Just 18 months after scrapping the west Greenwich low-traffic neighbourhood, Greenwich Council is proposing bringing it back – but this time as part of measures to cut through traffic on both sides of Greenwich Park. A consultation opened on Monday evening, but went largely unnoticed on social media with the council preferring to use the […]
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Greenwich Council completes its U-turn and scraps Hills & Vales low-traffic zone
Greenwich Council is to scrap its low-traffic neighbourhood in streets west of Greenwich Park – only a year after a senior councillor promised that the scheme would “just be the start” of measures to cut traffic in the borough’s back streets. The decision, due to be signed off by Labour transport cabinet member Sarah Merrill […]
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Greenwich has fewer ‘healthy streets’ than Hounslow or Croydon, campaigners say
Just 11 per cent of Greenwich borough’s back streets have been made safer for walkers and cyclists by stopping drivers using them as cut-throughs – a lower proportion than outer boroughs such as Hounslow and Croydon, campaigners have said. The Healthy Streets Coalition, which campaigns to reduce traffic and eliminate deaths and serious injuries on […]
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Greenwich low-traffic row takes up 90% of my time, complains council transport chief
Greenwich council’s cabinet member for transport snapped at a local resident asking questions about the Hills & Vales low-traffic neighbourhood in west Greenwich, complaining that most of her working time was being taken up by the issue. Sarah Merrill told a resident that the controversy around a small set of streets west of Greenwich Park […]
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Boris Johnson wrong to demand we ‘crack on’ with low-traffic zones, Greenwich transport boss says
Greenwich Council’s new cabinet member for transport says that she disagrees with Boris Johnson’s support for “cracking on” with low-traffic neighbourhoods. Sarah Merrill spoke out after the borough’s opposition Conservative councillors announced they were holding a public meeting about the road schemes, which seek to cut rat-running in residential roads and to make it easier […]
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Greenwich’s Tories to hold public meeting on low-traffic neighbourhoods
Greenwich’s Conservative councillors are to hold an online public meeting next weekend about low-traffic neighbourhoods – and are demanding “proper consultation of communities across the borough” about the schemes. Low-traffic neighbourhoods have been introduced with government funding to cut rat-running in residential areas and to encourage walking and cycling in the wake of the pandemic. […]
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Hills and Vales: You need to compromise, angry low-traffic zone residents told
Residents in Greenwich borough’s only low-traffic neighbourhood have been told they have to “compromise” over plans to allow traffic to run through their area during the morning rush house. Sarah Merrill, the cabinet member for transport, told BBC Radio London that residents and drivers needed to “find a way to share our space respectfully”. 853 […]
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Hills and Vales: Residents ‘stunned’ by Greenwich Council plans to water down low-traffic scheme
Measures to stop drivers clogging up back streets in west Greenwich are to be watered down, local residents have been told by the councillor in charge of transport, with a key road to be opened up during the morning rush hour. Streets west of Greenwich Park have been closed to vehicles since last August as […]
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