Latest figures on LTNs

New government report on LTNs shows that in the majority of cases the claim that LTNs simply increase traffic on boundary roads is simply not true:

Traffic on the boundary main roads surrounding 12 new LTNs was surveyed by the councils concerned before and after each scheme. This shows, of the 50 boundary roads surveyed, traffic had risen on 15 of them, and fallen on 35.

Regarding claims of emergency response delays:

Other claims sometimes made about LTNs are not true. Using years of data and more than 100,000 emergency callouts, academic research found that they do not increase emergency service response times – echoing statements made by the emergency services themselves about the post-pandemic LTN schemes

And finally, for those who claim LTNs only benefit the white wealthy middle classes:

...in London, people in areas of higher deprivation were 2.7 times more likely to live in a 2020 LTN compared to those in the least deprived quarter of the population

Above quotes from pages 28 & 29, full report here:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploa...