Hi r/london,

18 days ago, many of you supported the petition against Lutfur Rahman's plan to remove safer streets infrastructure in Bethnal Green and Shoreditch. Thank you for your amazing response!

The petition has now gathered almost 3,000 signatures, showing strong opposition to the council's plan to:

  • Remove our only segregated cycle path
  • Destroy community pocket parks
  • Reintroduce heavy traffic to residential streets
  • Waste £2.5M of public money

Our petition to the Mayor of London will be presented to the GLA this week. If you haven't signed yet, there's still time to add your voice.

Tower Hamlets has the highest hit & run rate in London and 70% of households don't even own a car. What the council is doing is sheer madness. But this isn't just about Tower Hamlets – it could set a precedent for removing LTNs across London.

Please help us protect these improvements:

https://go.saveoursaferstreets.org/petition-tt

Videos showing before and after before the scheme went in:

https://x.com/SaveBGstreets/status/1843366003008479240

https://x.com/SaveBGstreets/status/1842150991325511992

Thank you so much for your support!

by odysseysee

8 comments

  3. Thanks for sharing this! I live in the area and I didn’t know about this.

  4. Thanks for sharing. It’s lunacy that they would remove the current infrastructure

  5. Disagree here, the only waste of many is doing this sort of stuff without asking all residents what they think about it as well as road users, then you end up with this

  6. Why have you not gone through the official TH petition site that will allow you to force a council meeting with enough signatures?

  7. Allegedly a number of councillors are or have been minicab drivers. Who support the current Mayor who previously has been disqualified from office.

  8. SOSSITH sounds like Daffy Duck trying to say sausage

    On a serious note, this deserves more than 3,000 signatures

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