Readers letters
Cycle lanes have proved beneficial in lockdown
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Benefit of People Friendly Streets
Tash H, Islington, full name and address supplied, writes:
As Lockdown 3.0 was announced, one of the first things I noticed was the number of people outdoors going for walks and cycle rides. With gyms shut and lockdown restrictions in place, getting outdoors is the main way many people are getting their exercise. For some people, it is currently their only way of having social contact, by meeting one other person to exercise with.
Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs), part of the council’s People Friendly Streets programme, make this so much easier, with quiet streets allowing more space for walking, cycling and playing, while being socially distanced. It’s never been so important to have access to public space, and getting out and about is much more enjoyable in our Low Traffic Neighbourhoods like Canonbury compared with areas like Barnsbury tha
Looking back at 2020 on the Ann Arbor city beat and what’s ahead in 2021
Updated Dec 31, 2020;
Posted Dec 31, 2020 This is so cool! one of these two cyclists exclaimed after passing through Ann Arbor s new riverfront tunnel pathway completed in 2020.Ryan Stanton | The Ann Arbor News
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ANN ARBOR, MI It was a year filled with bright spots and not-so-bright spots, both progress and turmoil, and it was a year most will never forget.
Set against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, Black Lives Matter demonstrations and the political drama of the U.S. presidential election, here’s a look back at some of what happened on the city beat in Ann Arbor in 2020, with a look ahead to 2021.
Some city councillors have questioned the link between the CAF and the People Friendly Streets scheme. But Pam Rouquette said: “Reducing city centre traffic is the future and this decision by Salisbury City Council to support PFS will make the city an attractive place in which to live, work, shop and visit. This is our chance and opportunity for a better future for everyone in the city centre.” Paula Downard added: “This is a great decision for shoppers as during PFS my journey from the P&R was much easier and I am very happy with this decision which will also make access to the inner-city car parks easier for us that live in the villages.”
The letter says: I do not believe that the almost £800,000 of complementary measures that the SWLEP was funding should be called automatically into question by the suspension of the ETRO. Neither should the bulk of the complementary measures due to be funded from Wiltshire Council. These proposals, perhaps with the exception of the parklets and making the bus gates permanent, are not in any way technically dependent on the ETRO being in place. Indeed, given that the complementary measures are more permanent investments than the LTZ scheme which was only experimental and time-limited, the former could never be said to be contingent on the latter.
Readers letters
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8:30 AM December 19, 2020
A pair of barn owls were once reported to live in Canonbury Square
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People Friendly Streets benefit our animals too
Simon Izod, Islington, full address supplied, writes:
Last week as I was walking along the newly implemented People Friendly Streets in Canonbury West, I saw a cat cross a road, which until recently was dominated by motor traffic. I thought about how many cats’ lives have ended unnecessarily early due to the dangerous road conditions they have confronted.
It led me to realise that as someone who has been campaigning for People Friendly Streets, I have had in mind the benefits to human beings and been forgetting the benefits to animals and plants.