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LTNs (Low Traffic Neighbourhoods) have generated considerable argument (including, ridiculously, death threats to one Hackney councillor), with vocal protests for and against the new measures, and with predictable wrath on social media.
LTNs are groups of residential side-streets which block motor through-traffic, redirecting vehicles onto main roads instead. While varieties of LTN have existed for decades, a wave of them has been introduced by London boroughs since the summer under Experimental Traffic Orders, following Transport Secretary Grant Shapps providing emergency funding to promote walking and cycling after the pandemic and instructing Transport for London to spend at least £55 million on an “ambitious Active Travel Plan” including road closures. Consultation is to follow the installation of the schemes, rather than preceding them as is usual.
In this London Society/On London debate we attempt to generate light rather than heat, with a discussion between proponents and opponents of the schemes, and involving those who believe that although the principle is sound, the lack of consultation over their implementation is a hostage to fortune.
Speakers include Leonie Cooper, AM for Merton & Wandsworth; Caroline Russell, a London wide AM and Islington councillor; Charles Wright, a resident of the Bowes Primary Area Quieter Neighbourhood, and Puru Miah a Labour councillor for the Mile End ward in Tower Hamlets.
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