Section B - sustainable transport
In Westminster, road transport accounts for approximately 60% of nitrogen dioxide emissions and particulate matter emissions. Westminster benefits from a comprehensive and integrated public transport system with train, bus, tube and overground hubs. The city benefits from:
- fast and direct access to four international airports and the Eurostar train service
- four mainline railway termini at Charing Cross, Marylebone, Paddington and Victoria as well as being in close proximity to six other mainline train stations
- thirty-one London underground stations which enable direct access to all but one of the capital’s 11 lines
- London, national and international bus and coach routes and termini
- River Bus services
- about 170 London Cycle Hire docking stations; and
- about 450 Legible London wayfinding signs
Westminster is also a walkable city with routes to our main attractions often being faster on foot or by bicycle than tube or bus. Our policies support a modal shift to active travel - which simply put means encouraging people to walk or cycle and to move about under their own steam.
For more on walking and cycling in the city, please see: