Akni Named as London The administrative district with the highest proportion of streets covered by the Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN) program.
A coalition of environmental activists found that 55% of the streets in the East London boroughs considered suitable for LTN have implemented programs that support walking and cycling.
LTN usually uses bollards, closed-circuit television cameras or giant flower pots to stop or prevent the “rat running” commuter traffic from diverting from residential streets to improve pedestrian and Cyclist Safe and reduce toxic air emissions.
But it turns out that they have caused controversy among some motorists, because many were introduced under emergency legislation with little consultation. Opponents say that because Londoners drive instead of returning to public transport, they cause congestion on main roads to worsen.
In an annual survey conducted by the Healthy Streets Scorecard Alliance on Tuesday, Waltham Forest ranked second in LTN, covering 47% of residential streets, followed by Newham with 40%.
In contrast, less than 5% of the roads of Croydon, Barking, Dagenham and Bexley are LTN.
The survey ranked Islington as the highest administrative district of the capital’s overall “healthy streets”, followed by Hackney and Camden.
This is based on a series of measures in addition to the spread of LTN, including pedestrian and cyclist injury rates, protected bicycle lanes, 20 mph speed limit, school streets-vehicles are restricted during boarding and disembarking time- And controlled parking area.
Alliance members are: CPRE London, Future Transport London, London Cycling Campaign, London Living Streets, Possible, RoadPeace, Sustrans in London and Wheels for Wellbeing.
A statement from the coalition said: “Although plans to reduce traffic may be controversial, last year it was shown that in determining the place of parliament, they can have a significant impact on their residents and London.
“This can be done relatively quickly and cheaply, as shown by the low-traffic neighborhoods and school streets that were quickly launched last year.
“However, although many of London’s districts are struggling to move forward, there are still some districts failing to take action, putting residents at risk of increasing congestion. With the huge divergence of actions, London may become the story of two cities.
The coalition stated that the overall progress of “active mobility”-walking, biking or using public transportation-is too slow to achieve Mayor Sadiq Khan’s goal of making the capital “carbon neutral” by 2030 and will be serious And the number of fatal road casualties was reduced to zero by 2041.
Last month, the standard revealed that the so-called “mode share”-the proportion of travel by walking, cycling or taking public transport-dropped from 63% last year to 57%, mainly because Londoners avoided using the subway and public transport. Car and back behind the steering wheel.
The survey revealed that 18 boroughs have a speed limit of 20 mph on 70% or more of their local roads, with special praise for Richmond, Merton, Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea.
But Kensington and Chelsea are the worst in London in terms of protected bicycles, with less than 1% of roads having segregated lanes. The Conservative boroughs faced new challenges when they decided to cut off the isolated bicycle lanes on Kensington High Street last year.
Merton is most suitable for school streets. 41% of schools have traffic restrictions at the beginning and end of the school day, 40% in Islington and 39% in Hackney.
