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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Greenwich Council has not analysed low-traffic zone consultations after five months
Greenwich Council has not yet analysed the results of its consultations into major low-traffic and cycle route schemes, more than five months after they closed. Residents were asked during the winter for their comments on plans to close streets east of Greenwich Park to through traffic as well as a flagship cycle route between Eltham […]
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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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