Forum topic: Who's standing where, and for what, in the council elections?

London is addressing its position as a “car dominated” city through its transport strategy; a position signed off by HMG. That’s fact. Exactly how that occurs moves into the field of opinion and the local elections have the matter as an item. Self-evidently personal driving is going to become more burdensome over time, but how? The election literature to date suggests to me that some candidates / parties don’t have a scooby, instead playing a negative / consultation / listening card(s).
To assist, the attached academic link reviews the compilation of almost 800 studies undertaken on the subject across Europe since 2010. Most impactful is a congestion charge, followed by car free streets and segregated cycle lanes. Ten other categories follow. It may assist in focusing political thinking.

https://theconversation.com/12-best-ways-to-get-cars-out-of-cities-ranked-by-new-research-180642

I was perhaps most taken by its (rather shocking) introduction:

Question: what do the following statistics have in common?

- The second-largest (and growing) source of climate pollution in Europe.
- The leading killer of children in both the US and Europe.
- A principal cause of stress-inducing noise pollution and life-shortening air pollution in European cities.
- A leading driver of the widening gap between rich and poor urban residents.

Answer: the vehicles on our streets, primarily the not-so-humble passenger car.