{"id":175776,"date":"2023-05-21T20:41:31","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T20:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=175776"},"modified":"2023-05-21T20:41:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T20:41:31","slug":"southwark-council-scraps-plan-for-sixth-low-traffic-neighbourhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/southwark-council-scraps-plan-for-sixth-low-traffic-neighbourhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Southwark council scraps plan for SIXTH low traffic neighbourhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Residents declare victory in battle against LTN&#8217;s: Labour-run Southwark council scraps plan for SIXTH low traffic neighbourhood after being bombarded with furious backlash over impact on congestion and businesses<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>READ MORE: Map reveals extent of hated LTN road blocks across the country\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Residents are celebrating after an eco-conscious council has scrapped a new low-traffic neighbourhood (LTN).<\/p>\n<p>More than 600 people who live in Dulwich Village, south London, said they did not support the introduction of a sixth LTN in the affluent area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In an official survey there was an overwhelmingly negative response to the plan, with 1,242 residents saying they found &#8216;limited support&#8217; for the road closure, and only 33 per cent appeared to back it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LTNs were created in a move to make air quality cleaner and roads quieter, prioritising the movements of cyclist and pedestrians over cars &#8211; but the schemes come frequently under fire, with many LTNs being destroyed by furious residents across the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The proposal by the Labour led council was to close a busy junction between Turney Road and Dulwich Village. It claimed the LTN would allow for pedestrians and cyclists to feel safer in an area with a &#8216;more village feel&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/05\/21\/11\/71233303-12107823-image-a-1_1684666075852.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Residents are celebrating after an eco-concious council has scrapped a new low-traffic neighbourhood. Pictured: The LTN at the junction of Carlton Avenue and Dulwich Village<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/05\/21\/11\/71233295-12107823-image-a-2_1684666078550.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>More than 600 people who live in Dulwich Village said they did not support the introduction of a sixth LTN in the affluent area.\u00a0Pictured: The LTN at the junction of Carlton Avenue and Dulwich Village<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE:\u00a0Now Labour&#8217;s war on motorists comes to Bristol: Map shows \u00a36M eco-friendly LTN stretching two miles where bollards and planters will block cars &#8211; after councils imposed schemes on Oxford and London\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>Motorists who are blue badge holders were not going to be exempt from the proposed new traffic zone, causing disabled residents to become increasingly more frustrated.<\/p>\n<p>The council has now backtracked completely and quashed the proposal after the official consultation was pelted with disapproving responses from angry residents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is reportedly the first time that a Labour council has thrown out an idea of an LTN, according to the Sunday Telegraph.<\/p>\n<p>The council also came under fire in January after one of its\u00a0bosses in charge of a the scheme accused disability campaigners of &#8216;mansplaining&#8217; as they asked for a blue badge holder exemption.<\/p>\n<p>The fiery row erupted between the Labour councillor and residents as they discussed a junction in the village, which was closed with planters to become an LTN during the first lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>This has meant disabled motorists, with blue badges were also forced to drive through alternative, and often longer routes.<\/p>\n<p>Two local campaigners attended Southwark Council&#8217;s December cabinet meeting to present local politicians with a petition, signed by 600 locals in the area, which called for a blue badge exemption.<\/p>\n<p>Clive Rates told councillors that after the LTNs were implemented in 2020, a large number of people with disabilities in the area now &#8216;find themselves trapped in their homes&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/01\/22\/15\/66840331-11663593-image-m-3_1674400875498.jpg\" height=\"415\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Labour councillor Catherine Rose (pictured), who oversees the LTN scheme, accused two disability campaigners of &#8216;mansplaining&#8217; while they called for a blue badge holder exemption\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8216;Is it really a benefit for society that vulnerable and disabled people find themselves unable to leave their homes?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Rates went on to relay the effect the scheme had had on local bus routes had been &#8216;extremely deleterious not just for vulnerable people but for everybody&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The campaigner&#8217;s comments provoked a visibly angry response from councillor Catherine Rose, who oversees the LTN scheme under her role as the council&#8217;s cabinet member for streets and clean air.<\/p>\n<p>The councillor shouted in response: &#8216;Have you finished mansplaining to me?<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;That&#8217;s exactly what you have been doing for the last five or ten minutes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Thank you very much, I speak to thousands of people.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, Dulwich council raked in \u00a36.6 million of fines from LTNs. In the past three years, LTNs have cost Londoner&#8217;s \u00a3100 million in fines.<\/p>\n<p>RAC data shows London has the schemes in Camden, Croydon, Ealing, Hounslow, Lambeth, Newham, and Waltham Forest. These are all Labour led apart from Croydon, which has no overall control.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In March this year, vigilantes in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, torched a number of planters used to close roads to may way for LTNs just hours after they were installed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Footage shows the boxes completely destroyed, with locals online praising the &#8216;freedom fighters&#8217; for acting against the low-traffic measures.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Frustrated residents in Oxford have also taken action against the schemes, with a video emerging of a driver confronting\u00a0eco-zealots policing an LTN blockade and refusing to let her pass on her way to work. They have no authority to stand guard at the blockades.<\/p>\n<p>The motorist was angrily telling the protesters to move out of the way, although Twitter users commenting on the video pointed out that a &#8216;no motor vehicles&#8217; sign could be seen on the planter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/03\/28\/11\/69198173-11910455-Just_after_8pm_on_Thursday_23_March_emergency_services_were_call-a-3_1680000038870.jpg\" height=\"431\" width=\"306\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/03\/28\/11\/69198163-11910455-The_planters_which_have_road_closed_signs_on_them_aim_to_prohibi-a-4_1680000038889.jpg\" height=\"431\" width=\"306\"><\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called in Rochdale after LTN planters were set alight and removed<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/03\/28\/11\/69198183-11910455-image-a-18_1679998924913.jpg\" height=\"455\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The now-destroyed planters prohibited vehicles from using certain roads across Rochdale<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/03\/28\/11\/69198181-11910455-image-a-19_1679998931552.jpg\" height=\"476\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The trial was implemented across Rochdale in Greater Manchester on Boundary Street, Durham Street, Leicester Street, New Barn Lane, Salkeld Street, and Whitby Street<\/p>\n<p>Last month, an &#8216;anti-vandal&#8217;\u00a0bollard was sawn off overnight by vigilantes after wooden designs replaced plastic posts which were vandalised more than 20 times in Oxford.<\/p>\n<p>Oxfordshire County Council had spent thousands of pounds replacing the controversial bollards in its LTN scheme after furious residents repeatedly damaged them.<\/p>\n<p>Bollards in the city have been driven over, pulled out of the ground and even set on fire since they were installed in May last year.<\/p>\n<p>The LTNs have divided neighbourhoods in Oxfordshire, with many drivers furious they can no longer drive down residential roads.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some residents have praised the scheme for cutting crime and traffic, but others have repeatedly damaged the bollards in protest.<\/p>\n<p>The new &#8216;anti-vandal&#8217; wooden bollards had only been erected for ten days before one on Clive Road in the city was sawn off, leaving only a stump behind.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/04\/25\/12\/70206593-12011173-image-a-1_1682422136603.jpg\" height=\"438\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>A wooden bollard in Oxford has been sawn off overnight in an ongoing row over Low Traffic Neighbourhoods\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/04\/25\/12\/70206575-12011173-The_council_said_the_latest_vandalism_to_the_LTN_presents_a_sign-a-16_1682423166692.jpg\" height=\"748\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The council said the latest vandalism to the LTN &#8216;presents a significant safety risk to road users, pedestrians and cyclists alike&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Also in March, the\u00a0Daily Mail reported how Ministers were under growing pressure from their own MPs and campaigners to scrap &#8216;preposterous&#8217; and &#8216;dangerous&#8217; LTNs.<\/p>\n<p>It came as figures showed nearly 240 ambulances were delayed from reaching potentially life-threatening callouts due to the schemes.<\/p>\n<p>Experts said the recorded incidents would be &#8216;the tip of the iceberg&#8217; as they relate only to London and there were hundreds more LTNs in other cities.<\/p>\n<p>There is also opposition to established or planned schemes in Hereford, Brighton, Bath, St Andrews, Jesmond in Newcastle upon Tyne, Warrington in Cheshire, Southsea in Portsmouth and Leith in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n<p>Many councils have hailed LTNs as a success in tackling congestion and pollution, with 300 already set up or planned nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>The schemes include pop-up cycle lanes, wider pavements and closing streets to cars while policing the new rules with warning signs, CCTV cameras and fines for drivers breaking them.<\/p>\n<p>But critics say they are often poorly thought out, built at short notice with little consultation and accuse council chiefs of using them as &#8216;cash cows&#8217; to clobber motorists.<\/p>\n<p>They also say traffic is simply pushed elsewhere, creating worse congestion and pollution on other main roads during their commute to work or the school run.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens have been torn up after councils pressed ahead with them \u2013 wasting hundreds of thousands of pounds \u2013 despite local opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Millions have been handed to councils for creating LTNs as part of a Government promise, made by then-chancellor Rishi Sunak, to spend \u00a32billion by 2025 on cycle lanes and encouraging other forms of active travel such as walking by 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12107823\/Labour-run-Southwark-council-scraps-plan-SIXTH-low-traffic-neighbourhood.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents declare victory in battle against LTN&#8217;s:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":175775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23056],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Southwark council scraps plan for SIXTH low traffic neighbourhood - Pre Coin News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, 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