Hackney needs to reduce motor traffic by 30% by 2030.💚
To achieve this, in addition to current measures, we need rapid action from @hackneycouncil & bold leadership from new Transport cabinet member @SarahWoodberryD.
Our manifesto has 10 priority asks.
lowtraffichackney.org
This is the THIRD pedestrian death in Hackney in 2025. The second caused by an HGV on a main road. We need to have safer lorries and main roads that allow pedestrians to cross safely. These were not people running carelessly across the road. hackneygazette.co.uk/news/25…
Devastating to hear (TfL Stats 19 data) that the 60 yr old pedestrian hit by car driver on New North Road has died. The second pedestrian death in Hackney this year. uk.news.yahoo.com/pedestrian…. .
The Hackney Cycling Campaign Burns Night dinner dance this year is on Robert Burns' actual birthday: 25th January, at the City Academy in Homerton.
This is a fundraising event for our group so we can support local projects & events.
Get your tickets now: tickettailor.com/events/hack…
ALT The MC carries the haggis though the tables of guests in a ceremonial display, with musicians playing their instruments in a line behind him.
A big week for safer streets and active travel in Tower Hamlets >>
"Mr Rahman and the council have ridden roughshod over the plurality of voices who live and work in Tower Hamlets, in particular the majority of households in the borough who don’t own a car."
Today is the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims.
Today we remember all those who have lost their lives on our roads.
But we should also remember that these are not accidents. These are results. These are the results of the choices we’ve made as a society.
ALT Speech given at World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims:
I can't help but think that, because of the scale of the problem, so many people are numbed to the severity of the situation.
We try not to think about it, as a society. We try not to talk about it. We talk in euphemisms. We say things like: "It was an accident."
But these are not accidents. These are results. These are the results of the choices we've made as a society.
The choice, of some, to play down the severity of dangerous driving.
The choice to treat speeding as socially acceptable.
The choice to design streets that prioritise speed and traffic flow over people.
And even when we acknowledge that these collisions, these acts of road violence are not accidents, we do our greatest to portray them as normal.
Forgetting the human cost, we move swiftly and disrespectfully onto the
"traffic bulletins" on how to avoid the aftermath. We say a car did it - rather than a driver - because it makes us feel better.
So, what does the #PedestrianPound tell us?
For us, three key themes emerge:
1: Pedestrians = pounds
2: In-person connections matter
3: Walkable places save money
ALT A photograph of a busy pedestrianised street. Over the top, copy reads Pedestrians equal pounds; in-person connections matter; and walkable environments save money.
The #PedestrianPound 3rd edition broadens the evidence base to include the benefits of happier and healthier people, stronger communities and a more resilient environment.
New for 2024:
📗 country annexes
📗 12 x case studies typology
📗 evaluation briefing
🧵 …
ALT A split image of three people sat on a street café. Alongside an image of the front covers of the Pedestrian Pound supplementary documents.
Hackney claim their design is better for pedestrians.
In reality the Council's design removes a pedestrian crossing on Amhurst Rd. The VisionZero design retains it. Removing a crossing on a 3-laned busy road is less safe & lower utility for pedestrians. Keep the pedestrian Xing!
Current pollution levels from our @Breathe_London node at Linden Children Centre: NO2 & PM2.5 are each 4 and 7 times above the WH0 legal limits.
Our community is being poisoned by the fumes of the A10.
We need trees, not more cars.🌳 #Airpollution@metecoban92 @SarahWoodberryD🌿
It's our AGM live tonight from #PemburyCommunity centre! Our exisiting coordinator @garmonap is giving a quick appraisal of our work this year. Live tweet 🧵
Consultation on moving the bus stops so pedestrians & cyclists have a better view of on-coming traffic when crossing Mare Street opposite St Thomas's Square.
We support this plan.
Please fill in the quick consultation before 10 November:
consultation.hackney.gov.uk/…
❌️ council design
✅️ alternative, vision zero design!
I've led call in (as cllr) of this decision as the design put forward by the council is not vision zero compliant.
Widley agreed that Pembury Circus needs improving but the council design is not good enough
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Air Quality Action Plan Engagement consultation *CLOSES TODAY*
Section 6: Emissions from transport is of particular relevance to Living Streets campaigners.
You can just fill in the sections of relevance to you, so doesn't need to take a long time:
consultation.hackney.gov.uk/…
Budget provides additional £100 mn for cycling and walking infrastructure in 2025-26. This is NOT the "unprecedented level of funding" that transport secretary @LouHaigh told @laura_laker was coming. Meanwhile, motorists get yet another fuel duty freeze. Climate change anyone?