AN OLYMPIC GOLD-MEDALLIST and adviser to Great Britain’s record-breaking cycling team has given his backing to a transport expert’s vision for London.

Chris Boardman, cycling commentator and creator of Boardman Bikes, is supporting the Vision Zero policy paper that has been launched by Christian Wolmar.

The decision by Boris Johnson to seek a seat at the general election will leave Londoners with a part time disengaged mayor for more than a year.

Boris has always been a part time mayor. His focus has been on the bigger political stage, his journalism, his biography of Churchill and foreign trips. Now he has made clear that London was always a stepping stone to wider political ambitions by announcing he intends to stand as an MP at the next election, ensuring that, if elected, he will become even more of a part time mayor after May.

Londoners do not want a staffless, driverless and soulless Tube system, says Christian Wolmar in a speech to the forthcoming conference on the London Underground organised by the RMT.

London needs a major new approach to housing - driven by the creation of a London Housing Delivery Agency. This is a central part of the recently launched housing strategy of Christian Wolmar, who is seeking the Labour nomination for the London mayoral election.

The Wolmar for London campaign will be hosting its Ideas for London conference this Saturday 14^th June at The Exchange, London Bridge. The conference will see the launch of the campaign’s housing strategy, which aims to ‘reset the London housing debate’.

In a wide ranging interview on the Late Debate on ITV, Alastair Stewart talks to Christian about his bid to become Mayor of London in 2016. Christian will be explaining the reasons he decided to seek the nomination and set out his plans for a more affordable, liveable and sustainable London.

London mayoral candidate Christian Wolmar sets out powerfully the arguments against the construction of a high speed line between London and the north in a major article in the latest issue of the London Review of Books.

The huge extra cost to Londoners of the ‘new bus for London’ is posing a threat to bus services. The Wolmar for London campaign has discovered that the cost has reached nearly £7m annually and is set to rise as more buses come on stream.

The figures released today by the Stop Killing Cyclists campaign highlight the urgent need to make London’s roads safer for all. They show that most boroughs have failed to introduce any segregated cycle lanes and few have plans to do so. Given the high death toll of cyclists and the increase in numbers, this shows a lack of concern about a key proportion of road users.