Reader letters
Low Traffic Neighbourhoods are a major topic of debate in Islington
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Benefits of LTNs widely proven and supported
Full name and address provided, Islington, writes:
The short and long-term objectives of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) are well known.
Now, even the most fervent and vociferous opponents of the Highbury LTN scheme must acknowledge the huge reduction in average traffic-flow volumes on the Holloway Road and the other arterial boundary roads.
This change in traffic-flow volumes doesn’t just happen by chance.
The traffic evaporation ‘theory’, widely derided by anti-LTNers but supported by robust real-world evidence elsewhere, suggests an expected decline in traffic volumes of around 15 per cent.