@willnorman Streatham and the A23 were promised shovels in the ground by late spring and still no news mylondon.news/news/south-lon…
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Sarah_Richards
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Cycling is becoming increasingly popular in London:
🚲 London's network of cycleways has quadrupled since 2016
🚲There are 1.26m cycle trips every day (ave)
There's the potential for much more, so we're continuing to rolling out more cycleways & making streets safer for all.
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@willnorman And meanwhile in Streatham where Lambeth were forced to remove an LTN by TFL mylondon.news/news/south-lon…
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@willnorman @LDADesign And meanwhile in Streatham, on the abandoned A23, we are experiencing the below.
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The Strand Aldwych scheme has created 7000m2 of new public realm in central London with:
🌳 40 new trees
🌿 1025 shrubs
🌷 37295 bulbs
🌱 8366 herbaceous plants
🌿 244 ferns
🌾3739 grasses
#BeforeAndAfter
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Some possible speed huh. They've wiped out two trees mate.
Roads & Transport MPS@MPSRTPC
Traffic units supporting @LambethMPS assisted with a road traffic collision (RTC) in #Streatham. The rain may be a contributory factor along with some possible speed… slow down & stop in the distance you can see. Reports are this driver had to swerve around a bus and hit a tree.
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@NeilSalt2019 @LiveableWells @lambeth_council But Valley Road is not classed by Lambeth as a distribution road is it Neil? As the impartial chair of Streatham Action Transport group you have a responsibility to be factual. Lambeth council class it as a local road which should carry far less traffic than it does
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@LiveableWells @lambeth_council You can't tell me that the substantial narrowing of Valley Road at that crucial mid-point area, just up from the mini roundabout with Gleneldon Road, isn't playing its part currently in restricting the free flow of traffic along the road.
Who is monitoring usage of the parklet?
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No one would surely deny @lambeth_council needs now to focus att'n on traffic measures for 1 of Streatham's major distribution roads - short of re-implementing LTN
Removing the parklet altogether or to a neighbouring side road would be a useful start.
Who is measuring its usage?
Liveable Streatham Wells@LiveableWells
This is what Valley Road looks like this morning now that the LTN has been suspended. Absolutely crazy. @RezinaChowdhury @clairekholland @willnorman @MayorofLondon @LabourMarina @MalcolmClark77 @Martin_Abrams
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@drewsnx @LornaBlane @WatchLtnWatch Or this from *2018* on Tooting Bec Gardens which apparently had no traffic before the 2023 Streatham Wells LTN
twitter.com/StreathamPeopl…
StreathamPeople@StreathamPeople
@jon_bartley @TfL Be keen to know what @TfL and @lambeth_council plan to do about the appalling (and rapidly worsening) traffic idling and congestion on residential roads and outside care homes, schools etc in Streatham? Currently complicit in poisoning a population. #drasticactionrequired
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@RezinaChowdhury The London Bridge - London Victoria line through Streatham Hill makes so much sense to bring into TfL. It doesn't leave London and much of it shares track with existing London Overground.
See also suburban Thameslink services 🙏
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Traffic in Streatham is appalling today.
But which LTN is responsible for this??
Get a bag of popcorn, here's a movie about Streatham High Road on a Saturday afternoon.
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Great to see electric buses appearing on the 315 route 🙌
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Newsflash - not everything that ever went wrong in Streatham ever was the LTNs fault
Julian Heather@JulianHeather1
@TfL The 57 bus service - Clapham Park through #Streatham and Wimbledon to Kingston - is a disgrace. I thought things would improve when the Streatham Wells LTN was suspended, but it hasnt. Drivers tell me the controllers in new Sutton control base don't know what they're doing.
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"Towns and cities not dominated by fast-moving motor vehicles tend to do better economically, as people find them more appealing."
The power of the #PedestrianPound!
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Valley Road // Gleneldon Road
26/3/2024, 8:00
Now that thousands of vehicles have been returned to these streets, how are people expected to feel safe walking and cycling?
We ask again, what is the plan for dealing with this?
@willnorman @RezinaChowdhury @clairekholland
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Valley Road and Gleneldon Road
28/3/2024, 8:00
Just a snapshot.
No spades in the ground sorting bus priority on the high road.
How is the plan to reduce car use and journeys going?
@clairekholland @RezinaChowdhury @willnorman @MayorofLondon @BellRibeiroAddy @SteveReedMP
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@LiveableWells @clairekholland @RezinaChowdhury @willnorman @MayorofLondon @BellRibeiroAddy @SteveReedMP I see the revised Highway Code giving the right of way for pedestrians at junctions is being totally ignored. It's 'war on pedestrians'.
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Another coach in Streatham Wells. An area which has a weight limit and by Lambeth’s nomenclature is designed to carry local traffic only. 6 years of asking and not one thing has changed. @RezinaChowdhury @clairekholland @willnorman @SadiqKhan @LiveableWells
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A lower traffic scheme in Streatham Wells (albeit not specifics of Council's LTN design) was result of years of campaigning by residents in area to draw attention to -ve impacts of congestion; driver bad behaviour; pollution; speeding; poor pupil, pedestrian & cycling safety.
Liveable Streatham Wells@LiveableWells
Here we are again. Back to the beginning. Valley Road completely unsafe and full of traffic. This is why we started campaigning 6 years ago. This is why @lambeth_council put in an LTN. What is the answer to this danger now? Is this acceptable? @RezinaChowdhury @clairekholland
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@JaneyWW @NeilSalt2019 @transportgovuk @lambeth_council @clairekholland @RezinaChowdhury @LiveableWells If you have a private publication such as yours you are at liberty to publish what you like. Neil is not in that position and is not neutral.
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@Sarah_Richards @NeilSalt2019 @transportgovuk @lambeth_council @clairekholland @RezinaChowdhury @LiveableWells Not surprising to see this hypocrisy & attempt to smear a volunteer from a former @lambeth_council employee who benefited from being in the heart of the disastrous SW LTN-@NeilSalt2019 greatly helped @LiveableWells in its less extremist Safer Valley Rd iteration.
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Good to see @transportgovuk launch new statutory guidance for councils on LTNs today, as a means of preventing councils such as @lambeth_council getting into predicament of "having to reverse poorly-implemented or locally unpopular schemes" such as SW LTN
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