I am unhappy with the draft Mayor’s Transport Strategy proposals and wish to object to them. 

They are drastic proposals that could be very expensive for Londoners. No real cost figures are given, even outline costs. They fall short of the legal expectation that members of the public being consulted should be given sufficient information to make a proper informed decision.

Sadiq Khan promised to be a Mayor for all Londoners. He has a blind spot to the needs of Londoners who need to drive. You would find the prejudice against drivers unacceptable if directed against any minority. 

An example of this prejudice is the claim that any amount of walking to a bus stop or station, however short, can be an important part of staying healthy. By the same standard, a driver walking to a car can be an important part of staying healthy. No credit is given for this. Many drivers use their car as part of an active lifestyle, but instead you jeer about health problems being due to an overdependence on cars.

There is also the silly claim that streets are for people not cars. In spite of the hype about self-driving cars in the future, cars don’t drive themselves, people drive them. They make our lives worth living for heavy shopping, travelling in bad weather and when public transport breaks down. How about some respect for people who drive? 

The document argues that car journeys should be discouraged if they are “not essential”. Who decides? Some bureaucrat? 

There is no such prejudice against bus and tube passengers and cyclists not to make journeys if they are “not essential”, even though it might free up space for someone else. 

Public transport is already overcrowded, yet plans centre around a large population increase as if it is desirable. It will just increase pressure on public transport and road space.

The idea that local councils should be required to force us out of our cars through traffic reduction measures is particularly mean. 

I am against any extension of the Congestion Charge, whether across London or locally. Sadiq Khan should jog his memory. When he was after our votes in 2016, he promised he would just keep the Congestion Charge at its current level. 

The alternative, making councils consider a workplace parking levy, a tax on travelling to work, is appalling. Going to work is an essential for most people and it is insulting to suggest that they should either be taxed for it or for instance, pushed onto overcrowded public transport that might not meet their needs. 

Car use can be much more efficient than other forms of transport, when you consider things like time, cost, convenience and safety. No consideration is given to this in your biased document.

Nor is consideration given to an approach for integrated transport that lets travellers mix car and public transport use. Instead you propose just to reduce the availability or convenience of car parking spaces near stations and bus stops. 

Plans to reduce the availability of private car parking are unacceptable. Any new car club, electric car or cycle parking spaces should be new and not at the expense of current parking spaces.

Drivers currently pay too much to use the roads, not too little as the confused Mayor imagines. It is suspicious that he does not give any figures. He should not be trusted with any new ways of paying for road use, such as powers to set the rate of Vehicle Excise Duty / road tax. 

The only overdependence on cars is from a money-grabbing Mayor who just wants to squeeze more money out of us.

He should seek to give us more for our money not less. Instead the document gives rein to its anti-car prejudices, car-free days, road closures, car-free and car-lite developments. 

It fails to recognise that as people need to use cars, this will just increase pressures in surrounding areas.

There is no argument for reallocating road space away from cars. One of the reasons why traffic crawls is the removal of road space from cars. Transport for London have even admitted it.

Making Trafalgar Square pedestrianised was a disaster. Transport for London claimed that their calculations ensured that all would be well. Instead there was worse congestion in central London for miles around. 

The document avoids coming clean on the results of anti-car measures. Instead it paints a picture of utopia that is adrift from reality.  

Take the idea of discriminatory parking charges against vehicles with higher emissions. Totally stupid. Any vehicle parked with its engine turned off doesn’t have any emissions.  

Where are any proposals that would make life easier for those who have to drive? Go back and come up with some.