Our Climate Safe Streets campaign has taken an important step forward with unambiguous backing from Lambeth Labour in the form of a statement from the current leader of Lambeth council, Cllr Claire Holland. You can read the full statement below and show YOUR support for Climate Safe Streets. The full detail of the Lambeth Cyclists … Continue reading Council leader backs Climate Safe Streets
Author: Lambeth Cyclists
Action to make streets safer and healthier is STILL popular
This is an updated version of an article we posted in October 2021. We have updated it with new polling and have a new paper Have LTNs affected election results - must-read for candidates in the 5 May 2022 elections. Low traffic neighbourhoods and and ‘active travel’ schemes have been in the news a lot … Continue reading Action to make streets safer and healthier is STILL popular
Launching Climate Safe Streets
We are excited to launch the #ClimateSafeStreets campaign for Lambeth. Our aim is for Lambeth’s next council leader to commit to bolder action on climate and zero carbon roads transport. Action on cycling and walking is vital to cutting road transport emissions and we need your help to get the word out and email candidates. … Continue reading Launching Climate Safe Streets
Loughborough Road Healthy Route
More good news from Lambeth as engagement begins for a significant upgrade to the current provision for cycling on Loughborough Road. The image below is typical and shows wand protected cycle lanes on both sides of the road, running on the inside of car parking where it remains, and with bus stop bypasses to remove … Continue reading Loughborough Road Healthy Route
Ferndale LTN Consultation live
Lambeth Council has opened the consultation on the Ferndale Low Traffic Neighbourhood - the last of the five LTNs that were implemented as trials during 2020 and 2021. The consultation closes on 20 March so if you live in or travel through the area be sure to respond before then. The Ferndale LTN opens up … Continue reading Ferndale LTN Consultation live
The Cut – upgrades and resurfacing
More good news in Lambeth as the filtering of The Cut moves from a temporary to an experimental traffic order. We understand this is part of the process towards making the scheme permanent. Filtering on The Cut, coupled with the changes Southwark have made on Union Street means Q14 becomes a truly quiet route onward … Continue reading The Cut – upgrades and resurfacing
Support making more LTNs permanent
Lambeth council has launched consultations on making two more of the low traffic neighbourhoods introduced last year permanent - those in the Streatham Hill and Tulse Hill areas. Respond now If you live, work or travel in these areas we hope you will support making these permanent. Streatham Hill survey Tulse Hill survey We have … Continue reading Support making more LTNs permanent
Conflict created on Clapham Common
Designs for Windmill Drive on Clapham Common will build in conflict between pedestrians and cyclists. We welcome plans to make Windmill Drive a permanent no through route for motor vehicles after a trial was put in last year. However, we are surprised by the council's design which will generate conflict between people walking and those … Continue reading Conflict created on Clapham Common
Good and bad in TfL’s new map
It is good to see TfL’s map which has been delivered to households across Lambeth showing a growing network of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and Cycleways in Lambeth including the future Brixton Hill and Streatham Wells LTNs. However, it's worrying that significant sections of the cycleway shown have not been built yet. For example, Rosendale Road … Continue reading Good and bad in TfL’s new map
Action to make streets safer and healthier is popular
Consultations to make the first of Lambeth’s low traffic neighbourhoods introduced last year permanent closed this week. It’s worth policy makers & campaigners remembering that LTNs and other measures to make streets safer & healthier are both popular and not new. YouGov polling last autumn found 26% of people said they strongly supported LTNs, and … Continue reading Action to make streets safer and healthier is popular
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