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Recent DfT data also shows A205 South Circular in Lewisham, contrary to claims of worsening conditions by a few anti-LTNers, now has 7.9% *less* traffic post-LTN, faster travel indicating decreased congestion & the lowest levels of NO2 alongside a drop in childhood asthma cases👍
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Today (Saturday) the police started issuing Notices Of Intended Prosecution to drivers exceeding the 20mph limit in Hither Green West. They caught 50+ offenders in a short period this afternoon. That'll be at least 3 points & £100 fine each, or speed awareness course 🚔 📸
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E-cargo bikes to replace thousands of van deliveries in London. Amazon’s move comes as window cleaners, milk & beer deliverers &plumbers all get on bikes because of UK government incentives and new infrastructure.
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Well, some good is coming out of this petrol crisis. Some locals who were anti-LTN are now saying "it would be nice if those who don't need to drive got the train, bus, walked or cycled so those who genuinely need to use their cars can get the fuel they need to run them". 👍
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The average commute by car is 8.5miles.
It takes 17 minutes to drive 8.5 miles at 30mph.
It takes only 8 minutes longer if the whole journey is driven at 20mph
It's really not that big a deal, is it?
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@sankofa_ltd
Hmmmm... which is probably why Lewisham Council have left a trail of clues throughout the neighborhood.
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Just been visiting a friend in Hackney. There are new street trees EVERYWHERE and a million secure cycle hoops all being used. It looked so nice. Well done
@hackneycouncil
Take note
@LewishamCouncil
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Local One group blaming LTN for temporary traffic issues when, in fact, it's Thames Water repairing a main 🙄. They 'implore' our Mayor to "Open Our Roads" instead of imploring the drivers to use public transport, walk or cycle, use an alternative route or reduce/ combine trips.
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Why do some drivers complain they have to "constantly take your eyes off the road to check that speedo" when travelling at 20mph, but not have to do that at 30mph or higher?
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@NoContextBrits
That's a Haiku - a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world!
"Melanie Phillips
Seeking tattoos make me feel
Physically sick"
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The Government's new Net Zero Strategy, published today, commits to delivering £2bn to ensure half of all journeys in towns and cities are walked or cycled. Thousands of miles of new, safe cycle routes, MORE LOW TRAFFIC NEIGHBOURHOODS and school streets.
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Two weeks into the New Year already, and not a single day with "gRiDloCK" on the LTN boundary road, Lee High Road.
Time for Lewisham's Mayor to start rolling out LTNs everywhere - the council have data showing they have great results, and all the criticisms have been debunked.
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9:35am on Wed - A20 Lee High Road, a boundary road to Lee Green LTN. Apparently it's "childish and insulting" to post videos disproving One Lewisham's claim of "constant gridlock, all day 7 days a week" here, but anyone can check the live online TfL Jam Cams themselves 🤷🏻.
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Busy day at the polling station.
I was casting my vote when an old lady came in and said "Where do I put my cross for more LTNs?" and everybody cheered.
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Who can afford to buy the brands these days? 🤷♂️
Heinz ketchup = £3.40
Kettle chips - £2.40
Coca Cola Zero - £2.50
Lurpak - £4.46
TOTAL = £12.76
Lidl Batts tomato ketchup = 45p
Lidl hand cooked crisps - £1.08
Lidl Freeway Cola Zero 2l - 47p
Lidl Danpak - £2.19
TOTAL = £4.19
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Anti LTN campaigner:
"Sat Navs are not responsible for the increase in traffic on unclassified residential side roads"
Also Anti LTN campaigner:
"Drivers are being fined for going through ANPR filters because councils haven't updated the Sat Navs"
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The newly pedestrianised Strand is a welcome haven away from the traffic. It's being very well used!
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@jonburkeUK
"The poor" use the bus, walk or bike. No-one gives them £2k towards their transport costs.
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Hurrah!
Lewisham's latest LTN monitoring shows continued success 😀
✅ Lower traffic overall
✅ Lower pollution (incl. on South Circular) - 9.2% less NOx since Feb 21)
✅ Lower collisions & KSI
✅ No negative impact on bus journey times (generally still within baselines).
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Some people just need to chill out & remember Low Traffic Neighbourhoods are not No Traffic Neighbourhoods. No-one has said never drive. LTNs remain open to traffic & all properties are accessible by car BY DESIGN - its just some short local journey may be less convenient.
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New myth busting FACTS about the Lewisham Lee Green LTN... A satisfying thread 😀
✅ LTN HAS NO IMPACT on bus journey times on Lee High Rd.
✅ Brownhill Rd - westbound, times stayed consistent; eastbound, times now BELOW average set in 2019 (pre-covid/pre-LTN)..... 🧵 1/4...
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New info from Gvt shows the scaremongering by your local anti-LTN group is just not true! 🤥🤥🤥
LTNs:
✅ do not increase emergency service response times 😚
✅ benefit public safety 😘
✅ have lower accident rates 🥰
✅ reduce street crime 😍
✅ benefit poorer ppl more 👏
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Rush Hour on A20 Lee High Road & boundary to Lewisham's LTN
This is a "sacrificial road" that is "gRiDloCkED aLL DaY 7 dAyS a WeEk".
It's so unsafe "the pAvEmeNTs arE fUll of CycLisTs".
Ambulances & buses are "stUcK in LTN MaNuFactuReD GriDLoCk"
Can you "taste the fumes?"
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Had a lovely afternoon in the Walthamstow LTNs and pedestrianised streets. Absolutely no problem with footfall at the local shops. Many many pounds were being spent here 💷👛 👍✅It was lovely to spend time here.
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@KatieLidster
I once pulled up at the side of the road on my bike to take a phone call and a driver shouted at me to get out of the way or move onto the pavement because he wanted to park there. He didn't understand when I said "No, I'm parked here"
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To all active travel & LTN campaigners: thank you for your tireless efforts & dedication to making our communities healthier, more sustainable & livable. Your hard work has resulted in great success this year 🏆. Keep being amazing! Here's to even more success in the new year!😀
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Lewisham's anti-LTN few say pollution on our main A Roads (South Circular & Lee High Road) has been "made worse" by the LTN (ie from 2019)
But what does the data say?
The yearly NO2 concentration for all diffusion tubes & permanent monitors show NO2 now at its LOWEST LEVEL EVER
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Challenged by a local One group to "get off his arse & walk the Lee High Road" (the main A-Road bordering the Lee Green LTN), to see for myself the "gridlock, all day, 7 days a week" instead of "cherry-picking photos" from the TfL Jam Cams showing a generally quiet road, I did ⬇️
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Fact - More people support Low Traffic Neighbourhoods than oppose them 👍
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The pedestrianisation of Strand has been completed. So many more places should get this treatment - I looks lovely.
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Lewisham Council slam-dunks an anti-LTN campaigner who repeatedly suggests the Lewisham Lee Green LTN resulted in asthma rates increasing across the borough. 😀 💪
Let that be the end of it.
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I must have missed the anti-LTN campaign calling for the removal of these over the last decade 🙄
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Our local anti-LTNer keeps claiming:
"The LTN turned our road into a High Traffic Neighbourhood, displacing and concentrating traffic here" & similar emotive tweets.
But what does the data say?
The A20 end of Manor Park now has 41.5% *less* traffic than pre-LTN (2019) 🤥
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The co-founder of One_Lewisham today says "Pre-LTN the A20 had 2 hrs heavy traffic daily. Post LTN its all day every day. One side gridlocked until 1pm then the tide turns and the other gridlocked til evening." 🤥
Well, let's take a look at that shall we? ⬇️ 9:10am-12:20pm
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Tell her, in Lewisham, the Anti campaign predicted loads of business would close. None did. In fact a new hairdresser, restaurant, fish & chip shop, cafe, florist, baker, gift store, deli, Indian takeaway all open within & nearby. Recently our vacant Coral bookies now says "Let"!
Well here’s something you don’t see every day! A photo of a pro- Low Traffic Neighbourhood campaigner with someone who hates it so much, she’s considering trying to take legal action! 😮
I spent an hour today chatting with Tara Hawkins
@Tara500
, who’s co-chair of the … 1/7
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@carltonreid
The don't accept that people can drive less. It's that simple. Just like meat eaters can eat less meat, most drivers can drive less. If everyone that could drove a little less it would have a bit impact. And they are Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, not No Traffic Neighbourhoods.
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Let's take full length, 360 degree look at the "gRiDloCK, aLL DaY, 7 dAyS a WeEk" on the LTN boundary Lee High Road.
More walking that driving 👍
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This incident happened in our supposed 20mph neighbourhood this evening. Lost control on a corner and ran into the back of a van. When will
@MPSLewisham
and
@LewishamCouncil
do something about speeding cars in Hither Green West?
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"A rise of less than one point in the anti-LTN vote is not, in my view, reason to back away. If we can now only do things that cause no opposition at all & lose no votes whatsoever, then we can never do anything worthwhile again"
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UPDATE: the police confirm it was actually 87 offenders caught speeding in the 2 hour enforcement period.
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Day 556 in the LTN House. This is Davina. You are live on Channel Bore. Please do not swear. Our cameras have been monitoring traffic all day, 7 days a week. It's still not gridlocked. The lines have closed, the votes counted. I can now reveal, One_Lewisham, you have been evicted
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LTN FACTS:
🇫alse to say emergency service response times are increased;
🇦ccident/injuries inside LTN schemes are halved;
🇨ycling increases significantly within LTNs;
🇹raffic, in most places, is not displaced;
🇸upport for road changes to enable cycling & walking is high.
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Founder of One Lewisham this week: "Main route into lewisham from my area is along Lee High Road. Post-ltn its gridlocked all day 7 days a week"🤥
When shown it isn't 'constantly gridlocked' they say "Wait until the schools are back!"
Well, schools are back & this is now ⬇️
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@OmriOrr
Then maybe they shouldn't be driving if they can't control the car. How do people manage to drive around Sainsbury's car park at 5mph looking for a space, or in slow moving traffic queues on motorways?
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I was challenged by One Lewisham to "get off my arse" and see for myself the "constant gridlock" on the Lee High Road instead of "cherry picking photos off TfL Jam Cams". This is Lee High Rd, right? It's a main A Road in central London & a boundary road to the LTN, right? 🤷♂️
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She can't be talking about me, b/c I've posted TfL Jam Cam footage of Lee High Rd from every day of the week, at all hours, to counter her claim of "gRiDloCK, aLL DaY, 7 dAyS a WeEk" Let's take a look, shall we? Who was telling the truth? Check my timeline for many more 1/10
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@SarahJ_Berry
But how do they get to Sainsburys? How do they get to Lewisham Hospital? How do they get their fridge freezer back from Curry's? What do they do if they need to take a sick dog to the vets? Where do the builders and electricians park their vans? 😱😉
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The mind of a Onsie:
"Unless I can drive like this it'll increase vehicles miles driven, traffic congestion, fuel burnt & vehicle emissions. Parks are bad for the planet & public health. Parks delay buses, ambulances & stop me getting to hospital! wHaT AbOuT pARk bOuNdArIEs?" 😡
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Just a quick check-in on LTN boundary road (A20, Lee High Rd). Would you even believe we were in central London? One Lewisham insist this road is 'gridlocked, all day, 7 days a week'🤥... But not today, or yesterday, or the day before, or the day before that...
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I don't understand the "gotcha" of the anti-LTN/anti- cycle lane mob querying whether the large rise in cycling is b/c of companies like Deliveroo having thousands of couriers in London. Would they prefer they used cars or mopeds instead?
Surely it shows business can transition.
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@Jackie_Browned
It's not the speed limit that's the problem, it's the speed the cars are driving at, and the recklessness. Some recent examples of what happens in our 20mph residential neighborhood ⬇️
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The latest DfT Covid Transport data now shows "all motor vehicle" traffic on some days now at 113% when compared to a control week in Feb 2020, pre-pandemic.
Local anti-LTNers try rubbish the significance of this by saying "the data isn't seasonally adjusted", forgetting... 1/3
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Since campaigning for active travel measures and LTNs to be rolled out across Lewisham, out of all of my body parts, it's my eyeballs that are in best shape, because I roll them like 342 times a day at the ludicrous Anti claims. 🙄 🤪
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨
Brand new DfT Road Traffic Stats (year 2023) for the A205 South Circular in Lewisham shows there's still 7.9% *less* traffic now than pre-LTN.
Well clear of any COVID effects now.
Let this silence the remnants claiming, without evidence, the LTN "made it worse"
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@AdamBronkhorst
Like how decltractors say inanimate LTNs actively "push" traffic onto main roads when, in fact, they passively "prevent" through-traffic leaving main roads & taking short-cuts.
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨 6 months after ULEZ expansion:
🌳 the compliance rate on boundary roads (inc South Circular) is 90%
🌳 the air is cleaner on the boundary. NOx concentrations have ⬇️ 17-24% compared to without ULEZ.
🌳 traffic levels have ⬇️ both inside, outside & on boundary roads
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@jonburkeUK
In Lewisham, the Anti campaign predicted loads of business would close. None did. In fact a new hairdresser, restaurant, fish & chip shop, cafe, florist, baker, gift store, deli, Indian takeaway all open within & nearby. Recently our vacant Coral bookies now says "Let"!
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I hope
@LewishamCouncil
realise that no matter how positive the data, the handful of LTN critics are still going to rabidly complain.
Basically, your response should be to continue to roll out LTNs & other traffic calming measures rapidly so more and more people see the benefits
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Seeing as One Lewisham are having a meltdown today and accusing everyone of being liars, let's just check how the LTN boundary road and main A-Road they repeatedly describe as "gridlocked, all day, 7 days a week" is getting on just now... Oh, look 🤥
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I think he makes it up as he goes along.
Argues today. Argued in Oct
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@CharlotteCGill
@willnorman
It's not open to general traffic because the bridge needs repairs costing approximately £300 million - so upwards nearly £2.5 millions *per metre* just to allow cars to use it again.
It might as well be open to cycles whilst they work out what to do about that astronomical cost.
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That moment when you see a cyclist, a pedestrian, an electric vehicle and a bus on your LTN boundary road, which is otherwise devoid of traffic
😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
Forget Walthamstow - all active travel campaigners should come to the A20 Lee High Road!
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@SurtseyAna
Well said. It's not even a real inconvenience. For example, Hither Green Lane is 1.6km long. It takes no more than 58 seconds to drive its full length at 20mph than it does at 30mph.
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That moment a residual anti-LTNer asks a snarky question of the Council thinking they've got one over on them regarding the LTN, but the answer just reinforces how well the LTN is working 😂
✅ Traffic & speed down
✅ AQ improved
✅ Bus journey times unaffected
✅ KSIs down 😀
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To all the drivers slagging off cyclists. Imagine how long your traffic jam would be if they all switched to driving a car.
👍 You should be grateful they are freeing up space on the roads for those who *need* to drive.
👍You should be thanking them.🙏
A staggering amount of people using
#CS7
this morning, from families in Tooting all the way to commuters on all kinds of bikes further into town. The efficiency compared to the many single occupancy cars idling along is quite something.
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Thank you
@MPSLewisham
for responding to Hither Green West's
@HGWestLTN
request for high visibility speed checks on our roads. In the short time I was with officers, 4 people were pulled over for significantly exceeding the 20mph limit on Torridon Rd
@damienegan
@SophieMcGeevor
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Rush hour (8:30am Thursday) on Lee High Road (an A Road), yet our local anti-LTN campaign constantly complain this main road is 'at capacity' and 'gridlocked' 🤥
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When One Lewisham keep telling you the Lee Green LTN has increased traffic on the South Circular, show them the latest DfT traffic count data which shows traffic continues to fall and is lower than 2019, pre-LTN.
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I think it's now proven there is so little traffic on the Lee High Road (the main A-Road bordering the Lee Green LTN) we could now make it into one massive cycle lane 🤣 More pedestrians than cars today (this is actually video, not a photo 😃)⬇️.
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@SueSuezep
@RoadsideMum
@AldiUK
@LidlGB
This is Lidl's advert - £26.76. (incl shampoo & cleaning cloths)
Tea bags, oil, rice, pizza, yoghurt, korma sauce, chicken breast, steak & ale our, peanut butter, cheese, brown sauce, 4 potato, biscuits, mustard, muesli, cod filets, coleslaw, garlic bread, raisins, veg-burger etc
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When told to look at paediatric asthma admissions in Waltham Forest as part of a critique of LTNs, please, do it 😀. Here's the public health data for admissions for all WF Primary Care Networks. All show steep improvement, faster than England average. None are worse post-LTN👍
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Nice to see the number of people using the new cycle racks located throughout Hither Green beginning to build 😀.
If you want to work, visit, shop, eat, drink, get your hair done or commute in Hither Green, you can now confidently come by bike.
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@citycyclists
If those cyclists were in single occupancy cars, the length of the queue would be around 100m long.
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So the new line of attack against the LTN is that it "delays buses" even though TfL have repeatedly said it doesn't.
How *could* a bus be delayed in this "post-LTN 24/7 gRiDloCk"? 🙄
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@carlafrancome
Jane's still upset that she arranged an anti-LTN demo in Lewisham in 2021 but had to cancel it because no-one turned up.
This week she's upset because, after repeatedly demanding Lewisham Council publish their latest LTN monitoring report, they did, & it shows great results😂
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According to One Lewisham I'm "full of sh*t" (that's not very nice, is it?) and that I also "misquote/paraphrase" their founder when I say she'd said "Post-ltn it's gridlocked all day 7 days a week" on Lee High Road. They also say I'm gaslighting. 🤷♂️
This is 11:45am today. ⬇️
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@jonburkeUK
Critics of the LTN in Lewisham repeatedly said it made the "sacrificial" A205 South Circular worse. In fact, the latest DfT Road Traffic stats actually show it now has 9.7% *less* traffic than pre-LTN (2019) & 17% *less* traffic than 2017.
One Lewisham be like 👉😆👈 la la la la
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@LewishamCouncil
Well done to the officers, elected members and Mayor. It's the right decisions supported by strong evidence. Hither Green West is keen to be next.
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Apparently the A20 Lee High Road is so unsafe because of "24 hour post-LTN gRiDloCK" that the "pAvEMeNTs aRe FuLL of cYcLIsTs".
This is rush hour, just now, and the cyclist is valiantly battling the heavy traffic. 👍
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Nice to see
@LewishamCouncil
taking a more robust approach to the minority who try blame the LTN for everything & who perpetuate untruths which are not supported by the data.
The Mayor should just continue to roll-out LTN borough-wide, as this lot just won't be persuaded. 1/2
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Our local Onesie fans try to portray a queue of 15-or-so cars waiting at a red light at rush hour as evidence of "gridlock" on Lee High Road. If they do, always check Jam Cams a little further up the road to see if the traffic flow is heavy, or it's just traffic at the lights 1/3
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@adamtranter
London Ambulance Cycle Response Unit clearly benefits. They currently resolve over 50 per cent of all incidents at the scene.
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HOT OFF THE PRESS -"Several reports have been published in the last year that indicate LTNs have been effective in reducing car use, encouraging more active travel, reducing road danger, and improving perceptions of the local street environment" (TfL Travel in London report 14)
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Notice how all the Anti LTNers say no-one knows what the sign on the left means, but they all seem to know what the sign on the right means 🤔
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With Tokyo Paralympics starting today, don't let anti-LTN campaigners portray all disabled people as fully dependent on cars.
Many disabled people can & do ride bikes. British Paralympic cyclists are some of the very best in the world. Good luck Team GB!
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@No_Sh1tSherlock
All these traffic incidents happened in Hither Green West very recently. When *should* traffic become a priority?
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