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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2023 15:12:26 GMT
 There are thousands of streets up and down the country where "through traffic" is not necessary, but people use such streets as short cuts. The problem is that people today just dont want to be inconvenienced, and the easy route is, to them, the best route. The TFN schemes are usually designed to force traffic to use arterial or main roads, as against residential routes. Close to where I live is a sheltered housing scheme for pensioners, there were two ways in, which meant that cars from neighbouring areas could "pass through" the sheltered housing estate, but one way in was blocked, and so now ONLY vehicles who are specificaly goint that estate enter. At the same time, some of the alleyways from the older persons bungalows leading to a neighbouring estate were also blocked off, thereby cutting down the numbers of kids / teenagers from neighbouring areas causing a nuisance. In central Middlesbrough, residents have created "green areas" with plants, planters and seats, where neighbours now sit out in pleasant surroundings, and cars must now use the road at the front of these houses, not both back and front. |
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Post by sheepy on Apr 2, 2023 11:08:48 GMT
View AttachmentThere are thousands of streets up and down the country where "through traffic" is not necessary, but people use such streets as short cuts. The problem is that people today just dont want to be inconvenienced, and the easy route is, to them, the best route. The TFN schemes are usually designed to force traffic to use arterial or main roads, as against residential routes. Close to where I live is a sheltered housing scheme for pensioners, there were two ways in, which meant that cars from neighbouring areas could "pass through" the sheltered housing estate, but one way in was blocked, and so now ONLY vehicles who are specificaly goint that estate enter. At the same time, some of the alleyways from the older persons bungalows leading to a neighbouring estate were also blocked off, thereby cutting down the numbers of kids / teenagers from neighbouring areas causing a nuisance. In central Middlesbrough, residents have created "green areas" with plants, planters and seats, where neighbours now sit out in pleasant surroundings, and cars must now use the road at the front of these houses, not both back and front. We will have to wait and see Sidney, how many others might or might not come to harm through them. |
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Post by Handyman on Apr 2, 2023 11:35:20 GMT
Hackney Council are going for it big time, it is hard enough as it is to drive through Hackney as it is , with cycle lanes taking half the road buses stacked up trying to get through , blocked off streets shops are closing down as nobody can park to stop and buy anything. When Genghis Kahn London Mayor blocked off streets even the Emergency Services could not get through , ambulance crews had to park up and run down the street to get to people, hard to get a Fire Engine down these narrow roads as it is To every action there is always a reaction , and not always a good reaction www.standard.co.uk/news/london/hackney-london-ltn-car-ban... |
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Post by johnofgwent on Apr 2, 2023 12:05:37 GMT
View AttachmentYou instinctively know that a story is going to either be a pack of lies, or a load of twisted and bent truths when it The Daily Fail. Nothing what so ever to do with "15 minute cities" The scheme is the same as many thousands of other LTN schemes all across the United Kingdom (Low Traffic Neighbourhoods), and only the Daily Mail makes any mention of 15 minute cities. The LTN schemes are intended to reduce traffic, reduce polution, make areas safer, particularly for families with childre. All they do is reduce the numbers of ways into and out of a particular area or street, and it results in very minor inconvenience for some car owners, meaning they have to do a slight detour. The picture is of a street (back lane) in Middlesbrough where LTN schemes have proved highly popular, but of course some people are so selfish and think only of themselves, and refuse to be inconvenienced, even to the detrement of others. By their own admission schemes were devised during lockdown to prevent a teturn to the level of freedom and mobility enjoyed prior to the nationwide house arrest. |
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Post by johnofgwent on Apr 2, 2023 12:20:39 GMT
Every time a road is altered, diverted or blocked off, the local council MUST by law inform the emergency services, which renders the above post Bull Shit. The advantages of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods far outweigh any negative impact, it makes street safer, it helps to lower crime, it reduces polution, noise and makes streets and communities better places to live. The problem for you is that you represent the populist so called "freedom fighters", meaning the selfish elements of society who believe thay can do WTF they want, and without having to think about, or worry about their actions, or consequences on other people. You do realise that blocking off, altering and diverting roads can lead to delayed journeys, even if the emergency services are informed ? the finest example being right here in newport For decades newport and Pontypool have fought a traffic war with Cwmbran, the latter doing its damndest to attract shoppers and workers from those towns. Matters came to a head in the late nineties with tbe construction of a new bypass to Pontypool avoiding the bypass that went right next to cwmbran, built in the 80s to replace the B roads Part of that assaboutery rejigged the m4 j25 denying anything from exiting directly to the council tax band E properties in Caerleon and later the Moorings. The planners left emergency access lanes but the town council fitted barriers across them. In all the time they have existed fire engines stationed at the Malpas Rd J26 junction fire station, built specifically in the 60s to exploit the then newly built m4 as a swift access route, have been banned from using the exit the planning department demanded. Ambulance cars and ambulances now park in a retail park by a flyover giving access east and west, which is how i still got a paramedic car in three minutes after Moira discovered my stroke. The Labour government and council planners acted togethet to push that from five to fifteen minutes with their denial of M4 access and consequent diversion through the thick of the town traffic. As i say, action by private citizens and corporate bodies has thwarted labours usof the deatherendum tonspite the high council tax banded homes in this shithole. But we all laughed our fucking balls off when the council leader’s home in Caerleon’s most expensive post millennium street burned to the ground the other year before the fire brigade could reach it. |
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