Just days after London announced that , the city鈥檚 transportation department, Transport for London, approved final plans for Mayor Boris Johnson鈥檚 鈥淐rossrail for Bikes鈥 initiative.
鈥淲e know that Londoners want these routes and that they want them to be delivered to the high standard I promised, as quickly as possible,鈥 Johnson . 鈥淚 now look forward to the transformation that these planned routes will bring鈥攏ot just for people who cycle now, but for the thousands of new cyclists they will attract.鈥
According to the release, more than 170,000 bike trips are made in London every day, a 25 percent increase over 2013. The approved plans would update the four existing superhighways and create four additional bike superhighways, one of which would be a north-south corridor and another that would run east-west. Segregation from motor vehicle traffic has also been proven to reduce cycling fatalities, according to the release.
These plans are just the latest in a long-term vision Johnson , of which roughly $1.4 billion would be invested in the city鈥檚 biking infrastructure. The goal, as stated in the proposal, is to raise the level of cycling with other prominent European cities, namely Amsterdam and Copenhagen.
Work began on the existing Cycle Superhighway 2 .