London Living Streets Advisory Roles

London Living Streets represents people on foot on a number of London wide boards and projects. These currently include:

The Walking Advisory Panel

A steering group chaired by the Mayor's Advisor on Sustainable Travel, London Assembly member Jenny Jones, monitors The London Walking Plan. Objectives include:

• Advising on actions and measures of success
• Championing specific objectives of the plan
• Identifying problem areas and recommend solutions
• Assisting with the updating of the plan and advise on appropriate allocation of resources.

Other Walking Advisory Panel members include the Greater London Authority, Transport for London, Walk London, the Metropolitan Police, London Boroughs and the Ramblers. London Living Streets very much represents the end user on the Walking Advisory Panel, if you have any London wide concerns, related to the Walking Plan, or to walking in general, please tell us so that we can represent you at the Walking Advisory Panel.

London 2012 Active Travel Advisory Group

This group assists the Olympic Delivery Authority in the provision of world-class facilities for walking and cycling in connection with the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and the legacy, by providing expert advice on policies and programmes, identifying work to be done and disseminating recommendations.

The Active Travel Advisory Group is the main focal point for walking and cycling stakeholder groups to influence the Olympic transport programme. This is an example of how walking and cycling organisations are working closely together to promote active travel in London.

Legible London

Legible London aims to make it easier for people to find their way in London by developing a coordinated wayfinding system. The streets, alleys and public spaces of London are often difficult to navigate around. As a result, people often use other means of transport, even for very short distances, when walking would be quicker and more pleasant.

To address this, the Central London Partnership, with Transport for London and central London boroughs, commissioned a study. The aim was to identify a common solution to wayfinding, outlining principles for a pedestrian signage system.

The idea of the Legible London project is to help people not just find places on a first-time visit with a simple and reliable wayfinding system, important though that is, but also to assist them in building up a better understanding of how the city fits together, by connecting areas and providing better ways of judging distance and direction.