| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:LTN’s - 20min Neighbourhoods — What I Learnt Last Night | |
| Posted by: | Vlod Barchuk | |
| Date/Time: | 09/12/23 09:35:00 |
| EA26 is not located at the junction of the High Street and Ealing Broadway. It is on Springbridge Rd, outside the primary school. This is going to have two pollution problems specific to that location: parents parking their cars whilst picking up their children (and running their engines) and vehicles accelerating away from the traffic lights (which will generate more pollution than a vehicle travelling at a steady speed). For reference here are the 2022 NO2 readings for a number of locations (note that the legal threshold is average NO2 of 40 microgrammes per cubic metre): Springbridge Rd - 44 Bond St – 32 Haven Green – 37 Haven Lane – 22 Hanger Lane - 52 So pollution levels vary greatly even across a small area, necessitating bespoke solutions. The only reading in what might be considered a residential street (Haven Lane) is the lowest recording, blowing apart the case for LTNs; it is residential middle class areas that have the lowest pollution levels. Forcing more vehicles onto main roads, which have the highest pollution levels, shows a complete lack of concern about pollution but that's you Paul - you want to virtue signal how much you care while proposing nothing that will actually deal pollution hotspots. |