Southwark Living Streets

"The findings reveal that...traffic crashes are often framed as isolated, inevitable events, downplaying systemic issues such as infrastructure and policy" - new study of German-speaking media produces interesting results
www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

This reduction was consistent across:
✔️ travel modes
✔️ junctions with/without traffic lights

Filtering side streets hasn't just made internal LTN roads safer - it has made boundary-LTN junctions safer too. No negative impacts on other boundary road junctions.

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London’s low-traffic zones ‘cut deaths and injuries by more than a third’ Exclusive: Study also finds no change in number of casualties on roads just outside low-traffic neighbourhoods

LTNs were associated with a 35% reduction in all injuries, rising to 37% for deaths and serious injuries

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

#VisionZero

Chris Whitty says culture-war coverage of cycling could harm nation’s health Chief medical officer for England urges people to set media cliches aside to focus on health benefits of physical activity

“Being more active” is “one of the most impressive things you can do to preserve health of all forms, physical and mental”…”the best way for people to do this was to build it into their everyday life, for example by walking, cycling or wheeling for transport”

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Paris Pike Lane noting “pedestrian priority“ at the point on the sidewalk where the bike lane and sidewalk overlap.

Here’s the “elephant in the room” with the outstanding (and FAST) growth in urban biking here in Paris — the tension between 2 NATURAL ALLIES, people on bikes and people walking, needs work, lest it become a political wedge issue. City Hall reminds everyone that pedestrians have priority EVERYWHERE.

High Streets for People - Bellenden Road, 21 June, from 11am

On Saturday 21 June, Southwark Council is bringing everyone together to celebrate our High Streets.

On Bellenden Road from 11am there will be with children’s games, face-painting, live music, food from local businesses, cycling activities and much more.

www.southwark.gov.uk/news/2025/so...

PARIS CITY HALL EXHIBITION TO OPEN JUNE 21st! I’m proud to join Paris Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social, iconic artist Shepard Fairey @obeygiant.bsky.social & local leaders next week to open this conversation-changing EXHIBITION on city leadership in climate action! www.paris.fr/evenements/d...

The car made pedestrians second-class citizens. Don’t let driverless vehicles push us off the road altogether | Adam Tranter If we want autonomous tech to succeed it must be designed to share space with us, rather than forcing us to adapt to it, says former cycling and walking commissioner Adam Tranter

The rollout of driverless vehicles must not be an excuse to further diminish the role of the pedestrian in urban life. The streets of the 20th century were reshaped to suit cars, often at enormous social cost…People stopped walking…Road deaths..became normalised.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

For children's sake, stop Carspreading — SUV Alliance Fear of traffic is regularly cited as a barrier to greater uptake of walking, wheeling and cycling, and the trend towards ever-bigger, ever-heavier SUVs will only make this worse.

@cleancitiescampaign.org backs the SUV Alliance manifesto and is calling on the govt to introduce stricter regs on vehicle design to reverse the trend towards larger bodies and higher bonnets on cars. We want urgent action in the new Road Safety Strategy. 7/8

www.suv-alliance.org.uk/blog/letter-...

Fantastic to be out in Southwark yesterday meeting with council & local community for our Big Community Transport Tour.

Inspiring to see real progress being made - from creating safer, greener streets to freeing up space for walking, cycling & public transport.

Rue Chaptal - it just finished

Good to see a new zebra crossing and wider pavements have been installed on Grove Vale.

This was always difficult and dangerous to cross, now much safer.

@jamesmcash.bsky.social @cleanairdulwich.bsky.social @southwarkls.bsky.social

High Streets for People event on 21 June, from 11am. Illustrations of children playing, a cyclist and bunting

Come and join us to celebrate our high streets.

Saturday 21 June - Bellenden Road, Peckham, from 11am to 4pm

We’re bringing residents, families, communities and businesses together with children’s games, music, cycling activities and much more.

www.southwark.gov.uk/southwark-pr...

More 20mph roads on way for London after injuries and collisions are cut by a third Research commissioned by TfL on the safety benefits of 20mph has given the green light for more speed cuts

Last year more people were killed on the roads than were murdered in London.

Speed is a factor in about half of all fatalities.

@TfL research shows we can prevent these tragedies - we're rolling out more safer speed zones to will save more lives.
www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...

New research provides conclusive proof that 20mph in London is saving lives 🚶🚲🚌🚗

14 yrs of analysis at 150+ sites - reviewed by experts - shows:
❤️40% fewer deaths (vs 7% drop on roads where no changes were made)
❤️75% fewer children killed & 50% fewer kids hurt.

Just ignore all the myths about low traffic neighbourhoods: they’re popular, effective and here to stay | Izzy Romilly After the high court ruled one high-profile scheme unlawful, it is important to make the case for LTNs. Luckily, there is a strong one to make, says Izzy Romilly of climate charity Possible

Just ignore all the myths about low-traffic neighbourhoods: they’re popular, effective and here to stay

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

SUVs are more dangerous for pedestrians and cyclists than standard cars – study Researchers gathered data from more than 680,000 road collisions over the past 35 years.

#VisionZero
#RoadSafety
#Carspreading

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A graphic with an image of a small fluffy brown and white dog running on a beach. Alongside the Living Streets logo, there is text that reads 'National Walking Month' and '#MagicOfWalking'.

Happy #NationalWalkingMonth!

Join us as we celebrate the #MagicOfWalking and wheeling this May – and isn't today THE perfect weather to get out and about?☀️

Find out how you can get involved: www.livingstreets.org.uk/nwm

Hammersmith Bridge opens to pedestrians and cyclists but not cars The west London bridge has been closed to vehicles since April 2019, when cracks appeared in its pedestals.

Hammersmith bridge reopens to people walking and cycling 👏

www.bbc.com/news/article...

OBR graphic showing fuel duty forecasts versus outturns, showing the impact of various freezes and the 5p cut

The OBR forecast now assumes fuel duty will rise by 5p in March 2026 and uprated by RPI in every year from April 2026. Yet the reversal of the 5p cut has been delayed three times and
fuel duty has not been uprated with RPI since 2011! obr.uk/docs/dlm_upl...

66% de votants pour végétaliser et rendre piétonnes 500 nouvelles rues dans Paris !

Vous avez été 66% à vous prononcer “pour” végétaliser et rendre piétonnes 500 nouvelles rues réparties dans tous les quartiers. Dans les prochaines semaines, une concertation sera ouverte pour définir la liste des rues et débuter la transformation de la Ville !

Carspreading: When big cars make our cities smaller. Cars are getting bigger – about 1cm wider every two years. The only thing is, our streets aren’t.

Find out more about our #carspreading campaign and how you can get involved at the link below, including our new tool to contact your local council 🙏 3/3

cleancitiescampaign.org/carspreading/

Paris residents to vote on making 500 more streets pedestrian Parisians vote in a referendum on Sunday to decide whether an extra 500 of the city's streets should be pedestrianised and greened, in a new push by the French capital's left-leaning town hall to curb car usage and improve air quality.

NEW: Paris residents are voting in a referendum today on whether an extra 500 of the city's streets should be pedestrianised & greened.

"For the past 25 yrs we've gradually been reclaiming public space for pedestrians & gentle traffic, & with 'garden streets' to create lungs within neighbourhoods.”

View of path through park with with lake and cherry plum blossom in foreground.

Cherry plum flowers

Cherry plum tree in flower

Lake with blue sky and clouds and trees in flower

Breathtaking #BurgessPark in the spring sunshine with its swathes of cherry plum blossom @lb-southwark.bsky.social

Friday's your last chance to comment on TfL's proposals for the Bakerloop BL1 bus from Waterloo to Lewisham via the Elephant & Castle and the Old Kent Road

Read more ➡️ www.se1.news/bl1-bakerloo...

1988 image has cars parked on both sides of the road, today replaced by greenery, bike parking, bins and a water fountain

Eerste Jacob van Campenstraat, Amsterdam in 1988 and today

When all you could do was walk, we walked. Now you can do whatever the hell you want again, we keep walking and walking. #LoveLondon.

For the first time, the Norwegian government has calculated the value to society of the health benefits of increased walking and cycling.

🚲 ~€2.8 for each additional km of cycling
🚶‍♀️ ~€4.2 for each additional km of walking

Amsterdam street filled with car gridlock in the 1970’s.

Remember this picture, & others like it, every time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam."

This was #Amsterdam in the 1970s.

Many of the cities we admire made better choices regarding cars in the past. and are still making better choices today.

Better choices instead of excuses.

Cox's Walk footbridge reopens | London Wildlife Trust The iconic Cox’s Walk footbridge has been reopened to the public after extensive restoration funded by Southwark Council to halt its decline.

The iconic Cox’s Walk footbridge has reopened after restoration funded by @lb-southwark.bsky.social ark.bsky.social to halt its decline 🎉

This much-loved landmark can now be enjoyed by all, as part of a popular circular walk in Dulwich & Sydenham Hill Woods.

www.wildlondon.org.uk/news/coxs-wa...