The evidence is in: low-traffic neighbourhoods are popular

The London election proves that measures to make streets safer are a vote-winner, says a former Labour leader of Ealing councilCycling schemes popular with London voters, finds analysisAre measures to make streets safe for walking and cycling unpopular? Are they vote-losers? Have we failed to take communities with us - and will we, as local politicians, pay the price?As a former Labour leader of Ealing council in west London, I was at the heart of this debate. The low-traffic neighbourhood schemes we installed in my borough, using cameras to stop rat-running in more than a hundred streets, caused a row noisy even by the standards of cycling scheme rows. Demonstrators marched to the council offices with "Julian Bell - end this hell" placards. The "Bell" and the "end" were placed together to make a further well-loved phrase. Continue reading...