Addison Lee boss: Khan doesn’t want to solve congestion for London

GUY TAYLOR

SADIQ KHAN does not want to solve congestion problems for London’s car users, the boss of private hire taxi firm Addison Lee has said.

“I just think that definitely the congestion in London should be something we want to solve,” Liam Griffin told City A.M., but said “I’m not sure Khan wants to solve it for cars.”

Amid a focus on the introduction of rail, cycling and bus routes, Griffin argued there had been a lack of thought put into the mayor’s strategy for effectively handling traffic for car and taxi drivers, which is fuelling the capital’s slowdown.

London’s busy red routes – which carry up to 30 per cent of the capital’s traffic despite making up only five per cent of its roads – are “not world class infrastructure,” Griffin said, and “as a consequence, traffic slows down”.

A spokesperson for the mayor of London said that since 2016, Khan has “delivered the Hopper bus fare, the Night Tube, the Elizabeth line and made TfL fares 12 per cent cheaper than they would have been.”