UK Low Traffic or Car Free Neighbourhoods - best practice ?

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sheddy

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Location
Suffolk
Does anyone live in or near one - what locations ?

How do schools, shopping, public transport work
What advantages, disadvantages etc ?

It might be useful to be able to cite real UK working examples when responding to local authority consultations and plans.
 

mjr

Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
 

Fergs

Guru
I think it was that nice Chris Boardman who suggested referring to them as ‘local traffic neighbourhoods’ when trying to engage with councils, as a way of emphasising their expected benefits and reducing knee jerk negative responses
 

mjr

Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
A study of LTNs has recently found "a reduction in traffic volume and nitrogen dioxide pollution both inside their perimeters and on boundary roads, according to a study of three such schemes in London. The findings run counter to claims by anti-LTN campaigners"
https://www.newscientist.com/articl...od-schemes-cut-air-pollution-on-nearby-roads/
 

Jameshow

Veteran
Probably the best example locally is saltaire which ironically is over 100yrs old!

It's very well situated for schools and shops etc.

If it had a tunnel for the main road it would be perfect!
 

Jameshow

Veteran
I meant a road tunnel from canal road through to the bingley bypass. Taking the Keighley, Skipton traffic away from saltaire.
 

wafter

I like steel bikes and I cannot lie..
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Oxford
I work right next to one of the East Oxford jobs, and while as a cyclist I agree with the principle tbh it's a bloody shambles.

It's resulted in awful traffic in the few rat runs that are left, with all the fun that brings. Alternative infrastructure provision has been negative (sod all cycle network, lots of bus services withdrawn) and the whole thing has proven a nucleation point for bitter conflict within the community.

East Oxford is an odd mix of yoghurt-knitting middle class / middle age professionals floating around on cargo bikes, as well as emotionally immature, populist men of a certain age who won't be separated from their cars by the shadowy socialist megalomaniacs. Bollards are only present for half the time due to being nicked / chopped off / run over, while I've seen a couple of pretty visceral confrontations between those of opposing opinion...

Further... while the purpose of the LTNs is ostensibly to reduce the frequency of short urban car journeys, it seems they fail to realise the benefits this should bring due to longer, less direct, more congested routes taken by people continuing to use their cars out of necessity, defiance or absence of legitimate alternatives.
 
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