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@LambethLivingSt

2 years

Use 6sqm of public space in Brixton to park a Tesla for a year, £38. Use 6sqm of public space in Brixton to sell fruit & vegetables for a year, £4,200. £38 because the council subsidises parking permits, support local business instead

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@LambethLivingSt

2 years

WANTED: councillors who plan for lifetimes not election cycles

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@LambethLivingSt

2 years

BREAKING: Lambeth council announces that Oval & Railton LTNs will be made PERMANENT, following a public consultation 🥳 Oval: Railton:

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4 years

It might sound like magic -- but it's actually true -- and it's what experts (🤓) refer to as "traffic evaporation". Here's a THREAD covering everything you need to know about the phenomenon.

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@LambethLivingSt

4 years

Pissed off about LTNs? Wish things could just go back to the way they were? Well we hope you're directing that anger towards the big tech companies like Google and Waze because if it weren't for them, we might not have even needed LTNs in the first place. Here's why...

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@LambethLivingSt

4 years

Pavement parking is bad for disabled people. Pavement parking is bad for pedestrians. Pavement parking is bad for parents. Pavement parking is bad for children. Pavements belong to people, not cars. Ban pavement parking.

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@LambethLivingSt

2 years

Public service announcement: cyclists get priority here

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@LambethLivingSt

2 years

Shout it, parking 👏 is 👏 political 👏 Heavily subsidised parking permits are a transfer of public space & money from the more deprived to the more wealthy, administered by the council. By holding prices way below market rates, the council starves itself of transport funds.

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@LambethLivingSt

2 years

A short photo THREAD dedicated to the councils that removed their LTNs & @lambeth_council for keeping ours, sketching what they mean for people... (P.S. check out the finale 😉)

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@LambethLivingSt

4 years

If you’ve been paying even slight attention to the debate around low traffic neighbourhoods, you’ll probably have heard something about the argument of traffic on main and residential roads. This THREAD explains what this means in the contexts of LTNs.

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@LambethLivingSt

2 years

QUESTION: "I'm a progressive councillor who wants to support the shift from private cars to a healthy city, what parking policy should I be pushing for?" This THREAD tries to answer in three parts: - WHY the need to change - WHAT to change to - HOW to help achieve it as a cllr

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@LambethLivingSt

2 years

Tulse Hill & Streatham Hill LTNs to be made permanent 💥

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@LambethLivingSt

2 years

When all but the essential cars are gone from London we'll honestly wonder why we didn't do it sooner

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@LambethLivingSt

4 years

THREAD: Over the next few weeks you're bound to hear loads more about low traffic neighbourhoods. But who are the real winners in an LTN?

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@LambethLivingSt

2 years

Permit to park an electric Mini on this road for a year, £38 Permit to place a six-seater table on this road for a year, £731 @lambeth_council gives cut-price car parking, they should help local business instead

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@LambethLivingSt

3 years

This is an "implied zebra crossing", made of paint & without expensive belisha beacons. It's common in Europe, but not allowed here. Government approval for their roll out would transform English cities forever. They're familiar, cheap, impactful, brilliant! @carltonreid 🤞😬🙏🏼

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@LambethLivingSt

4 years

So turns out a Rye Lane that’s closed to cars is nice as hell

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@LambethLivingSt

3 years

Austria will let people buy unlimited public transport for €3 per day to help decarbonise the transport system

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@LambethLivingSt

3 years

BREAK: Today the High Court has ruled in favour of Lambeth Council in the judicial review to challenge the Low Traffic Neighbourhoods. This means that children, older, disabled, disadvantaged, local, visiting & working people can continue to benefit from safer, cleaner streets.

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@LambethLivingSt

2 years

Welcome to Lambeth's LTNs 😮 Blue is installed, pink is planned. From 30% to 60% coverage in the next few years. Huge strides being made by @RezinaChowdhury 👏

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@LambethLivingSt

2 years

Permit to park a skip on a road for a year, £1,560 Permit to park a disused van on a road for a year, £165 @lambeth_council , why is public space only cheap for people who can afford a car?

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@LambethLivingSt

3 years

THREAD: The task of ending car dominance in London can feel overwhelming -- luckily, we can cheat! Cities around the world have already started on projects we can just copy. Here are some examples of the ways our European neighbours are reclaiming their cities from cars.

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@LambethLivingSt

3 years

Black cabs are not public transport. Black cabs are not public transport. Black cabs are not public transport. Black cabs are not public transport. Black cabs are not public transport. Black cabs are not public transport. Black cabs are not public transport. Black cabs are no...

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@LambethLivingSt

2 years

Permit for car club to use a parking bay for year, £658.35 Permit for a private car to use a parking bay for year, £165 Lambeth council parking policy is the least sustainable part of its climate strategy

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@LambethLivingSt

1 year

If Soho were in any borough but Westminster or any other city of the world, already it would have been pedestrianised & widely celebrated for it

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@LambethLivingSt

2 years

Work begins on site tomorrow (Monday) to make Oval-Stockwell & Railton safe forever & WE ARE NOT SLEEPING 😃🥳

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@LambethLivingSt

3 years

Most 👏 car 👏 trips 👏 in 👏London 👏 don't 👏 need 👏 to 👏be 👏 driven 👏 - 1/3 could be walked within 25 minutes🚶‍♀️ - Half could be cycled in under 11 minutes 🚲 - 2/3 could be cycled in under 19 minutes 🚴 - 71% could have been walked, cycled or made by public transport🚏

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@LambethLivingSt

4 months

Fact: Most people support LTNs but you'll be heckled and abused if you say it.

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@LambethLivingSt

3 years

If a fruit & veg seller wants a bit of public space for a stall, the council will charge them up to £25 a day If a wealthy executive wants a bit of public space for their Tesla, then the council will give it to them for £3.08 a month (10p a day). Parking in Lambeth is too cheap

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@LambethLivingSt

3 years

Motorists sometimes say "invest in public transport, improve the buses & then I'll stop driving" The buses are already fine, it's the congestion that's the problem. Quit driving & the buses will go faster.

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@LambethLivingSt

2 years

This is radical action on the climate & cost of living emergencies. Help create a city where people can choose not to drive.

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@LambethLivingSt

2 years

Car parks are stressful, miserable and exclusive. Instead we should create happy places for everyone to enjoy.

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@LambethLivingSt

2 years

This space allocation is crazy. Westminster bridge should be one lane of bus, taxi & emergency vehicle traffic in each direction

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@LambethLivingSt

2 years

& all that ☝️ was temporary, now there's a chance to make a huge slice of Brixton safe forever by filling in this consultation: Please fill it in before Sunday, it might go! (Sorry the thread wasn't meant to end like this, but suddenly nervous & sad)

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@LambethLivingSt

3 years

Cars Ruin Everything: Special East Dulwich Edition

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@LambethLivingSt

2 years

People say traffic is like water & must flow somewhere, so if you close one street it goes down the next. The truth is that it's like a free bar, it flows as much as it can & people take the piss. LTNs call time on the chaos.

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@LambethLivingSt

3 years

Road Open or Road Closed? You decide

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@LambethLivingSt

3 years

On Lambeth estates, each year it costs £52 to store a bike or £32 to store a car. For a couple with 3 kids, it costs EIGHT times more to store their bikes than a car. Please @JackHopkins_Lab , @JenniferBrathwa & @cllr_andywilson , rebalance the subsidy for storage away from cars.

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@LambethLivingSt

4 years

We’ll just leave this here...

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@LambethLivingSt

3 years

If you rent a parking space in Clapham on the open market () long term, you'll pay about £200 a month (£2,400 a year) If you rent it from the council, they'll charge just £15 a month (£180 a year) This is what a public subsidy for drivers looks like 💸

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@LambethLivingSt

4 years

In 1971 80% of kids aged 7-8 were walking or cycling on their own to school. 20 years later it was less than 10%. We can fix this.

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@LambethLivingSt

3 years

Huge night for Lambeth active travel community 💥 Congratulations to our co-chair @SarahJ_Berry for winning a @London_Cycling award for campaiging 💫 *and* @clairekholland & team who won borough of the year 🏋🏼‍♂️🙌🏾 #LiveableLambeth

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@LambethLivingSt

2 years

Cities aren't noisy, dirty or chaotic, cars are

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@LambethLivingSt

2 years

It costs @lambeth_council £1.25m per week in revenue foregone to give 65,000 cut-price parking permits. That’s more than they spend on parks, rubbish & recycling, libraries, trees and street cleaning combined. To govern is to choose & they've chosen badly, help everyone instead

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@LambethLivingSt

1 year

Wandsworth council annual on-street parking charges: - 4 tonne electric Hummer: £79 - bicycle: £72 A couple with 2 children would pay £79 to park their car or £288 to park their bikes! @CllrSimonHogg , @angelamireland , @clare_f , @JoRigby_Balham - please can you urgently review

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@LambethLivingSt

3 years

Some people say "improve public transport, then I'll stop driving" ...What they don't realise is that if they stopped driving, they'd improve public transport. Buses are most used bit of London public transport. How many of these 2.2 billion trips annually are slowed by traffic?

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@LambethLivingSt

2 years

Pedestrianise Regents Street forever to honour the Queen (& every Londoner)

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@LambethLivingSt

2 years

Residents of Lambeth estates are charged £42 to store a bike or £31.79 to store any car 🚴🏿‍♀️⚖️🚙💨 It would cost a couple on an estate with 3 children SEVEN times more to store their bikes than a car! 💸 This is social & environmental injustice & it needs to change 🙅🏼‍♀️

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@LambethLivingSt

3 years

Barcelona will give anyone who sells their car, & committed to not buy another, free public transport for up to 3 years

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@LambethLivingSt

2 years

Imagine how fast & pleasant it would be to travel on buses if there weren't so many single occupancy cars on the road. Progressive transport policy means enacting policies that help people to choose not to drive.

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@LambethLivingSt

1 year

Here's a four tonne electric Hummer. How much does your council charge per year to park it on-street? And how much to store a bike?

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@LambethLivingSt

4 months

Funny how the worst people on Twitter simultaneously: - are nostalgic for the Good Old Days; and - blow a gasket when they see a recent video of families walking in the road because ROADS ARE FOR CARS YOU NUMBNUTS

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4 months

Daily life on a warm summer’s day in this charming town in the north of England. Filmed in the 1960s.

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@LambethLivingSt

3 years

LTNs you either love 'em or you hate 'em (for the record, we love them). But what if one of the reasons you'd been convinced to hate them, turned out not to be true? Here's a THREAD on new research on LTNs and inequality.

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@LambethLivingSt

2 years

“We speak of vulnerable road users, but they’ve only been vulnerable since the advent of fast traffic with big, heavy vehicles. Why don’t we call those fast, heavy vehicles dangerous road users?”

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@LambethLivingSt

4 years

Look what happened to Rye Lane, Peckham! 😃😍 *Faints with delight* 🥰 #LondonIsBetterNowThanBefore

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@LambethLivingSt

3 years

Car infrastructure masquerading as pedestrian infrastructure: a thread.

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@LambethLivingSt

4 years

Accidentally pro-LTN @TulseHillLTN

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@LambethLivingSt

2 years

Local residents in Stockwell wanted to create a safer, greener community . After a bit of work, Van Gogh Walk was created & a bit of Lambeth became safe & pleasant forever. Got an idea? We'll help you, DMs open.

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@LambethLivingSt

5 months

15,000 people live in Streatham Wells & right now a small fraction of them are furious. 51% of Streatham Wells LTN don't drive a car & a big share of those who do drive see the benefits of calmer, safer, cleaner streets. Story:

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@LambethLivingSt

2 years

London was full of space & freedom until it was taken for through-traffic & parking.

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@LambethLivingSt

3 years

Motoring organisations are suggesting you might not want to buy an SUV if you live in a city. But what's so bad about SUVs? Turns out...loads! Here are just some of the reasons they shouldn't be allowed in cities.

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@LambethLivingSt

1 year

Lambeth council subsidises on-street car & bike parking, but the scheme charges a family more to store their bikes than a car. We call for an urgent review of the situation & rectification of the situation as soon as possible.

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@LambethLivingSt

1 year

Protests calling for pay as you go driving broke out in Herne Hill this morning. Road user charging helps people on main roads by helping people to choose to walk, cycle or use public transport.

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@LambethLivingSt

1 year

London is healing & it's amazing!

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@LambethLivingSt

2 years

When it snowed, no-one got stuck or crashed & the dog loved not being driven to the park Check the ratio of footsteps to tyre tracks, that's how we live now

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@LambethLivingSt

2 years

So excited at the thought of Wandsworth & Westminster becoming safe & pleasant places to walk & cycle. It's like new sections of the game map have been unlocked or the left & up buttons have become unstuck at last!

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@LambethLivingSt

4 years

Inspired by this thread, we want to talk about what fairness means in car dependent society (and if you haven’t read Susan’s thread yet — start there). Alright -- here we go...

Susan Bailey 💚

@susancashmere

4 years

A thread on Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, social justice and ‘the poor people who live on the busy roads’. I was one of those 'poor people'. I hear a lot about this group suddenly, now we are discussing LTNs. #socialjustice #AirPollution #LTNs

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2 years

The LTNs helped residents with disabilities find greater ease & freedom on Lambeth streets

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@LambethLivingSt

2 years

Pedestrianise Coldharbour Lane, this is not what town centres should look like

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@LambethLivingSt

3 years

Claim: "LTNs cause air pollution" Fact: "Motorists cause air pollution, often unnecessarily" Diagram credit: @andyoakley

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@LambethLivingSt

4 years

For some, the idea of kids playing on a London street sounds unsafe and impossible. But London was that way once, and it can be again. Our streets weren’t built for cars. They were build for people. And it’s time they were made that way again. #StreetspaceLDN

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@LambethLivingSt

2 years

The LTNs helped prompt businesses to cut their costs, their carbon & find new clients while boosting staff morale

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@LambethLivingSt

2 years

Fill a parking space with a car for a day, 45p Fill a parking space with a street event for a day, £123.78 @lambeth_council gives cut-price parking, they should support community events instead

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@LambethLivingSt

1 year

All the places people flock to & love are the ones without through traffic & motor noise. Bicester village, Buckinghamshire

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4 months

Bus drivers mad as hell as two cars collide in central London & it delays everyone. Needless private cars completely mess up London's bus system.

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@LambethLivingSt

2 years

The LTNs brought the community together when confronted by midnight vandalism, cleaning out the oil & planting more flowers than before

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@LambethLivingSt

2 years

With the parking gone there is so much space for people to walk, talk, play with dogs, have a picnic or safely travel through 🌳 All lambeth's smallest streets should look like Cowley Road in 2030

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@LambethLivingSt

2 years

The LTNs mean children have discovered a whole new world of space & opportunity between the places they were previously just taken between

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2 years

💥 Ferndale Low Traffic Neighbourhood in Brixton will be made permanent. @RezinaChowdhury is showing the way forward 👏

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@LambethLivingSt

4 years

Our border with Wandsworth will remain open over coming days. We welcome all those fleeing the craven & inept @wandsworth Tories.

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@LambethLivingSt

2 years

The LTNs mean that the streets feel full of opportunity, ripe for new & more fun uses

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1 year

PROPOSAL: Central London Circulation Plan, you can drive within any borough but to go between them in this central area you need to drive out to the inner ring road, go around & back in. Good idea, bad idea? Second pic is Ghent, where they do this.

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3 years

Urban SUVs are not okay, councils can disincentivise them via a surcharge for: - having bigger engines - weighing over 1800kg Or require 2nd permit for being more than 2.4m long (2 spaces) Or bollards either side of road that force wide cars to slow & often scratch them.

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@LambethLivingSt

2 years

When it was foggy mums led the way, confident it was safe

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2 years

Think: 1. Lambeth has dirty air 2. The particles are in your blood & brain 3. "Hit by car" is most common cause of death for 5-14 year olds 4. Poorest 10% are x28 more likely to be hit than top 10% 5. Any car clogs roads for 🚑🚒 & people who need to drive Can you quit driving?

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3 years

On a misty Autumn morning, a family can take a ride through their neighbourhood safely because folks like @clairekholland have fought for them to have the space to do so. #LoveMyLTN

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@LambethLivingSt

4 years

Want to know more about how navigation apps are destroying our roads? (🤓 ) Here you go:

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@LambethLivingSt

2 years

LTNs help make Lambeth a safe & happy place

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@LambethLivingSt

2 years

Start to fix your city in 2 easy steps: 1. filter every neighbourhood 2. parking restrictions everywhere with escalating prices That's it, that's the plan*.

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4 years

Here at Living Streets Lambeth — We. Love. Nerds. (🤓) Today we’re profiling one of our very favourite nerds — Professor Donald Appleyard: urban designer slash owner of a handsome smile -- a nerd who forever changed our understanding of what a good street looks like.

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@LambethLivingSt

2 years

Good morning from Herne Hill, a walking & cycling paradise in the making 🌸

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@LambethLivingSt

4 years

Total gridlock in Tooting at 2pm🚨 Maybe the LTNs don't _cause_ traffic afterall, but rather protect residential areas *from* traffic - caused by drivers and their habits amid the pandemic 🤷🏽‍♂️ If only people were saying this before @wandsworth took theirs out.

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2 years

"All these LTNs & parking restrictions are making me not want to drive in London any more"