Save Our Safer Streets - Bethnal Green
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Schools in Bethnal Green and Weavers have published a letter expressing serious concern at the mayor's plans to turn the area into a rat-run.
@LutfurRahmanTH
you make a great show of your concern for the safety and welfare of children. Will you listen to headteachers?
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Lutfur Rahman is tearing out cycle lanes, trees and public spaces in Bethnal Green.
He is ignoring doctors, schools and local residents who have pleaded with him not to bring heavy traffic back on minor roads.
Please donate NOW so we can fight this!
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Lutfur Rahman has decided to cut down the trees and tear out the cycle lanes in this photo and replace it with thousands of cars despite repeated objections from residents and stakeholders. Support our crowdfunder to challenge this decision.
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Support our crowd funder to fight the council's plans!
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Lutfur Rahman has taken the most extreme, undemocratic and dangerous decision available to him this evening. He has decided to rip out all the walking and cycling infrastructure in Bethnal Green.
This is not the end. We know we have public support for our cause and the
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LTNs backed by East Londoners in latest consultation
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86 headteachers have written an open letter to Mayor Rahman, expressing deep concern over his decision to prioritize cars over student safety in Bethnal Green and urging him to reconsider.
The Mayor has consistently ignored vital input from schools.
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Lutfur Rahman wants to make streets in Bethnal Green, more dangerous and polluted.
He has ignored residents and stakeholders.
Support our crowdfunder to challenge this decision.
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“I’ve lived in the East End all my life, and this is the best thing that’s ever happened to it,” says Spencer of the new road layouts.
“It’s completely changed the energy of this area. I go out on my balcony now and it’s so quiet and peaceful. I love it.”
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Sam Van Rood said: “I’ve been using a wheelchair for over a decade and the recent changes on Old Bethnal Green Road have made my life so much better. I travel the road from Cambridge Heath Road every weekday with my son on the way to school."
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Rat-Run Rahman wants to rip out OUR public spaces so his car owning friends can clog up the roads in Bethnal Green. These spaces cost £3 million of our taxes to install. There's no justification for this.
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The Mayor today has decided to totally reverse the Liveable Streets schemes in Bethnal Green. We cannot let this happen. Please donate NOW so we can fight this.
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Lutfur Rahman says (and quotes unnamed "experts") that if you open up the smaller roads then traffic will zip along. But "induced demand" shows a completely opposite effect. More open roads = more journeys taken by car and, ultimately, more traffic.
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🌟UPDATE 🌟Today, we officially submitted our claim for Judicial Review of the dangerous decision by
@LutfurRahmanTH
to rip out cycle lanes and safer streets in Bethnal Green 🚴♂️🌳.
The mayor has ignored doctors, teachers, the police and the will of the majority of residents in
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UPDATE! Council pauses plans to rip out street improvements in Bethnal Green!
Read all about it!
#SaveOurSaferStreets
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The council's consultation to bring back traffic opens today. Vote "Option 2" and save £2 million of public improvements in Bethnal Green. If you're a resident, use the survey reference number that was sent to you in the post. 💚💚💚
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“I voted for the mayor, but not so he could destroy my area!” says Saciido. “I want it better, not worse!”
The nursery nurse and mother-of-one was “heartbroken” when she heard that her favourite seating spot on Old Bethnal Green Road might be taken away.
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TFL joins the chorus of opposition against plans to open residential roads to traffic in Bethnal Green, Bow and Wapping. 80.6% of residents walk, cycle or use public transport and 71% don't own a car - so who are these plans benefiting? Please sign our petition (details below)
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FoI from London Ambulance Service and public data from London Fire Brigade show that any delays in response times caused by the public improvement scheme in Bethnal Green are less of an issue than delays caused by traffic and parked car obstructions outside the scheme areas.
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An ambulance passes through the Columbia Road pocket park yesterday. The council insists that emergency services have difficulty accessing local roads, but there is no evidence that this is true. Access can be tweaked whilst preserving the traffic filters.
#improvedontremove
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🚨 Help us raise £40,000! 🚨 We're legally challenging Lutfur Rahman's plan to spend £2.5 million on tearing up cycle lanes and pocket parks in Bethnal Green. 💔 Money that's better spent elsewhere! 🌳🚴♂️
Support our cause—join our crowdfunder now!
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📣UPDATE📣
The legal challenge is already working! 🏛️
Since filing our claim, the council has confirmed in writing - no removal of the LTN until a judge hears our case for a judicial review.👩⚖️ This delays them by several months, on top of the year we've already stalled them
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It is tragic that, plants and trees, that have soldiered on through the worst heatwave in decades, might be ripped out by the council so that cars and lorries can instead emit more air pollution in Tower Hamlets and make climate change worse.
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Tower Hamlets:
- Only 37% of households own a car.
- Life expectancy is 10 years lower than the national. average.
- Childhood obesity is higher than the London average.
The solution is active travel, not more traffic on residential roads
@LutfurRahmanTH
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In the council's consultation on scrapping Livable Streets, TfL were presented as being critical of the scheme when the complete opposite is true as this TfL letter now shows.
How were residents supposed to know the facts when
@TowerHamletsNow
misrepresented key evidence?
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Engineers out today. Are they measuring how best to rip up the pocket park and cycle path and turn Old Bethnal Green Road back into a traffic hell hole?
@LutfurRahmanTH
isn't serious about tackling air pollution, traffic or the climate emergency
#unliveablestreets
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Tower Hamlets is in the top 10 boroughs vulnerable to extreme heat. Why does Mayor
@LutfurRahmanTH
plan on tearing out trees, and public spaces in Bethnal Green, which provide valuable cooling and shade, in order to increase traffic and carbon emissions?
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The reason engineers have been measuring for the last week- Rahman wants to tear out all public spaces on Old Bethnal Green Road and bring back heavy traffic, completely ignoring the outcome of the 2019 consultation. This "consultation" is a travesty of democracy.
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650+ residents, businesses and medical professionals in and around Bethnal Green have signed our open letter objecting to the reintroduction of heavy traffic along residential roads. Are you listening Mayor
@LutfurRahmanTH
?
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Dr Burman lives in Bethnal Green with his family. He is a Consultant in Respiratory Medicine, having worked in East London throughout his career. He says:
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We've been talking to the Evening Standard about our campaign and we're really pleased with this coverage:
Here's hoping the mayor's next step is listening and collaboration.
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Strange how the entitled car owners in Jesus Green Village who are opposed to traffic filters on Old Bethnal Green Road somehow never had a problem with their own 40 year old LTN.
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🧵 There's a widespread lack of awareness regarding the council's decision to spend £2.5 million on removing Liveable Streets. 🌐 We break down the key aspects and shed light on what this decision entails for residents in Bethnal Green. 🚦💡 Ignorance is NOT bliss 🚨🔍
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Deeply troubling news. School streets are vital in reducing air pollution, poor health and road danger for our children.
@LutfurRahmanTH
is tearing them all out so that drivers are not inconvenienced.
Devastated to hear that the Mayor will be ripping out the school street scheme around Chisenhale Primary School on Monday.
This scheme was designed to protect our borough's children from air pollution and cars.
A shameful and irresponsible act.
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Local residents, workers and supporters, - please join us for a protest TODAY to protect our safe streets from the council:
TIME: 4:45-6pm
PLACE: Outside the town hall 🏛️ in Whitechapel
Bethnal Green is thriving with less traffic, cleaner air and safer streets. The council
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Our FoI from the London Ambulance Service shows that Liveable Streets has had no negative impact on response times in E2.
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The Metropolitan Police have urged
@TowerHamletsNow
not to remove the LTN in Bethnal Green as it has helped to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour in the area.
@LutfurRahmanTH
,
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Brilliant article in the Guardian on
@TowerHamletsNow
dangerous plans to make our streets unsafe and how the council is simply not listening.
@LutfurRahmanTH
we already said we don't want the traffic to return, why did you ask us again?
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NEWS; Transport for London has said Tower Hamlets council misrepresented its position on sager streets and they want the schemes to stay.
@TowerHamletsNow
@LutfurRahmanTH
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Tower Hamlets has the lowest number of School Streets in London. By reintroducing traffic on Old Bethnal Green Road, the council is increasing air pollution and congestion for thousands of pupils in three additional schools. This is a backwards step with no clear justification.
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Yesterday evening, local families held banners and placards in spaces threatened by the council's plans to re-introduce rat running and heavy traffic. Schools and residential areas across Weavers and Bethnal Green are endangered by the council's unjustified, regressive proposals
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Headteacher of Oaklands secondary school in Bethnal Green urges
@LutfurRahmanTH
to listen to teachers and prioritise children's health and safety over the convenience of drivers.
@ELAdvertiser
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In this heat, Kids play in the shade with bubbles, courtesy of the legendary Mr. Bubbles, while residents enjoy the safe and quiet space on the Old Bethnal Green Road pocket park.
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We're CROWDFUNDING a potential legal challenge against the council's flawed plans to re-open residential roads in Bethnal Green to heavy traffic . The mayor is ignoring evidence and not listening to residents.
Please support our cause for safer streets:
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Maisha’s story:
“The closures have made life so much better for my family,” says Maisha.
The 22-year-old teaching assistant lives with her mother and four siblings in a house that backs on to Pundersons Gardens.
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These are OUR public spaces on Old Bethnal Green Road. If we don't fight to keep them the council WILL remove them. Selfish car owners and politicians want to fill these spaces with traffic. They don't care about the harm caused to residents
@LutfurRahmanTH
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Millionaire property owners in Jesus Green village campaigned to remove every single LTN from nearby schools and council estates. But not a single LTN is being removed from Jesus Green village. Who does
@LutfurRahmanTH
work for?
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Opponents claim that LTNs discriminate against the poor. According to this government study, the estates around Old Bethnal Green Road, which have benefited from traffic filters and pocket park regeneration, are some of the most deprived in Tower Hamlets.
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@LutfurRahmanTH
That's encouraging. We hope that you listened to the petitioners tonight who spoke of the needs of the thousands of residents, including the most vulnerable, who will all be harmed by your one-size-fits-all plans for Bethnal Green.
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Change is possible, even when the odds look insurmountable.
In 1972, the Amsterdam neighbourhood of De Pijp saw clashes between parents who wanted safer streets for kids and drivers who wanted to cut through.
I went to visit yesterday, 51 years later.
The traffic filters and playgrounds remain. It is a place many people want to live. 🧵
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Posters appear all over Bethnal Green in support of our public spaces, trees and pocket parks and against the re-introduction of rat runs. People want Bethnal Green kept safe and liveable for residents.
#willofthepeople
@LutfurRahmanTH
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There are 14 sets of traffic lights on Hackney Road, an A road.
There are 0 traffic lights on Old Bethnal Green Road, a minor road.
Which road are cars going to prefer to drive on
@LutfurRahmanTH
?
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Lutfur Rahman announces another consultation to re-open Bethnal Green and Weavers to thousands of cars. He has previously said that he listens and yet:
68% support Liveable Streets in Bethanl Green 2019
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Meeting of Tower Hamlets council takes place tomorrow evening. Our petition, which with 3094 signatures is the second highest ever on the council's website, will be debated. Here's what we will be asking Mayor
@LutfurRahmanTH
:
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Glad to see our residents' campaign to save Bethnal Green covered in BBC London today. Includes a shot of the wonderful Bethnal Green pocket park.
#saveoursaferstreets
@LutfurRahmanTH
What's the future of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods in Tower Hamlets?
Lutfur Rahman was recently re-elected as mayor on a “pro-motorist” platform, but thousands of residents are now petitioning for the LTNs to stay.
#politicslondon
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Tower Hamlets council plans to rip up £2 million of public improvements, streetscapes and pocket parks in Bethnal Green. It has already wasted £70,000 on a pointless consultation.
Support our crowdfunding to legally challenge this waste of public funds!
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Green Party Assembly Member Sian Berry urges Mayor to intervene to prevent Rahman ripping up safe streets.
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@TowerHamletsNow
has provided no evidence to justify the proposed scrapping of Liveable Streets. We've made an FoI request to the London Fire Brigade. Here's what we found... 🧵
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Rahman's ratruns will pass four schools and a care home. His cabinet, composed entirely of men are seemingly indifferent to the health of thousands of children and families on Old Bethnal Green Road.
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Our FoI reveals
@TowerHamletsNow
deliberately omitted the responses of more than 600 households in last year's consultation on removing Liveable Streets. Had these been included, there would have been much stronger support for keeping the current scheme:
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Have the new road layouts increased pollution on boundary roads?
Data collected by
@TowerHamletsNow
(which we had to obtain via FoI) shows that pollution levels have FALLEN more on Hackney Road and Bethnal Green Rd ("boundary roads") than in the rest of Tower Hamlets.
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Our appeal for safer streets in Bethnal Green & Weavers is not new. This book from 1964 shows people demanding the same with placards saying:
"Kids not cars"
"Cars mean death"
"Wake up Council"
60 years on and the need to prioritise people over traffic is more urgent than ever.
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Here's our statement on today's "undemocratic, contemptuous and dangerous" decision by
@LutfurRahmanTH
Help us fight back:
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Mayor
@LutfurRahmanTH
needs a rethink on reopening roads.
A compelling case by a long standing Bethnal Green resident.
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Residents consistently expressed support for cycle lanes, community spaces, and less traffic in consultations held in 2019, 2022, and 2023. Despite this, Lutfur Rahman has ignored our voices. Please support our crowdfunder to challenge this decision.
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So inspiring to see the Chisenhale Primary school protests making the front page of the BBC.
@TowerHamletsNow
and
@LutfurRahmanTH
need to listen closely to residents who are demanding safer, healthier streets. Streets are for people, not just cars.
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We have raised £30,000 to fight Lutfur Rahman's dangerous, extreme and undemocratic decision to open our roads to traffic.
Thank you to everyone who has contributed to our crowdfunder. Your support is critical.
We are moved by the comments that we have received.
Please
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Good to see our campaign being mentioned in this article about TfLs opposition to the council's plans to rip up improvements in Bethnal Green.
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"Let our children breathe" - powerful words from Dr. Nwokoro, a children's respiratory doctor who writes in the
@ELAdvertiser
that the LTN in Bethnal Green has lowered air pollution and traffic danger around local schools.
Help us fight for clean air in our community. Support
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This section of Columbia Road/Gosset Street used to be a hazardous crossing for pedestrians. It now provides a safe space for residents.
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Old Bethnal Green road was never designed for heavy traffic. Narrow sections like this one created choke points and traffic jams in front of schools and homes. The neighborhood is immeasurably better now. It would be reckless for the council to turn it back to this.
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Hundreds of residents opposed to Mayor Rahmans plans to reopen roads to traffic have generously donated and helped us hit our initial target to cover legals costs. Thanks to their support we can move on to the next target and prepare for judicial review.
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Protestors turned out yesterday to support petitioners representing 3094 signatories; appealing to the Mayor to stop and listen to residents, to improve, not remove, the beautiful public improvements in Bethnal Green. We really hope you're listening to us
@LutfurRahmanTH
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An FoI request reveals that Mayor
@LutfurRahmanTH
, who wants to spend MILLIONS removing Liveable Streets in Bethnal Green, has made NO visits to the area nor spoken with ANY locals, organisations or stakeholders.
How can he claim to be a listening mayor? 🤔
#SaveOurSaferStreets
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Tower Hamlets council is planning to rip out parks and public spaces and to turn Bethnal Green over to traffic and unsafe streets. If you live, work or study in Tower Hamlets, please sign our petition to
#SaveOurSaferStreets
.
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At last nights Overview & Scrutiny Committee, Jane gave a clear and well reasoned account of the benefits of Liveable Streets and the need for real community engagement by the council.
We hope Mayor
@LutfurRahmanTH
gets a chance to hear Jane's rousing speech
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The council is removing the cycle lanes and pocket park on Old Bethnal Green Road. Instead of a beautiful and safe public space for pedestrians, they're turning it into a rat run flooded with 8,000 more vehicles daily. Prioritizing cars over community safety.
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Nimao’s story🧵
“The way the street is now, it gives me hope for my kids’ future,” says Nimao. “It feels like we are actually trying to do positive things for the environment.”
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🚸Children walking to school faced dangers from vehicles on Old Bethnal Green Rd. Lutfur Rahman wouldn't even meet concerned headteachers before deciding to re-introduce heavy traffic.
Support our legal crowdfunder
#ChildSafety
@Brakecharity
@RoadPeace
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A tragic death caused by a reckless driver speeding on a minor road.
This tragedy underscores the real dangers that
@TowerHamletsNow
is intending to expose residents in Bethnal Green to by allowing thousands of speeding cars on minor roads.
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We have learned that our campaign won't be allowed to speak or ask a questions, but two anti-LTN campaigners will be heard. The mayor has also decided that Barts NHS Trust and the Green councillor will be able to ask questions.
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@LutfurRahmanTH
We are raising funds for a judicial review against this terrible decision. Please support our crowdfunding campaign here:
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Have Liveable Streets impacted ambulance response times? There have been lots of accusations from opponents but no evidence from
@TowerHamletsNow
or
@LutfurRahmanTH
. We've analysed FoI data from the London Ambulance Service. Here's what we found:
🧵
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Even Bart's hospital and NHS Tower Hamlets are expressing concern at the council's plans to reintroduce heavy traffic on residential streets in Bethnal Green and across the borough. There's still time to commit to safer, greener streets
@LutfurRahmanTH
Very pleased to see the NHS in Tower Hamlets & across North East London speaking with a clear voice on liveable streets
#publichealth
#ClimateEmergency
#Health
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Delivery riders are the unsung heroes of our city. This article in
@ELAdvertiser
highlights the dangers that riders like Ahmed face and how bike lanes and traffic calming measures are crucial for their livelihoods and safety.
@LutfurRahmanTH
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"Induced demand" has been understood for decades, here's a quote from an "Expert" writing in the 1960s. The council should be guided by evidence, not opinions, before making expensive mistakes.
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Last October, the head of Oaklands school urged Mayor
@LutfurRahmanTH
to consider the welfare of his 1,000 students before increasing traffic outside his school. The mayor did not listen.
5 schools in Bethnal Green are now urging the mayor to re-consider these dangerous plans.
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The council is planning on removing these beautiful public improvements in Bethnal Green at a cost of millions, even though residents have said no, twice.
Email the mayor and councillors, before they make a decision 20th September. The list is here:
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Representatives of our record-breaking petition, who were ignored by the mayor at council last week, are seeking a meeting with the mayor to discuss the scheme. We hope that
@LutfurRahmanTH
will fulfil his promise to listen to stakeholders and meet with them.
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The last call to respond to the council's consultation ending TODAY. Keep our streets safe. Oppose the Mayor's plans to rip out £2 million of public improvements.
If you live in the area, use the code that would have been sent to you in the post.
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Don't let the council endanger the health and wellbeing of over 2,000 school children across Bethnal Green by increasing emissions and traffic danger.
Support Option 2!
Sign up to respond here (use your survey reference number if you have one):
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Great turnout today. We are riding in support of safer streets for all residents in Tower Hamlets, both young and old.
We’re campaigning for safer streets - fighting
@TowerHamletsNow
’s and
@LutfurRahmanTH
’s crazy plans to remove school roads and street calming across the borough. Today adults and children cycle to
@chisenhale
to
#resist
a procar propollution council
#kidicalmassldn
@SaveOldBGR
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“As a Respiratory Consultant and father, I am very concerned about the impact of pollution on the development of children’s lungs and the health of those with respiratory conditions. Any changes that increase traffic on residential streets are risking people’s health."
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If you live or work or study in Bethnal Green PLEASE respond to the consultation and oppose the council's plans to bring back traffic.
You need to register. If you live in BG, you can also use a code that would have been sent to you in the post.
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Tower Hamlets has the third lowest rate of car ownership in London. Yet Lutfur Rahman wants to turn small residential roads in Bethnal Green into relief valves for heavy traffic.
Oppose this dangerous plan by voting for Option 2 online:
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Emergency service vehicles having no issue going through the Columbia Road closure. The council has cherry picked anecdotes in it's consultation but our FoI research shows that Liveable Streets made no negative impact for ambulance response times in E2.
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Beautiful late autumn colours on the Birch trees on Old Bethnal Green Road Pocket Park. Help save them from being ripped out by Tower Hamlets Council who want to turn this into a busy road.
Please support our crowdfunder:
@TreesforStreets
@HealthyAirUK
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We've reached 3000 signatures on our petition! The second highest number ever on
@TowerHamletsNow
website. Thanks to your support we are letting Mayor
@LutfurRahmanTH
know that we don't want traffic back in our neighbourhood.
#SaveOurSaferStreets
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We’re at the Tower Hamlets council meeting tonight. Waiting to see if
@LutfurRahmanTH
will put children first and
#SaveOurSaferStreets
@TowerHamletsNow
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Local resident Shaheena expresses, in
@ELAdvertiser
, her concerns about the mayor's retrograde plans to increase traffic in Bethnal Green.
If you live, work or study in Tower Hamlets, please sign our petition asking the mayor to listen to residents.
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