Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, or LTNs, reduce traffic in residential streets, and improve access for pedestrians and cyclists with dedicated lanes, wider pavements and planters blocking off vehicle access.
Speed limits of 20mph are designed to reduce the severity of injuries suffered in accidents.
Here in Oxford at least, LTNs have been poorly planned and while side streets aren’t being used to go from one main street to the other, it has resulted in all the traffic being pushed effectively into two main roads, in one area onto one. What this has done is create absolute gridlock traffic at least twice a day, concentrating all of the pollution and forcing LTN residents to drive further than before just to get out of their respective streets. It’s absolutely bonkers. Sunak like the rest of these Tory idiots can go disappear in a hole for all I care but I would definitely welcome a reversal of this LTN nonsense.
That being said, reverting traffic-calming measures just for the sake of being a reactionary Tory and opposing “the green agenda” or whatever they’re calling it is still profoundly stupid
I mean, those effects are part of the intent. Make traveling by car worse while making other methods better, encouraging more use of the later.
Sounds like those busy corridors could use some trains and bike lanes
Absolutely. It’s still stupid because this also means that travelling by bus is basically impossible during peak traffic (i.e., when people have to go to work and would maybe consider taking the bus there). That only leaves going by bike, which is not pleasant in bad weather and as soon as you have to leave the city, you need a car