Just ignore all the myths about low traffic neighbourhoods: they’re popular, effective and here to stay

by Generalaverage89

16 comments

  3. Great, I’d like one where I live. We have one on each side of us and all the traffic gets funnelled through our street.

    Keen to reap the benefits of a Low Traffic Neighbourhood. I particularly like the van’s and lorry’s blasting through at 30-40mph in a 20mph zone.

  4. Gonna upvote and move on from this one. Good luck everyone.

  5. Our road was closed for a month due to roadworks and it was BEAUTIFUL and quiet. Also neighbours who have cars could still access it and there was loads of parking space (usually it’s all parked up)

  6. I live in Streatham and the LTN we had here completely crippled the local bus routes, turning a 20-min journey down the high street into 2 hrs. In the last month of the LTN I did not make it to my home bus stop once on my evening commute, every single bus was terminated early, re-routed or got stuck at a standstill until I gave up and got off. I regularly saw queues of 20+ buses. It was an absolute disaster and repealed for good reason.

    I say this as someone who doesn’t even drive, and who is very much in favour of reducing dependency on car travel: not every LTN works. Some are great and do the job intended. Some are poorly planned and need to be removed and re-thought. An LTN that destroys local public transportation isn’t worth it. If someone can come up with a new and different idea for this area I’m all ears, but thank fucking god that LTN is gone.

  7. They’re fantastic when done right but it doesn’t mean they work everywhere. When they implemented them on some of the roads off Streatham High Road it was chaos, traffic backed up for miles.

  8. My productivity has been crippled by LTNs. If we want economic growth, prosperity this sort of stuff needs to end, people need to get around faster not slower.

  9. Great idea, awfully executed by incompetent local authority bureaucrats 

    As a cyclist, I love it, but, the traffic planning and rerouting appears to have been done by a adhd chimpanzee on crack. 

    Edit: for accuracy 

  10. The vast majority of Londoners love them and wish they could have one. The tiny, angry, car-brained minority who oppose them will be here in a minute to spout their nonsense and make it seem like it’s actually a controversial issue.

  11. They’ve got to be done right, but if done right, it’s a no brainier.

  12. Caused utter carnage on Wandsworth Bridge Road. Traffic used to flow freely now it’s permanently gridlocked, with jams going back down the King’s Road into Chelsea. Doesn’t affect me as I can drive through it as I know someone who lives in LBHF and they pay the 40p.

    Oh, and LBHF were caught out fudging the data – they claimed that the traffic on Wandsworth Bridge Road was much lower than it was, because the machines that count the traffic don’t work when they are going less than 8mph – which given the near constant gridlock is a lot of the time!

  13. I live smack dab in the middle of LTN’s and I hate it. Our road is nice and quiet but makes no difference to me as I’m in a flat. Everyone I speak to in the area hates it

  15. I enjoyed watching the anti-LTN protests in my neighbourhood dwindle from 50-60 down to 2 adults and a child, over the course of 6 months.

    Their finest moment was driving a massive New York taxi up onto the pavement on our local high street one busy weekend, in order to…assert the dominance of the car? I don’t know.

    Their lowest point was closing down a council meeting with their appalling behaviour. That and the violent language directed towards councillors, myself and other locals, the bigotry, and sundry insults. That’s all they have, the people who want to drive their cars anywhere and everywhere; bad faith, lies, insults and threats. Apparently I’m a Stalinist, and a Nazi. Fuck you Steve.

  16. You mean I shouldn’t believe that they’re part of a WEF plot to enslave humanity?

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