What are the benefits of low traffic neighbourhoods on residents in London?
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Did you ever dream of streets designed by the people, for the people? Then, you'll love the London's Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs)! An LTN is a traffic management scheme that often involve community consultation and engagement in their planning and implementation processes. The idea is to restrict motor vehicle traffic in residential areas to prioritise pedestrians, cyclists, and public transport to create safer, healthier, and more pleasant living environments. In this new UMX video, let's travel to London (UK) to see how LTNs are impacting citizens and discover the heated debate surrounding them!
An article on urban vehicle access regulations: www.eiturbanmobility.eu/wp-co...
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This video was shot in June 2023. Many thanks to Rezina Chowdhury, Anna Goodman, Sally Warren and Nick Bence for kindly participating in this video.
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#London #LTN #traffic
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I live in an LTN, and at first those around me hated the idea and were completely against it. However, once they realised how quiet and safe the streets had become, they didn't want the cars back! From my window I can see people walking on the road itself now at busy times on the weekends because there are no cars; it's lovely.
Thank you very much for sharing your experience! This is so encouraging and inspiring ☺
All the people who fought for this deserve a lot of praise. It takes a lot to believe and have patience, and it benefits so many people in the end.
Totally! 💯💯💯
Well, I don't have any benefits. All the traffic is diverted to my road. My kids are scared to cross the road it should be fair to share this policy, not just one side of the neighborhood. Enjoy car free, other with pollution
People don't like change but once a change is made they quickly adjust.
The other day I saw aerial photos of my city in the 70s and the ring road nearby just ended in a roundabout. That was mind boggling. Meadows and trees where I've always known a straight highway to be.
Resistance to change is ephemereal
How is putting cameras and barriers everywhere progress? Is that not the literal plot from every Dystopian book or film ever made. Segregating 1 area from another. Preventing people from driving down their own streets. Fines of £130!!! If you make 1 mistake. You people are the enemies of freedom. You are literally talking about forcing change on others that they don't want. That is totalitarianism. Communities vote overwhelming against these, yet you force it on them. Like petty tyrants. Do one.
Honestly it sounds really great and I wish my city would implement this in the neighbourhood I grew up in and many others. Cars make noise, stop children from playing in the streets, discourage people from walking, biking... Overall we know life is better with less traffic and the local resident can still use their car. It's just to stop people from outside the area from driving there.
Londra, o metropolă de o frumusețe aparte si o elegantă care te cucerește!!!!
The Streatham Wells LTN is hellish. Ambulances with blue lights stuck in traffic. Miles of backed up, empty buses not moving. Journey times increased by over 300%. Pollution 7 times the WHO limit outside Dunraven School. Poor signage. God, it's hell here. We're prisoners in our own homes.
The traffic it will evaporate. No worries. I have seen it happening in many countries even in backward countries. Focus on the positives.
@@benobaars,wishes......
@@slamak9897 not wishes, provable facts…
@benobaars positiveness of more and more pollutions
Where is that pollution coming from, Jennica? Think really hard
I would highly recommend using physics and visual deterrence to slow down cars and not just signs
Think of the people in the roads where all the traffic is going
SELFISH GITS
Yes change takes time indeed, physically and mentally. There are more positives than negatives about LTNs.
We have reached the precipice in terms of having far too many vehicles. We have 41m registered vehicles in the UK and we cannot replace all of them with EVs.
We need to give up road space in urban areas especially residential ones for walking and cycling. This is such a simple way to help to get to net zero and much better for people’s health. Leave your cars at home peeps, especially for short journeys!
Those who have cars on the road in low traffic areas should be removed completely then, yet they have cars on their driveway ridiculous scheme.
"Low traffic" is not "no traffic". The intention is to permit everyone in the neighborhood the same amount of cars and use of their cars, while removing quick through traffic. Other countries show it works really well: everyone in the neighborhood benefits immediately. As spoken out here: the UK wants to experiment itself first... hopefully it does leap over the mistakes other countries made before them, and implement it correctly at once.
I think "removing" people is a bit extreme.
GHETTO STREATHAM...Leigham Court Road traffic from 4pm to 7pm....! STREATHAM high Rd traffic from Brixton to Croydon....there were not many fatal collision in the area...if the residents wants LTN let they pay for road maintenance...let they make private road ,let they buy the road and pay for it they private money not everybody's money !
I live on Brixton road. If you want to drive in an area where 60% of residents don’t drive, you will have to pay…
Anna Goodman, I really like you. Here Italy, Marco.
I wonder when the entitled car drivers will start commenting?
**on their way** 🥸
Carbrain is in the corner.😂
NONE ABSOLUTELY NONE
Only for the greens
Make every day harder and harder
Most Londoners are in favour…
@@zivkovicable No they are not you have no idea for the hatred against the RAT
@@eileenemmins5875 in my borough only 37% of adults own a car. So not what the majority are basing their vote on. Kahn is consistently 15 to 20% ahead of his nearest rival. Do you really think Londoners are suddenly are about to elect a Tory? No chance.
@@zivkovicable what and see in outer London where KHAN is stealing money from our pockets the people hate l mean hate and know where you have to have ID to view KHAN can’t use he’s lying cheating postal votes the results might be different we will have to wait and see but l wouldn’t be so cocky
@@zivkovicable don’t be stupid cause their not
Muy inconsciente el Criss.....fácil te hubieras perdido en esos laberintos
What BS... If traffic doesn't Go through your Street then it must go through some where else..A no brainer really. Tony cuenca
No brain is correct. The number of car journeys undertaken is not fixed, Einstein.
LTN’s are fundamentally unfair for a few reasons:
Firstly, they’re arbitrary. We all live in neighbourhoods and many are busy, why should some busy neighbourhoods be graced with LTNs and others not? It’s impractical to LTN every busy neighbourhood therefore some will receive arbitrary favour and others not. That’s blatantly unfair.
Secondly, LTNs merely funnel traffic elsewhere to other neighbourhoods as drivers seek different routes/rat-runs so LTNs are unfair on those impacted neighbourhoods.
Thirdly, LTNs are unsustainable- our roads are a finite resource and as more LTNs are created, it reduces shrinks the space for everyone especially for those who live in areas with poor transport connections. It’s unsustainable.
Fourthly, we all pay road tax but residents of LTNs get access to more roads than those who don’t…that’s unfair.
Fifthly, LTNs result in increased traffic on surrounding major roads which adversely affects footfall for businesses which is unfair for them.
Lastly, the increased traffic else where lengthens journeys for anyone who has no choice but to use those roads the increased pollution represents an increased health hazardous for everyone on those streets (pedestrians, residents, businesses and road users).
You points in order...
Firstly...Well you've got to start somewhere. LTN's reduce overall traffic in the whole of the city, which leads me to ...
Secondly..According to the DoT report commissioned by Sunak specifically to give Kahn a political kicking ahead of the mayoral elections, there is no evidence that traffic increases on boundary roads, in fact after a settling in period of 10 to 12 months traffic goes down. The whole report blew up in Sunak's face as it was the Tories last chance of winning back London. If the report had stated they were a failure, you'd have head about it. The report is available online, I recommend you read it.
Thirdly : "LTN's are unsustainable":...Don't you mean cars?
Fourthly. "We all pay our road tax"..VED has nothing to do with paying for any roads, let alone local roads in London, which are financed through council tax. Everyone pays that, including the majority of Londoners who don't own a car.
Fifthly..LTN's reduce rat running cars and increase FOOTfall. The first experimental LTN was in Waltham Forrest 15 years ago, known as the Mini Holland scheme. Local bussinesses protested, but changed their minds following an increase in footfall & turnover because more people were walking past their shops. It's still operational and you will nor find any locals asking for its removal.
LTNs are part of the solution to get peeps to reduce their car useage. Unfortunately cars have become the ultimate convenience to just jump in for any journey. Especially short journeys where the driver can walk or cycle instead. Getting to net zero won’t be easy and it’s not going to happen by replacing the 41m vehicles we have with EVs. Get out of your car and walk/cycle more if you can, especially for short journeys. Much better for your health and the environment. Win, win!
@@badabing8884 Please explain how LTNs encourage people to cycle or walk instead of take the car? I don’t see it. LTNs have nothing to do with reducing car usage - their sole aim is to prevent cars accessing certain neighbourhoods.
@@GodfreyMann My local LTN in Lambeth saw a 92% increase in cycle journeys, and a 5% increase on the main road running parallel. Now you see children riding to school, and mobility vehicles using the road rather than bumping along on the often blocked pavement.... Inconceivable before the LTN. There is still access for cars, just not for through traffic.
@@zivkovicable that’s a misinterpretation of the data. The 92% increase means cyclists who might normally be on neighbouring main roads or other routes are preferring to cut through your LTN, but that doesn’t mean there’s an increase of people taking to cycling. They’ve simply swapped out cars cutting through for cyclists. It’s all an illusion.
Less traffic is an encouragement for local drivers within your LTN to use their cars more now roads are empty.
The number of drivers from outside your LTN REMAINS THE SAME - they’re just on the main road or using different routes, i.e. your LTN has pushed traffic into other neighbourhoods…but as long as you’re okay, Jack.
These people don't live in the real world.
Ban all LTN's.
And what happened to the existing traffic? I guess it got shifted to poorer neighbourhoods right?
it reduces. people drive elsewhere, or more likely, don't drive at all
google 'traffic evaporation'
All these measures do is stop direct convenient routes for cars on the neighbourhood streets. So cars will have to take two streets over to get to the main road. Practically all locations do remain reachable by car for local traffic, but are no longer dominated by through-traffic. This results in some drivers giving op (neighbour no longer going to the shop 300 metres away because it now takes twice as long and it makes more sense to walk) or adjusting (driving along the main road rather than straight through a neighbourhood's residential streets).
How about get out of your car and leave it at home: walk, cycle more or get public transport.
If you pay road tax you should be allowed to drive where you want. I live in Richmond not far from this idea. By the way I am a retired headteacher
Please give your address so I can drive in your garden.
Well that's good, because no one pays road tax. Not since 1937 anyway.
VED is just a renamed road tax.
@@user-ic7mv6bj4wit goes into general taxation pot just like other taxes we all pay do.
@@user-ic7mv6bj4w Most of London's roads are controlled by the boroughs and are financed through council tax....There is no link between the taxes we pay and state expenditure, otherwise drinkers could demand that tax on booze would be spent on building luxury pubs. It was deliberately decoupled from roadbuilding in 1937 and the name change from "road tax" was not accidental. you can check the debate in Hansard if you've the time and energy.
Congestion is bad for the economy, and there are too many cars on Londons roads. In cities private motorists are a drain, not a contributor. This is not a unique problem to London, and cities around the world are attempting to reduce car dependance...In Paris they've gone for outright car bans in most of the centre. Kahn's approach has been timid compared to much of Europe.
If you are not happy from cars on the streets just buy a house and move to countryside....
If you re not happy with urban traffic restrictions move to the country with the rest of the straw chewing yokels.
Walking,cycling...bla, bla ,bla....
Yeh good for your health and the environment: win, win.
The aim is for no private transport. X