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Active travel campaigner Sarah Berry weighs up the evidence around low traffic neighbourhoods and local crime figures, with a focus on women’s safety and sense of security.
Ms Huq raised the issue of women’s safety on the UK’s streets, which in the light of the recent kidnap and murder of South London woman Sarah Everard, is understandably at the forefront of many minds.But in a confusing move to many, Ms Huq didn’t reference women’s safety generally, but instead she specifically asked about the connection between safety and low traffic neighbourhoods – as well as housing developments – urging her peers to ensure that any reappraisal of LTNs across the country ensure ‘consideration of women’s safety and fear of crime is mandated,’ implying that the schemes somehow leave women at greater risk because of the lack of passing traffic.
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