Twofeetgood
@TwofeetgoodSE21
Dulwich dad. Has some questions. Commonly found on two feet, two wheels and in the occasional Zipcar. Remember: If you're not at the table, you're on the menu
Pinch point in HH not resolved. Danger at Tulse Hill not resolved. Main rd issues made worse by LTNs Priorities for safer roads must start where issues =most acute. Not where privilege prevails AND ⬆️ car ownership. Slowing #3, creating congestion NOT good. @AirCroxted
Network efficiency is not solely based on traffic volume. Congestion on Croxted can be related to the major pinch point at Herne Hill Jxn. Improvements there is something we can all probably support?
Killing the bus - the most affordable, accessible, safe & reliable transport service (not to mention the mode of transport for low income, BAME, disabled & women users) - is the least progressive thing @MayorofLondon could do. Shame on @UKLabour
Unbelievable betrayal of London’s bus passengers from @MayorofLondon. Hackney’s main bus route into the City is to have its bus lane removed and for bus passengers to sit in the traffic of Shoreditch High Street: “to allow us to build a new bus stop bypass…” @LonTravelWatch
Southwark's justification for LTNs was that they would tackle obesity and air pollution. Then proceeded to track neither - despite this being a metric that the community asked for. @EllaRobertaFdn @visitcamberwell
Something has gone wrong in @peterwalker99's Champion Hill LTN, where obesity went up post-implementation. To counter-balance that, in the same LTN KSIs fell by 50%! 🍾🍻 A cyclist fell off their bike there in 2017, which had brought the total to 2, vs a post- casualty in 2022.
For some reason Laura Parsons (no idea who she is) has blocked me, but this is a useful community post she's made:

What ‘additional measures’ have you called for? We can share ours and we have been granted none despite terrible congestion - NO road crossings and regular crashes.
Generalisation completely unsupported. LTNs have negligible impact on main roads. Where this occur, in most cases it reduces rapidly and in the small number of cases remaining, we call for additional measures to mitigate. All exemplified and possible in West Dulwich 💚
Saying LTNs are fair as boundary rds don’t lose value is a simplistic economic fig leaf for deeper inequality. It ignores the economic reality of displaced externalities, the philosophical need for distributive fairness & the political importance of shared benefit & transparency.
Anna Goodman's husband trying to grasp at any straw to make LTNs popular. Now they're a good thing because they make property prices go up? Desperate times clearly call for desperate measures. His total lack of empathy for those on the boundary of LTNs is insane.
Rising house prices don't signify urban planning success, but increased demand in a context of scarcity. LTNs create micro-enclaves of desirability at the direct expense of other areas. Classic externalisation: improving 1 area by exporting a negative impact to its periphery.
Anna Goodman's husband trying to grasp at any straw to make LTNs popular. Now they're a good thing because they make property prices go up? Desperate times clearly call for desperate measures. His total lack of empathy for those on the boundary of LTNs is insane.
Boundary rd homes suffer increased congestion, pollution & noise - classic negative externalities. They erode quality of life. Lack of a price drop doesn’t mean harm isn’t occurring. Housing markets are imperfect & sticky, esp in Ldn where supply is constrained. @AirCroxted
Anna Goodman's husband trying to grasp at any straw to make LTNs popular. Now they're a good thing because they make property prices go up? Desperate times clearly call for desperate measures. His total lack of empathy for those on the boundary of LTNs is insane.
If main rd house prices don’t fall, it's likely due to macro forces (e.g. Ldn's housing shortage) masking localised detriments. The fact that boundary homes might hold value while absorbing disproportionate harms is an argument for unfairness, not against it. @AirCroxted
Anna Goodman's husband trying to grasp at any straw to make LTNs popular. Now they're a good thing because they make property prices go up? Desperate times clearly call for desperate measures. His total lack of empathy for those on the boundary of LTNs is insane.
Creating oases of tranquillity for a select few is a form of spatial exclusion. The idea that fairness can be assessed by checking who won or lost in the property market reduces civic life to a financial game, ignoring issues of dignity, access & shared space. @AirCroxted
Anna Goodman's husband trying to grasp at any straw to make LTNs popular. Now they're a good thing because they make property prices go up? Desperate times clearly call for desperate measures. His total lack of empathy for those on the boundary of LTNs is insane.
There is much to say about this disgraceful tweet from @betterstreetswd. First off it is the crassest form of gaslighting to dismiss the harm main road residents experience because it doesn’t show up on a Zoopla chart. @ChitchClaire @LittleNinjaUK @PaulLomax @AirCroxted
Anna Goodman's husband trying to grasp at any straw to make LTNs popular. Now they're a good thing because they make property prices go up? Desperate times clearly call for desperate measures. His total lack of empathy for those on the boundary of LTNs is insane.
.@MayorofLondon we sincerely ask you to withdraw from Streatham Hill Scheme and re-design it please. These floating bus stops are not safe or accessible for blind people.
We need an immediate halt on any more floating bus stops @Keir_Starmer. Blind people are being excluded from catching the bus due to these designs which are still being put in. @NFBUK have no faith in @transportgovuk to tackle this @Heidi_Labour @simonlightwood @LordPeterHendy.
Watching this with interest. If it passes, local and national government will finally have to focus on main roads - where, esp in London, transport pollution and pollution from housing development is highest. @ChokedUp_UK @cleanairfund @ImpUrbanHealth @EllaRobertaFdn
Delighted @sianberry is picking up this vital bill - I did all I could to pilot it through the Commons when I was MP, building on the excellent work of @GreenJennyJones in the Lords. Clean air is a human right @EllaRobertaFdn
Same as it ever was: those with the most social (and actual) capital, who are most responsible for pollution, accrue the benefits, while those with the least accrue the harms. @uklabour @SocEnvJustice @ImpUrbanHealth @cleanairfund @ChokedUp_UK
It’s been a long few years! The least culpable children who have ALWAYS walked, cycled, scooted to school, get to deal with *INCREASED OFTEN STANDSTILL* congestion, pollution and danger just cos they live on or use a main road. NOT ONE MAIN ROAD MEASURE @TwofeetgoodSE21
Remember @southwarklabour 2022 manifesto commitment #36? "We will work with TfL to reduce traffic on main roads & make bus journeys quicker & more reliable, exploring the potential for rapid bus transit." None of that happened. @visitcamberwell @AirCroxted @DulwichCleanAir
No let up here either despite promises of evaporation and it takes time…. & a Cllr swearing on their mother’s life that the timed restrictions didn’t make the congestion worse here (and Tfl concluding the opposite, that bus delays were a result of the restrictions)@ChitchClaire
I sometimes wonder if Southwark has a commercial bone in its body.
This is the final plot 8 (H1) of the former Heygate estate. @lb_southwark agreed to sell it to @Lendlease for £6m with payment due upon commencement of construction. @lendlease just sold it to another developer for £42m. @lb_southwark still hasn't received a penny of its £6m.
Ignoring residents' legitimate concerns, poor consultation, boosting LTN scheme benefits while soft-pedaling the downsides. It's all too familiar to anyone who saw how @lb_southwark behaved. @AirCroxted @margynewens @RoseCllr @mcash @DulwichReopen @ChitchClaire @DulwichCleanAir
We are delighted that the judge ruling on the outcome of the unlawful LTN is to have this quashed with immediate effect. There will be no more fines and it begs the question of what will be done with the £m+ fines already gathered. You can apply for refunds we suspect.
If @lambeth_council @RezinaChowdhury were serious about 'reducing road danger for those most at risk' there wld be urgent action on main rds (most ppl killed or seriously injured) & at junctions (danger for cyclists). Anything else is tinkering at the margins. @visitcamberwell
West Dulwich LTN OPEN to all
Woah!
Humiliation for Lambeth Council today as judge rules it must: – Tear down the West Dulwich LTN which it implemented unlawfully by ignoring residents’ legitimate concerns – Pay campaigners' court costs (£35k) The judge also blocked Lambeth from appealing Full story incoming
Large "We're Moving!" sign in the window of Dalloz Contemporary. Romeo Jones has closed. Yet councillors still deny traffic restrictions & the CPZ have contributed to a hostile trading environment. @DulwichReopen @Southwark_News @issyclarke16 @busbf11 @DulwichSociety