keep highbury moving

@haringeycouncil has voted to let all Haringey Blue Badge holders through ALL Haringey LTN filters. Come on Kaya & Rowena time to dump your fiddly individual exemption scheme and follow suit for Islington BBHs @InIslington @RowChampion @IslingtonBC @KayaJunction @Paul_Convery

Whist @IslingtonBC celebrate their certificate from the cycling campaign group's 'Healthy Scorecard' Is this success criteria to make St Mary's LTN permanent? Poisoning the AQ & lungs of those that live and use these sacrificial roads? @RowChampion @KayaJunction @Paul_Convery

@KayaJunction @HSscorecard Has this become a parody account? Do you ever walk around the borough where people actually live ?

Cleaner, greener, healthier streets make Islington a safer place to live, better for young people, and more equal. So I’m incredibly proud that @HSscorecard has named us the best inner-London borough for green streets 3 years in a row. With even more to come over the next year!

The stats on vehicle increases on Blackstock Road (12K to 19K+ a day) show the devastating displacement caused by LTNs, a pattern of traffic relocation repeated all over London. The blinkered council approach that LTNs are the answer now what’s the question needs to stop & fast.

A very wet Tuesday late afternoon. No point catching the bus though- queue almost at Almeida street going North. This cannot continue for a year!@IslingtonBC @CarolineRussell @IslingtonTrib

Holloway Road now looks like this all the time at any time of day. More pollution for those working, living and commuting along this road. Why does no one care?

@CarolineRussell @IslingtonBC We need an emergency public meeting to consider the impact of these works on the community that is hemmed in by the ltn’s and the gridlock on Holloway Road. Please organise an urgent public meeting so you can hear directly the distress that residents are facing.

@CarolineRussell @JonathanWinn19 @steviethecab @RowChampion @KayaJunction @IslingtonBC @IslingtonLabour @TfL You know how to relieve us all from this nightmare. Will anyone in the council have the courage to actually do it? Open the LTNs…..

@CarolineRussell @JonathanWinn19 @steviethecab @RowChampion @KayaJunction @IslingtonBC @IslingtonLabour Holloway Road - 10.20 this morning. What additional monitoring does the council/TFL need to do? @TfL @IslingtonBC @RowChampion

@RowChampion @KayaJunction @IslingtonBC @IslingtonLabour @CarolineRussell listen to residents, we know our rds and how they work. Let’s avoid potential nightmares please.

@indieHackney @carltonreid @SocEnvJustice @peterwalker99 @LittleNinjaUK @KatharinaH42 Its the rhetoric of the “rat run”….. no one likes it … until they do it. That and the fact that “their” journey is always essential and not just more convenient. Or their deliveries are more essential. Or their overseas holiday isn’t bad for the environment.

VERY interesting letter supporting the LTN in Jesmond. Like @carltonreid he is a driver who doesn’t mind re-routing traffic onto other people. As a non car owning LTN victim I found this letter really upsetting. @SocEnvJustice @peterwalker99 @LittleNinjaUK @KatharinaH42

@JonathanWinn19 @CarolineRussell @RowChampion @KayaJunction @IslingtonBC @IslingtonLabour Maybe @CarolineRussell and other cllrs should take some time walking (not cycling) around the area and see the misery this is all causing. Blaming it on the weekend concert is not the answer. Holloway Rd is in chaos why is no one listening??

@CarolineRussell @RowChampion @KayaJunction @IslingtonBC @IslingtonLabour Caroline Holloway Rd traffic with the road works is backing up all the way to Tesco by the magistrates court. Time for some tweaking of the LTN please, especially this weekend with ID checks for residents driving because of the concert which unless managed will cause disruption

@ShimanoSteve @SocEnvJustice @bertil_hatt @ProperDemocrat @andrewellson @ediz1975 Same in Highbury’s LTNs - they still have traffic - the roads aren’t closed. Zero children playing out in the street (unless there’s a play street or a photo op!) There is much more dumped rubbish on every street corner inside and outside of the LTNs.

@bertil_hatt @ProperDemocrat @andrewellson @ediz1975 Never see any children playing out in the road in Lambeth LTNs. I am surprised that LTN dwellers can sleep at night given that they have fly tipped traffic/pollution past their neighbours’ homes. @SocEnvJustice

Department for Transport admits that LTNs “don’t exist to reduce miles driven” No research has been commissioned on the impact the zones have on total distance travelled or carbon emissions Yet ministers describe The schemes as “green” My article today thetimes.co.uk/article/f9fcef…

Just had this from ⁦@TfL⁩ . Looks pretty sensible BUT..these works planned on boundary roads of #LTN. Potential nightmare. ⁦@IslingtonBC⁩ ⁦@CarolineRussell⁩ please confirm #LTN restrictions will be lifted for the duration. #joinedupworking #allinittogether

@CarolineRussell @ProfJAnderson @TfL @IslingtonBC What does “ensure there is always access look like??” There’s always access now but it doesn’t stop constant solid traffic on the boundary roads.

@ProfJAnderson @TfL @IslingtonBC They will of course ensure there is always access and I’ll try to get the timetable so we know when/if eg Drayton Park will be closed for the works.

In fact the diversion signs are unclear but seem to be sending cars through the cameras. Please can someone @IslingtonBC confirm that the cameras are closed. As usual total disorganisation and no planning. Shoddy

@IslingtonBC the top of Highbury Hill appears to be closed (despite signs saying access only) but the camera on Martineau/HHill appears to be still in operation. Not sure why the sign is there as you can’t go through that camera anyway!! 🧐@RowChampion @CarolineRussell

Well, well, well….. who’d have thought it….

@Jono_Kenyon @JonathanWinn19 @HighburyKeep @KatharinaH42 @hold_bag @PaulTho00620544 @Jono_Kenyon you can campaign for cleaner air or support LTNs, not both! The issues are in direct conflict and contradictory. Much like a Labour party that claims to work for those who need the help most & selfish LCC campaigns to disproportionately affect those on boundary rds

@Jono_Kenyon @JonathanWinn19 @KatharinaH42 @hold_bag @PaulTho00620544 The LTNs of Highbury (where the majority of cars are) push all the traffic into Blackstock Road already. How on earth would a bus gate work. What about the children at Ambler, the people who live and work on BR… shame on you for pushing traffic onto them.

@Jono_Kenyon @JonathanWinn19 @KatharinaH42 @hold_bag @PaulTho00620544 Another incorrect statement. Lazy rhetoric.