National Clean Air Day today

Nice to hear after last night’s Liveable Neighbourhood Council webinar that Bath’s Clean Air Zone will go live on Monday 15th March, next year. Don’t expect this to have much effect on the streets of Camden but London Road should benefit.

There’s a very nice touch at Queen’s Square where special traffic lights give cyclists a head start over normal traffic.

Returning to the webinar…

Apparently there were over 200 on the call, which is the best ever and reflective of the interest. I took a few screen shots of some of the slides presented as we went along and made a few notes.

Here are the panel members:

Assistant Director of Highways and Transport, Chris Major with fellow officer, Jessica Fox-Taylor, Cllrs Joanna Wright and Neil Butters, Joint Cabinet Leads for Transport and Cllr Dine Romero, Leader of the Council acting as chair of the event.

Here’s last night’s new statement of the vision for Liveable Neighbourhoods

• The first question residents ask is can I get to and from my house?
• The first question users and residents of the arterial roads ask whether the through traffic from a low traffic neighbourhood traffic will be displaced onto them?

What is the potential to achieve this overall traffic reduction?

Yes, there are hills, but there are also lots of flat rides along the river valley as well as contouring round on the slopes with opportunities for easier gradients and e-bikes and cargo bike schemes will be introduced. The CAZ will kick in at the same time and efforts will be renewed to provide more parking outside the city linking in with public transport routes.

None of these comments are made to dismiss the issues, but simply to suggest that there may be ways to ameliorate or even minimise them.

Here’s the process for getting started…

We’ll be gunning for Camden.