Quiet Camden – a low traffic neighbourhood?

Our most read blogpost ever was a picture of the street after heavy snowfall where many people were out on the street, sweeping away snow, talking to one another and enjoying the peace and quiet from virtually no traffic. You can read it again here.

Ironically, the lady whose car got most smashed up yesterday, had met me a few weeks ago to suggest we needed to improve the look of the street and how it gets cared for. The time is ripe…

• the new housing developments in Bath all seem to provide quiet, low traffic settings,
• we featured ‘Low Traffic Neighbourhoods’ here on this web-site at the end of March,
• the Lib Dems put it into their manifesto,
• we got agreement from all the the local election candidates that they would support a ‘Low Traffic Neighbourhood’ at our Camden Question Time seven weeks ago,
• the Lib Dems are now in power.

The CRA committee are meeting both Walcot councillors on Monday evening to take this forward. The extract below and the main illustration come from some papers prepared after reviewing some schemes in London by ‘Living Streets’ and the ‘London Cycling Campaign’. Camden has its design challenges, no doubt, but let’s be the first such neighbourhood in Bath.

Jeremy, Chair of the CRA.