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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CPZs for all as Greenwich Council unveils its transport strategy
Controlled parking zones could be brought in across Greenwich borough as part of the council’s new transport strategy, a draft version of which was published this week. The strategy was promised in the wake of the fiasco over the west Greenwich low traffic neighbourhood, which was scrapped six months ago despite the Labour council’s highways […]
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Cyclists should marshal school ‘walking buses’, Greenwich Council transport boss says
Cyclists should give up their free time to help marshal “walking buses” for children to get to school, Greenwich’s cabinet member for transport has said. Sarah Merrill, who scrapped a low-traffic neighbourhood in west Greenwich last week, complained that too many people lobby her on cutting car use in the borough, before getting in their […]
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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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Maze Hill and Westcombe Park low-traffic zone set to be abandoned
Greenwich Council’s plans for a low-traffic neighbourhood in parts of Blackheath and east Greenwich are set to be dropped – despite continued reports of speeding and antisocial behaviour by drivers in the area. Plans for the Maze Hill and Westcombe Park low-traffic neighbourhood, covering streets between Greenwich Park and the Blackwall Tunnel, were put forward […]
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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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Lewisham Council to keep watered-down Lee low-traffic neighbourhood
Lewisham Council plans to keep its watered-down low traffic neighbourhood in Lee and Hither Green – but will replace the remaining planters with cameras. A wide swathe of streets between Hither Green station and the borough border with Greenwich were blocked to motor vehicles in the summer of 2020 to encourage more walking and cycling […]
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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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