@clairekholland
Lambeth Council is not tackling the Climate Crisis.
Just 3% of Lambeth pollution is from (ulez compliant) cars, yet so much effort & noise around compulsory LTN vip zones.
*The other 97% of causes ignored*. Your middle class pandering is ruinous, unenvironmental & hypocritical.
Counted 30 stuck buses 🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌 on just a short stretch of south bound A23.
#Streatham
Wells
#ltn
is decimating public transport, 🚑🚒🚔 & High Rd.
☎️ When is
@TFL
@MayorofLondon
going to intervene ⁉️
@SteveReedMP
📸Mon 4.30pm
@lambeth_council
@TfL
Listen to ALL of yr constituents, not just a few streets. Blame the A23 cycle-lane works if u like, to save face. Traffic displacent schemes are unjust & harmful. Lambeth is a runaway train, mistaking green paint for Climate Action. A dreadful 5 months u put
#streatham
through.
To
#Streatham
Wells
#ltn
, if yr waiting for a 315 bus, it's here, with the "vanished" traffic.
Where driving on wrong side of the road is now normal, as is road rage, a daily cacophany of honking & near accidents.
Our home & neighbourhood has been ruined😷🤕 by
@lambeth_council
The air quality Q from St L's cllr Nicole Griffiths an important one & perfectly clear. What an unprofessional, petty &unhelpful response from
@RezinaChowdhury
Stop ignoring yr constituents.
#Streatham
Wells
#ltn
has clearly *increased pollution* for most. 😷🤢
@GreenPartyScott
Avoid Leigham Court Rd. Fri 8pm. Car has t-boned a bus, no-one hurt. No clue of my options to get home easily, no buses thru, all other routes blocked by TWO
#ltns
No contingency.
I could cry at how unsafe & unneighbourly LTNs are😭.
@lambeth_council
are a disgrace.
#streatham
1st visit in years, & it's transformed! 😲 Shabby parklets & dead as a dodo at lunch☀️. Spoke to local biz owner of 20 yrs, says they, &
#Brixton
Wholefoods (a 40yr institution) pretty much the only survivors on Atlantic since
@lambeth_council
's forced
#LTN
. Ruinous faux utopias.
Month FIVE of Lambeth Council's SECOND
#Streatham
#LTN
.
Absolutely killing the High Rd, nearby neighbourhoods, businesses, & public transport for miles around. Air Quality off the charts. This is not
@TfL
's responsibility.
@lambeth_council
dump this EXPERIMENT now!
📽by Michelle
Most of
#Streatham
genuinely stressed & dreading return of Lambeth's
#ltn
Hunger Games experiment.
Meanwhile Wide Empty distributor rd, Valley Rd, has cyclists choosing the pavement😖
@clairekholland
@RezinaChowdhury
u have outdone yourselves, divided neighbours & neighbourhoods.
Thurs 16.27
#Streatham
High Rd solid, a WALL of buses.
@tfl
Trapped ambulance took 6 minutes to go short distance "by sheer bloody mindedness" then trapped at St Leonards & did u turn at 16.40😭
"Does someone have to die before
@lambeth_council
admit they're wrong"?
📸 by HG
Appalling, sickening really, to see so clearly the hand-in-glove relationship between
@lambethcouncil
@clairekholland
& the posh mafia -sorry- influential "Residents Associations".
Dumping on the poor is OK but "We can't *be seen* to..."
No such qualms in
#Streatham
I see🤬
#ltn
Tooting Bec Gardens/St Leonards Church traffic trying to merge with this lot further south, is completely seized up, at 7.30pm.
☎️
@lambeth_council
are u just holding yr nerve at this point? Waiting for things to 'settle down'? Appalling stupidity & neglect.
#streathamwells
#ltn
Counted 30 stuck buses 🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌 on just a short stretch of south bound A23.
#Streatham
Wells
#ltn
is decimating public transport, 🚑🚒🚔 & High Rd.
☎️ When is
@TFL
@MayorofLondon
going to intervene ⁉️
@SteveReedMP
📸Mon 4.30pm
#Streatham
4.30 Garrads Rd tailback to
@wandbc
Bedford Hill. Woodfield Ave rammed. Dangerous junction made much more hazardous, no wonder 🚲 use the pavement. 3hrs later awful congestion still going strong 🤕😷🤮
@lambeth_council
have truly ruined our neighbourhood.
I met wonderful Marge, aka "sweary Mary"😍 stopped at a traffic filter at point A, in
#streatham
wells
#ltn
.
Wanting to collect her 92 yr old friend (who uses a walking frame) from a little further along Valley Rd, & take her for a spin😇
📸 1pm Weds 20th Dec
I have no words🤬. Most decent people/councils would suspend such a conspicously ruinous
#ltn
& regroup. But no, 6mths+ of being
@lambeth_council
's experiment, creating an artificial (& frankly weird) deadzone, at the expense of the whole of
#streatham
.
Smug & cruel
@willnorman
5pm today Stanthorpe Rd red "cell"
#streatham
#LTN
. Ironic, since people *are* prisoners in their own streets. Unless we 🗣📣*comply* & join the 3%🚲 gang of course, or🏃♀️.
☎️🆘️
@LDN_pressoffice
@MayorofLondon
Your Active Travel diktat is bringing neighbourhoods to a standstill
One of obvious falsehoods of
#LTN
traffic displacement schemes, is the claim that life is made better & safer for 🚲.
Inside the
#streatham
VIP zone, yes. Elsewhere, the *intensification* of traffic on overwhelmed boundary & outer rds, actively increases hazards for cyclists 🚲💥
Dec 15th Hitherfield Herald:
"Many children arriving late", "Many families have received letters this week informing them that their children are late for school".
While
@RezinaChowdhury
continues the 🤖PR, the "various
#ltns
" make life harder for
#Streatham
parents & students.
LTNs make neighbourhoods safer, more sustainable and give everyone in
#Lambeth
more equal access to their local streets. 🛴 🦽 🚲 🚶
Last Friday, Cllr
@RezinaChowdhury
visited
@Hitherfield15
School to find out what they thought of the new
#StreathamWells
LTN 🏫
Beyond the 'tranquillity' of
#streathamwells
#ltn
🚘🕳, beyond the official, take-our-traffic 'boundary' roads🤢🤕, the new traffic deluge in surrounding rds, is not even being measured by
@lambeth_council
Fyi
@RezinaChowdhury
- it doesn't 'disappear'.
📸Garrads Rd/Woodfield Ave
#Streatham
#ltn
volunteers helping huge numbers of drivers navigate their way out of blocked-off streets & avoid fines. With confusing signage & most without a *map* of the zones, it's stressful for locals & visitors alike.
Thanks Steve Bird
@Telegraph
Thames Water guy "since they changed it, it takes me 2hrs just to get to Brixton".
Just a taste of the new normal 😖🤕😭 for those of us who live in roads that for
@lambeth_council
, quite literally, don't count.
This isn't simply neglect, it's proactive harm.
#Streatham
#ltn
2
#LTNs
worth of traffic dumped onto A23 - doesn't take a genius to predict the consequences.
In 10minutes 3 🚑🚑🚑 stuck in traffic (followed by stuck 🚔)
🆘️
@Ldn_Ambulance
@NHSuk
@tfl
🗣please stop
@lambeth_council
🙏
📸8.19, 8.22 & 8.28pm
Today's
#streatham
Hunger Games winner is the dick🤬 driving on the wrong side of Garrads Rd into oncoming traffic (& then politely indicating left!👋), to escape the new DAILY GRIDLOCK from rerouted
#ltn
traffic.
Causing danger💥 pollution😷 & stress🤕 for hours each day.
Growing array of signage for drivers to contend with as they try to keep their eyes on the road. The old classic (unclear & unenforced) ⛔8pm-4am is everywhere, the twice a day ⛔ school-streets & the 24/7 ⛔
#LTN
.
Is there any *joined-up* traffic management in
#Streatham
?
Those avoiding congested boundary rds are predictably re-routing to roads that - for
@lambeth_council
- literally don't count. Roads west of
#Streatham
High Rd/Hill jammed & angry.
One neighbourhood's
#ltn
'tranquility', creating another's grim new normal😷
📸 Garrads Rd 5.30pm
Friday 5.36pm another 🚑 stuck in solid
#ltn
traffic the length of southbound High Rd. ☎️
@BayoDosunmu
☎️
@Mark_J_Harper
#Streatham
residents are posting daily films of stuck emergency services. Does someone need to die for you to take this seriously?
@SteveReedMP
📸 by M thank u
@RezinaChowdhury
"Disruption" & "Pinchpoints".
I'm very sorry Rezina, that Lambeth's closed-ranks seige mentality - & your own rose tinted spectacles - are preventing you from opening your eyes, to care a jot about the rest of Streatham.
Read these, I dare you.
The
#streatham
#ltn
impact testimonials *really show* the ways in which Lambeth have caused harm - with complete impunity.
🎯🎯
100s more🤕 still to be logged.
Dedicated work by
@KatClinPsy
&
@lambethltnwatch
teams👏
☎️Add yours👇
Automatic Traffic Counter ATC strips have arrived (for 2wks prob?) on plenty of streets *inside* the
#ltn
VIP area.
& what of the "boundary" rds, getting HIT with relocated traffic?
3 ATCs on LCR, & 1 on SCN (ajacent/to placate the schools).
& none, NONE, on
#Streatham
High Rd
How did
@lambeth_council
come up with
#Streatham
Wells LTN parklet locations? This one pushes vehicles into oncoming traffic at a busy junction (watched for few mins today). Gleneldon roundabout one likewise & already hit by bus. Both obv hazardous, both staying.
@RezinaChowdhury
All change for the
#Streatham
Wells
#LTN
parklets. Turquoise?💄🐷
Now that the roundabout has returned at Valley Rd/Gleneldon, the parklet there is a genuine hazard. But *all* of them encourage drivers into oncoming traffic, it's beyond stupid.
@BellRibeiroAddy
Please stop sending the "1% increase on boundary roads" letters out now, *please*. Stop believing such obvious nonsense.
Please help save Streatham from Lambeth Council🙏
Garrads Rd. Two 315 back-to-back buses going nowhere in daily gridlock😭
@lambeth_council
yr
#ltn
has well & truly ruined bus services for
#streatham
residents, & buses that pass through. All those folk u love, who don't own a car - THIS is how they travel!
📸by LC 6.30pm
@TFL
It's time for Flyers & Liars!
Watch out for more of this 🐎💩 Streatham Common & Vale residents - in a by-election near you. 😈🐍🤡
Little did we know during 5mths of
#Streatham
#ltn
hell, these guys single-handely saved the day. Not.
Where are Streatham Common &Vale
@LambethLabour
councillors while Lambeths
#ltn
wreaking such havoc in their area? No updates on twitter, are they even in
#Streatham
?
@PeoplesAudit
what's the min job req for salary? & any oversight?
🚑 Stuck Streatham high rd, Tues 19th Dec (quieter🎄flow)
@lambeth_council
negligent. But hold the ☎️...
@tfl
states, on tv
@AnilaDhami
, that
#ltns
don't add traffic to neighbouring streets🕳🚘WHAT needs to happen for u to take
#streatham
people seriously?
👇🏾 Penny Rees
@TfL
say LTNs are "very effective at reducing traffic in the neighbourhoods where they are implemented, without any significant increase in traffic on the roads around them”.
LTN traffic relocation has gridlocked Red Routes but the increase is not "significant"? 🤯
Happy that - after our foi✍,
and a swift Members Enquiry🤔 from
@Martin_Abrams
👏 -
@lambeth_council
have seen sense and decided not to *force* a parklet, 2mins from Toot Common, outside the home of folks who didn't want it.
Do the other 5 streets even know?
#streatham
#ltn
Hopton, Polworth and Rutford Roads at 8:54 this morning according to Google Maps. Polworth Road is fully red indicating slow traffic - haven't seen Polworth Road fully red before.
Welcome
@wandbc
&
#Balham
travellers from afar, to the daily hell that is the
#Streatham
Hunger Games💥😷🏹🐲
Unable to move on jammed High Rd, traffic goes wide, on rds where
@lambeth_council
#LTN
data drops off a cliff🙈 ~ to become instead the Legend of "vanished" traffic🦄.
Buses are taking four times longer to get through Streatham because of new LTNs making life misery for passengers.
Watch TfL Chair Sadiq Khan tell
@NeilGarratt
he doesn't know anything about it.
Operation Damage Control.
Better for *everyone* now is it?
So much to say in response to this but frankly, what would be the point?
Let's talk when you
a) Acknowledge the harm u did to
#Streatham
b) Apologise, &
c) Assure us u won't be so arrogant & undemocratic again.
🎉 We are investing & improving
#Streatham
to make it better for everyone 🌳
New cycle hangars, more electric vehicle charging points & a new Healthy Route to Peckham 👩🏿🦽🚴🏿
Find out how we are making Streatham fit for the future 👇
👀
🆘️ Fri 8th Nov Streatham High Rd red bus convoy c/o of
@LambethCouncil
&
#Streatham
Wells
#LTN
☎️ Will
@tfl
be intervening any time soon? *Astonished* that TFL
@MayorofLondon
"evidence" source for
#ltns
is an anti private car/anti "high carbon lifestyle" charity/lobby group.
🤬Streatham Saturdays🤬
Our 4th month of High Rd gridlock. S'bound Artery rd A23 buses stacked
@SteveReedMP
(Leigham Court Rd approach to it queuing from
#Streatham
Hill to beyond Dunraven😷).
Lambeth "be patient" & blames
@tfl
not their
#ltn
☎️✍OBJECT☎️✍
📸 by M 3/2 14.08
1st visit in years, & it's transformed! 😲 Shabby parklets & dead as a dodo at lunch☀️. Spoke to local biz owner of 20 yrs, says they, &
#Brixton
Wholefoods (a 40yr institution) pretty much the only survivors on Atlantic since
@lambeth_council
's forced
#LTN
. Ruinous faux utopias.
"Lambeth Council welcomes this move because in our borough people who live in deprived areas are nearly three times more likely to suffer an injury or be killed in a road collision."
@RezinaChowdhury
🚨TODAY🚨 Cllr Rezina Chowdhury
Officer in charge of LTNs & Dep Leader of Lambeth Council.
Has her in person surgery today 10–12 The Hive café, 6 Coburg Crescent SW2 3HS.
No apppointment needed as she "doesn't tend to get that many people". You may wish to ask her Qs in person.
The
#streatham
Wells
#ltn
debacle a direct consequence of
@lambeth_council
spending more time on rose-tinted action plans, than *actual road safety & traffic management*.
Was anything on this list intro'd in SW in last few yrs
@MalcolmClark77
? Genuine Q
@LambethLivingSt
Not picking a fight 🙏🏽 but those on residential main roads bordering LTNs do not benefit. Traffic displaced from side road closures increases
#airpollution
for main road communities already at risk. Mitigation for main roads should be part of any
#LowTrafficNeighbourhood
scheme.
@lambeth_council
Operation Damage Control.
Better for *everyone* now is it?
So much to say in response to this but frankly, what would be the point?
Let's talk when you
a) *Acknowledge* the harm u did to
#Streatham
b) Apologise, &
c) Assure us u won't be so arrogant & undemocratic again.
@lambeth_council
@RezinaChowdhury
Reduce traffic in
#LTN
& some are pleased. Obvs. Interviewing/retweeting *only* those people - is PR.
"We're listening" is not public engagement
@RezinaChowdhury
you need to Speak.
"Determinedly ignoring"🤖 Qs or critique from those negatively impacted, is wholly unacceptable.
Waited 40mins for the 315 at Balham tonight then 2 came at once. 315 timetable is non existent since implementation of Streatham wells LTN.
@TfL
@LambethSE
@StreathamWells
@LBLDemocracy
Referring to first 3mths of
#Streatham
Wells
#ltn
"trial" as an "early success" utterly ignores & denies the self-evident widespread issues the majority of residents & users of Streatham are now experiencing.
Do your job at least, u are making
@lambeth_council
look 🤡 &/or 👿
While Valley Rd "ambulance
superhighway"
#ltn
sits empty, toasting miracle of "vanished" traffic.
#Streatham
folk😖, buses & emergency services 🚑🚒🚔 are stuck in gridlock going nowhere - on roads that for
@lambethcouncil
simply do not exist 🐲🦄
📸Tooting Bec Gdns TODAY 6.40pm
Brilliant to see the improvement to congestion during the rush hour(s) on Streatham High Road and other roads around the Streatham Wells LTN.
The scheme is bedding in well and the difference within a few months is incredible.
6:25pm today.
Mon 4.30 ish. Streatham High St southbound, grim indeed. Many drivers clearly opting to *go around* it - aka 'disappear'🤐
Outer boundary rds eg: Garrads Rd backed up inc Bedford Hill, Woodfield Ave & Abbotswood Rd.
The transformation for residents on outer roads is just 🤕🤢
@Martin_Abrams
@MayorofLondon
@LBC
Meetings held behind closed doors? ✔
About issues that affect you? ✔
Decisions made? ✔
about which you have no say? ✔
Expected to just wait & see? ✔
Streatham residents.
Friday 9th Feb, 3.50pm. Traffic as far as the eye can see….ambulance with lights on totally stuck. Nothing is moving. Traffic is not evaporating..
@TfL
@MayorofLondon
3 mths on and it is very clear to all but
@lambeth_council
, that *forcing* a second
#ltn
on
#Streatham
, has strangled it to a standstill! Choking us with more pollution. Main rds are the heart of our neighbourhoods, buses are its lifeblood. Lambeth are 💥dangerously incompetent💥
Thank god for
@brixtonbuzz
, who somehow manage to be constantly *on it* in Brixton😇✌💫 But are also all over Lambeth Council like a rash.
*Scrutiny* seems in very short supply, so it's basically Public Service🙏.
& love a snarky headline ;)
#streatham
Summary of some drivers' mitigation comments, for those also wishing to appeal their
#Streatham
Wells
#LTN
Penalty Charge Notice.
Just extraordinary - given the shambolic & confusing implementation & the dreadful comms - that Lambeth have the *gall* to be issuing fines already🤬
@MalcolmClark77
Still with the prevarication Malcolm?
Do you, or don't you, accept
that the cause of the off-the-scale A23 bus disruption
is the Streatham Wells LTN?
Yes or No.
& do you accept that Lambeth Council - not
@tfl
- designed & implemented this LTN?
@MalcolmClark77
@MayorofLondon
Fix "what has gone wrong".
You insist on referring to this debacle passively. This Lambeth designed & *imposed*
#LTN
.
@tfl
did not do this to
#Streatham
, the 🤡s at
@lambeth_council
did.
Nobody cares about buses for your VIP pals in East Streatham at this point,
READ THE ROOM!😵
Btw Marge told me she has already received (& paid)
#streatham
traffic-filter fines.
That those, who aren't in the "laptop classes", who wont have got the
#ltn
memo, have to negotiate this headache & have their stresses added to by
@lambeth_council
, is utterly shameful.
@LiveableWells
@RezinaChowdhury
@lambeth_council
@clairekholland
Lambeth's decision to place seating (& bike stands) *at junctions* across Streatham, is baffling. The 315 has done this route pre LTN without issue in traffic - this obstruction caused a very predictable accident.
You keep repeating basic safety infrastructure - what was removed?
When Dunraven's
@airlyorg
🌬AQ node was unplugged (by who🥷?) 11th Jan, it was reporting
⚠️horrific post LTN pollution levels⚠️ 1800 children😷🫁.
& it is (was) the *only* AQ node on any SWLTN boundary rd.
SHR AQ?🤷♀️ Lambeth ok with "modelled estimate"🤞
The
#streatham
#ltn
impact testimonials *really show* the ways in which Lambeth have caused harm - with complete impunity.
🎯🎯
100s more🤕 still to be logged.
Dedicated work by
@KatClinPsy
&
@lambethltnwatch
teams👏
☎️Add yours👇
@pedrojuk
@MalcolmClark77
@RezinaChowdhury
She's 92 & uses a walking frame. Do u have an answer to the Q? It's urgent.
Ps Im not 92 & look fit as a fiddle, this is my left leg (bike v truck rta), walking hurts, use auto car.
We pass the test right? We're *allowed* to drive? Do u see the problem?
@ldaviesmusic
@LiveableWells
Agree. But it's more than a stretch to equate your (protect society) examples, to empty seats in a car.
Regulation is a high bar and mere
disapproval won't get you there.
An oldie but a goodie🗞.
🚩
@lambethcouncil
's
@clairekholland
lives in an
#LTN
🧝♀️
🚩'Academic ' Rachel Aldred
- We don't bother to measure *beyond* boundary roads, (there be🐲) but I still insist on interpreting results as "evaporated traffic"🥸.
12.01am: Government has just published its new draft guidance for LTNs. Councils will be expected to follow them for new AND existing schemes. LTN review found just 18% of people felt their views influenced council. Part of wider traffic plans released:
Lambeth's Big Shift "active travel programme" now just a Cycling programme, it's abandoned all pretence. Incessant bike related "updates" 🚲🗣🚲📣🤕
Nothing re
#streatham
#ltn
& absolutely *nothing* to offer the 95%🚷 who travel by other means.
Negligent
You don't need to be visually impaired to notice these are not improvements to safety. *Introducing* clash points😵. What's the solution though? Where are the creative town/transport planning nerds, the genius ideas? Back to the drawing board.
This is what our President who is blind said about the bus stop design where you step off the bus onto a narrow bus boarder next to a cycle lane on Lea Bridge Road, Waltham Forest
‘Not fit for purpose. It really is totally inaccessible. These sorts of designs should be scrapped’
Her detour options, to get to her friend:
1. join SCN/SHR traffic, cross A23 at Sunnyhill. Or do a u turn across 2/3 lanes at Hopton Rd. Or
2. take longer LCR route (temp lights/congestion again) & approach on busy SHR.
Is this really the plan
@lambeth_council
@RezinaChowdhury
?
#Streatham
Leigham Crt Rd temporary🚦again. Dunraven bus stop closed. No alt options for traffic as "no access" to
#ltn
Valley Rd (a designated distributor rd). Emergency services progress on wrong side of road (📸4.10 & 4.24) oncoming traffic held at🚦This with reduced🎄 flow.
Hold the ☎️, Lambeth has money problems. While refusing to answer foi Qs re spending council tax payer's money - eg: on expensive
#ltn
consultants🤑🤌 'Commercially sensitive' & not in public intererest.
Show us your spending
@lambeth_council
@brixtonbuzz
🚨The pre
#Streatham
Wells
#ltn
emails from
@lambeth_council
to London Fire Service show they ARE intending to impose further restrictions: on 🚩Pinfold rd & 🚩Hopton Rd. 🚩Valleyfield Rd also likely.
2
#ltns
in Streatham😖
"Main rd network" gridlocked for all.
AND for 🚒🚑🚔 !
🍌 Streatham’s Lunch Club crowdfund appeal raised more than £5k to provide hot meals, company, & support to vulnerable individuals facing financial hardship.
Support includes £2,500 from Crowdfund Lambeth
FOI from Lambeth Council confirming the costs for the Streatham Wells LTN but it also confirms that Lambeth Council will not be using air quality monitors to assess pollution levels for the Streatham Wells LTN but instead they will be using traffic count data, no doubt from
#LTNs
are many things - not just ineffective overall, but *actively harmful* for many. Traffic/pollution doesn't disappear 🐇🎩 it relocates, a child understands this necessity. Not considering LTN impact holistically, is 🙉🙈 an extraordinary dereliction of duty by LAs.