Lambeth Living Streets

Pale green graphic with a bike, a wheelchair, diverse legs with trainers and someone with a stick. Text in Green: Changing the narrative Ending the acceptance of road death in London

🚨 NEW REPORT: Today, I'm proud to launch ‘Changing the Narrative – Ending the Acceptance of Road Death in London’
👉 www.london.gov.uk/caroline-rus...
To mark the launch, I’m hosting a roundtable at City Hall today with campaigners, bereaved families, crash survivors, policy experts, TfL and more.

80 people at public meeting holding up signs saying 'Let's Fix The Gyratory"

Last night 80+ residents & businesses came together for a positive & collaborative meeting about the Tulse Hill gyratory with Helen Hayes MP, councillor Olga FitzRoy,
@labourmarina.bsky.social, The Norwood Forum & others.
Lots of great ideas & people keen to get involved in
transforming Tulse Hill

Elm Park Tavern on a sunny afternoon with people enjoying themselves outside and nearby

Families and friends enjoying a drink after work. Tiny kids playing football. Schoolchildren relaxing outside the shop. Elm Park is unrecognisable from a few years ago! @lambethlivingst.bsky.social @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social

An AI generated picture of Norwood Road in Tulse Hill. The street is free of traffic. There are trees and plants, people cycling, people shopping, one red bus. The sun is shining.

Public meeting. 7-8.30pm, Weds 23 July, Salvation Army Hall, 246 Norwood Road, SE27 9AW.

Imagine a town centre in Tulse Hill where people linger, shop, and connect—not just pass through. A new street layout could boost footfall and breathe new life into Tulse Hill businesses.

Let's fix the gyratory.

Join our public meeting on Weds 23 July at 7pm.
#SupportLocal #TransformTulseHill

Road closed signage

Cllr Rezina Chowdhury standing by a notice board that says Car Free in a busy street full of people

We closed Abbeville Road in Clapham to cars for a few hours today and something truly radical and transformative happened.

We saw a community grow.

People came out to chat, laugh, listen, gossip, eat, drink and share.

Just proves that streets are for people not just for cars.

Map with zebra crossing

Emanuel Road in Lambeth

🚨Delighted to announce that we will install a new zebra crossing on Emmanuel Road outside Telferscot Primary School as part of our commitment to reduce road danger, especially for children!

Works will take place over the summer holidays & be done by start of September

Half a dozen Lime and Forest e-bikes parked next to the entrance to a construction site within a low traffic neighbourhood in Walworth.

Walworth LTNs making it easier and safer for construction workers to get to site by bike, bravo @lb-southwark.bsky.social @jamesmcash.bsky.social

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

35% fewer collisions & 36% fewer casualties on London roads that have been dropped to new 20mph limit. No evidence it increases congestion. www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...

We love these pencil bollards that are popping up around schools in London, allocating the space for kids not cars.

👁️ So far spotted in Southwark & Lambeth.

Have you seen any near you! ?

@lambethlivingst.bsky.social
@southwarkls.bsky.social
@jamesmcash.bsky.social
@rezinachowdhury.bsky.social

Change often is particularly where it involves who gets to use land in what way!

Feel free to share studies you think have been done better

It’s also good to recognise that evidence can have value even if it’s imperfect. Too many arguments against LTNs just dismiss the whole body of scholarship on the topic as worthless.

"Harker’s arguments simply don’t fit with either the benefits of low-traffic neighbourhoods that we see every day, or with the increasing body of evidence that they improve people’s lives."

Well said, @heatherglass.bsky.social and @jonbromwich.bsky.social of @lambethlivingst.bsky.social

Good to see that The Guardian has published Living Streets’ spot on response to the thoroughly disappointing and misleading opinion piece last week.

It’s human nature to look for flaws in studies that don’t support our views 🤷

We don’t think Joseph Harker is a petrol head but we do think he’s bashed out a column without really looking at any actual evidence

LTNs are certainly more straightforward to implement in the north of the borough (compare the hoo ha around Dulwich in Southwark vs Walworth which barely made a ripple). We don’t think that means it’s not worth trying and we hope Wells will be back soon with a new design and bus priority measures

Evidence shows that LTNs improve people’s lives | Letters Letters: Jon Bromwich and Heather Glass of Lambeth Living Streets, former Lambeth council leader Joan Twelves, Graham Clewes and Richard Aldwinckle of One Dulwich respond to an article about LTNs by J...

Changes to Lambeth’s streets are in the news again. Here’s our view in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

My first time walking around the CONGESTION RELIEF ZONE on a non bone-chilling day and I am in love. Dramatic improvement. Here is 42nd & Madison — unfathomable that this usual clusterf*** of cars at this hour is this clear. As you can see however by the crosswalk, Manhattan is a ghost town now 🤣

A cartoon strip showing people discussing how to help people get around in the snow and ice. The person who suggests gritting pavements for people walking and wheeling is ejected from the meeting.

Don't leave us out in the cold!

We hear a lot about the importance of gritting carriageways when it's snowy and icy, but pavements are often forgotten.

We're calling on local authorities to grit and clear pavements too, so we can all walk and wheel safely this winter.

What?!?!

I'm writing a book chapter on disability and active travel.

I think a section will be on the unsung infrastructures of active travel for disabled people.

Benches.

Public toilets and changing places.

Accurate and accessible information provision.

What else?

Alongside our partners, we are very proud of the positive impacts on #InclusiveCycling and #ActiveTravel that the #Wheels4Me scheme is having for disabled people.

Cargo bikes parked in a reserved space in a Copenhagen apartment block, with text reading “Let’s Solve It” from Solve the School Run.

Happy new year!

To kick off 2025 we bring inspiration from our friends in Copenhagen🇩🇰

Just look at this space reserved for family cargo bike parking. Truly a thing of beauty🌳 🚲

Come on Lambeth - we know you can do this too!

#familycycling #cleanair #schoolrun

@rezinachowdhury.bsky.social

Americans Are Lonely and Disconnected. Better Civic Spaces Can Help. We need more welcoming public places where people can connect in person — high-quality, well-maintained parks, trails, libraries and community centers. Investing in them is good for us and good for de...

Americans Are Lonely & Disconnected. Better Civic Spaces Can Help. “We need more welcoming public places where people can connect in person—high-quality, well-maintained parks, trails, libraries & community centers. Investing in them is good for us & for democracy.” www.governing.com/infrastructu...

Three #Haringey LTNs set to continue after major fall in traffic 🚲🚶‍♀️ 🛴

✅ Traffic cut by 50%
✅ 80k fewer vehicles counted per day
✅ Road collisions fall on average 34%

Cabinet will consider the reports on 10 December.
Find out more: new.haringey.gov.uk/news/2024120...

The #schoolrun is one big onion! 🧅

🧅 Layers of journeys made by different modes for different reasons.

🧅 One layer is primary school journeys of over 1 mile. 65% of these journeys in London are driven.

🧅 How to solve this layer??……

Enter the family #Cargo bike..

@rezinachowdhury.bsky.social

All these people, young and old, have a physical disability in one way or another. And yet, thanks to cycling infrastructure, they can easily navigate the streets.

YouTube video by Walk Ride GM How bollards and planters are changing lives in Levenshulme

Did you know that bollards* and planters can make people’s lives better? That’s exactly what’s been happening in Levenshulme and Burnage – we paid a visit to find out how.

*If you follow @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social, you knew this already.

'People's selfish parking makes me not want to leave my house' "I'm just at a point now where I am like 'I will just stay in the house' and it shouldn't be that way"

When people park selfishly across pavements they make life incredibly difficult for people in wheelchairs and many others

We headed out with @pamthomas01.bsky.social to see the challenges she faces on a daily basis because of this selfish behaviour

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...