Southwark Living Streets
@southwarkls.bsky.social
Southwark Living Streets campaigns for a safe, attractive and accessible walking and wheeling environment in Southwark 🚶🏾♀️🚶🏼♂️🧑🏻🦽🌳 https://www.livingstreets.org.uk/southwark
"The findings reveal that...traffic crashes are often framed as isolated, inevitable events, downplaying systemic issues such as infrastructure and policy" - new study of German-speaking media produces interesting results www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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This reduction was consistent across: ✔️ travel modes ✔️ junctions with/without traffic lights Filtering side streets hasn't just made internal LTN roads safer - it has made boundary-LTN junctions safer too. No negative impacts on other boundary road junctions. findingspress.org/article/1434... 3/
Removing Through-traffic on Minor Roads Reduces Road Danger at Junctions with Surrounding Major Roads | Published in Findings
By Jamie Furlong, David Fevyer & 6 more. Filtering minor roads through LTNs reduced casualties at their junctions with major roads by 14%, supporting improved road safety. Effects were consistent acro...
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LTNs were associated with a 35% reduction in all injuries, rising to 37% for deaths and serious injuries www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... #VisionZero
London’s low-traffic zones ‘cut deaths and injuries by more than a third’
Exclusive: Study also finds no change in number of casualties on roads just outside low-traffic neighbourhoods
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“Being more active” is “one of the most impressive things you can do to preserve health of all forms, physical and mental”…”the best way for people to do this was to build it into their everyday life, for example by walking, cycling or wheeling for transport” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Chris Whitty says culture-war coverage of cycling could harm nation’s health
Chief medical officer for England urges people to set media cliches aside to focus on health benefits of physical activity
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Here’s the “elephant in the room” with the outstanding (and FAST) growth in urban biking here in Paris — the tension between 2 NATURAL ALLIES, people on bikes and people walking, needs work, lest it become a political wedge issue. City Hall reminds everyone that pedestrians have priority EVERYWHERE.
On Saturday 21 June, Southwark Council is bringing everyone together to celebrate our High Streets. On Bellenden Road from 11am there will be with children’s games, face-painting, live music, food from local businesses, cycling activities and much more. www.southwark.gov.uk/news/2025/so...
PARIS CITY HALL EXHIBITION TO OPEN JUNE 21st! I’m proud to join Paris Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social, iconic artist Shepard Fairey @obeygiant.bsky.social & local leaders next week to open this conversation-changing EXHIBITION on city leadership in climate action! www.paris.fr/evenements/d...
Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · last yr.BIG NEWS: I’m very honoured to announce that I’ve been collaborating with the City of Paris under Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership to create a unique exhibition opening this summer at Paris City Hall on BOLD URBAN TRANSFORMATION, profiling cities around the world. Stay tuned for details!
The rollout of driverless vehicles must not be an excuse to further diminish the role of the pedestrian in urban life. The streets of the 20th century were reshaped to suit cars, often at enormous social cost…People stopped walking…Road deaths..became normalised. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The car made pedestrians second-class citizens. Don’t let driverless vehicles push us off the road altogether | Adam Tranter
If we want autonomous tech to succeed it must be designed to share space with us, rather than forcing us to adapt to it, says former cycling and walking commissioner Adam Tranter
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@cleancitiescampaign.org backs the SUV Alliance manifesto and is calling on the govt to introduce stricter regs on vehicle design to reverse the trend towards larger bodies and higher bonnets on cars. We want urgent action in the new Road Safety Strategy. 7/8 www.suv-alliance.org.uk/blog/letter-...
For children's sake, stop Carspreading — SUV Alliance
Fear of traffic is regularly cited as a barrier to greater uptake of walking, wheeling and cycling, and the trend towards ever-bigger, ever-heavier SUVs will only make this worse.
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Fantastic to be out in Southwark yesterday meeting with council & local community for our Big Community Transport Tour. Inspiring to see real progress being made - from creating safer, greener streets to freeing up space for walking, cycling & public transport.
Good to see a new zebra crossing and wider pavements have been installed on Grove Vale. This was always difficult and dangerous to cross, now much safer. @jamesmcash.bsky.social @cleanairdulwich.bsky.social @southwarkls.bsky.social
Come and join us to celebrate our high streets. Saturday 21 June - Bellenden Road, Peckham, from 11am to 4pm We’re bringing residents, families, communities and businesses together with children’s games, music, cycling activities and much more. www.southwark.gov.uk/southwark-pr...
Last year more people were killed on the roads than were murdered in London. Speed is a factor in about half of all fatalities. @TfL research shows we can prevent these tragedies - we're rolling out more safer speed zones to will save more lives. www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
More 20mph roads on way for London after injuries and collisions are cut by a third
Research commissioned by TfL on the safety benefits of 20mph has given the green light for more speed cuts
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New research provides conclusive proof that 20mph in London is saving lives 🚶🚲🚌🚗 14 yrs of analysis at 150+ sites - reviewed by experts - shows: ❤️40% fewer deaths (vs 7% drop on roads where no changes were made) ❤️75% fewer children killed & 50% fewer kids hurt.
Just ignore all the myths about low-traffic neighbourhoods: they’re popular, effective and here to stay www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Just ignore all the myths about low traffic neighbourhoods: they’re popular, effective and here to stay | Izzy Romilly
After the high court ruled one high-profile scheme unlawful, it is important to make the case for LTNs. Luckily, there is a strong one to make, says Izzy Romilly of climate charity Possible
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Happy #NationalWalkingMonth! Join us as we celebrate the #MagicOfWalking and wheeling this May – and isn't today THE perfect weather to get out and about?☀️ Find out how you can get involved: www.livingstreets.org.uk/nwm
Hammersmith bridge reopens to people walking and cycling 👏 www.bbc.com/news/article...
Hammersmith Bridge opens to pedestrians and cyclists but not cars
The west London bridge has been closed to vehicles since April 2019, when cracks appeared in its pedestals.
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The OBR forecast now assumes fuel duty will rise by 5p in March 2026 and uprated by RPI in every year from April 2026. Yet the reversal of the 5p cut has been delayed three times and fuel duty has not been uprated with RPI since 2011! obr.uk/docs/dlm_upl...
Vous avez été 66% à vous prononcer “pour” végétaliser et rendre piétonnes 500 nouvelles rues réparties dans tous les quartiers. Dans les prochaines semaines, une concertation sera ouverte pour définir la liste des rues et débuter la transformation de la Ville !
Find out more about our #carspreading campaign and how you can get involved at the link below, including our new tool to contact your local council 🙏 3/3 cleancitiescampaign.org/carspreading/
Carspreading: When big cars make our cities smaller.
Cars are getting bigger – about 1cm wider every two years. The only thing is, our streets aren’t.
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NEW: Paris residents are voting in a referendum today on whether an extra 500 of the city's streets should be pedestrianised & greened. "For the past 25 yrs we've gradually been reclaiming public space for pedestrians & gentle traffic, & with 'garden streets' to create lungs within neighbourhoods.”
Paris residents to vote on making 500 more streets pedestrian
Parisians vote in a referendum on Sunday to decide whether an extra 500 of the city's streets should be pedestrianised and greened, in a new push by the French capital's left-leaning town hall to curb car usage and improve air quality.
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Breathtaking #BurgessPark in the spring sunshine with its swathes of cherry plum blossom @lb-southwark.bsky.social
Friday's your last chance to comment on TfL's proposals for the Bakerloop BL1 bus from Waterloo to Lewisham via the Elephant & Castle and the Old Kent Road Read more ➡️ www.se1.news/bl1-bakerloo...
Eerste Jacob van Campenstraat, Amsterdam in 1988 and today
When all you could do was walk, we walked. Now you can do whatever the hell you want again, we keep walking and walking. #LoveLondon.
Go Jauntly: walks & nature trails@gojauntly.bsky.social · 2y agoLondoners really love walking. There has been 4x increase in walking in #London since Covid. 💅 We would love to replicate this far and wide so please do get in touch if you want to promote walking and improve wellbeing for all. Slide into our DM's why don't you? 😘 6/6
For the first time, the Norwegian government has calculated the value to society of the health benefits of increased walking and cycling. 🚲 ~€2.8 for each additional km of cycling 🚶♀️ ~€4.2 for each additional km of walking
Anine Hartmann@aninehartmann.bsky.social · 2y agoSamfunnet tjener mye på at folk går og sykler! Nye tall fra Helsedirektoratet viser at vi sparer: 🚲 33 kr for hver km folk sykler 🚶♀️ 49 kr for hver km folk går Det er sammenlignet med at folk ikke er i fysisk aktivitet, f.eks. om de kjører bil.
Remember this picture, & others like it, every time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam." This was #Amsterdam in the 1970s. Many of the cities we admire made better choices regarding cars in the past. and are still making better choices today. Better choices instead of excuses.
The iconic Cox’s Walk footbridge has reopened after restoration funded by @lb-southwark.bsky.social ark.bsky.social to halt its decline 🎉 This much-loved landmark can now be enjoyed by all, as part of a popular circular walk in Dulwich & Sydenham Hill Woods. www.wildlondon.org.uk/news/coxs-wa...
Cox's Walk footbridge reopens | London Wildlife Trust
The iconic Cox’s Walk footbridge has been reopened to the public after extensive restoration funded by Southwark Council to halt its decline.
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