Brixton Liveable Neighbourhood and LTN schemes - improvements for pedestrians and cyclists

[BigTom]

Someone was telling me about this scheme in S London a few weeks ago.

Bikes for Business comes to the Low Line ← News ← The Low Line

www.lowline.london

looks similar, this one is funded by the energy saving trust and I'm pretty sure they have a few trial schemes running doing similar things. It's a good idea and we've had a lot of interest from organisations interested in trying them out to see if they can work, mostly motivated by environmental concerns.

 

[edcraw]

Trail LTN coming to Streatham Wells in the new year! Guessing Brixton Hill might be at the same time but haven’t heard anything.

 

[sleaterkinney]

Government report on the progress of LTNs is worth a look: says that thus far, the evidence is that they don't displace traffic to neighbouring roads, but lead to all-round reductions:

https://t.co/jw371TVRt9?amp=1

 

[CH1]

Will Self did a fantastic anti-car Point of View on Radio 4 today (repeated Sunday 8.50 am)

BBC Radio 4 - A Point of View, Car Hatred

Will Self on motor-mania.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[editor]

LTN latest Lambeth Council announces latest low traffic neighbourhood consultations for Tulse Hill and Streatham Hill LTNs

 

[Rushy]

I spotted a skip lorry driving north through the Shakespeare Road modal gate again today. Local company that would know what's what. Does anyone know whether any exemptions have been granted?

 

[edcraw]

I spotted a skip lorry driving north through the Shakespeare Road modal gate again today. Local company that would know what's what. Does anyone know whether any exemptions have been granted?

Only to council ones I believe.

 

[edcraw]

Good point here. The Walworth LTN has indeed had v little opposition. For all the convoluted arguments against it’s really mostly about people wanting to be able drive everywhere.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Good point here. The Walworth LTN has indeed had v little opposition. For all the convoluted arguments against it’s really mostly about people wanting to be able drive everywhere.

Yep. Always has been, always will be only one argument against them - “I want to drive my car wherever the fuck I want”.

 

[alex_]

Yep. Always has been, always will be only one argument against them - “I want to drive my car wherever the fuck I want”.

As is very clear from the stated intent to roll back every bit of traffic calming ever implemented outlined by some of the posters in this thread

 

[teuchter]

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[thebackrow]

Meet the ‘inactivists’, tangling up the climate crisis in culture wars

The long read: As climate science has gone mainstream, outright denialism has been pushed to the fringes. Now a new tactic of dismissing green policies as elitist is on the rise, and has zoned in on a bitter row over a disused airport in Kent

www.theguardian.com

This sounds like all of the OneLambeths...
"It comes in the form of an appeal to social justice: one that casts environmentalists as an aloof, out-of-touch establishment, and the inactivists as insurgents, defending the values and livelihoods of ordinary people. “The biggest single threat to the net zero transition is a culture war-style backlash that heavily politicises this agenda and spooks governments into moving more slowly,” says Murray."

 

[thebackrow]

though at the same time it looks like there is one less Lambeth. (or is it fewer?)

One Lambeth asks new Council Leader to ditch Cabinet system and replace it with democratic committees at the Town Hall

One Lambeth has written to new Lambeth Leader Cllr Claire Holland asking her to scrap the Cabinet system of local government.

www.brixtonbuzz.com

The link there is now dead and looks like the Ben Rymer's campaign has moved to @lambethref2022 on twitter. They're still only up to 631 signatures so a long way to go to get to 5% of voters (about 15000) - hitching onto the Onesies doesn't seem to have worked out for them.

 

[snowy_again]

They were the first onesies

 

[edcraw]

Consultations on the Tulse Hill & Streatham Hill LTNs have opened today.

Love Lambeth

Lambeth Council has launched consultations asking residents for their views on the futures of two Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) in the borough.

love.lambeth.gov.uk

 

[edcraw]

Some people seem to hate our neighbourhoods and can’t seem to think they could possibly be made nicer. This is Roupell Road that splits parts of the St Martins Estate. The huge majority of traffic through there was rat runners. I know how I’d like my estate to look.

 

[Crispy]

tbf the 201 is through there every 10 minutes. Not exactly an ideal playground.

 

[teuchter]

It's not really being depicted as a playground though is it?

 

[edcraw]

tbf the 201 is through there every 10 minutes. Not exactly an ideal playground.

Much nicer without the 450 cars an hour imo.

 

[Crispy]

I jest a little, but I would personally attend to my child in a pushchair on the other side of that bench

 

[edcraw]

Some people seem to hate our neighbourhoods and can’t seem to think they could possibly be made nicer. This is Roupell Road that splits parts of the St Martins Estate. The huge majority of traffic through there was rat runners. I know how I’d like my estate to look.

Loving the hateful replies to this.



I guess Monk£y Bar$ doesn’t know about the windmill just round the corner then.

 

[Winot]

I guess Monk£y Bar$ doesn’t know about the windmill just round the corner then.

Perhaps one of his 2 followers can educate him.

 

[Cat Fan]

To be fair it's a silly image. One cyclist isn't looking where she is going and about to crash into the "camera", the other is heading straight for a collision with a man and his young daughter. The third has stopped in the middle of nowhere to take in the view(?)

 

[edcraw]

I’m not sure that was his point, seemed more that this area isn’t nice and can’t be made to be!

He lives nearby, on a private gated road apparently, but doubt he’s ever ventured up here except to drive through.

 

[edcraw]

Some people are actually trying to improve this area, may Cristo & his ilk would like to lend a hand?

Plans for Huggins Corner

Last Tuesday 4th May we had another great workshop with Social Landscapes to see the final ideas for Huggins Corner. This is currently a piece of waste group at the junction of Roupell Road and Chr…

stmartinstra.blog

 

[teuchter]

One of the most successful street redesigns I've seen in S London is the one at Van Gogh Walk.

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It's not directly comparable with what would be done at Tulse Hill because it's not a bus gate - it's a street that's been essentially given over to pedestrians - but at each end of it, there is a portion which sits across a street along which cars can still drive.

It's been there for going on ten years now I think, and it still looks good. I pass through there now and again and there are very often (in the summer almost always) people using the space. Sometimes some kids with a ball, sometimes a barbecue, quite often just some folk sat around chatting. And it's not all middle class white folk doing crochet.

It's an excellent real world example of what can be done and any sceptics ought to go and look at it before dismissing some relatively modest street redesign as "utopian".

These promotional images are always a bit problematic because even if the idea of them is just to give a sense of how something might look in principle, some people will look at them very literally and start focusing on details that have been plonked in there by someone who's probably only been paid enough to spend a couple of hours knocking together something in photoshop and who might not be wise enough to know to be careful about unintentional cues for people to jump on.

 

[Crispy]

Some people are actually trying to improve this area, may Cristo & his ilk would like to lend a hand?

Plans for Huggins Corner

Last Tuesday 4th May we had another great workshop with Social Landscapes to see the final ideas for Huggins Corner. This is currently a piece of waste group at the junction of Roupell Road and Chr…

stmartinstra.blog

I had a hand in this right at the beginning. Decent bunch of local people wanting to improve the area

 

[edcraw]

Online course to help kids wanting to cycle to school! What a waste of money on “entitled cyclists” hey chowce5382 ?!

 

[BigTom]

 

[sleaterkinney]

How can you look at the way motorists are treated, from the massive amounts of money spent on them to the non existent penalties and think cyclists are the ones who are entitled?.