The London Cycling Campaign have said that Ealing Council are not going to achieve their lofty goals unless rapid progress is made. 

The non-profit organisation have published their New Climate Safe Streets Borough Report which assesses how each of the London boroughs are doing on improving active travel and reducing car use. 

Out of the 32 boroughs, Ealing ranked 25th for reducing car travel, marginally above the average rate for Outer London. 

Ealing ranked 25th out of 32 boroughs. Photo: London Cycling Campaign.

The report said: "Following an internal leadership battle, the administration in control of Ealing is still, apparently, committed to a bold decarbonisation commitment of the whole borough going net zero by 2030.  

"But this simply will not happen unless the new administration finds ways to incredibly rapidly begin to deliver on roads transport – cycle tracks, Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, cycle freight, junctions, bus priority and more.  

"And that means tackling the controversial elephant in the room – drivers angry about perceived impacts on them.  

"The new administration ripped out the last lot's LTNs. So, the question is, what will the new administration actually do to move forward not back in a borough where already over one third of households have no car or van?  

"From our local group's tracking of activity the answers so far are not promising. 

"It is now vital that the new leadership, if it remains serious about action on climate emissions in the borough and its tough and bold 2030 net zero target for the whole borough, finds ways to rapidly tilt that orange line downwards, not upwards." 

Private car mode share in Ealing. Photo: London Cycling Campaign.

Ealing has also been criticised in the report for being one of the boroughs who are "significantly failing" to deliver on Climate Safe Streets schemes, as no such campaign has yet been committed to. 

Simon Munk, Head of Campaigns, London Cycling Campaign said: "London must not be a postcode lottery for climate action or safe cycling and walking.  

"We need a lot more boroughs delivering 'Climate Safe Streets' like Hackney and Waltham Forest and fewer, like Tower Hamlets and Bromley, failing to deliver as our new report shows.  

"Every London council and the Mayor must deliver more streets fit for cycling, walking and children playing, and faster, if we're to help London escape the grip of car dependency and the cost of living crisis.  

"Our new 'One Year On, One Year To Go' report highlights what needs to be done, for future generations, and to make London now a better city today."