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All 10 council areas controlled by rightwing party tell the Guardian they have no low-traffic neighbourhoodsReform UK’s pledge to remove all low-traffic neighbourhoods from the council areas it controls looks to be achieved in record time after the 10 …
Exclusive: Create Streets proposes building on Britain’s ‘road belt’ rather than its green belt amid housing crisisNeedlessly wide roads should be torn up and replaced with boulevards of new housing, a thinktank led by the UK government’s most senior u…
Exclusive: Fears quiet-street measures that have been part of traffic planning since 1960s could be scrapped in culture warThousands of England’s quiet residential streets and housing estates risk being opened up as rat runs under the government’s revi…
Bollards and cameras are being deliberately damaged in protest at measures designed to improve air quality and road safetyLondon councils are having to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money repairing vandalised bollards and cameras …
Overlapping concepts of LTNs and ‘modal filtering’ – a staple of postwar planning – creates challenge in how to categorise schemesWhile the concept of the low-traffic neighbourhood, or LTN, first entered the UK political mainstream during the Covid pan…
Exclusive: moves against what PM terms ‘anti-motorist’ policies follow order of review into low-traffic neighbourhoodsMinisters are considering restrictions on councils’ ability to impose 20mph speed limits as part of a new shift against green policies…
Prime minister accuses Labour of being ‘anti-motorist’ and says Keir Starmer is a political opportunistRishi Sunak has ordered a formal review into low-traffic neighbourhood (LTN) schemes, as he sought again to use green policies as a wedge issue with …
The city’s ‘livable neighbourhood’ initiative is threatened by the shock Uxbridge byelection result blamed on the ultra low emission zoneOn Bristol’s Church Road, in the east of the city, cars, buses and lorries rumble past African-Caribbean hairstylis…
Arguments between and within parties have been inflamed by the apparent ‘Ulez effect’ in the Uxbridge byelectionUK politics live – latest updatesSince the Conservatives narrowly won a shock byelection victory by campaigning against a key low-emissions …
Voicing support for traffic schemes has no statistically significant effect on re-election chances, study findsCouncillors who publicly declare support for low-traffic neighbourhoods do not suffer at the polls as a result, research suggests, indicating…