This document discusses low traffic neighborhoods and how they work to reduce through traffic in residential streets. It notes that low traffic neighborhoods aren't for through traffic, don't encourage rat running, and allow children to play safely with clean air and calm streets. It provides examples from the Netherlands of how neighborhoods use bollards, gates, filtering, and timed closures to restrict through traffic and force drivers to use main roads. Studies show these restrictions can reduce overall traffic by 15% and residential street traffic by over 40% while improving air quality.

1. Low Traffic Neighbourh

2. Observatory road

3. Outside the pub at pickup

4. Sheen Mount pickup

5. Picking up on a
different day

6. Outside Roehampton
Gate

7. None of these is a
‘low traffic neighbourhood’

8. A low traffic neighbourhood …
Isn’t for ‘through traffic’
Doesn’t encourage ‘rat running’
is a place your children can play on
Has clean air and calm streets

10. A Dutch neighbourhood – all the
potential through routes are shown
Red and orange show planned
‘closures’

11. How do you do it, though?

12. Bollards

13. Gates with emergency access

14. “filtering”

15. Onewaytraffic

16. Timed closures,
enforced by camera

17. Right now …
One way
Banned turn
(left or right)
Filters

18. Where does the traffic
go?
~15% “evaporation”
(Palmerston shows 10% at the moment)

19. Some people stop making that journey
Some cycle
Some walk
Some take a different route

20. What about
air quality?

21. Walthamstow Village Area
Overall traffic down 16%
(10,000 vehicles per day)
Main roads up 7%
Residential strees down 44%

22. More traffic =
worse air quality
More routes =
more traffic

23. 2007
2017
WalthamForest

24. A personal view

25. No-one should use our roads to avoid part of the A205
If you come from Richmond Park, you use Sheen Lane
Walking and cycling should be the best option in our
neighbourhood
If you believe air quality and our planet are important, you
should be supporting measures for driving less