John Hartley - Low Traffic Barnsbury & St Mary's

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A few weeks ago, we set off on a traffic-counting mission on Offord Road. We were shocked to find that Offord Road carries three quarters of the traffic on the Caledonian Road, and the roundabout is taking 111% of the traffic on the Caledonian Road.Now, Offord Road has well-known

Issues

"Prioritise buses" on main roads

While I strongly support LTNs I do also have great sympathy for people who live on main roads, and always have done. Major thoroughfares have always been noisy and polluted, and the situation has been getting steadily worse for as long as I can remember (and I’m not young)

Neighbourhood

Hemingford Arms

Two perspectives on a neighbourhood firm fave.

Issues

Traffic counting in Barnsbury

We think it's brilliant that the Council have implemented People Friendly Streets in St Peter's, Canonbury and Highbury. The residents there are now benefiting from quiet, safe streets in which they and their children can breathe clean air and walk or wheel in safety. We in Barnsbury are still waiting

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Enjoy clean air with LTNs

Bearing in mind that Islington is the most densely populated Borough in England and that we have the lowest ratio of open space to built-up areas of any London Borough, it seems to me that Low Traffic Neighbourhoods offer us all an opportunity to enjoy cleaner air, less noise and

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Cally People Friendly Streets

Next up... People Friendly Streets around The Cally! From what the Council have hinted we expect this to be implemented before summer 2021. No details have been announced, so we have been imagining what area this might cover. We think it may be the area bounded by Caledonian Road to

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Barnsbury Ward Meeting - PFS section - notes

We attended the public meeting for Barnsbury ward partnership on Tuesday 15 December 2020 at 6pm via Zoom, and we know many of you did too. Here are our notes on the People Friendly Streets section.

News

LTN news round-up #1

New! A rolling update of articles and other bits and pieces that we have come across in local and national press, twitter, NextDoor...

Neighbourhood

Stop press 25 October 2020

The lovely people at Southpaw Coffee are stepping up to the plate the Government has left empty. This is what they say.

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9 out of 10 residents want People Friendly Streets

Survey in Barnsbury and St Mary's shows Council's plans are very popular

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Take action, take back your streets

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Residents' survey - 2 minute poll

Help us understand your experience of traffic and streets in Barnsbury and St Mary's wards. Take 2 minutes to respond to our survey. TAKE OUR SURVEY NOW Update 26 July 2020: We achieved our Big Leafleting Target on 19 July. We will continue to gather data from the survey for