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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Grant Williams

Fury in Queen’s Park as low-traffic trial sparks division and councillor row

Traffic in Queens Park - (LDRS)

A north London neighbourhood is severely divided over a controversial low traffic scheme, with a ‘perceived conflict of interest’ from a councillor who lives on one of the ‘beneficiary roads’ having left some residents feeling that trust in the process ‘has been eroded’.

In 2023, Brent Council proposed to introduce a hyper-local traffic scheme in Queen’s Park, which is designed to reduce rush-hour traffic in the area. Since October of the same year, the local authority has been running a trial to determine its feasibility, which is set to conclude in April this year.

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