Transport for London currently spends £12 million annually on cycling, a figure set to triple to £30 million by 2009/10. Bikes are a popular means of getting about in the flat, compact, densely-populated and congested London borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, with 18% of residents cycling at least once a week. Hammersmith and Fulham Council has a number of policies and targets dedicated to improving cycling rates in the borough, which are included in its Unitary Development Plan (UDP) and Interim Local Implementation Plan (ILIP). Every local authority in Britain is required to produce a Local Implementation Plan for transportation, which should include information on how the authority proposes to translate the government's National Cycling Strategy (1996) into action. Hammersmith and Fulham's Cycling Strategy, which was produced as one of the documents in support of the ILIP for 2002/2003, contains further information about its cycling policies and future plans to promote cycling.

UDP Policy TN6 (Transportation - Provision for Cyclists) states that the council "will promote measures to encourage safe, convenient and comfortable cycling in the Borough and aim to double the amount of cycling from 1996 to 2002 and doubling it again by 2012”.

Other targets in the Cycling Strategy include encouraging more people to cycle, providing suitable cycle parking and associated facilities, consideration of cyclists' needs in traffic planning, improving general conditions for cycling through its wider objectives of traffic reduction, enforcing traffic regulations which will help cyclists, and identifying a complementary local cycle network which will feed into the LCN.

HFFoE, together with Hammersmith and Fulham Cyclists, would like to see Hammersmith Bridge made safer for cyclists. Consultants are presently looking at it and are suggesting a 20mph speed limit and alterations to the carriageway. Provision for cyclists around Shepherd's Bush Green also needs improving. HFFoE also supports surface-level crossings at Hammersmith Broadway.

The London Cycle Network (LCN), which is funded by the Mayor of London, aims to provide a network of safe, convenient and conspicuous cycle routes across the capital. A new high-priority strategic LCN plus route will include a link from Chiswick via Shepherds Bush to Kensington and Chelsea through the borough.

Nationally, the number of bus journeys declined from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, but has shown some increase over the past five years, to with four billion bus journeys made in 2003/04.

Bus services in London have undergone a radical overhaul over the last four years, with all-cashless buses planned for 2006. TfL's expenditure on London Buses for 2004/5 is £1,501 million. The council supports the expansion of the bus priority network and consults on the implementation of bus lanes.

Aviation is the fastest-growing contributor to climate change. Aircraft emit gases and particles that alter atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations and trigger the formation of vapour trails. Not only are aeroplanes heavy users of fuel, but the way that jet engines burn that fuel - producing nitrous oxides and high level clouds - increases its impact on climate change three-fold. Flying is responsible for 3.5% of global warming emissions world-wide, a figure which could rise to 15% by 2050. If the government's expansion plans go ahead, aviation emissions will scupper the Government's targets on climate change.

HACAN Clear Skies is campaigning for a ban on nightflights at Heathrow, an extension of runway and flight path alternation, a cap on the number of flights at Heathrow, adoption of the noise levels recommended by the World Health Organisation, a tax on transfer passengers using Heathrow and clear information on flight paths.