Implemented in spring 2021, Low Traffic Neighbourhoods in Temple Cowley, Church Cowley and Florence Park cover most of Cowley. The aim of the scheme is to make streets safer, easier and more pleasant to walk, cycle or reach the bus stop for short local trips. Access to residential roads is Read more…
LTNs create Active Travel routes. Active Travel Routes allow modal shift, primarily by allowing schoolchildren to cycle and walk to school, and also after-school activities. Active Travel routes need to be truly low-traffic for them to drive modal shift. Medium-traffic routes are just not good enough to get people to Read more…
One of the main criticisms of the Church Cowley LTN is that the Littlemore Road traffic filter has ‘cut-off’ Littlemore residents from Cowley, specifically the Templars Square and John Allen shopping areas. This article investigates why the Littlemore Road filter is crucial to creating a key Active Travel corridor for Read more…
With on-going vandalism of new traffic measures, and regular contravention of the rules of the road, is it any wonder we need LTNs? Driving entitlement has become plain ridiculous. Over the past decade policing and local authority cuts have reduced staffing numbers, such that there is very little enforcement of Read more…