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Opponents of LTNs claim they delay emergency services – but look at the facts

Opponents of LTNs claim they delay emergency services – but look at the facts Peter Walker © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Mark Kerrison/Alamy If you were to read certain newspapers for long enough, the message would seem clear: the main cause of traffic congestion is measures to boost walking and cycling – that is, separated cycle lanes, and so-called low-traffic neighbourhoods, or LTNs. LTNs, schemes to dissuade through traffic on smaller residential streets by filters permeable to people travelling by foot or cycle, but not by private motor vehicle – whether camera-enforced or in the physical form of planters or bollards – are at the centre of a particularly fierce transport-based culture war.

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