Ross Lydall 25 November 2020
A dozen London Ambulance Service medics are taking part in the pilot in Merton, and are dispatched from GP surgeries to deliver care in the community.
This includes treating patients with long-term conditions, including those who have contracted covid, and others who require follow-up checks after being discharged from hospital.
The Impact of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and Other Active Travel Interventions on Vehicle Ownership: Findings from the Outer London Mini-Holland Programme | Published in Findings
Findings
Goodman, Anna, Scott Urban, and Rachel Aldred. 2020. “The Impact of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and Other Active Travel Interventions on Vehicle Ownership: Findings from the Outer London Mini-Holland Programme.” Findings, December. https://doi.org/10.32866/001c.18200.
Abstract We use vehicle registration data to examine whether active travel interventions in Outer London between 2015-2019 affected motor vehicle ownership, compared to other neighbourhoods. We find statistically significant reductions in car/van ownership in areas introducing ‘low traffic neighbourhoods’ (-6%, or 23 cars/vans per 1000 adults, after two years). We also find statistically significant but smaller reductions in areas introducing other infrastructure such as cycle tracks (-2%, or 7 cars/vans per 1000 adults, after 2 years). These effects increased after adjusting for the changing age profile of the intervention areas. Our findings indicate that active travel interventions can reduce motor-vehicle ownership, particularly interventions involving low traffic neighbourhoods.
City of London set to replace car park spaces with last-mile cargo bike delivery hub | road.cc
SIMON_MACMICHAEL TUE, DEC 08, 2020
A report from the City of London Corporation’s Department of the Built Environment (see Agenda Item 6 at page 491 here) recommends that the proposal be adopted by the Planning and Transportation Committee when it meets next Tuesday.
The report, flagged up on Twitter by user always last, notes that repurposing the car parking spaces is in line with the Corporation’s 25-year Transport Strategy, adopted in May last year, and which “provides a strong mandate to deliver a radical freight programme.”
The car parking spaces concerned are in the London Wall Car Park at the south west corner of the Barbican Estate, with the report saying that “Last mile logistics hubs facilitate deliveries by cargo cycles and pedestrian porters, removing large numbers of delivery vehicles from City streets.
‘I’m often faster’: Milan’s bicycling bookseller takes on the online giants | The Guardian
Angela Giuffrida 9 Dec 2020
Luca Santini took his fight against Amazon and others to the streets after having to close his bookshop
Luca Ambrogio Santini is considered to be something of a knight-errant as he cycles around parts of Milan on his red cargo bike delivering books to people’s homes, so much so he is affectionately called the “Don Quixote of booksellers”.
“Quixote went to fight against the windmills,” Santini said of the protagonist in the classic novel by Miguel de Cervantes. “My windmills are the online retailers from those monster multinationals … which for us independent booksellers are unnameable.”
The former bookstore owner sighs before uttering a name: “Obviously, Amazon––I practically do what they do, and often I’m faster than them.”
Camden Park Road and Torriano Avenue Safe and Healthy Streets
Dates: consultation 7th December 2020; Respond by 21st December 2020; Reply to: safetravel@camden.gov.uk; CCC member dealing with it Jean Dollimore. RESPONDED 18 December 2020. Decision 4 Feb 2021
Arlington Road Area Low Traffic Neighbourhood – Scheme Amendments
Dates: consultation 7th December 2020; Respond by 21st December 2020; Reply to: safetravel@camden.gov.uk; CCC member dealing with it Jean Dollimore. RESPONDED 18 Dec 2020. Decision to proceed 15 Jan 2021.
Chalk Farm Road and Harmood Street area – parking and filtering
Dates: consultation 7th December 2020; Respond by 21st December 2020; Reply to: safetravel@camden.gov.uk;
CCC member dealing with it Jean Dollimore. RESPONDED 18 Dec 2020. Decision to proceed 15 Jan 2021
York Way: Road safety changes
Dates: consultation 7th December 2020; Respond by 21st December 2020; Reply to: safetravel@camden.gov.uk; CCC member dealing with it Jean Dollimore. RESPONDED 15th December 2020. Decision in favour 2nd Feb 2021
August) Tackling The Main Roads – The Ranty Highwayman
The post had a few comments (I’ve published all received) and unfortunately a few have kind of reinforced the point I was making. There were people projecting onto others with the usual tropes of why nobody is thinking of elderly people, disabled people and NHS workers (home visits). There was a comment about the schemes pushing traffic from where wealthy car owners live onto the main roads where less well-off people live. There was also a comment about going the extra mile (yes I smiled) to listen to concerns which I cannot disagree with.
Then we had a description of the idea as being draconian, the idea that international experience can just be dismissed and that apparently LTNs will make it difficult to access places of worship so people will have to stop practicing their religion. Actually, none of these comments are new to me, I have literally heard it all before.
It’s not just speed that kills. New research recognises the danger of all traffic on our streets. – Action Vision Zero
by Jeremy Leach and Emma Griffin
The news that not one pedestrian or person cycling died on Oslo’s streets in 2019 came as a jolt to the countries and cities struggling to meet Vision Zero targets.
Last year, 130 people died on London’s streets including 71 pedestrians and five cyclists, according to TfL’s provisional figures. This January, in Peckham alone, three people were killed in road collisions. The UK was also one of only three European nations where pedestrian casualties rose in last decade, according to European Transport Safety Council.
So what is Oslo (and Norway that adopted Vision Zero in 1999) doing that’s so different? Is there a link between Oslo’s commitment to go car free and this fall in fatalities?
New research suggests there is. Action Vision Zero has been exploring a report by Todd Litman, from the Victoria Transport Policy Institute, that concludes that all motor traffic exposes people to danger. This means that road safety policies must do more than tackle dangerous driving and include actions for traffic reduction, such as road pricing. In doing so, Vision Zero is not just about solving road danger, but also our air quality, climate change and inactivity crises.