A brilliant summary of the impact Low Traffic Neighbourhoods can have.
By Emma Griffin, vice-chair, London Living Streets
Low-traffic neighbourhoods can be life-changing for the residents who live in them. Since the neighbourhood improvements in Walthamstow Village in 2015, people are walking and cycling more, children play out, air pollution has improved and life expectancy increased.
More information on what low-traffic neighbourhoods are and how they work is available here.
But bold traffic plans such as this are often introduced amid concern and opposition. This series of blogs explores these questions and presents research that helps fill missing gaps and tackles any misunderstandings.
Here we examine concerns that low-traffic neighbourhoods may divert traffic onto main roads leading to increased congestion and air pollution.
Traffic evaporationÂ
Experience reveals that predictions of traffic problems caused by low-traffic neighbourhoods almost always fail to materialise, and that significant reductions in overall traffic levels across an area can happen as a result of people making…
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FAO:Adam Reynolds I would be grateful if you could contact me about transport in Bath. Cate
Have found you on twitter and DM’d you.
I would like to talk to you about some statistics I understand you have complied re hidden subsidies by local authorities to car drivers. I am involved in scoping a review of rural transport for national CPRE