News on Rebuilding a Greener Hackney

School Streets - Benthal Primary and St Scholastica’s

New School Streets have been launched this week at Benthal and St Scholastica’s primary schools to help children walk and cycle to school and improve road safety at the school gates.

With the school-run accounting for a fifth of London’s morning traffic, the new School Streets will also help more parents leave their cars at home, improving air quality in the morning.

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LTNs have not caused a rise in nearby main road traffic, early analysis shows

The introduction of low traffic neighbourhoods in Hackney has not caused a rise in traffic levels at nearby monitoring sites on five main A-and-B roads, early analysis of Transport for London (TfL) traffic data shows.

The analysis uses data from five TfL traffic count monitoring sites in the borough: Mare Street at its junction with Brenthouse Road; the A10 at its junctions with Richmond Road and Walford Road; Homerton High Street and Albion Road.

At each, data points to a significant drop in traffic levels during the first lockdown this year, which rose again from May 2020 and reached near 2019 levels by August, largely before the introduction of low traffic neighbourhoods in Hackney.

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Roadworks at Dalston Junction

Transport for London work to modernise traffic lights at the A10 junction with Dalston Lane and Balls Pond Road has resumed this month, and is expected to last until 7 March.

Work stopped at the site, which has had temporary traffic lights for much of this year, after the start of the pandemic and has been contributing to delays in the area.

Following additional congestion in the first week of roadworks, the Council has been working closely with TfL to mitigate delays. TfL’s contractor has agreed to begin weekend working to reduce disruption and traffic light timings nearby have been adjusted to help reduce congestion.

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A10 accident

The A10, between Clapton Common and Manor Road, has been closed for a large part of today, following a road traffic collision. This has been contributing to significant traffic congestion across the borough.

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