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Children are exposed to five times more #airpollution during the #schoolrun . Highest level on main roads & near #idling vehicles = stunted lung & brain growth😱

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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
3 years
🙏🏾 Thank you @JohnJohnStewart @cutnoise for capturing & sharing my thoughts on the social, racial & environmental injustice of 'Low Traffic Neighbourhoods'. @CleanAirLondon @ukblm @RunnymedeTrust @hold_bag @NormanC28839418 @globalactplan @XRebellionUK 🤎
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
5 years
Whether my son breathes #ToxicAir outside his primary school depends on a stranger's choice to switch off or idle their vehicle engine. I'm continually asking strangers not to poison my son. Why should they decide the quality of air my son breathes? #AirPollution #NO2idling
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
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Eli & I are proud to help @UNICEF_uk raise awareness that #ToxicAir is damaging the health of children across the UK. Our goal @LittleNinjaUK is to reduce #airpollution exposure for the children most at risk as they travel and attend nursery/school on main roads. #NO2idling
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
2 years
@azb2019 @theJeremyVine @TheWarOnCars @London_Cycling @KingstonCycling @markandcharlie @cyclegaz From years of experience of cycling to school with a four/five year old, I strongly advise you to start riding next to your child rather than behind them.🚴🏾‍♀️🚴🏾‍♂️ Vehicles overtaking from behind have to go around you. 🚴🏾🚴🏾‍♂️ Vehicles approaching have to slow down and avoid you.🚴🏾‍♂️🚴🏾‍♀️
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
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@Haggis_UK Nurses told that they should only wear a mask if they were dealing with a confirmed #coronavirus patient, not a suspected one. These were instructions that they knew meant they were being not asked, but told, to risk their lives. How many nurses Matt?
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
4 years
"Children who live on main roads, attend schools on main roads, travel on main roads and are regularly exposed to illegal levels of #airpollution have a 5-10% reduced lung capacity by the time they are 8-9 years old." 😰 Low Traffic Neighbourhoods increase traffic on main roads!
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
1 year
The demands of cycling lobby groups are prioritised over the safety of pedestrians and bus users. Affluent able bodied men putting their convenience above the needs of the elderly, women with kids and people with disabilities.
@NFBUK
NFBUK
1 year
This is what our President who is blind said about the bus stop design where you step off the bus onto a narrow bus boarder next to a cycle lane on Lea Bridge Road, Waltham Forest ‘Not fit for purpose. It really is totally inaccessible. These sorts of designs should be scrapped’
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
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Thank you @OReillyGem @BBCNews for kindly sharing our story. Children who live, travel, learn & play on/near main roads are exposed to levels of #airpollution that can stunt lung & brain growth and shorten lives. @asthmauk @lunguk @imperialcollege
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
3 years
So many cyclists are against LTNs. We’re being conned by councils who listen to niche charities and ignore their residents. Longer journeys & traffic jams do NOT help planet or public health. Children are choking. The LTN experiment has failed. 👏🏾Protest signs in Dulwich today.⬇️
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
2 years
When people say 'what's your alternative to LTNs' what they really mean is 'I'm making my life nicer at your expense and I don't want any push-back'. All LTNs do is shift traffic from roads with high car ownership onto community roads & Red Routes increasing CO2/NO2 emissions.
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
4 years
“People living in places with high proportions of black, mixed or ‘other’ ethnic groups are more likely to be exposed to above EU NO2 limit value concentrations than those in areas with a high proportion of white people,” #RMRs #LTNs #AirPollution
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
3 years
@peterwalker99 Perhaps they've noticed the LTN studies are by the same people, referencing their own work, funded by those looking for results that support LTNs and presented as evidence by LTN friendly journalists. You guys aren't corrupt, there's no conspiracy, you just play the game well. 🤷🏾‍♂️
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
4 years
48% of people less likely to use #publictransport #postlockdown and more than half of consumers think owning a vehicle will be more important after lockdown. Wave & RT if you can think of an alternative to cars & #airpollution on our roads. 👋🏽 #CargoBikes
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
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They want their shopping delivered but won’t allow drivers to take the most direct route to burn the least amount of fuel. They close their roads forcing delivery vans to take longer routes on main roads, increasing traffic congestion & vehicle emissions like CO2, NO2 & PM2.5. 😖
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
4 years
An LTN advocate sees this image and says: "I live on a side road, work from home so that traffic & #airpollution on the main road has nothing to do with me. Yeah, I drive but not those non essential short journeys. Yeah I shop online but I don't want delivery vans using my road".
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
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LTNs don't delay buses🤥 LTNs are climate action🤥 LTNs reduce air pollution🤥 LTNs deliver social justice🤥 LTNs are for the greater good🤥 LTNs are a trial, we'll let you decide🤥 LTNs reduce traffic on most boundary roads🤥 LTNs encourage motorists to use public transport🤥
@DavidNHarvey
David N Harvey
10 months
Tonight's Great Wall of buses... #Streatham #LTN
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
2 years
£1.5million awarded to former Trustee & Chair of London Cycling Campaign Policy Forum, to try and convince people LTNs work. The increased traffic congestion, vehicle miles & CO2/NO2 emissions will be ignored alongside the majority of Londoners suffering the dis-benefits of LTNs.
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
3 years
@peterwalker99 Perhaps they've noticed the LTN studies are by the same people, referencing their own work, funded by those looking for results that support LTNs and presented as evidence by LTN friendly journalists. You guys aren't corrupt, there's no conspiracy, you just play the game well. 🤷🏾‍♂️
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
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👇The severe traffic congestion caused by the new Streatham Wells LTN, means more toxic vehicle emissions and greater public #airpollution exposure! Yes, the video clearly shows LTNs delay emergency services! To LTN activists, this LTN is working perfectly as this is by design!
@Clockwisesss
Clockwise
11 months
Day 1 of the Streatham Wells LTN going well...
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
3 years
LTN trails were based on a theory that traffic would evaporate if motorists were forced to drive further and spend more time in severely congested idling traffic. The LTN experiment failed miserably, increasing toxic vehicle engine emissions during a respiratory pandemic. 😱
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@ediz1975
Ediz
3 years
If this is the belief that it’s helping the climate crises then what does harming it look like. Never in all my years have I seen so much standing idling traffic. All this to provide a small minority a quiet road to drive out of ….
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
2 years
Who are LTNs for? The latest Travel in London report acknowledges that less than 4% of journeys in the capital are made by bicycle and the cycling demographic continues to be dominated by white men from higher income households in the 25-44 age group.
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
2 years
"LTNs disadvantage one group of residents as compared to another based on where we live and where we can afford to live. The policy is environmentally unjust. It should be halted and reversed before more harm is done."
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
2 years
A group of people want to make their roads nicer OK, I get that Without changing their polluting lifestyle Sounds unfair By relocating traffic from their roads to community roads That's immoral And telling those suffering "LTNs benefit all" & "LTNs protect planet heath" 🤮
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
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It's a small percentage of drivers who repeatedly keep their engines running when parked ( #idling ). For their own personal comfort they worsen #airpollution that stunts children's lung growth and contributes to #climatechange . 🙏🏽 Please say #NO2idling 👇🏽
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
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Why park your minibus on the pavement? "I don't want to block the road for other motorists." What about children, parents with buggies, people in wheelchairs? "What about them?" #PavementParking #StreetsAreForPeople #Privileged
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
4 years
Councils know an idling engine can produce this much #airpollution every minute 👇🏾 yet they're intentionally closing side roads & creating traffic congestion on residential roads. 😱 #socialinjusticeofLTNs @hold_bag @personasasa @pandapoodle2 @NormanC28839418 @ediz1975 @BeebsG
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
2 years
While my bus crept along at a snail’s pace today, I could not suppress - as I surveyed the long line of vehicles blocking our path - my contempt for the NIMBYs on Twitter who claim to support public transport yet push for LTN schemes that worsen traffic congestion on Red Routes.
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
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Swedish TV showing places where @GretaThunberg has inspired a #youthstrikeforclimate . By the end of 2019, I hope we’ll see more red than blue and more adults than children standing up to fight for our planet. #AirPollution #ClimateAction @ExtinctionR @ClimateReality @UNFCCC
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
5 years
. @LittleNinjaUK on BBC Breakfast this morning, raising awareness of vehicle idling. There’s only so much you can say in 60 seconds, so please check out our blog here: and sign our petition here: #NO2idling #AirPollution #CleanAir
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
2 years
Who to believe 🤔 The Labour councillor sitting in their office counting their £millions in LTN fines and talking about the theory of traffic evaporation... or The bus driver & passengers telling you they're 25 minutes late due to congestion from LTN traffic relocation schemes?
@ediz1975
Ediz
2 years
My bus was on time until it reached the LTN boundary roads…… Im now 25 minutes late …… don’t believe the lies …. The LCC cult are destroying our amazing london bus service to provide for there selfish middle class work from home members ….
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
1 year
When I first watched this video my heart went out to this mother as I thought she was shoplifting to feed/clothe her baby. Now I'm told she's a well known academic tasked by the government to conduct an independent/unbiased review of LTNs and she's stealing an anti-LTN poster!
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One Lewisham: Healthy Streets for All
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
2 years
"Studies show that 1 in 2 women feel unsafe walking after dark in a quiet street near their home." Local authorities imposing socially unjust 'Low Traffic Neighbourhood' schemes are simply not taking women’s & children's safety into account.
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
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@willnorman No one claimed LTNs only benefit the rich. 🙄 I said #LTNs disproportionately impact BAME people as they're more likely to live on main roads. 🤷🏾‍♂️ The study data confirmed it! 👇🏾 Why mislead the public @willnorman ? @MayorofLondon @hold_bag @personasasa @NormanC28839418 @RMRsToo
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
3 years
The wealthy have always protected themselves from the pollution they create, by exporting it to where poorer people live. #socialinjusticeofLTNs @horrendoushack1 @HackneySave @HackneyYIMBY @indieHackney @BillParryDavies @scott_shiva @seanpaulday @VoiceOfN9 @roozie52 @ediz1975
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
4 years
Amazing how people focus on 'evidence' based on a small sample size of 66 people from the Waltham Forest responding in a survey, yet ignore that actual car ownership went up from 2014 to 2020. 🤨 #TellTheTruth #SocialEquality @personasasa @NormanC28839418
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
1 year
As requested by Jon Burke, I’ll “own it” and take responsibility for @RishiSunak undertaking an independent review of Low Traffic Neighbourhood schemes. Rishi, please let me know when you’ve time to discuss the social & environmental injustices of LTNs. 👍🏾
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
11 months
Billions of pounds have potentially been wasted on active travel schemes such as low-traffic neighbourhoods that have failed to boost walking and cycling rates...
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
4 years
The greatest trick the cycle lobby ever pulled was convincing clean air & climate change supporters that LTN traffic displacement reduces car use, exhaust emissions & #airpollution . 😵 Despite evidence to the contrary, many still close their eyes & hearts to #socialinjustice . 😰
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
2 years
Andrew Gilligan, former cycling commissioner for London and transport adviser to Boris Johnson (who funded LTNs), writes a blog saying "Ignore false claims and bad journalism" but then falsely claims "most LTNs do reduce traffic"🤣😂😂🤣 @andrewellson
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
4 years
Yes, it is a great story! A Headteacher blocks traffic outside her school to ensure space for #socialdistancing for pupils, parents and the local community and by doing so creates the boroughs first #SchoolStreet . 🤩 Inspirational. @guardian @thetimes @BBCNews @itvnews @SkyNews
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
3 years
The tweet below suggests "slower traffic may be one solution" to reduce #airpollution 😱 Next they'll claim LTNs creating severe congestion on residential roads is a positive! @PaulLomax @hold_bag @personasasa @ediz1975 @BeebsG @JT73890719 @roozie52 @LornaBlane @NormanC28839418
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@CarolineRussell
Caroline Russell
3 years
Learning from lockdown on air pollution. “Less and slower traffic may be one solution, along with lighter vehicles.” To get clean air, it’s not just the tail pipe that matters. We need fewer wheels (and turning more slowly) along with lighter vehicles.
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
2 years
This suggests councils deliberately changed counter settings to omit vehicles stuck in start-stop-idling traffic created by their LTNs. 👇 A desperate act by councils hiding the truth that LTNs increase traffic, congestion & emissions on our community main roads & Red Routes.
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@JohnJohnStewart
John Stewart
2 years
Today's Times: LTN success based on inaccurate data. 'Research suggests that between 5 & 35% of cars, vans and lorries in slow moving or stop-start traffic are not being counted, calling into question the claimed success of the controversial schemes.'
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
3 years
WOW, just look at those figures! 👇🏾 No surprise to see residents on LTN 'Boundary roads' deliver so many 90% 'oppose'! So wonderful to see 'Residents of LTN' stand with their community with 58% 63%, 67% 70% 73, 79% & 82% 'oppose'! This must now end the #socialinjusticeofLTNs ! 👏🏾
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@EalingOne
OneEaling
3 years
Tonight,the numbers are clear. We are not a vocal minority, we are the MAJORITY. #ealing #removetheLTNs @_petermason @RupaHuq @VirendraSharma 1/3
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
4 years
I've spent years campaigning to reduce children's #airpollution exposure. Recently I've been raising awareness of the #socialinjustice of #LowTrafficNeighbourhoods . I've received abuse from #LTN advocates for speaking up. Yesterday this tweet was sent by the CEO of PedalMeApp.
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
10 months
Councils proclaim "traffic has decreased on LTN boundary roads". This is based on automatic traffic counters. What councils don't tell you is once boundary roads become severely congested from LTN relocated traffic, their traffic counters stop counting traffic! 😵 Example👇🏾👇🏾
@ediz1975
Ediz
10 months
I have data for my road from 29th November 2022 either side of 17030 hours. The data did not show any of these vehicles crawling over cables ,… @JourneysPlaces showed this as evaporated traffic. Look for yourselves. In comments I have evidence of time and place of recordings.
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
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If you close side roads & relocate traffic to High Streets & Red Routes, the severe congestion created will 'evaporate'. That's the theory of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods. This is the reality. 👇🏾 #AirPollution #EnvironmentalJustice
@ediz1975
Ediz
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@LittleNinjaUK Bus users are just collateral damage unfortunately…., I’m about to start my shift and already know I will be late finishing
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
1 year
We need to have a grown up conversation about cycling speed limits on pavements. 👇 Sadly, a minority of affluent male non-disabled cyclists, who want to cycle everywhere as fast as they can, will make a lot of noise claiming pedestrian safety would limit the uptake of cycling.
@Margaret1Brady
Margaret Brady
1 year
This lady was hit on the high road by a cyclist going at 20mph. I thought the LTNs would make the roads safer for pedestrians. Why are the cyclists on the pavements? Oh that’s right, because the roads are chocca from the #Ltn , rd works, that @haringeycouncil won’t mitigate for.
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
1 year
The best way to get people out of cars is to provide a desirable alternative. Loving this bus ride, loving this bus! 😍
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
4 years
@hold_bag @oftooting @personasasa @AirCroxted @CharlieDaffern1 @ChitchClaire @busbf11 @willbramhill @peanutingting @EricEatsPickles @ShimanoSteve @RM_Leeming @carltonreid @Chris_Boardman @bricycle @RachelAldred @WeAreCyclingUK @GriffyGriffs @BraganzaCathy @moanybot @helenhayes_ IMO the cycling lobby represent car owning cyclists and car owners willing to have slightly longer car journeys in exchange for no through-traffic on their roads. Many are councillors, MPs, journalists, transport academics/planners all willing to play their part to entrench LTNs.
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
1 year
🗣️FINAL RESULTS Over 700 responses and a whopping 85% said YES local authorities should consider scrapping their Low Traffic Neighbourhoods. The 15% vocal minority of LTN supporters will say "this is not a referendum" but it's clear as day, the vast majority want LTNs scrapped!
@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
1 year
Should more local authorities consider scrapping their Low Traffic Neighbourhood schemes? Let us know your thoughts! 28% of the LTN schemes installed since March 2020 have been discarded in the UK. In London, 30% of the LTNs have been removed. (ref: )
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
4 years
Your campaign to get #airpollution recognised as a cause of Ella's death must change the way councils think about displacing traffic and its pollution from side roads to residential main roads so no other family suffers as yours has. 🙏🏾 #socialinjusticeofLTNs #environmentallaw
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
3 years
When LTN advocates say: "the data I've seen shows traffic has decreased on boundary roads", they do so knowing data from community main roads receiving displaced traffic is 'unavailable'. To some, it's simply a game to be won regardless of the cost to planet & public health. 😰
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
4 years
When you close side roads without mitigation for residential main roads, you are knowingly increasing the #LifeExpectancyGap between the most and least affluent communities. 😧 #LowTrafficNeighbourhood #HighTrafficNeighbourhood @rosamund_ElsFdn @hackneywick @CleanAirLondon
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
2 years
@metecoban92 @BBCNews That's misinformation Mete! People on lower incomes are more likely to walk, wait for buses and attend school on the main roads & Red Routes where traffic from LTNs is increasing congestion & #airpollution . Read this thread 👇🏾See the injustice of LTNs 🙏🏾
@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
4 years
Children's greatest exposure to traffic pollution is NOT at home on the side roads being closed for LTNs. It's as they walk, scoot, wait for buses and whilst at nursery, school on/near main roads. Traffic displaced by LTNs increases #airpollution for those already most at risk.
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
8 months
18 buses stuck in Lambeth council manufactured congestion on Streatham Wells High Road. This is not "a war on cars"! Councils are harming the elderly, people with disabilities, the poor & people of colour who rely on buses. All to benefit affluent car owners living inside LTNs.👇🏾
@lambethltnwatch
Lambethltnwatch
8 months
The wall of buses and stuck emergency vehicles has returned to Streatham High Road at 5:51pm on 19th Jan 2024 curtesy of the Streatham Wells LTN forcing all traffic trying to get through the area to have to use the main road instead of some being able to cut through to Valley
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
2 years
#ItWasAScam Using LTNs to export traffic from roads with high car ownership onto community roads where poor people and people of colour are more likely to walk, shop, work, learn & play was always a terrible idea. If you support LTNs you've been conned. Just accept it.
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
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Illegal levels of NO2 across the UK means millions of children have damaged lungs. We can reduce this #ToxicAir . We're using a #ZephyrSensor from @EarthSenseAQ to map #AirPollution levels on the Brixton Road to support our traffic management solutions. #ChildrensHealth #SchoolRun
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
5 years
If you insist on driving, please burn as little fuel as possible Idling vehicles produce twice the emissions as when moving Restarting an engine is equivalent to 7 seconds of idling Please switch off your engine when stationary🙏🏾 #AirPollution #ClimateEmergency #NO2idling #ActNow
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
8 months
LTN academics, activists and councillors promised this traffic would "evaporate", would "disappear" after a few months of their traffic relocation scheme. It's been over three years and as you can see, families on this residential road are still being poisoned by their council.👇🏾
@ediz1975
Ediz
8 months
Continuing 2 hours in …. Using the lies of @JourneysPlaces @LDN_pressoffice turned their back on our families calling this a success….. we can taste the pollution…. @EnfieldCouncil pushed increased congestion here to provide for LTN residents…. In fact @JourneysPlaces
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
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@GeorgeMonbiot George, why have you ignored the obvious social, racial & environmental injustice of exporting traffic from roads with high car ownership onto community roads where poor people & people of colour are more likely to live, walk, shop, work, learn & play? 😢
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
4 years
The greatest trick the cycle lobby ever pulled was convincing clean air & climate change supporters that LTN traffic displacement reduces car use, exhaust emissions & #airpollution . 😵 Despite evidence to the contrary, many still close their eyes & hearts to #socialinjustice . 😰
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Little Ninja UK
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@BBCRadioLondon @willnorman Will Norman says: 'The majority are supportive, & that's why councils are continuing to deliver LTNs.' So when the majority oppose LTNs, does Will agree councils should stop imposing these schemes? 👇🏾👇🏾 #Ealing , #Harrow , #Dulwich , #Hackney , #Haringey , #Islington , #Lewisham ...
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
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Low traffic neighborhoods are not 'No traffic neighborhoods'; motorists still own and store cars inside LTNs, and drive out of LTNs to pollute surrounding roads. Those inside LTNs still order diesel van & moped same day deliveries, now forced to take longer more polluting routes.
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
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@BenObeseJecty They’re closing side roads with high car ownership, increasing congestion on community roads & Red Routes and forcing cars, vans, trucks etc to drive further and burn more fuel, so more NO2 & CO2 emissions. They claim they're doing it to address climate change. Yeah, right.
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
2 years
People on low income, people of colour, people with disabilities and women with children are more likely to rely on the bus. Affluent, able bodied, middle aged men are more likely to cycle and to decide transport policy, like moving buses out of bus lanes to create cycle lanes.👇🏾
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@VincentStops
Vincent Stops
2 years
How f*****g stupid is this.
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
3 years
“These Low Traffic Neighbourhood road closures are effectively the Labour councillors privatising roads for themselves & their wealthy friends." “At the last count 16 Labour councillors lived within these areas closed off from traffic." @CllrTimBriggs
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
8 months
On Wednesday evening Lambeth were loud & clear 🗣“No LTNs!”. LTN activists say it was a small turn out… in relation to the number of people suffering due to LTNs. Our fight for justice continues.✊🏾 @lambethltnwatch @hold_bag @joannamont @Jeremy_Clyne @RogerDodger1000 @ediz1975
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
3 years
Our youngest is learning to cycle 🚵🏾 ✅ Step 1 - balancing at speed 😂
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
3 years
The @MayorofLondon talks about the #socialinjustice of #airpollution exposure for poor & BAME children most likely to live, walk, learn & play on London's illegally polluted roads, yet he openly supports LTN schemes that push even more traffic onto these community roads. 😱👇🏾
@ChitchClaire
claire hitchcock
3 years
8/2/22: Croxted Road - this 13 year old walks to school alongside this traffic every morning. He has asthma. Burden of traffic placed on him and every other child by this created congestion. Not ok. @helenhayes_ @RoseCllr @AirCroxted
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
7 months
LTNs don't delay buses🤥 LTNs are climate action🤥 LTNs reduce air pollution🤥 LTNs deliver social justice🤥 LTNs are for the greater good🤥 LTNs are a trial, we'll let you decide🤥 LTNs reduce traffic on most boundary roads🤥 LTNs encourage motorists to use public transport🤥
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
1 year
There is something inherently wrong about a charity lobbying for a policy that results in the charity itself benefiting financially. Particularly when the policy/scheme is hugely unpopular with locals and has detrimental impacts on vulnerable groups. @ChtyCommission
@JohnJohnStewart
John Stewart
1 year
Sustrans under fire in today's Times for refusing to say how much of the £40m it has received in contracts from public bodies over the past 5 years has been for work on designing LTNs.
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
4 years
Do you see the children on the roads receiving traffic displaced by LTNs? We know the effects of increasing their #airpollution exposure. Why are so many adults supporting a scheme that intentionally creates severe congestion where our children live, walk, wait, learn & play? 😰
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
3 years
These 'lungs' started of white but after 21 days they're grey due to #airpollution levels. 😱 The South Circular is one of many residential main roads receiving traffic displaced by LTNs. @hold_bag @personasasa @pandapoodle2 @ediz1975 @roozie52 @VoiceOfN9 @niamhck @ItJustMe1965
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
5 years
You all want to see more families walking, scooting & cycling to school, so what will you do about vehicles parking and #idling on our pavements? @SadiqKhan @RoryStewartUK @SiobhanBenita @SianBerry @Privatecarfree @ShaunBaileyUK #AirPollution #NO2idling #ActiveTravel #SchoolRun
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
9 months
Is that 13 or 14 buses stuck in congested idling traffic?👇🏾 Will motorist switch to bus use when buses are delayed or will bus passengers switch to cars? LTN activists tell us LTN boundary roads get only a minor increase in traffic 🤥 a median of 288 motor vehicles daily. 🙄
@KaeKurd
Kae Kurd
9 months
Yeah cool story 11:45am in Streatham
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
3 years
@mcash LTNs aren't about active travel. LTNs make roads for an influential minority nicer by making community roads even more polluted. You don't need to close roads 24/7/365 to create a parklet & bike parking by shops.🙄 #socialinjusticeofLTNs @hold_bag @personasasa @NormanC28839418
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
1 year
@peterwalker99 Is that it? Seriously? 3 years of imposed LTNs across London and the best your cycling academic can come up with is that people in four LTNs might, just might possibly, drive less.😂 How many extra vehicle miles driven by the diverted diesel delivery vans servicing those LTNs?🤦🏾
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
4 years
@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
4 years
Anyone looking to antagonise, argue or pick a fight with me today, I've got one thing to say to you... Merry Christmas 🎅🏾
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
4 years
Hi Sadiq, Why is @MayorofLondon 's Walking & Cycling Commissioner sharing, with his 18,000 followers, unsubstantiated (& untrue) claims about the twitter accounts of people opposed to LTNs? Is this to divert attention from tweets by LCC's Simon Still? 👇🏾
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
3 years
"Environmental racism, a form of systemic racism whereby communities of colour are disproportionately burdened with health hazards through policies and practices that force them to live in proximity to sources of toxic waste such as... major roads." #LTNs
@EllaRobertaFdn
Rosamund Adoo-KD CBE FBSA
3 years
Just to put my point of view rather than lies attributed to me. You cant have situations where it’s Clean Air for a few. Unforgivable as those who’re already worse off to dump even more dirty air on them. This practice is repeated the world over & known as environmental racism
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
1 year
Starting at under £10, should cyclist be required by law to have a speedometer and adhere to safety speed limits? Should fines be issued to cyclists who intentionally or recklessly interfere with the safety of others?
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
3 years
Hi Sadiq, you & I both know your tweet is incorrect and that so called 'Low Traffic Neighbourhoods' displace traffic from side roads to illegally polluted residential main roads 'managed' by TfL. Please represent all Londoners, not just those who effectively lobby your office.🙏🏾
@MayorofLondon
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan
3 years
Cleaner air and safer streets. This is what Low Traffic Neighbourhoods are all about.
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
4 years
Do LTNs really reduce car use? Waltham Forest council review of 795 car owners living in the LTN area for more than a year: 15% increased usage 16% decreased usage 69% usage stayed the same Just 1% reduction to car use for a £30m investment. 😲
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
1 year
Translation: We’re closing certain roads and relocating traffic to busier community roads. This will increase congestion, vehicle miles & emissions but a chosen minority will benefit. We’ll call this climate action and say those who oppose are harming our planet and kid’s future.
@CllrChasBooth
Chas Booth 🇪🇺🇺🇦
1 year
I'm delighted the #Leith low traffic neighbourhood is finally being rolled out. There may be some issues at the start, but I hope we can persevere, make changes if necessary, and see less traffic and safer streets as a result. #LowTrafficLeith #LTN
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
5 years
Children can take up to 30,000 breaths a day. Their lungs are still developing, which makes them vulnerable to #airpollution and at risk of lifelong breathing disorders, asthma attacks, chest infections and earlier death. #MondayMotivation #NO2idling #ActNow
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
1 year
LTNs are not anti-car. LTNs are not part of the car-free movement. LTNs are anti-delivery van drivers & tradesmen trying to take the shortest least polluting route. LTNs are anti-bus users who are now delayed in manufactured congested traffic and exposed to more air pollution.
@ediz1975
Ediz
1 year
Welcome to the Bowes LTN where they love cars …… not one cyclist seen apart from me ….. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
11 months
We need to give people a genuine choice of how to get around For the last 3 years, TfL have prioritised cycling to the detriment of our most popular mode of transport - buses To tackle climate change we need to make sustainable transport easier NOT harder to use 🖌️ @davewalker
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
3 years
Blah, blah, blah as you close side roads with high car ownership and displace traffic & its pollution onto community roads where poor & BAME families are more likely to live, walk, work, learn & play. That's not "world leading action" that's the climate & #socialinjusticeofLTNs .
@SadiqKhan
Sadiq Khan
3 years
Toxic air pollution truly is a matter of life or death - and in London we're taking world leading action to tackle it. We won’t stop until every Londoner - and every child – can breathe clean air – no matter their background or class. #Lab21
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
1 year
The Department for Transport confirm "LTNs don’t exist to reduce miles driven”, so they're not about reducing #airpollution or #climatechange as claimed by those lobbying to close their roads and relocate traffic to less affluent residential community roads & Red Routes.
@JohnJohnStewart
John Stewart
1 year
In yet another blow to the credibility of LTNs, the Times reports the Goverment has admitted it has no evidence they cut the number of miles driven and therefore climate emissions. An official said "LTNs don’t exist to reduce miles driven”.
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
3 years
Delighted to see that @BBCNews have dismissed LTNer claims that a 'previous report presented unquestioned misinformation regarding LTNs'. 👏🏾 @ioisours @hold_bag @visitcamberwell @MicheleRagusa6 @Mohammad12akib @personasasa @ediz1975 @OneLambeth_Just @EvanDriscoll10 @VoiceOfN9
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Little Ninja UK
2 years
@PaulLomax
Paul Lomax
2 years
@HSscorecard @imperialcollege The study is SERIOUSLY flawed & needs to be withdrawn. Sites categorised as ‘boundary roads’ were actually inside other LTNs. And ‘control sites’ were actually the boundary roads of other LTNs. This will dramatically skew the numbers to the point where a fall should be a rise.
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
2 years
Labour councils refusing to mention LTNs for fear of haemorrhaging votes will quickly claim they have a mandate to impose LTNs if they win in May. Wouldn't it be refreshing if councillors were voted in based on what they actually plan to deliver.
@visitcamberwell
Visit Camberwell #AnalyseTrafficOrigin With #ANPR
2 years
@estwebber It is notable that key LTN boroughs do not seem to be referencing LTNs at all in campaign leaflets, or even in manifestos. There is an issue of democratic deficit here, as many support walking or cycling improvements such as cycle lanes, but do not see LTNs as in this category.
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
4 years
A third of Londoners who live within 50m of a main road and all who walk, scoot, cycle, drive or are vehicle passengers on main roads, are exposed to higher #airpollution when #LTNs displace traffic from side to main roads. 😨 @hold_bag @personasasa @seasonalight @pandapoodle2
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@LittleNinjaUK
Little Ninja UK
8 months
A 'war on cars'... that benefits affluent car owners by relocating traffic from their high car ownership roads onto Red Routes, delaying buses and making the switch from car to public transport unworkable. #socialinjusticeofLTNs
@pegu_juri
Juri Pegu
8 months
Absolute madness right now! Hardly any Buses to Brixton are running on time fr Streatham, waited to board a bus on KCR with lots ofpeople, kids, the bus terminates at Rushmore park in the rain, again wait for another bus! Thq you for the SW LTN @RezinaChowdhury @lambeth_council
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