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London Borough of Wandsworth

… and store a bicycle. Staff will use sustainable transport options to get to work and to move around the borough while carrying out their roles. We will improve the Council’s own transport fleet policies and practices and the Council’s own and our contractor’s vehicle fleet. Actions We will work on the principle of a sustainable transport hierarchy as seen below, encouraging the most sustainable…

… methods of transport for our operations, residents and businesses in the borough. We will produce a guide for staff and councillors on how they can use sustainable transport options and encourage modal shift from private car use towards those sustainable travel options. We will maintain our exemplar standards by maintaining 20mph zones in the borough and improving already good transport links…

… relentlessly for better public transport and we have sought to make walking and cycling in our busy borough safer and less stressful. Just as we were an early pioneer of car clubs we have been equally ambitious in extending the network of electric charging points across the borough. Our residents have backed us so that we now have one of the highest electric vehicle take-up rates in the capital. We…

… KEY ISSUES Sustainable Transport Wandsworth is one of the most desirable and dynamic places to live and work in London and is experiencing growth and expansion of developments. This places huge demands on our transport infrastructure, in 2017 there were 124m passengers at Wandsworth's railway stations alone, not including bus and underground usage. The Council’s key transport challenge…

… is therefore to provide the additional transport capacity that is needed to support its housing objectives and deliver economic recovery, regeneration and growth. The Council already encourages methods of sustainable travel, for example, the Active Wandsworth Strategy highlights that sustainable travel means such as walking and cycling are good for our physical and mental health…