#low-traffic-neighbourhoods

#low-traffic-neighbourhoods

Describing the scheme as being part of the Labour administration's anti-car agenda, the Tories have also raised concern over the cost of installing the project. Two low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) installed by the council in Palmers Green and Bowes Park in 2020, and made permanent in 2022, caused significant controversy. The council recently agreed to trial a major change to the Bowes Park LTN after coming under pressure from drivers wanting easier access to their homes.

Reform UK's pledge to dismantle low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) is backed by the assertion from councils that no such schemes exist, despite their popularity.

Rather than simply shuffling traffic between side roads and main roads, as Harker asserts, low-traffic neighbourhoods in Lambeth and elsewhere lead to significant overall drops across the whole area.

Rishi Sunak's own review of LTNs concluded that effects on boundary roads, whether positive or negative, were minimal; the broader evidence favors LTNs for public health.