#21

LTNs have been a hot topic in Islington for a while now, and seem to dominate today’s local elections - there are by-elections in 5 wards.

Anti-LTN candidates include this lovely chap:

#22

It’s helping their particular street have less traffic but the buses are now stuck in the traffic it’s created on the main roads meaning it’s taking them longer to get to work if they use public transport

It’s also worth remembering that people in these areas that use cars for work in these areas do so because the public transport is shit and and costs are high eg. if youre unlucky enough to need to use different bus companies for your commute you pay about 40% more per week

#23

Thought this was a good video explaining induced demand on a road network

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#24

I cycled through Dulwich yesterday (in the hail) for the first time since it used to be part of my commute a few years back. I was surprised that Court Lane had been LTNd, because I don’t recall it being a particularly heavily used rat run when I used it to get from Dulwich to Lordship Lane.

The road I live on was though the absolute definition of a rat run and ours was sealed off last summer, with planters and drop down bollards. There was a lot of huffing and puffing about the queues that would build up on the alternative major road, some specious arguments about it diverting traffic past a school (a secondary school that was still on the main road before the LTN), and of course people started dropping the bollards. Then the council padlocked them, which seems to have worked for the main rat run to the high street. Unfortunately one of the residents next to the other one does car repairs on the street outside his flats and took the opportunity to move all his bangers back as well as frequently dropping the other bollard. He seems to have had another bollocking because it’s not been dropped for a while now.

I think it’s great, and so do just about all my neighbours. On related matters I spent a fair amount of time yesterday cycling round Central London near the river and was amazed by how much segregated cycleway there is there now. It’s very slow going, but unimaginably safer than it was back when I used to ride in London regularly.

#25

yeah, there are 2 bus companies where I live, both pretty bad and continually cutting services. Unless you like a reallllllyyyyyyy long cycle, maybe with your kids strapped to the back of you, it just isn’t viable for a lot of people in many towns and cities across the UK.
Also can’t imagine how much in the red bus companies are right now, one of them was posting massive losses before the pandemic, so can’t imagine the service is going to get any better, or even exist.

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