Email the government about LTNs

Minister for Transport

LGA chair Louse Gittins

LGA vice-chair Kevin Bentley

Prime Minister

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<div>I am writing to ask the Department for Transport to end the fiasco of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods once and for all. Since they were introduced with funding from central government as a way of dealing with Covid, LTNs have proved damaging and divisive. Time after time, these ill-advised schemes have displaced traffic onto nearby roads, creating congestion and increasing journey times for locals. Businesses suffer and residents experience a new-found sense of isolation from other parts of their city.A number of LTNs across the country have been suspended or cancelled, leaving taxpayers wondering why large amounts of public money have been invested in such schemes, while more will be wasted in dismantling them. At a time when council tax is rising, it is simply unacceptable that councils should be spending large sums of public money on planters, cameras and setting up the administrative systems to send out fines. Councils have, first and foremost, an obligation to serve their communities. Too often, LTNs are introduced after inadequate consultation and in the face of clear public opposition. The growing sense that councils are imposing their will for financial or ideological reasons is undermining the legitimacy of local government. The fact they do so under the watch of the Department for Transport does not reflect well on central government. The successful judicial review brought by the West Dulwich Action Group against Lambeth Council is a clear sign that British society does not want to continue with the LTN experiment. LTNs do little or nothing to remedy the problems they are supposed to solve and instead introduce a host of new ones. Please put a stop to them now. </div>

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