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Green streets

Local communities around the UK are trying to reduce traffic and create greener neighbourhoods: we’re telling their stories and offering news and advice from the experts

6 October 2021

  • An artist’s rendering of a bike-friendly road near the Brandenburg Gate

    Berlin’s car ban campaign: ‘It’s about how we want to live, breathe and play’

    Petition to forbid private car use in area equal in size to London’s zones 1 and 2 has collected 50,000 backers

1 September 2021

  • 'Super Battery' to help charge electric cars faster<br>epa09063604 Oil giant Shell conducts a test with a 'super battery' which helps electric cars to be charged much faster, at a filling station in Zaltbommel, Netherlands, 09 March 2021. EPA/Koen van Weel

    Shell aims to install 50,000 on-street EV charge points by 2025

    Oil firm sets out plans to provide a third of Britain’s network needed to hit climate targets

30 July 2021

  • Cyclists on a new wider cycle lane on Madeira Drive, Brighton.

    Hastily abandoned low-traffic schemes could cost councils funding

    Transport minister warns local authorities not to remove cycle lanes or other reduction measures without evidence of their failure

19 July 2021

  • People repaint a planter that was covered in oil in Lambeth

    London council to step up security as vandals target low-traffic zones

    Lambeth authority to install extra CCTV and increase patrols to protect low-traffic neighbourhoods

16 May 2021

  • Cyclists pass planters

    Critics of UK low-traffic schemes told that 25,000 filters already existed

    Researchers find road blocks that we’d already accepted before introduction of divisive low-traffic neighbourhoods

16 April 2021

  • London, UK. 28th Aug, 2020. Tooting roads closed as area pedestrian. This controverial trial period in the area London Mayor Sadiq Khan lives and was formerly MP. This busy area has congestion on major roads. Part of the Low Traffic Neighbourhoods LTN scheme. Credit: JOHNNY ARMSTEAD/Alamy Live News<br>2CDHMN3 London, UK. 28th Aug, 2020. Tooting roads closed as area pedestrian. This controverial trial period in the area London Mayor Sadiq Khan lives and was formerly MP. This busy area has congestion on major roads. Part of the Low Traffic Neighbourhoods LTN scheme. Credit: JOHNNY ARMSTEAD/Alamy Live News

    Traffic wars: who will win the battle for city streets? – podcast

    Radical new plans to reduce traffic and limit our dependence on cars have sparked bitter conflict. As legal challenges escalate, will Britain’s great traffic experiment be shut down before we have time to see the benefits?

25 March 2021

  • A new low-traffic neighbourhood area in Tooting, London, August, 2020

    Traffic wars: who will win the battle for city streets?

    The long read: Radical new plans to reduce traffic and limit our dependence on cars have sparked bitter conflict. As legal challenges escalate, will Britain’s great traffic experiment be shut down before we have time to see the benefits?

20 November 2020

  • Kate Salter the measures to reduce pollution had ..

    How communities are divided over low-traffic neighbourhoods

  • Workers help set up an LTN

    So you want to set up a low-traffic neighbourhood? Here’s where to start

19 November 2020

  • Students from Langdon Park school talk to architect Dinah Bornat

    ‘It isn't safe to walk’: how would young people plan UK streets?

    A radical project in east London is putting children and young people at the heart of the debate over liveable communities

17 November 2020

  • LTN scheme in Southwark, These filters in East Dulwich will remove rat running and make this area safer

    London hospital trust to pay £250k to install LTN for public health benefits

    Guy’s and St Thomas’ charity will fund low-traffic neighbourhood to tackle air pollution and obesity in Lambeth and Southwark

16 November 2020

  • London, UK. 28th Aug, 2020. Tooting roads closed as area pedestrian. This controverial trial period in the area London Mayor Sadiq Khan lives and was formerly MP. This busy area has congestion on major roads. Part of the Low Traffic Neighbourhoods LTN scheme. Credit: JOHNNY ARMSTEAD/Alamy Live News<br>2CDHMYT London, UK. 28th Aug, 2020. Tooting roads closed as area pedestrian. This controverial trial period in the area London Mayor Sadiq Khan lives and was formerly MP. This busy area has congestion on major roads. Part of the Low Traffic Neighbourhoods LTN scheme. Credit: JOHNNY ARMSTEAD/Alamy Live News

    Tell us about your experiences of reducing traffic and creating green neighbourhoods

  • Railton Road, south London

    'I got it wrong. Since the changes it's become more vibrant': life in an LTN

  • Ealing residents protest against a local LTN scheme.

    Mythbusters: eight common objections to LTNs – and why they are wrong

  • Wykeham Street in Scarborough

    Low-traffic schemes benefit everyone, not just better-off, finds study

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