Mayor reveals public space vision for London

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has revealed he will invest £220m over the course of the next three years in more than 50 public space projects.

In his Manifesto for public space, the mayor said Transport for London would contribute £180m towards better streets projects.

These include the recently opened diagonal crossings at Oxford Circus, the redevelopment of Leicester Square as well as town centre improvements in Richmond, Sutton and Woolwich.

‘More than half of the London landscape is shared space including roads, parks, canals, rivers, squares, piazzas, malls and monuments. This shared space is a vast and complex environment in which millions of perfect strangers must move, meet and negotiate. It is, therefore, critical that we invest in them so that London’s great outdoors is fit for the future.’