Lucy Facer - Low Traffic Barnsbury & St Mary's

Re-imagining Islington's streets

Low Traffic Neighbourhoods are an opportunity to reimagine our local neighbourhoods and create valuable community spaces where residents can meet, eat and connect.

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School Run is a Story of Two Halves

Our school run is a story of two halves: half of our cycle ride to school is through the calm and safe People Friendly Streets in St Peter's ward; the other half is a dangerous, stressful journey as we cycle through roads in Barnsbury which are full of traffic and pollution.

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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

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Mobility access: the shocking truth

Lucy Facer joins Carly Ashdown on the school run to discover the reality of driving a mobility scooter around Islington streets and how low traffic neighbourhoods will affect her journey.

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Liverpool Road People Friendly Street

Liverpool Road is going to become a people friendly street as part of the council low traffic neighbourhood plans, to address the issues of traffic residents are experiencing. When the gyratory system on Highbury Corner was announced, local residents warned that it would push traffic onto surrounding residential streets. The