Local People who believe in community, equality and clean air for all
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Hackney Together retweeted
May 15
FYI @willnorman A major disbenefit of LTNs is that many people have to live, work, use buses, wheel, cycle or scoot on busier roads taking traffic from LTN streets. @SocEnvJustice
May 14
One of the many benefits of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods is that they make streets safer for cycling.
We're working with boroughs to route bike routes through LTNs - with filters & safe crossings of main roads.
Great to see the new Cycleway 37 in Hackney 🚲💚
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‘Don’t own a car.’
Tell that to LTN residents, sir.
That might help reduce car traffic.
Unlike LTNs currently.
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Hackney Together retweeted
Even Aldred & Goodman, the pro-LTN researchers who did nearly all the studies, failed to show any convincing links between LTNs and a fall in overall car use. So, no overall cut in noise, pollution or emissions. Our Election Briefing below. Our full set: socialenvironmentaljustice.c…
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These ‘parklets’ were indeed meant for the local community.
Hackney Council recently changed their purpose making them exclusive to customers.
With no real benefit to the locals these spaces now only benefit a limited, non diverse clientele.
Gentrification in action.
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Hackney Together retweeted
London poll puts Greens on 28%, Labour 24%, Cons 21%, Lib Dems 13%, Reform 11%. Green support likely to be highest in Inner London, places like Hackney, Lambeth, Islington. Time for the Greens to say if they can give hope to residents hurting due to LTNs. standard.co.uk/news/politics…
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Hackney Together retweeted
If anyone posts anecdotes sir, it’s you.
More importantly, those roads where LTNs funnel all motorised traffic to have a higher percentage of social housing and low income families than the roads benefitting.
Instead of supporting unfairness, pls open your eyes to injustice.
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Hackney Together retweeted
Funnel all car (through) traffic to zone 3.
Bob lives in zone 2 (in an LTN).
NIMBYism at its worst.
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Hackney Together retweeted
Latest SEJ newsletter out. Also includes the latest on floating bus stops, the crisis of buses in London and backing for cabbies to continue to be able to use Bank junction in the City of London. irp.cdn-website.com/630197fe…
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Hackney Together retweeted
Jan 23
Residents on roads outside LTNs have been saying this for over 5 yrs now, without much official recognition.
The fact LTNs increase congestion (and thus pollution) is finally getting publicised.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gl…
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This doesn’t look good from an LTN apologist who has no consideration for his afflicted neighbours on the roads outside the LTNs.
‘Not in my backyard’, eh Bob?
The mythical ‘cycle lobby’, a term used by car apologists who cannot grasp the notion that someone travelling alone in a 2.5-tonne, 6-foot-wide car is the cause of congestion, but use the fewer than 2% of London’s roads with separated cycle infrastructure as an excuse.
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Hackney Together retweeted
Jan 14
Maybe your memory isn’t that great.
But this is not about (you) driving.
It’s about residents suffering unprecedented traffic and pollution on the roads they live on as a result of LTNs.
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Hackney Together retweeted
Jan 13
Instead, LTNs are causing even more polution and unprecedented congestion on 19th century residential roads outside the LTNs, just so those living in already much better off streets can have even quieter roads.
Time to face reality, Alan.
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Bob lives in Hackney.
Bob lives in an LTN.
Bob doesn’t care about his neighbours outside the LTNs.
Don’t be like Bob.
Tom lives in London. Tom drives to the supermarket for a ‘big shop’. Don’t be like Tom. Get it delivered or shop local; there's no need to add to the congestion and then have the nerve to complain about ‘traffic’.
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Hackney Together retweeted
Jan 10
And later today (Saturday) still very long cues continuesly from 1pm with no let up now at 4pm.
A real risk for Graham Rd residents is that Council might restrict traffic on Navarino & Greenwood Rd, resulting in even more traffic on Graham Rd.
😢
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Hackney Together retweeted
Jan 10
It is.
But (residential!) Graham Road seems to be the worst victim of bad traffic management.
Most areas around LDN appear quiet as is usual in Januari. Hackney Central is suffering unprecedented volumes of traffic on the sacrificed roads.
Even on weekends.
See today at 1pm 👇
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Hackney Together retweeted
20 Dec 2025
I lived on this road for over 30 yrs. Busy Rd but liveable.
Having congestion in front of my home was extremely rare.
Since the LTN wave 5 yrs ago (and parking spaces removed) it’s unliveable, and getting worse.
Council said LTNs would reduce driving. They don’t.
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Hackney Together retweeted
13 Dec 2025
Yes, probably.
But this highly affluent inner London enclave (De Beauvoir in Hackney) is like this thanks to counterproductive schemes like LTNs that funnel all motor traffic and its pollution to other residential, but worse off roads.
Hardly fair, is it?
25 Aug 2024
70% of Hackney’s roads is closed to motor traffic by LTNs.
As a result, even during the summer holiday residential Graham Rd (A1207) is congested most of the day, every day.
@mayorofhackney & @hackneycouncil ignore its residents.
We don’t matter to them 😢
👇23/8/24 at 12pm
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12 Dec 2025
Cycling can be great, but this is just another baseless assumption from an extremist ideologue.
12 Dec 2025
Life-affirming childhood memory of independence. Most children would prefer this to being driven to school
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Hackney Together retweeted
7 Dec 2025
And like yesterday, today (Sunday) congestion persisted until well in the evening, totalling at least 7 hours of long cues of highly polluting idling motor vehicle traffic on our residential road.
Surely @hackneycouncil, you have a duty of care?
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Hackney Together retweeted
7 Dec 2025
Today, Sunday, the misery on Hackney’s residential Graham Rd continues, with cues starting at around 12 noon, getting even worse as the day progresses.
Congestion often stretching the entire road.
It’s now 3pm.
Check the timestamps.👇
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