Group supporting people across the UK against road closures implemented by corrupt councils & TfL; pushed by cycling & ActiveTravel 'charities' & funded by DfT.
Lest we forget who is pulling the
#LTN
strings
Boris Johnson & Carrie Antoinette
Andrew Gilligan
Grant Shapps
Chris Boardman
Labour Councils
LibDem Councils
Living Streets
LCC
Labour Cycles
Phil Jones Associates
Marston
Sustrans
Cycle UK
APPCGW
Centre for London
Aldred et al...
Interested to know which politicians and lobbyists are politically and financially behind LTNs and road closures? Then take a look below 👇
This tweet is in the public interest and all information is avaiable in the public domain
@KingsHeathLTN
@ioisours
Thanks for mentioning divisive destructive undemocratic
#LTNs
and supporting largely electric black cabs in London. Khan and his cycle lobby and Labour Cllr friends hate the working classes
@LozzaFox
Completely unused cycle lane on Park Lane taking road space capacity away from buses +ridiculous floating bus stops & multiple cyclists using the park.
Another
@tfl
@MayorofLondon
@SebDance
@willnorman
cycle lobby StreetsSpace (or lack thereof) atrocity.
Remove it
@trussliz
This artificially created traffic jam for the benefit of the tiny minority cycle lobby with their tiny balls is why
#London
is THE most polluted city in the world.
Shut TfL cycle cult down and give us back our bus lanes
@transportgovuk
@Mark_J_Harper
Absolute madness!
HEADLINE NEWS:
Harrow
#LTNs
to be scrapped!
Well done
@freefromLTN
@satbains108
@geoffeldridge
"Cycling lanes and low traffic neighbourhoods to be scrapped in Harrow, amid claims they increase congestion and block emergency service"
(paywalled)
HEADLINE NEWS:
Fining motorists using CCTV evidence ruled 'illegal'
Test case finds Transport for London guilty of ‘procedural impropriety’ by relying on video evidence and not traffic wardens
By Steve Bird
5 August 2023
Fining motorists by post using CCTV camera evidence has
HEADLINE NEWS
Willy Norman caught lying about his 40% cycling claims 🤣
Sadiq Khan’s cycling tsar ‘distorting’ statistics to justify millions on bike lanes
Residents claim TfL ignored true picture in attempt to bump up level of cycle use
By Steve Bird
21 October 2023 • 4:04pm
Isn't it great when vile lycra bullies get what they deserve?
His beloved Chiswick cycle lane lies empty in another
@TfL
cycle lobby shitshow, causing nothing but congestion.
Do read to comments 😆
HEADLINE NEWS:
LTNs can cause traffic jams and slow buses, TfL admits
By Steve Bird
Transport for London (TFL) has been forced to admit controversial Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) can shift traffic onto boundary roads and slow bus times. The congestion became so bad in one
"LTNs push traffic onto already congested main roads.....people live on those roads, go to school on those roads"
Well said
@LittleNinjaUK
LTNs are not the answer to air pollution.
Burke had plenty of 'feedback' but ignored residents & had to stand down over classist tweets.
HEADLINE NEWS
Cycling charity Sustrans handed £92m in grants to introduce low traffic neighbourhoods
Campaigners argue taxpayers’ money should not be used to fund ‘lobby group’s’ work to push through controversial schemes
By Steve Bird
16 September 2023 • 2:44pm
A cycling
HEADLINE NEWS:
The Court of Appeal has ruled that Hackney residents can proceed with a Judicial Review against
@hackneycouncil
's
#LowTrafficNeighbourhoods
as they failed to consult, failed to assess tye impact of displaced traffic or air pollution and failed PSED.
👏👏👏👏👏👏
✔People care about trees.
✔People care about sewage on beaches.
✔People care about microplastics in oceans, rivers & streams.
❌People don't want to be locked up in or trapped outside
#LTNs
#15minutecities
or have their every waking moment monitored & checked.
@RishiSunak
NET ZERO STUPIDITY
Coton Orchard, near Cambridge, produces 26 varieties of apples but is going to be axed to make way for "green transport." Coton council's Lib Dem leader says: "Quality public transport links are a key part of decarbonisation."
SOURCE:
Three in four disabled people feel “angry and ignored” because they were not properly consulted before roads were closed....Transport for All found 72%
were critical of the way
#LTNs
were introduced.
#Cycle
lobby run
@tfl
have tried everything to try to increase
#cycling
from dumping in crap infrastructure, removing bus lanes, removing bus routes and buses, working with councils to close multiple side roads (e.g.
#LTN
ghettos), and putting cycling at the top of journey
Thank you
@cristo_radio
and
@JamesBurdass
for highlighting how the cycle lobby have tried to swing a local consultation process by getting people from outside to email in support of the
@RBKC
cycle lane.
"68.9% of borough residents opposed the ressurection of the cycle lane"
Oh dear Jeremy Vine is having a meltdown over local residents from.OneChiswick reaching over £20,000 to support their legal challenge against the undemocratic, dangerous and inequitable C9 cycle lane (unused).
Please donate generously 😊
@chiswick_chaos
HEADLINE NEWS
£40m for cycling charity behind low-traffic zones
By
@andrewellson
Why has SUSTRANS, a so-called 'charity' been given millions of pounds to push street blockades no one wanted or voted for
@RishiSunak
@Mark_J_Harper
@transportgovuk
Whiff
This brilliant article perfectly describes the behaviour of entitled aggressive middle class (mainly male) cycle mobsters & people pushing ridiculous cycle policy
@grantshapps
@libdems
@UKLabour
@TheGreenParty
@MayorofLondon
under the command of your supreme leader Mr A Gilligan
Thank you
@MaajidNawaz
and
@LBC
for highlighting the
#SocialInjusticeofLTNs
on your show yesterday with
@ediz1975
& others.
"The architects of these
#LTNs
were living on the streets that benefitted from them and economically benefited because their house prices ⬆️"
Cycle nasty Paul O'Brien relentlessly targeted ASDA driver who then committed suicide. This is his response to a family member. The cycle lobby call themselves 'victims'.
These are the people pushing
#LTNs
and other awful road infrastructure changes
@Mark_J_Harper
@RicHolden
HEADLINE NEWS:
Today is the Proceedings Hearing at the High Court where Justice Tim Kerr will determine how residents from Ealing, Lambeth, Hackney and Hounslow will proceed against undemocratic
#LTNs
.
Wishing them all good luck 🤞🏼
#socialjusticeforLTNs
Don't believe claims made by bigoted lying cycle lobby Cllrs.
Here is a cycle lane in Hackney
It takes up half the pavement away from pedestrians.
It is unused.
2% cycle commuters demanding >50% of resources that they do not use.
Simon Still (aka Cycling Taliban) has "resigned" from
@london_Cycling
(LCC) with immediate effect. The alternative view, however, that he was pushed under great pressure exerted on the LCC by people's intolerance to racism & the
#SocialInjusticeOfLTNs
, is equally plausible
Headline News:
"Low traffic neighbourhoods are forcing tradesmen to hike prices by as much as a quarter.
Congestion caused by the schemes means workers in London are taking much longer to get to appointments"
Longer car journeys = more pollution too
This
@London_Cycling
(LCC) employee might claim that tweets in 2019, seemingly stereotyping young black men, should be deemed 'satire'. But why mention race at all? And worryingly, does this reflect the attitudes within the LCC?
Mayor to decimate London with Blackwall tunnel charge. Time for trades and hauliers to boycott London and see how long he lasts.
It is not about the environment, it is about shitting on working people to feed his coffers.
A bit late but....
HEADLINE NEWS:
Low traffic neighbourhoods stripped of government funding in boost for drivers
Councils will now have to find their own money if they want to install the controversial schemes
By Nick Gutteridge,
19 May 2023
Low traffic neighbourhoods will no
1/ Hackney residents have won their appeal for Judicial Review against undemocratic Streetspace program
@horrendoushack1
They join Hounslow and Lambeth.
Please support the legal campaigns!
#SocialInjusticeofLTNs
Lambeth
Hounslow
Not only did he breach impartiality rules he but has been leading a sustained attacks and abuse at residents who questioned
#LTNs
or cycle lanes
@JoannaBiddolph
Vine should be sacked
@BBC
Fantastic piece of journalism from Steve Bird and Ewan Somerville highlighting the dangers of ridiculous floating bus stops ans how many many cyclists ignore red lights and cause a danger to pedestrians.
Ask Shapps-PJA what he is going to do about this
@RishiSunak
-was his idea.
🔴 Sadiq Khan’s “death trap” bike lane zebra crossings see just one in 10 cyclists stop to let pedestrians pass, The Telegraph can reveal.
@ewansomerville
reports ⬇️
To those who have recently joined the
#LTN
debate please know that LTNs have been happening across the UK.
It is funded by central Tory government started by Bojo's 'cycling' adviser Andrew Gilligan during Covid
It was/is forced through by Lab/LibD/Green Cllrs
@Togetherdec
𝐒𝐔𝐌𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐘 𝐎𝐅 𝐋𝐎𝐖 𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂 𝐍𝐄𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐇𝐎𝐎𝐃𝐒 (#𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐬)
Not a resounding success.
In fact, more have been removed than retained!
This proves that Living/Liveable/Healthy Streets, LCC, Cycle UK, Arup, Sustrans, PJ Associates, Marston etc have NO CLUE.
The cycle mafia cronyism continues with this appointment of Boardman by Gilligan & Johnson. These people prioritise cycle inftastructure over all other travel (majority). They are wrecking our cities for an elitist, niche male dominated 'sport'. People need to wake up.
Get rid of Boris
Get rid of Carrie and Gilligan
Get rid of Khan & Norman
Get rid of city 'Mayors'
Get rid of 'cycling commissioners'
Have a greater London authority with party representativea from each council
Stop wasting taxpayers money on
#greenwashing
gimmicks
We will not accept ANY
#LTN
review conducted by:
Active Travel Academy
Rachel Aldred
Anna Goodman
Mike Laverty
or any of their team
Nor
Sustrans
LCC
Living Streets
Mums for middle class lungs
Wheels for minority cyclist wellbeing
Phil Jones Associates
Arup
Systra
Marston
London is at a standstill & a pollution traffic jam thanks to
@MayorofLondon
@tfl
closing bridges, insisting on empty cycle lanes and Labour councils blocking every side road removing every bit of redundancy in the road network. North and South Circulars utter Khanage. Shit show.
Yeah, councils that have abandoned democracy and don't care about residents, only their cult cycle club. 80% of residents voted against but pathetic
@BBCNews
cannot bring themselves to produce unbiased reporting.
HEADLINE NEWS:
Closure of an entire lane on Finchley Road in Camden by
@TfL
(to 'enable social distancing') is to be scrapped due to months of traffic and pollution chaos.
Well done to glorious leader
@MayorofLondon
causing unecessary pollution to poorer residents on main rds.
Affluent middle class NIMBYs have wafted into London, bought up property & restricted access to roads where *they* live using taxpayers' money. Now these thick selfish trolls would like YOU to give up YOUR car while they continue to drive and pollute YOUR road. Entitled cretins.
Islington residents overwhelmingly against discriminatory undemocratic
#LTNs
yet patronising green Cllr Caroline Russell appears to be saying the views of residents don't matter if
@IslingtonBC
think
#LTNs
are 'good for the people'. Appalling.
#VoteThemAllOut2022
@weareislington
As taxpayers can we demand our money back from the cycle lobby? Can someone ask Peter Walker? What a disgusting waste of public money on a Bojo/Gilligan vanity project
@trussliz
Not really the way to help the economy and a rather expensive 'experiment'
@grantshapps
.
We would like to commend
@HGinnett
for raising sensible concerns about congestion and unused cycle lanes. The cycle lobby and active travel NIMBYs have heaped on critism and abuse rather than listening or politely debating.
#truecolours
#winningvotes
I’m a cyclist, but as a citizen of the world it can’t be right to have an empty cycle lane opposite a mile-long tailback. It hasn’t encouraged people out of their cars and onto bikes, only made congestion air quality worse. We’re civilised people, why can’t we share the roads?
Time to get rid of this useless nonsense
@tfl
@grantshapps
together the with entirely empty cycle lane celebrated by that overpaid 'genius'
@willnorman
🤦🏾♀️🤦🏻🤦- how to create pollution.
"We need a new Oliver Cromwell"
One resident in
#Islington
tonight speaking about the impact of
#LTNs
after the council continued with a meeting knowing full well residents objecting could not get in.
NO
#democracy
by
@IslingtonBC
We did try to tell them that unsubstantiated tripe emanating from the
#cyclelobby
, Living Streets, PCL, Sustrans etc was, in fact, rubbish.
Modal shift - none
Evaporating traffic - none,
>only displacement by
#LTNs
Increase in cycling - none
Active travel tackles obesity - nope
A moment of great joy for
#London
as people take their city back from MAMILs who didn't use this 'cycle lane' but impeded the delivery of goods and services with their cult mantra swallowed whole by
@CamdenCouncil
HEADLINE NEWS:
Sadiq Khan 'misled public' about Ulez benefits
Draft report reveals advertising watchdog is set to criticise TfL for 'misleading' claims about extent Ulez expansion reduced pollution
By Steve Bird
18 November 2023 • 9:00pm
The
This important and hard hitting documentary about the social injustice of
#LTNs
has now been completed and the FULL LENGTH film had its first viewing in
#Lambeth
today.
Please contact
@rowdysharman
to set up viewings in your area! This film needs to go viral.
#grassroots
Its empty and no one voted for it. It has created a traffic shitshow on surrounding roads because like the £5 million Marble Arch shit mound it was created by clueless nitwits with no planning skills whatsoever. How 'does' Somerset House get deliveries now btw?
The cult rolls on
Introducing London’s first public space in 10 years 🍃
Strand Aldwych 🤩
Figuring out what to do over
#BankHoliday
? Pop over to this oasis of calm amidst the hustle and bustle 📺 👇
Lambeth protesters demonstrating against imposed LTNs outside the Royal Courts of Justice this morning ready to hear
@VinylSofa
's case against
@lambeth_council
- a council that has spent tax payers' money fighting to keep private enclaves for their affluent friends.
NO to
#LTNs
#Streatham
#Lambeth
Gentrification that
- pollutes
- causes congestion
- wrecks bus routes
- make disabled drivers and trades take longer routes
- kills businesses
The beloved Nigel Havers on
#LTNs
,
#ULEZ
etc
Interview with Nigel Havers on Telegraph
....As the conversation veers to London and transport, all at once this standard-bearer for charm and good manners is swept up in a high-octane fury. “I think London has turned itself against
London Cycling Campaign now call toxic
#LTNs
'climate safe streets'
What an earth does that even mean? Sounds like some garbage that took their tiny brains weeks to dream up. Safe for who? Their SUV NIMBY friends? Yes
Women at night - no
Disabled people - no
Pedestrians - no
Is
@lambeth_council
completely insane? They have now been caught on CCTV lifting up a bus drivers' car parked legally, painting double yellow lines underneath, putting the car back down and issuing a fine!
What level of ABUSE is this?
@transportgovuk
@Mark_J_Harper
TRADESPEOPLE
Please triple costs if you are providing services INSIDE
#LowTrafficNeighbourhoods
(exemptions: elderly, disabled, social housing & multioccupancy housing tenants) and the road blocks are costing YOU time and money.
They want to penalise YOU for diesel, THEY pushed
The
#LCC
#CycleLobby
@tfl
under their master Gilligan have reached a new low. Complaining about a funeral. They cannot even show respect for the dead (a hearse) or the grief of a family over a loved one. They are repulsive and repugnant. London doesn't need or want these psychos.
Well done
@jodygrabs
standing as and Independent candidate in the byelection in St Peter's ward Islington on a platform of democracy that all started with leading protests against undemocratic, divisive and discriminatory
#LTNs
brought in by
@IslingtonBC
- time for CHANGE!
HEADLINE NEWS:
"Calls for review of road closures after paramedics blocked from 999 emergency by fixed bollard
Paramedics responding to a heart attack were blocked by a new 'fixed bollard' installed in an Oxfordshire low traffic neighbourhood."
(Paywalled)
HEADLINE NEWS:
Euston Road unused
#cycle
lane to be removed and bus lane reinatated after cycle lobby make a total & utter mess of London's roads.
@tfl
@LondonAir
also stopped monitoring air quality on this vital feeder road supplying London, knowing the pollution was excessive.
Thanks
@cristo
and David from Bermondsey for discussing the behaviour of some local Cllrs who think they can "close roads and blame it all on Covid".
For those who missed it here is the Vauxhall/Oval LTN
@OneLambeth_Just
a good example of corruption 👇🏼