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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Evidence shows that LTNs improve people’s lives

A  low-traffic neighbourhood in Oval, Lambeth, south London.
A low-traffic neighbourhood in Oval, Lambeth, south London. Photograph: Tom Wall/The Observer

We were dismayed to read Joseph Harker’s article (Opposing LTNs doesn’t make you a ‘culture war’ petrol-head. Just look at what happened in Lambeth, 14 May). We are a group of Lambeth residents campaigning for safer, healthier streets for everyone in our borough.

Harker’s arguments simply don’t fit with either the benefits of low-traffic neighbourhoods that we see every day, or with the increasing body of evidence that they improve people’s lives.

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