Bowes/Bounds Green residents supporting our low traffic neighbourhood (the real account, not the trolling one) #ActiveTravel #StreetsforPeople #Community
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If children were included in the consultation process for LTNs, which option do you think they would choose?
#TomorrowsGeneration #GreenerFuture #KidsNotCars
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'I'd rather be sitting in the back of an SUV with a screen on my way to school', said no child ever.
Independence and fresh air always take priority
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The evidence is clear:
Cleaner air = healthier children.
theguardian.com/environment/…
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Fun fact: When Barcelona pedestrianized many of their streets, childhood asthma rates and related ER visits declined significantly.
The most vulnerable members of society never get consulted when decisions on street design are made. They should be. #HealthyStreets #LTNs #SaferNeighbourhoods
Çocukların güvenle bisiklete binebildiği sokaklar, iyi şehirlerin en güzel işaretidir. 🚲🌿 (Fotoğraf : Noemia Prada)
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Why would you propose rolling back ULEZ when only a week ago it was shown to have such a positive impact on children’s health.
Insane.
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Happy Pedestrianise Day to those who celebrate!
Work commences on Oxford Street today. In six months' time, most Londoners and tourists—except a few cab drivers and Tories—will wonder why this wasn't implemented years ago.
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Frustrated by inaction on the threat of cars, the 1970s residents of Delft's Tuinstraat illicitly erected barriers to curb traffic.
An act of rebellion became a global revolution—inventing the woonerf (living street): a common space for recreation, vegetation, and socialization.
ALT A before and after image of a residential steeet in Delft. The before is a paved space dominated by car traffic. The after a lush garden space populated by trees and planters.
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'We cannot make streets more human friendly in our city. We are not #Amsterdam!!1!'
Mayor Anne Hidalgo in #Paris: "Hold my 🥖&🍷":
🏫🤸 Creating 300 car free #Schoolstreets
🌳🌲 Planting 170.000 trees
🖤💚 Turning 40% of asphalt into green
📍 Rue du Docteur Paquelin
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Wheelchair user here - London based - this is such bollocks.
Pedestrianised spaces tend to be MORE accessible not less.
Also the buses are stopping round the back which is hardly any extra distance at all.
Stop appropriating disability rights to whine about rules for cars.
Sadly, the Mayor's plans for Oxford Street will mean it will inaccessible to wheelchair users.
No black cabs, no busses and no step free access from any underground station along the pedestrianised area.
It's another example of how this rushed and badly thought through plan risks doing more harm than good.
It should be delayed until we can get it right.
Life in an LTN when done properly. 👌💚 #HealthyStreets #TransportFreedomforWomen #SafeSpacesforChildren #QuieterNeighbourhoods
“While biking around Delft, I passed mothers with children, women in heels heading to meetings, teenage girls riding together, female students going to university and grandmothers enjoying an afternoon ride. It wasn't just one or two women, but hundreds."
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ALT Women of all ages and abilites cycle in pairs and groups on dedicated infrastructure in Delft.
ALT Women of all ages and abilites cycle in pairs and groups on dedicated infrastructure in Delft.
ALT Women of all ages and abilites cycle in pairs and groups on dedicated infrastructure in Delft.
ALT Women of all ages and abilites cycle in pairs and groups on dedicated infrastructure in Delft.
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💚A low traffic neighbourhood with pedestrian & cycle access💚
The street trees & planting not only look great - they're helping London cope with the climate crisis: shade reducing heat when it's hot and SUDS absorbing water in heavy rain.
👏👏 @IslingtonBC @RowChampion & team
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"Las ciudades con red ciclista protegida tenían un -44% menos de fallecidos y -50% de heridos graves en atropellos y colisiones" usa.streetsblog.org/2019/05/…
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Cycling is only fatally dangerous because of cars.
Anyone who thinks cycling is inherently fatally dangerous needs to read about, or visit, Paris. There, cycling was once dangerous. Today it is not. The difference? Planning and street design (and attitude- which has dramatically shifted in just one decade).
How we plan for cars, how we plan for cycling, and how drivers act toward cyclists determines the danger.
I’ll never forget the day my conservative, SUV driving father-in-law changed his mind about bike lanes: “I want my daughter-in-law to be safe.”
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The ULEZ turns out to be awesome.
Scientists stunned by children's lung recovery in ultra low emission zone bbc.in/4getMx6
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Between Paris and its inner suburbs, more trips are made by bicycle than by car.
When land use & street design makes it convenient to ride bikes, people ride bikes.
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"El Ayuntamiento de París hizo un estudio para ver cómo adaptar la ciudad a las altas temperaturas y en 2023 aprobó un plan para recuperar el 40% del espacio público en su cobertura natural, incluyendo despavimentar, crear permeabilidad natural y replantar arbolado"
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“…we need to achieve a minimum of 40% on-street canopy cover, and preferably more, before we start to really feel the benefits of nature’s most advanced air-conditioning technology.”
Me, for @BigIssue on tackling urban #heatwaves…👇
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