/2026/pl...

We completed our road safety scheme at Battersea Bridge in 2025. Follow up research shows 91% of pedestrians said they felt safe when crossing here now, compared with just 21% in 2022. We're making London safer for people walking & cycling. #VisionZeroLDN

We've doubled the amount of TfL wildflower verges to 520,000m² in 2 years. 🌺🌻🌹🥀🌷🌼 Not only do these flowers look amazing, they help boost biodiversity & support wildlife across the capital - we've see 50% increase in butterfly sightings in last 12 months alone.🦋🦋🦋

As cars get bigger & bigger they take up more space on streets & in car parks and pose an increasing safety risk to road users. 👏LTDA for raising this issue with Wimbledon & their fleet of 170+ SUVs for tennis players🎾 Wouldn't smaller safer vehicles be better? www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...

In the 1970s, 85% of UK kids travelled to school independently - that’s walking, cycling, public transport etc. Today it is 25%. This seismic shift has had so many negative consequences. Today, @cities_clean we shared how we’re re-designing cities for kids again. #LCAW2026

One of the highlights of this week was meeting @danlert - deputy mayor of Paris responsible for climate and environment. We don’t just dress alike, we think alike too! Great to discuss reducing road danger and how London & Paris can work in even greater partnership. #LCAW2026

Great to be at Earthfest this morning talking about how we can work in partnership with private sector & communities to deliver systemic change - with @activetraveleng & @ucl #LCAW2026

Great working with global city leaders on future proofing our streets for a changing climate - emphasising social & environmental justice. Brussels, London, NYC, Bogota, Paris & many more at #FutureStreetsForum #LCAW2026 👏👏 @mayoroflondon.bsky.social @thecrownestate.bsky.social @BloombergAssoc

Many said we couldn’t do it. Data says we have. Toxic air-related deaths in London have dropped by 40%. 👏👏 @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Toxic air death estimates in London drop by 40%, study suggests

A new study suggests estimated deaths linked to toxic air in London fell by about 40% in five years.

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Do read this scary article in the @nytimes.com showing the growth of SUVs and how they are increasing deaths on the roads The research estimates about 200 - 400 pedestrians a year wouldn't have died if vehicles had remained the same size as 25 years ago. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s

The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.

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I was delighted to open @cleancitiescampaign.org’s Future of Urban Freight Conference #LCAW2026 Working with business, London is making good progress in making freight & servicing operations cleaner, safer & more sustainable. I talked about EV charging, DVS, cargo bike growth & clean air.

It's London Climate Action Week. Our climate is changing & we're taking action. London's healthy streets projects enable people to switch from polluting 🚗 to more 🚶‍♀️& 🚲, and 🌳more trees cool streets on hot days ⛈️new planting absorbs intense rain #BeforeAfter #Farringdon

TfL has a property company called Places For London. Its role is to improve TfL’s properties & build new ones to help fund transport projects – including cycle lanes. I visited the Kilburn Mews scheme – transforming 12 arches into cool premises in a newly pedestrianised street.

If kids learn to love cycling, they're likely to keep cycling for the rest of their lives. Great to join @bikeabilityuk.bsky.social at Our Lady & St George's nursery school today - 1 of 185 schools in LDN delivering Get Cycling in Schools sessions. So much fun! #NextGenCyclists #ActiveKidsDoBetter

It’s Clean Air Day. Every time you walk, wheel or cycle, instead of taking the car, you’re helping us clean up London’s air. Thank you!! 🚲 🚶🚶🚶‍♀️👩‍🦽‍➡️

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan@london.gov.uk · 2mo ago

We’ve made incredible progress on cleaning up London’s air, but the fight isn’t over. This Clean Air Day, we’re committing an additional £6m to help boroughs further improve air quality locally.

The new Wimbledon Hill Rain Garden in Merton absorbs excess surface water before it reaches the low-lying town centre. It captures, slows & stores runoff, reducing the amount of water entering the sewer network - helping to lower flood risk. And it looks great🌱🌿🌹