Thousands of England’s quiet residential streets and housing estates risk being opened up as rat runs under the government’s review of so-called low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs), prompting alarm from campaign groups.
Two weeks after Rishi Sunak announced he had ordered an inquiry into LTNs amid a pushback against what he termed wider “anti-motorist” policies, the Department for Transport (DfT) is still refusing to say who will run it, or when it will begin work.
