Call to action! Liveable Neighbourhood for Barnsbury Laycock – tell the Council what you want on Tuesday 15 After 2 years of waiting, finally, the Council are giving us our chance of a Liveable Neighbourhood. Liveable Neighbourhoods will have quiet, pleasant streets with By Richenda Walford 10 Nov 2022
Get involved Support the campaign Before lockdown, our streets had been dysfunctional for decades. During COVID, we saw that with low traffic we could re-own and re-imagine our public realm. By Multiple authors 14 May 2022
Get involved Engagement & Design Islington Council have designed and implemented eight Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) over the past 18 months. By Richenda Walford 7 May 2022
Myth busted "It's too dangerous." In every survey this is always the number one reason given for why more people don't use bikes to get around: > It's too dangerous. But By Richenda Walford 22 Apr 2022
News Scientists create new car for use in Low Traffic Neighbourhoods Professor Lez Carbonne and his team are developing a new type of car, one that will be able to pass though the filters around the new Low Traffic Neighbourhoods. By Multiple authors 1 Apr 2022
Get informed Barnsbury LTN discussed at Full Council Meeting At last week's Full Council Meeting John Hartley asked a question for our group: > Barnsbury suffers from some horrendous traffic. Many vehicles cut through totally By Richenda Walford 9 Mar 2022
Get informed Cut cost and headache If you don't use your car much, now's a really good time to think about selling it. Normally used cars fall in value each year, By Richenda Walford 18 Feb 2022
Get involved Call to Action - St Mary's Church LTN The St Mary's Church LTN is planned for implementation before the end of this year, but we have heard that the opposition to it is By Chris Procter, Richenda Walford 14 Nov 2021
Get informed What the next generation needs us to do In October, when the world’s leaders meet at COP26 in Glasgow [https://ukcop26.org], it will be the last chance for this generation to By Richenda Walford 25 Aug 2021
Get informed Income fairness People Friendly Streets benefit deprived sections of the community at least as much as they benefit wealthier sections. By Chris Procter, Richenda Walford 27 Jun 2021
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 By Multiple authors 19 Jun 2021
Get informed FAQs about LTNs Here are some of the issues raised by LTNs. Click on the links to see the evidence that reveals the reality. By Richenda Walford 15 May 2021
Get informed FAQ: traffic People who don't understand how traffic works fear gridlock on main roads when LTNs are introduced. Both in theory and in practice, that is not what happens. LTNS are about reducing traffic, not just moving it somewhere else. By Richenda Walford 10 May 2021
Neighbourhood My Squares Walk Like everyone else, when lockdown started I began going for daily walks. Even with the reduced traffic I still found some Barnsbury roads unpleasant to By Richenda Walford 14 Apr 2021
Get informed FAQ: fairness LTNs are a beacon of fairness in the transport world’s morass of inequity. Car ownership, fuel duty, car tax, costs of travelling, distribution of the vulnerable. As we researched all this we were reminded of the quotation: “to the one who has, more will be given”. By Richenda Walford 29 Mar 2021