London's transport - 'best in the world'

As well as taxis and the underground being voted the best among the world’s major cities, London’s transport network was hailed the safest in the survey by an online travel community.

London Mayor Ken Livingstone said, “London has achieved a unique shift in journeys from cars to public transport, a forty per cent increase in bus rider ship, cleaner engines for buses and taxis, traffic down in the city's centre, an 83 per cent increase in cycling, the biggest transport investment programme since the second world war, and all this has been achieved alongside cut price and free travel schemes for London's poorest, oldest and youngest.”