London Mayor Sadiq Khan has denied he will introduce 'pay per mile' road charging in the capital were he to be elected for a third term.
Instead, he said he wants to continue to improve public transport in the capital - starting with ensuring all buses across the network were zero emission. Report by Alibhaiz. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
Instead, he said he wants to continue to improve public transport in the capital - starting with ensuring all buses across the network were zero emission. Report by Alibhaiz. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 Uless, one could argue, is your flagship.
00:03 45,000 non-compliant cars in London out of two and a half million cars on the roads,
00:09 raised about 107 million and a reduction, a huge reduction of people living in areas
00:14 with illegal levels of nitrogen dioxide.
00:16 Earlier, Susan said that your next plan is pay per mile.
00:20 Is that true?
00:21 It is untrue.
00:24 What I'm passionate about is continuing to improve public transport in London.
00:27 London has benefited with the first freeze in five of the last eight years, the Hopper
00:32 fare, unlimited bus travel for an hour and also with the tram, the cheapest bus fares
00:36 in the country.
00:37 What I'm going to do if I'm re-elected is to make sure all our buses are zero emission.
00:41 We already have the largest electric bus fleet in Europe.
00:44 Just imagine if all 9,000 were electric.
00:46 But we've still got workers going out on strike though.
00:49 I mean, how are you planning on dealing with those sorts of issues?
00:51 We've got some unhappy transport workers.
00:54 We, by the pandemic, had reduced strikes in London by more than 70%.
00:59 The only people unhappy when I worked for the trade union to call off the strikes this
01:02 January and last month were the Conservatives.
01:05 It's really important to talk to our trade unions.
01:06 They work incredibly hard.
01:07 I've got a huge amount of respect for our transport workers.
01:10 I'm going to carry on talking to resolve these issues amicably rather than sort of strikes
01:14 we see across the country with junior doctors and with teachers and with workers across