“A year after the $1.1 billion overhaul,” which added a new lane each direction, “the 405’s rush hour drive times were a minute slower than they were before the workers broke ground. Five years later, traffic was worse at all times of day.”
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To help retail businesses, shut the cars out of city centres.
Spanish bank BBVA analysis showed a 9.5% increase in retail takings after traffic restrictions in Madrid.
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... while R4 bbcnewsnight.bsky.social ignored the story altogether just now. Absolutely disgraceful.
The Dept for Transport plan to hand over >£120m p.a. *indefinitely* to the Dartford and Lower Thames Crossings, yet they can't afford to invest properly in walking & wheeling, cycling, public transport...
That's true, but only for schemes in Greater London that had been included in the borough's Local Implementation Plan (LIP).
In other cases (including those outside London), campaigners seeking to prevent the removal of cycle lanes, LTNs etc will need to deploy different legal arguments.
Fantastic Appeal Court win for @saveoursaferstreets.org, who have averted the threat to remove popular and effective #LowTrafficNeighbourhood schemes in Tower Hamlets (E London).
Looking forward to free @sfrost.bsky.social webinar this pm, about his @ippr.org research into the transport attitudes of different voter segments (different ages, political leanings, parts of the country etc) - and hence what #lowtraffic messages will land with whom! 6-7pm, registration link below.
My reflections tinyurl.com/3er5w77k on the Dept for @transportgovuk.bsky.social's #RoadSafety Strategy, launched yesterday. There are some positives, some 'mixed blessings' and some frustrating omissions, notably the lack of action to reduce speeds, boost roads policing or invest in active travel.
The £-multi-billion Lower Thames Crossing is still going ahead, while the Leeds tram scheme gets postponed. Surely what's holding this country back isn't the bats, newts, nimbies and the legislation that supposedly allows them to block progress - it's @treasurydept.bsky.social's skewed £ priorities!
New Government figures (tinyurl.com/3ajz9x67) show local authorities' #Cycling & #Walking funding being cut yet again! We need 10,000s of miles of new C&W links, not just 500 miles (see tinyurl.com/5dk3t5mx).
Please respond to consultation on C&W 'Investment' Strategy by Monday tinyurl.com/2v3dmx6d
A huge opportunity for @crisortunity.bsky.social ...
Lovely 6-min video by @streetfilms.bsky.social, showing how great Low Traffic Neighbourhoods can be!
Let's reclaim our streets - and let's also reclaim the term "Low Traffic"! It's hugely desirable for loads of reasons and, despite what some media voices want us to believe, it's hugely popular too.
Embankment (E-W) s'hway is not so bad, and still fine off-peak. But riding N-S thru the junction where they intersect (o/s Blackfriars Station) is horrific at rush-hour. Huge conflicts with cyclist peletons hurting towards you and/or stopping to turn in all directions, all in far too little space.
Yep those 2 s'highways are victims of their own success. Riding N-S thru the Blackfriars Station junction is especially awful, and it's impossible for bus passengers to cross the solid 2-way flow of cycle traffic to reach the floating bus stop just N of there. New S-bound cycle lane urgently needed!
Well, I hope that'll prove to be the case, though I fear I don't share your confidence. I guess we'll just have to wait and see though...
It's only 4 years since Reeves was promising to be "Britain's first green Chancellor" tinyurl.com/bd7yfcj2. Feels like an eternity.
It's only 4 years since Reeves was promising to be "Britain's first green Chancellor" tinyurl.com/bd7yfcj2. Feels like an eternity.
It's only 4 years since Reeves was promising to be "Britain's first green Chancellor" tinyurl.com/bd7yfcj2. Feels like an eternity.
Where's that? What train company?
I love it - hats off to these guys!
For principles, see summary and full guides at lowtrafficfuture.org.uk/portfolio-it...
For best practice in target-setting, see lowtrafficfuture.org.uk/challenge/
We're contacting groups with upcoming LTP consultations to offer support. For an invitation, please email hello@lowtrafficfuture.org.uk
For principles, see summary and full guides at lowtrafficfuture.org.uk/portfolio-it...
For best practice in target-setting, see lowtrafficfuture.org.uk/challenge/
We're contacting groups with upcoming LTP consultations to offer support. For an invitation, please email hello@lowtrafficfuture.org.uk
This Wed (8th Oct), I will be contributing to a webinar about how the Government's #planning and #devolution reforms could support #LowTrafficHomes, with safe streets, great public transport, homes close to schools / shops / etc, and attractive outdoor space. To register, visit tinyurl.com/2yh3cux6.
Starmer wants to make it even harder for people to legally challenge environmentally destructive roads, airports etc tinyurl.com/3cdpszp2. If only he was as eager to stop fossil fuel companies from using 'corporate courts' to block *positive* action for nature and the climate eg tinyurl.com/4r4tdy38
A great legal win by @drandrewboswell, tireless campaigner against roads and CCS - i.e. the fantasy that we can carry on emitting carbon, then capture and store it all. This will doubtless blow a big hole in the Carbon Budget Delivery Plan that the Gvt *must* legally publish by the end of October.
A crucial win for investment in #cycling & #walking...
The last Gvt's funding cuts caused a glaring mismatch between the 2nd Cycling & Walking Investment Strategy (CWIS2)'s "objectives" and the funding earmarked to achieve these. Let's hope there will now be no repeat in CWIS3, due later this year!
Tomorrow, the Court of Appeal will publish its ruling on @transportaction.bsky.social's challenge to the legality of the last Government's drastic cuts to the funding for #walking and #cycling...
Join us and cprelondon.bsky.social on Thursday 19 June for a FREE webinar to learn why parking matters and the policies that can be promoted in Local Plans and Local Transport Plans to support a shift to more sustainable modes.
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