We have been disturbed by reading Joseph Harker’s article (Opposite LTN does not make you a ‘prime war of’ petrol-head culture. Just see what happened in Lordeth, 14 May). We are a group of lambeth residents who campaign for safe, healthier streets for all of our borough.
Harker arguments simply do not deserve the benefits of low traffic neighborhoods we see each day, or in increasing evidence they have developed people’s life.
Instead of shuffling traffic between sideways and main roads, as stated in the Harer, the race neighborhoods elsewhere towards important drops throughout the area.
Councils that carry out LTNs properly studied their effects on boundaries of roads especially, and one Comprehensive examination In LTN evaluations found that the average traffic change in boundaries cannot be neglected; And there is reason to believe that it may be more favorable in the long run, as changes in moral standards. In addition, The evidence shows that collisions and wounds also decrease Within traffic neighborhoods, and do not progress on the surrounding roads.
Tired tropes about “cut” roads are shown untrue – every road inside a LTN can access the motor vehicle. It’s rat-run withheld.
Neither has evidence that low traffic neighborhoods add pollution. In contrast, separate studies using various methods of methods found evidence that the total vehicle use level and / or owning vehicle falls among LTN residents. This includes evidence from lambs.
Harker’s article also fails to discuss other low-traffic neighborhoods on Lamils road, Brixton Hill, and all successful examples – all successful langes to LTNs and other successful LTNs steps London and Europe.
Jon Bromwich and Heather Glass
Fire gaps
Thanks, Joseph Harker, for emphasizing how lambeth tasks “ignore petitions and public protests to claim a green identity of any other great reach”.
Residents of Kennington Park Estate in Oval, Lordeth, imprisoned to impose a low-traffichood called Kennington Oval Reimagined. Within two hours a day, most of us are not allowed to deliver or taxis, plants or health guests. Previously the quiet streets of the periphery of the land were broken into large supermarkets and building lorries. And suffering roads with no traffic, filled with overglen plants and barefoot, a magnet for facilitating abiikers who risked pedestrians and children.
I want clean air and a healthy neighborhood. Continued expansion of the LTNS council has the opposite effect and more unpopular.
Joan Tays
former presidentLambeth Council;; Chair Chair, Kennington Parkin Partel Tenants’ association and shops
The article of Joseph Harker, the problem is, to reframe an argument from Brexit, while not all neighborhoods of War-War Petrol-solid strength opposed to LTNs.
High Court Decisions against Consee Council is not welcomed with the correct press and more intense online compatible online counterparts as signals at the end of the LTNs. And it will doubt only make it harder for local authorities to transition to streets that are cleaner, greener, friendlier to pedestrians and, yes, that encourage children to ride their bikes to school.
Clearly, efforts to improve the quality of people’s life by cutting the use of the vehicle in towns and cities must be introduced and respectful. But court judgments that limit the abilities of councils to make – difficult to implement – residents who do not know the accidents.
Graham Clews
Lewes, East Sussex
In social media-driven, the men we live today, what a refreshing balance of challenges facing people with adjacent neighborhoods in the last five years.
Many, if not most, of us who have campaigned against ltns have done so not because we want to drive our cars whereever and when we want or because we can’t support the social and environmental in- already congested and more Polluted “Boundary Roads” Where typically people on Lower Incomes Live.
We cannot maintain discrimination against disabled and elderly fellow trust in the vehicle forced to travel to miles more to get jobs and businesses. But when we will suggest the better and fair ways of weakening the use of the vehicle, we do not listen. Only the council knows what works, we are told. Our only councilors know what is best for us.
As one of the 15 Community Groups who joined forces in January to Lobby the government to ensure that councils without the consent of local people, we are heartened to know that there is joseph harker, who understand residents’ genuine concerns and Support our right to be heard. Thanks.
Richard Aldwinckle
Co-founder, a dulwich
