TRANSPORT for London (TfL) will start on a scheme to improve cycle safety at a junction in Holloway, after it approved its first long-term business plan in three years this week.

As part of its vision to achieve no deaths or accidents on London’s roads in just under ten years, TfL plan to improve the junction at Holloway Road and Drayton Park, making it safer for cyclists and pedestrians to use.

Its 2023 Business Plan states: “Our Safer Junctions Programme targets locations where the greatest number of people have been killed or injured while walking, cycling or riding a motorcycle.”

TfL – which is responsible for Upper Street, Archway Road, Holloway Road, Pentonville Road, Farringdon Road and Seven Sisters Road – also plans to reduce the speed on its roads to 20mph “by early 2023” in a bid to cut down on accidents.

The report said: “Lowering the speed of vehicles in London is key to reducing both the likelihood of a collision and the severity of the outcome.”

The safety upgrades – and the Business Plan – had been on the back burner for more than a year after TfL and central government could not agree on a funding settlement.

But in August London’s funding was finally secured and plans to carry out a “managed decline” of services were abandoned.

The report stated: “This Business Plan prioritises our investment in our road safety programme to meet our Vision Zero goal of having no deaths or serious injuries on London’s road network by 2041.”