The report additionally highlighted elevated congestion, greater ranges of air pollution and delays to emergency service autos as a consequence of the LTNs and cycle lanes.
“The engagement and session over the experimental six-month interval have highlighted {that a} majority don’t agree with the design of the cycle lanes and have clearly indicated that they don’t seem to be working for all customers,” the report concluded.
“The schemes have been funded on the situation that we solely used the Transport for London design standards, which wasn’t Harrow particular and subsequently didn’t account for any native situations.”
Tory London mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey, who has pledged to tear up undesirable cycle lanes inside 100 days if elected, stated that every one inexperienced transport initiatives within the capital have to be topic to a assessment course of.
“I’m not stunned that Harrow Council launched this session and I’m glad they’ve given residents the possibility to have their say,” he stated.
“Low-traffic neighbourhoods have been launched on the behest of Sadiq Khan with none session. And too usually they make site visitors and air pollution worse – the very issues they have been supposed to repair.”
Harrow is the primary council to utterly scrap its schemes after a proper assessment interval, lasting for six months, and a whole inside session with residents over the identical time-frame.
Last September, Wandsworth Council suspended its LTNs after 4 weeks – within the first month of a assessment, and whereas session with residents was ongoing – because of “high-level” objections from councillors amid the variety of complaints the authority had already acquired.
Paul Osborn, chief of Harrow Council’s Conservative opposition, stated the lanes noticed low ranges of site visitors and contributed to divisions in communities.
“It’s extremely clear that almost all of persons are towards these schemes, and it’s been clear from the start,” Cllr Osborn stated.
“Even when the proof turned overwhelming that residents have been towards it, they nonetheless didn’t hear. While LTNs create some streets the place they don’t have a lot site visitors, all they do is push the site visitors onto different roads.
“This was an try at an inside London answer in an outer London borough. There are points that want fixing, however this simply wasn’t the way in which of doing it.”
