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News on LTNs? (Leith/Corstorphine/East Craigs Connections/Oxford)
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Posted 1 year ago #
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Corstorphine LTN implementation starts on Monday. All of one modal filter but I’ll take it.
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Cue outrage
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I’ve not heard any comment - positive, negative or indifferent - from any of the local Lib Dem councillors, MP or MSP.
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The trouble with only one modal filter is it will never be enough to drive any modal shift. And so there will be constant calls to “rip it out”
LTNs need to be comprehensive, or not at all. Why don’t the council get this?
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - they need to sack all the existing roads engineers and get competent ones
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Urgent gas works on Meadow Place Road mean that the Corstorphine LTN trial has been postponed until April.
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The replies are entertaining!
https://twitter.com/tottenhamconse1/status/1621066006457372674?
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Fact Check-Oxfordshire County Council to trial congestion-reducing traffic filters, not a ‘climate lockdown’ that stops residents leaving neighbourhoods
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https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-oxford-climate-idUSL1N3331OK
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We’ve conducted the biggest ever study into the impact of LTNs and the evidence is in: they work.
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Posted 1 year ago # -
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Just cycled home from town. The anti-LTN folk seem to have turned Cowley Road into an LTN. Closed by Police at the Plain although waving bikes through with a smile. @TVP_Oxford also out in force on bicycles and horses. Few police cars. Nicely played Officers, nicely played.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/tonybrett/status/1626985081582526466
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Objections to Ed council about Leith LTN include: "This is social engineering on a grand scale we have not seen since World War II."
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https://mobile.twitter.com/leithltn/status/1630160275532922883
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“A city’s creativity doesn’t depend on cars. That’s the 20th century.”
-Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo
Posted 1 year ago # -
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Some residents believe Grove Lane has become more dangerous due to the Dulwich Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN) and Champion Hill No Entry Scheme.
They say the schemes have displaced more traffic onto main thoroughfares like Grove Lane.
However, according to Southwark Council’s traffic analysis data, traffic on Grove Lane has fallen by 12.7 per cent compared to pre-Covid levels.
But a Times investigation previously found that MetroCount, the company responsible for gathering many local authorities’ traffic data, could be underestimating traffic flow.
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We will start implementing the scheme in April 2023. This first section of work will include:
traffic filters to remove through motor vehicle traffic
creation of new community spaces with planting and benches
footway buildouts to help cross the streets
new dropped crossings and tactile paving
removal of street clutter
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https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/cycling-walking-projects-1/leith-connections/3
Via
https://twitter.com/spokeslothian/status/1640325204109918209
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None of it feels very radical, however, I do like the Links Gardens bus gate. I wasn't aware that there was a bus route that used this road but perhaps they will no be re-routed this way?
Hoping that once this is all in we can build on it and expand. Seems a good strategy to start in an area with lots of young people and car-less households.
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“Hoping that once this is all in we can build on it and expand“
YES!
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Leith Connections is coming soon - http://edinburghcoun-newsroom.prgloo.com/news/latest-ne…
I shall be watching this installation closely as I am keen to work with residents to install more schemes like this in Edinburgh.
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https://twitter.com/cllrscottarthur/status/1640312982365151234
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Is it just me, or can I still see lots of possible rat runs still open in those plans?
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https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/23418377.ltns-used-fire-engine-practice-run-east-oxford/
From interesting thread!
https://twitter.com/oxoncyclingnet/status/1640833103919808520
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Road Wars: Neighbourhood Traffic Chaos
Panorama Justin Rowlatt reports on plans to reduce traffic through Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, in what has become a battle between those who support the scheme and those who do not.
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"Wars", "Chaos", "Battle" - count me out.
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Yeah. The usual false balance and stirring up false conflict. Disappointing from the BBC but what we come to expect
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“Balance” is always relative!
Part of the problem is that many complaints about ‘restrictions on MY freedoms’ start with the position that ‘things are ok now’.
With a programme like like this, the BBC is not going to come down overtly on one ‘side’.
The ‘pro’ arguments came from a range of people.
The other side was ‘represented’ by Laurence Fox and YouTube conspiracy theorists!
The latter mostly exercised by the international threat of 15 minute cities.
Let’s hope Edinburgh doesn’t see anything better organised than the famous anti 20mph demo.
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Oxfordshire Liveable Streets: Cowley Road openings up 56% since LTNs
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Posted 1 year ago #
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(England)
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Allocation of £200m of walking and cycling infrastructure funding draws criticism from active travel campaigners
The government has confirmed it will not fund any new Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN) schemes in its latest batch of active travel funding, prompting criticism from environmental campaigners.
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I see the 'Bus Gate' at the top of Manse Road is now live (part of Corstorphine LTN plan), solely policed by cameras, no rising bollards. Still just one way traffic there, original plan was 2 way at top to Featherhall Terrace.
Will be interesting to see if the northbound traffic heading for Clermiston starts using Station Road instead, possibly conflicting with cycle traffic accessing Quiet Route 9 around Paddockholm and Meadowhouse Rd.
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Two filters and a bus-gate do not an LTN make.
Stop calling them that. Councillors are going to find that these “LTNs” do not work as they expected. This is because they simply haven’t filtered them enough and they’ve left open plenty of rat runs
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