LONDON’S SUCCESS MUST BE FOR ALL
I am seeking re-election as Mayor to work for
London’s success to continue, to ensure every Londoner shares in
that success, and to safeguard London’s environment.
In the last eight years London has become one
of the world’s most successful cities with more jobs, thousands
more police officers, big improvements in buses, good community
relations, winning the Olympics and adopting successful
environmental policies.
Over the next four years London needs to go
further. It needs a competent Mayor with a proven record of
commitment to our city – able to stand up for London, ready to
tackle the still bigger challenges ahead.
That means:
Managing London’s biggest
transport investments for fifty years, continuing to improve bus
services, renewing the Tube, bringing more rail services under
London’s control to raise standards, and building the new Crossrail
line;
Continuing to reduce crime by six
per cent each year, recruiting 1,000 more police and basing a
permanent police team in every neighbourhood;
Building 50,000 new affordable
homes over three years and maintaining the policy that at least
half of new homes are affordable by ordinary Londoners;
Providing new opportunities for
young people in education and training and providing new safe
places to go outside school hours;
Using the Oyster Card to keep
fares as low as possible, make the Freedom Pass operate 24 hours a
day, provide bus free travel for under-18s and extend student
travel discounts to Oyster pay-as-you-go;
Uniting London with good community
relations, equality for every Londoner and maintaining the 50 per
cent fall in racist attacks;
Improving the environment with a
£25 charge on the worst gas guzzlers in the central London
congestion charging zone and a zero charge for the least polluting
cars.
Vote for London on 1 May – the stakes are
high.
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