Forum topic: Fox Lane low-traffic neighbourhood
Fox Lane low-traffic neighbourhood
roger dougall
11 Sep 2020 12:59 #5542
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Surely not all vehicles have a set of keys to open them. They don't appear to have a lock anyway.
Seems a bit worrying if they have to go the long way round.
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Karl Brown
11 Sep 2020 16:11 #5543
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Alan Thomas
11 Sep 2020 23:17 #5546
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I'm guessing I'll have to wait for an answer to my 'Rat Runner' question...
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Peter Payne
12 Sep 2020 02:09 #5547
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Thanks Karl. We seem to be in agreement. A mixed measure of traffic calming methods, maybe night time closure, ANPR access for local residents, chicanes, speed cameras etc. but no overall closure of all the roads. After all these roads, particularly Fox Lane itself, were always built to serve a purpose other than getting people to their houses.
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Karl Brown
12 Sep 2020 10:35 #5548
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When the LTN work is complete in 2-3 weeks, and after the inevitable bedding in hiccups, the impact can be seen and views provided. That said, after one week on the first changed street and a major transport thoroughfare we now have kids cycling and playing out, parents pushing prams and dogs being walked on the wider spaces and a clearly more relaxed atmosphere, almost as if a form of nature was reasserting control. Our own necessary car trips to eg up the A1 and earlier today to B&Q to collect heavies were a tad longer but we survived. The first drivers mounting the pavement to avoid the barrier are in course of prosecution which will hopefully cap the practise and so assist with what the trial seeks to determine.
Let’s see what happens over the coming months but from here, so far so good.
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Karl Brown
12 Sep 2020 10:39 #5549
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Alan Thomas
13 Sep 2020 08:04 #5552
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As for extra pollution on the surrounding roads, overwhelming evidence from other LTNs suggests that much of the traffic expelled from the Estate will simply evaporate. It's counter-intuitive, but that seems to be how it works.
Meanwhile in Wandsworth:
www.wandsworth.gov.uk/news/september-2020/low-traffic-neighbourhood-trials-suspended/
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Peter Payne
15 Sep 2020 00:05 #5554
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The Lakes Estate residents have concerns about pollution, speed and noise which may be addressed in other ways than closing the whole estate down to traffic, pushing the problem to the surrounding roads.