Rishi Sunak’s report finds #LowTraffic Neighbourhoods work and are popular
Exclusive: Downing Street initially buried study, which Tories had hoped would strengthen arguments against traffic-reducing measures
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/08/low-traffic-neighbourhoods-generally-popular-report-ordered-by-sunak-finds #LTNs #TrafficControl #environment #RoadSafety #PublicHealth #ActiveTravel #CleanAir #BanCars #BanSUVs
Striking quote just heard on video re: walkable cities ( https://invidious.einfachzocken.eu/watch?v=Bt4c1J3iHAU&t=0 )
"Cars don't actually do the shopping, people do."
Spend a few days in this north-east Dutch town of 200.000 people, and you might not want to go home. The Dutch may have gotten everything right here -- and might have invented the "superblocks" that Barcelona recently made famous in the process. Perhaps because Groningen largely flies under the radar compared, say, to bug cities like Amsterdam, Paris, and Barcelona, Groningen's early progress has not received the acclaim it deserves. But its success shows that walkability is great for towns not only of 2 million people, but of 200,000.
Building #protected #bikelanes across cities is a difficult task, but there are other options. For instance, cities could design #networks of protected bike lanes that stitch together #20splenty 30km/h #speed zones and #lowtraffic neighbourhoods.
Ignore false claims and bad #journalism – most #LTNs do reduce #traffic | Andrew Gilligan | The Guardian
With #lowTraffic #neighbourhoods (LTNs), which use #motor #traffic restrictions to boost #walking and #cycling, the top choice used to be claiming that they increase #pollution. But that has now been so thoroughly #debunked that it’s losing its magic.
#LowTraffic schemes halve number of #road #injuries, study shows | #RoadSafety | The Guardian
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