London Will Spend $500 Million To Make Cycling Safer

London will spend £300 million ($500.31 million) to make its roads safer for cyclists and pedestrians, Mayor Boris Johnson and Transport for London (TfL) announced today.

The program will transform 33 of London's "biggest and nastiest" junctions, which the City called "Sixties relics" in a press release.

In the past three years, more than 150 cyclists and pedestrians have been seriously injured or killed at these locations.

Designs will be published in March, and work will begin in the second half of this year.

In November, hundreds of cyclists played dead in the street outside TfL headquarters on Friday night as part of a protest against dangerous traffic conditions in the city. That was part of a growing movement by London cyclists calling for safer conditions.

In a statement, Martin Key, campaigns manager for British Cycling, the national governing body for cycling, welcomed the program.

"This is yet another example of the transformational difference that can be made when there is clear political leadership to prioritise cycling as a form of transport," he said.