Councils will have to consider whether residents support Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTN) in their area before going ahead with schemes.
LTNs are designed to encourage cycling and walking by limiting driving in side roads and include segregated cycle lanes, wider pavements and barriers to restrict vehicles.
Read more: https://news.sky.com/story/low-traffic-neighbourhoods-councils-will-have-to-consider-local-support-before-schemes-13096658
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These bards and flower beds are far from decorative they’re barriers to enforce ltns or low trffic neighborhoods designed to redirect traffic and get more of us out and about and they’ve been around this area of Hackney for over 50 years they allow um easier ways to be healthy to get about um they
Provide quiet and neighborhoods bards like this they stop motor traffic from going through they enable lots of bikes there don’t they lots of bikes uh lots of families they enable that kind of travel active travel uh to take place um previously this road would have would have taken several thousand motor
Vehicles um a day and we wouldn’t have seen this level of cycling and while there are about 300 ltns across the country such as these in Oxford Hackney has some of the highest rates covering about 70% of Roads is about a A system that means that councils properly
Balance the needs of motorists and other Road users not an antim motor scheme pitting different Road users against each other is not helpful and not sensible that’s what we’re trying to stop as witnessed in stram South London last October where the new traffic routes caused such Chaos on the streets
That bus drivers reported threemile Journeys took over an hour back in Hackney for environment activist CLA ltns of bad news within three months of H having to live day and night with displaced traffic I was actually put on an inhaler what we got was a shifting of traffic onto poorer people’s roads
Taking it from rich people and putting it on to white workingclass people black people brown people and so with the public still splits over the effectiveness of ltns the future of low traffic neighborhoods is anything but certain sa chry Sky News
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Spend a small fortune on installation and upkeep of Ltn,s. Now suddenly they realise that ltns don't give the results expected. Spend another small fortune removing them. Had the council listened to the public they might have saved a lot of time and money.
stop trying to push 15 minute citys
I thought we'd done away with ruthless dictators in the UK 70 years ago. !!
The council continues to block off streets with bollards and create cycle lanes that nobody uses here.
What about people who are disabled?
They allow jobs on electric bikes with balaclavas full access to the roads making us all feel unsafe
How about holding councils directly responsible for implementing diktats from unelected MPs? How about propartionate accountability for their crimes against us? They know exactly what they're doing, they know it's directly opposite to what people want, yet they don't expect any direct and severe backlash directly by the people they abuse, really? The councils are the executive Brownshirts, the one's who willingly and knowingly follow and implement those inhuman diktats. And they're paid well for doing so. Should these Brownshirts be allowed to keep what they're paid and own from their twenty pieces of silver? How about they lose everything they own for their dedicated work against the vast majority of British people? In the coming difficulties this and much more will take place. They won't be able to stop it, nothing they do will prevent it. That's why it must happen, to redress the theft, for justice, to clearly illustrate what happens when someone betrays the British people.
Unfortunately it discriminates against the aged, and those with health issues who don’t have access to bicycles very un-inclusive and selfish.
Oh right so let me get this straight – before the council do something which no one wants they have to consider local support. We live in a democracy – so that's what they should be doing. The news article should be about dictatorial council doing what they want and what is going to be done to stop it.
😂😂😂😂 never gonna work im gonna leave my car running just for this
Should it not be a given that the council would consult the public ?
These work excellently in other countries, such as the Netherlands. Huge benefits to the environment and massive social benefits as well.
Translation : councils will have to make it appear that people agree with their freedom of movement being restricted with rigged surveys and 'public' consultations.
The planters were removed every single night in my road , i’m guessing it was a fork lift truck.
No one has thought about accessibility for wheelchair users and people that can’t walk very far and need to use cars to help get about. It is not lowering emissions at all, it is just making more and more congestion and travel time quadrupling
A 5 minute drive easily takes about 20 minutes now with all these restrictions…. how is that better for the environmeit?
London use to be great
I live in Oxford and this scheme has created gridlock traffic due to redirecting all traffic to a single road. It seems a lot more pollution is caused than prevented.
Its absolutely useless, they tried putting them in our area, we fought hard against them and won. They cause more problems than resolutions
This is just an elaborate and pointless scheme to extort money from motorists. Modern society cannot function without motor vehicles.
This is so wrong, they don’t have any rights to force ppl to stop using cars. It’s should be only optional. This is eco scam.
One world government
The WEF agenda.
This was pushed back against in Oxford when they tried to implement the 15 min city and the public destroyed the barriers blocking traffic.
They rebranded it to LTN now sly news try to misslead us into thinking the LTN started in Hackney 50 years ago.
Pull the other one.
Fake news.
if this was France there would be riots
How nice that they 'may' consult the locals. Its the locals who bloody live there. Disgraceful.
Excellent idea…
Agenda 2030
Remove the cars, just keep buses and bikes. Simple solution. Cars are nothing but taking space and useless in London.
With all the problems going on around the country, THIS is what they're focusing on. Honestly, every council in the country needs to be dissolved and replaced. Nobody else, in any other job, could do what they've done and still keep it.
They are just a massive scam to collect more taxes. People stay at home nowadays or they take the train to go where they want
Cynical Tory trying to exploit the wedge issue – and be seen as the champions of the motorist. They turned on their own ULEZ policy for short term political gain recently
15 minute city carbon zero united nations scam agenda
Would be sensible if cyclists paid a road tax towards upkeep of roads just like everyone else
More control = green. Crazy how people buy this. So much faith in the bankers, government, WEF…Yet so little reason for that faith.
They're converting 10 minutes journey into a 30 minutes journey, because for TFL and mayor of London every journey matters 😅😅
as a delivery driver we need to start getting customers in these areas to come and meet us to collect their goods! 🤬🖕
Stick your 15 minute neighbourhood where the sun don't shine. Council robbers!
Councils are meant to consult and get opinion from residents in the first place. We don't live in a democracy and its all corrupt as hell. We, the people are never listened to and these councillors need to be sacked mate.
These schemes are pointless and do not achieve the goal.
Local economies will collapse, those that can will move out, air pollution will increase as vehicles produce more carbon at lower speeds and whilst stationary.
These types of policies will have zero effect on the current climate issues. They do not reduce the amount of greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere that are causing extreme weather events today!
Low traffic neighbourhoods means more traffic in other neighbourhoods and concentration of pollution in those areas – it also forces cars to be on the road longer which is just stupid if the goal is “environmental”.
councils and politicians dont have the solution to problems councils and politicians are the problem
Lots of drugs
They are reducing ownership of property.