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SEJ says claims LTNs help the climate is 'greenwashing' as Government admits it has no evidence they cut the number of miles driven, and therefore cut climate emissions. Government adds cutting miles driven is not the purpose of LTNs.
Social Environmental Justice
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Social Environmental Justice
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Through research, advocacy, campaigning & network building we aim to highlight inequitable impacts and promote social & environmental policies that benefit all.
- This is highly entertaining. Two workmen decide that London's roads are too congested for their van so they carry their sand in a wheelbarrow on the tube! And they are gents. They let the prams go first. Watch for yourself.
00:00 - What we want for 2024. The removal of floating bus stops. It will require a rethink of cycling policy in London. But that is overdue. Policy on cycling must sit alongside policies for disabled people, pedestrians & bus users. Thanks to @NFBUK for the video & your campaigning.
00:00 - Big story in Sunday Telegraph: It reveals cycling charity Sustrans handed £92m in grants to introduce low traffic neighbourhoods. Sustrans refuses to say how many of its staff are 'embedded' in local councils.
- At long last! An article in the Guardian exposing the truth about LTNs. And a brilliant one. By one of the paper's senior journalists who lives in the South London borough of Lambeth.
- A HUGE EXCLUSIVE from the Times, just put up on its website. TfL suppressed a report which showed LTNs don't cut car use. The Times has seen emails between TfL and Rachel Aldred's unit at Westminster University which did the study expressing concern about its results.
- Fascinating study finds forceful cycling campaigners can undermine their own cause. “Cycling campaigners are mostly counterproductive due to their rudeness.”
- The picture that should shame Lambeth Council. Streatham High Rd in South London yesterday. Brought to a halt by the traffic relocated from the Streatham Wells LTN, And yet the Council says nothing, does nothing.
- BREAKING IN SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: In 2020 TfL's own disability advisers told them floating bus stops were a 'turd' but were dismissed.
- This must rank as one of the most insensitive videos ever posted. As this small group wave merrily to the cameras no thought given to the residents taking the overspill traffic, the shift worker stressed out as the bus is late, the carer or the plumber bogged down in traffic.What a wonderful community ride on the safe streets of Streatham Wells. Meeting neighbours and new friends for the first time. This would have been impossible a month ago.
00:00 - Lambeth Council, £1 billion in debt, installs a parklet! Whatever your view of LTNs, this is absurd. Indeed, highly irresponsible.Walked onto the hallowed ground this afternoon (was nearly taken out by a cyclist on the pavement- force of habit?) & had a good look at the parklet. OMG, it’s so much worse close up
- A short SEJ publication, out today, reveals 21 major bus corridors have had some of their bus lanes replaced by cycle lanes since 2013. And that it is lower-income households, disabled people and women & children who are the biggest losers Read it here: bit.ly/41iun91
- Transport Secretary Mark Harper told LBC this morning that his department was looking at whether central government could take steps to remove LTN’s that don’t have public support as part of its review of LTNs. @LBC
- Hugely important that the suspension of the Streatham Wells LTN is not a one-off but the start of a process of removing LTNs. This is Hackney 3 years on. This is totally unacceptable.Replying to @Mark_J_Harper @Councillorsuzie and 2 othersAnd here’s the fallout from Hackney’s LTNs 3+ years on. We need help too. @SadiqKhan Those of us negatively impacted by LTN caused congestion aren’t as well-organised or articulate as Streatham but we are still suffering. @andrewellson @albrow_matt @EvanDriscoll10 @SocEnvJustice
