We've recently added two new sections to the Data category under Resources, bringing together information about two important and controversial topics.  Click on the links below for details:

• Traffic Data (how LTNs divert traffic onto our main thoroughfares causing congestion and more misery for everyone!)

• LTN-related PCN charges (they're scandalously high and the worst in the country!)

Here's a really encouraging and inspiring article in the Daily Sceptic about how Camden Council has been forced to postpone and reconsider a plan to impose the new LTN in Dartmouth Park, jointly sponsored by Islington Council.  We are currently liaising with the Highgate Society who were mainly responsible for this campaign and will report on lessons learned.

Excellent article from Andrew Ellson of the Times on research showing that of 90 LTNs locals opposed them in 87% of cases: We're fairly confident that was the case with most Islington LTNs too but of course the Council suppressed and ignored our objections and went ahead anyway.

Along with 15 other groups opposed to LTNs, KIM has written to the Transport Minister to demand that councils have residents' consent before implementing new schemes.  Read the Times article on this important development here.​​​​

Here's a heartfelt message from an Archway resident which eloquently expresses what many of us older drivers feel about LTNs.  If only we could be confident that this message is getting through to the Council.

Great Tribune article featuring Bex Kelly accusing the cycling lobby of "faux green activism" in relation to the Mildmay "Liveable Neighbourhood" plans.

Here's two interesting letters to the Tribune suggesting pedestrianisation of the Southern stretch of Liverpool Road between Chapel Market and Tolpuddle Street.  A much better solution than installing traffic filters all over the already quiet residential streets of Barnsbury.

Two new proposed Islington LTNs have been announced: for Annette Road and Dartmouth Park respectively.  Click on the relevant links to our Projects page to see details.

Watch Andrew Martin's withering critique of Islington Council's Blue Badge exemption policy for LTNs.  LTNs do real harm to disabled people and the exemption policy doesn't work.

Two more LTNs have been scrapped, in Streatham and Exeter respectively.  Both schemes were deeply unpopular and their scrappage was covered extensively in the mainstream media.

See here for our input to the parliamentary debate on May 20 2024 - a set of proposed measures for improving traffic management schemes implemented by Local Authorities.

BDC/BID have published an important report showing why the traffic filtering proposals for Barnsbury.Laycock would be very bad news for Islington's local businesses. A must-read for anyone concerned about the Council's Liveable Neighbourhood plans.

Some important documents relating to the DfT review of LTNs.  Well worth reading in full.

In a highly encouraging development for the Anti-LTN cause, the Conservative government has withdrawn its funding for new LTNs and the Transport Minister, Mark Harper, has ordered a review by the DfT.  See here for details.

Excellent article by Andrew Ellson in the Times on how bus journey times are often dramatically increased as a result of LTNs combined with TfL's policy of replacing bus lanes with dedicated cycling lanes.

We've circulated almost 10,000 Say No to Barnsbury & Laycock LTN leaflets to most households and shops in the area.  There's still quite a lot of people who remain unaware of the Council proposals, but of those who are aware, most are against, including over 90% of businesses.

Finally, the Council have announced their proposal for a Barnsbury.Laycock LTN and it's a shocker with no less than 15 "filters" aka road closures!  We'll be reporting a lot more on this development but for the time being we suggest you all visit https://www.islington.gov.uk/roads/people-friendly-streets/liveable-neighbourhoods/barnsbury-laycock , study the proposals closely, then provide appropriate feedback via the various channels on offer, including a survey, a council email address (barnsbury.laycock.LN@islington.gov.uk), an online meeting next week and various workshops.  Make sure your voice is heard - and tell all your friends.  It's serious this time and we need to get the sensible silent majority on board.

Following a recent Freedom of Information (FOI) request we can reveal that Islington is still earning more from LTN-related Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) than any other borough in the country.  Yearly LTN- and School-related revenues are steady at about £5.5M pa and when Parking charges are added the total is well over £13M pa.  Could this be a factor behind the Council's fondness for LTNs?  Click here to judge for yourselves!

The latest Islington LTN to be made permanent is St Mary's.  This is surprising since according to the Council's own data the scheme has failed to meet any of its objectives and was opposed by a majority of residents.  Click here for our analysis.

Islington's LTNs have had no discernable effect on air quality.  Click here to see our detailed analysis of the Council's own figures.

Click here for a new section on the successful campaign by activist group One Jesmond to force Newcastle City Council to do a U-turn on its LTN programme.

Through Keep Highbury Moving, small businesses in Highbury provided the Council with overwhelming evidence that the LTN there was bad for business.  You can read about this and watch a video by clicking here.  The Council published a report describing the businesses' objections in detail, but then apparently ignored the evidence and went ahead with the LTN anyway.  

Two more excellent anti-LTN articles from the Times and Spectator respectively - click here to view.

Two really encouraging news items (click here for details): The government will no longer fund LTN schemes​Dulwich Council have scrapped an LTN in response to resident pressure.We have long suspected that the Council's plan to replace parking space in Barnsbury with "parklets", "rain gardens", "cycle hangars" and so on is mainly just another facet of the War on Cars by making parking as difficult as possible for residents and their visitors.  In any case, parking is increasingly unaffordable in Islington.  It has emerged that the borough not only has the highest prices for residents' parking permits in the UK but also earns the most from parking violations.  Read about it here.

We have carried out a detailed analysis of the comments on the Council's Interactive Map for a Barnsbury-Laycock LTN - click here to view.  Overall, there is no evidence that the majority of those who live or work in Barnsbury want or need an LTN.The latest Council LTN initiative is a bizarre "wavy line" redevelopment in Charlton Place.  Residents are appalled and an astonishing 98% of traders in adjoining Camden Passage have objected in a petition.  We've created a new page in the website to track this development.

Excellent video of the gathering outside Islington Town Hall on 7.3.23 to protest against the Council's plan to impose an LTN on BarnsburyFollowing a detailed analysis of the Council's own data, it turns out that residents' feedback on the results of the first 7 Islington LTN trials was overwhelmingly negative, in sharp contrast to the Council's misleading positive spin on the results.  Follow this link to find out more.