Greenwich is at the Eastern edge of the bowl that forms London. It’s one of our oldest towns, is home to the Maritime Museum, the Old Royal Naval College and the Royal Observatory and thriving markets. It is a beautiful place. However, much of London’s pollution flows our way on the wind - we are, as they say, at the “arse end of the whale”. On winter mornings you can see the smog lying below the hill and across to the City. That’s the reason the West Greenwich Low Traffic Neighbourhood has been such a breath of fresh air: we no longer have traffic adding to that smog.
LTNs, many of which have now been introduced across London, use planters, bollards and cameras to remove through traffic from neighbourhoods. They make driving inconvenient, while making walking and cycling more pleasant. Traffic on London’s unclassified ‘C’ roads has almost doubled in the past ten years. LTNs are the only way of reversing this attack on the residential streets on which over 90% off Londoners live.
