As native residents dwelling in Redbridge, we’re experiencing on a regular basis problems with air pollution, noise and harmful driving however regardless of elevating this with the council, we’ve got up to now acquired an insufficient response. Living in the Evanston Gardens space – a high-density space with plenty of households – we’ve got suffered years of air pollution, noise and harmful driving.
So, as an lively and engaged neighborhood, we have been delighted that Redbridge Quiet Streets trial was launched. During the trial our roads turned safer, much less polluted and extra peaceable, with restricted site visitors noise. Unfortunately the Redbridge Quiet Streets trial, which was to final three months to be able to permit time to totally perceive the affect, was cancelled. We have been led to imagine that we’d be requested to supply our suggestions on the scheme however as an alternative the scheme was stopped without session with residents.
We have had discovered no pleasure in contacting the quite a few individuals we’ve got been in correspondence with at the council. This is regardless of the incontrovertible fact that prices of the key ingredient of the scheme – a planter barrier at the junction with the A12 – are usually not onerous and positively not in comparison with the affect that site visitors is having on our day-to-day lives, well being and wellbeing.
This is impacting on the air we breathe and on security. Drivers caught in queuing site visitors turned impatient and it common to search out some travelling on the improper facet of the highway, inflicting a danger to all. When the highway is obvious, we incessantly have vehicles pushed at extreme pace onto and alongside the highway. In addition, as the site visitors queues mount alongside residential roads air pollution will increase to extra harmful ranges and leaves restricted entry for emergency.
There is mounting proof about the affect of air pollution on individuals’s well being and specifically that of kids. In addition, we all know that Covid-19 has uncovered the well being inequality hole for BAME individuals, with proof that that is linked to air pollution in addition to poor housing. Action is required if we’re to keep away from a repeat of this tragedy. This has to begin domestically and we hope the council will act.
Vikram Morzaria,
Evanston Gardens, Redbridge
