Nearly half of London's households don't own a car. Those on low incomes are far less likely to have a car. Making the streets safer for people walking & cycling and providing good public transport is a matter of fairness and social justice.
How many times has @Ediz1975 been called a liar for stating how Bowes LTN has worsened congestion on Grenoble Gdns?
His honesty has been proved by the report that is being used to make the scheme permanent.
Those who are truly honest know who the real liars are.
@wf_one@paulale55081401@charlesaedwards@wfcouncil Those FOI requests are probably just the tip of the iceberg. He makes claims of emailing people directly regarding various things.
Nothing wrong with asking for information, but if you've made it on to an 'unreasonable complainant' list it might be time for some reflection.
@paulale55081401@charlesaedwards@wfcouncil There’s asking questions and then there’s trolling. This person is a dictionary definition nuisance. He has no interest in the answers but rather is employing a spray and pray approach which the council has rightly said is unfair as council resource are for all not just him.
I just received a 6 month ban from contacting WF Council because I'm being 'unreasonable' by asking repeatedly when they avoid answering the questions properly and I can't appeal it with the council. Raising my suspicions even more that procedures are not being followed.
@delgueg@CycleEvil@charlesaedwards Indeed, they work for the residents. If one person wastes too much of the councils resources then maybe it is better spent on others?
@InnerMonologue3@SFP_Exposed@SingleFilePlz No particular point, just in this sort of conversation often see point raised that Netherlands has higher car ownership than here, which it turns out is to be expected (& of course doesn't necessarily correspond to actually driving in town.)
Singlefileplz is posting its fanciful rubbish again. Claiming a car centric society doesn't have a causal link of obesity and higher rates of obesity compared to nations with a higher level of participation in active transport. That trend is common over all high income nations
@JamesBurdass@CatrellNeff@LondonCycle3@London_Cycling Are you sure you understand this graph?
Also, if this graph concerns you then having read the rest of it you should be screaming about getting diesel cars off the road right?
@CatrellNeff@LondonCycle3@London_Cycling Great stuff. Keep the tyres cool, together with the engine - more exhaust fumes!
To Mutesville, population 1, you go. This wasn't even a conversation on this topic. But delighted to educate you on the below. Cheerio.
Nothing back from @London_Cycling about the environmental menace of bike tyres on #WorldOceansDay? Here’s why... 30,500,000 tyres and 152,500,000 inner tubes are disposed of at landfill in the UK each year.
“People living in places with high proportions of black, mixed or ‘other’ ethnic groups are more likely to be exposed to above EU NO2 limit value concentrations than those in areas with a high proportion of white people,” theguardian.com/environment/20…#RMRs#LTNs#AirPollution
@gallapad@CityStrategist@BetterEaling That is such a crap "study" though. Pollution dropped across all of London (and probably the south west) after they were stopped. Repeat after me "Correlation != Causation"
Keep signing and sharing the ULEZ petition please. So many of our members at a loss. Cant afford new camper vans etc. No more hols for them?? chng.it/ZMy2vny8cG
@charlesaedwards@Heidi_LDN@willnorman Cars? Pyah, you need something like a Hilux so can go green laning with wife, 2 kids, a dog, and a fridge in the back. Doesn't matter if *actually* just using it to drive half a mile to the gym.
London’s trial of rental e-scooters starts next month in parts of the city. @willnorman is right to say e-scooters could be an alternative to car trips and could be part of green and sustainable recovery. Safety has to be paramount though.
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@PaulLomax@rachaelvenables No Paul, that isn't how it works.
We're also still left with the fact that it is easier to improve the safety of streets when it is a few main roads to be concentrated on.
@PeopleWf@rachaelvenables There is no evidence of an overall reduction. So given there is evidence of an ‘internal’ reduction, logically what does that mean? It means it’s not an if.
The Met Commissioner, Dame Cressida Dick admits Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) do slow up her officers: "On occasion of course it is harder for our officers to get through streets and roads that previously they could get through much faster." @LBC
@PaulLomax@rachaelvenables Point also being that it is easier to direct safety efforts on accidents on a few main roads (where I believe most incidents occur at crossings and turnings), rather then a large neighbourhood containing many times the road length.
@PaulLomax@rachaelvenables *if*, of which there's no evidence
More progressive cncls & TFL reducing speed limits everywhere.
Ulez to reduce pollution, point being that main roads need diff/additional tools for pltn and trffc, to an extent, councils and tfl are working on. We should lobby them for more.
@PaulLomax@rachaelvenables So they do reduce accidents within the LTNs, leaving a few main roads that can then be targetted with additional measures? A good outcome.
There are a stream of measures to assist main roads (ulez, speed reductions, tightening pollution restrictions), would agree we need more.
@rachaelvenables But LTNs don’t reduce pollution. It is just moved from the least worst streets to the worst polluted. And there is no evidence that cycling accidents are reduced overall when figures are combined with boundary roads.