Children's highest #airpollution exposure is whilst walking/scooting to school along community main roads. Each dot below represents one primary school. The vast majority of the most polluted schools are considered 'deprived'. LTNs increase traffic on these roads by design. 😱
The next time an LTN advocate/troll asks for evidence that poor people & people of colour are more likely to live in heavily congested areas where #airpollution is high, direct them to the London Cycling Campaign #BlackLivesMatter page.👇🏾
@NormanC28839418@hold_bag@personasasa
Life is just too short to spend time responding to tweets from climate change deniers and those demanding evidence that poor people & people of colour are disproportionately impacted by #airpollution or that our greatest exposure to toxic air is on busy/main/community roads. 🤷🏾♂️
There are too many cars and not enough buses. Those there are, are sitting in traffic because London Government has ignored them for too long having been duped by the cycle bloggers. https://t.co/SaLmdTd7Uo
@LBCNews Of course they don’t work they just cause congestion in the surrounding roads with cars pumping out fumes stuck in traffic for longer than they would
@LBCNews Don’t need to be a rocket scientist to work out that nonsense only works for the privileged few, councillors need to be in court for wasting tax payers money.
A London council has been forced to apologise after claiming the introduction of low traffic neighbourhoods caused a reduction in pollution, when in fact they caused it to worsen https://t.co/my3NhITIjX
@CPhilpOfficial You chose to cherry pick just one scheme, the resettlement scheme, and fail to acknowledge the far bigger number of refugees taken in. Irresponsible for a Minister.
@RossLydall@SadiqKhan What an absurd response. Many LTNs cause an increase in congestion and pollution on the roads we live on, walk on, attend school on. The same roads that are already above legal levels of pollution. For what? To reduce pollution on roads previously below legal limits of pollution
@RossLydall@SadiqKhan Sadiq says he's "definitely in favour of the principle of LTNs" that move traffic from side roads with high car ownership onto illegally polluted community roads & Red Routes increasing #airpollution exposure for those already most at risk.
Are any covid LTNs "fit for purpose"?
@OfKentish@RossLydall@SadiqKhan@CamdenCouncil Where Councillors ignore you the only person who might listen and start a case file is your MP.
My wife got a very clear response from the Mayor's office that they would never encourage removal of LTNS even if TFL roads & bus journeys were made worse.
@RossLydall@SadiqKhan Statutory factors govern the decision - safety, interruption to bus services and so on - not a referendum between vocal, well-heeled people whose streets were gated at public expense, and all the rest of us (living in West Greenwich as it happens) lumbered with their traffic.
Mixed emotions returning from Calais/Grande Synthe today. It’s clearly good news that the Govt have lifted more restrictions for Ukrainians in desperate need of family reunion. But what to say to the unaccompanied children we met today in the camp who also have family in UK? 🧵
Announced in Holland today that the Dutch Government are reducing tax on gas, electric and car fuel. All those on low income and pensioners will also get €800 to help.@BorisJohnson@RishiSunak will you be doing the same to help British people?
Total chaos from Govt. This isn’t good enough. Families are struggling, being turned away or waiting days for visas. We need urgent action to get people to sanctuary in UK. Home Office were warned wks ago by British intelligence that an invasion was coming. Why didn’t they plan?