Reposted by Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd ParkMayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 22/10/2025The ULEZ expansion is helping to improve the health of millions of Londoners. Harmful NO2 concentrations are estimated to be down across London compared to a no-ULEZ scenario. Central London - 54% lower Inner London - 29% lower Outer London - 24% lower 614024
Reposted by Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd ParkMums for Lungs @mumsforlungs.bsky.social · 02/06/2025Today marks the start of #VolunteersWeek. We want to say a massive thank you to all our amazing volunteers for your time, care & support for #AirPollution action. Whether it’s brainstorming campaigns, meeting your MP, attending an event or sending out flyers, we are nothing without you! 💚 😘 1198
Reposted by Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd ParkDan Kelly @deekinstow.bsky.social · 29/05/20251 minute action, you know you should : ) 022
Reposted by Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd ParkBella Chu @isabellachu.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Twice as many children die in car crashes than from all pediatric cancers combined. This does not count the long term health effects of breathing exhaust, brake and tire particles or the loss of physical activity and independence from living in a world hostile to traveling outside of a car. 716844
Reposted by Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd ParkStephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Has your council declared a nature emergency? Fantastic new resource from the Woodland Trust, @mysociety.org and @climateemergencyuk.bsky.social 100 councils have declared an emergency, 48 have evidence-based action plans and 5 are managing 30% of their land for nature. Find out more👇natureemergency.comNature EmergencyHas your council declared a nature emergency? 21712
Reposted by Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd ParkHackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 23/02/2025A Woonerf in the Netherlands. Through motor traffic is redirected to main roads. Greenery & street furniture (including a small playground) is strategically placed to ensure motor traffic keeps to slow speeds, with paving used & roadway raised at junctions, where collisions are most likely to occur 620735
Reposted by Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd ParkStephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 24/02/2025“Over half of parents (53%) view traffic as a barrier to play… In addition to safety concerns, the rise in vehicles on the road – moving or parked – has displaced children and young people from many streets by physically occupying spaces which used to be free for them to play in” Essential reading👇 1216
Reposted by Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd ParkDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/02/2025 615653
Reposted by Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd ParkThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 23/02/2025If road deaths were a virus, we’d call it a pandemic. Safer transport helps us all – and we need it urgently | Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Jean Todttheguardian.comIf road deaths were a virus, we’d call it a pandemic. Safer transport helps us all – and we need it urgently | Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Jean TodtDeaths on the road costs countries up to 5% of GDP. Centring transport around people, not cars, can propel development 12311103
Reposted by Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd ParkCaroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 21/02/2025So much this 👇 16710
Reposted by Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd ParkKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 13/04/2024Hybrids have always been a favourite of centrists / go-slow types. The orange bars are what car companies claimed their emissions intensity was, and the blue bars are what their actual, real-world emissions intensity is. Industry-wide fraud, basically. climate.ec.europa.eu/news-your-vo... 1113057
Reposted by Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd ParkCaroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 17/02/2025A very clear response from London Fire Commissioner, Andy Rowe to a question at Fire Plenary last week from Emma Best AM about the impact of LTNs on fire brigade attendance times. "We genuinely couldn't find any evidence of LTNs doing anything to our overall attendance times". 14501194
Reposted by Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd ParkMums for Lungs @mumsforlungs.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Latest emissions data has been released, showing a slight overall reduction in PM2.5 levels from domestic combustion. However, if you live next to a wood burning household, an overall reduction means nothing because you're living in an #AirPollution hotspot. #WoodBurning www.gov.uk/government/s... 4248
Reposted by Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd ParkCaroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 06/02/2025#WomensFreedomRide tonight. It’s such a great campaign and very excellent report looking at gendered social safety especially after dark when riding a bike. So sorry not to be able to join @londoncycling.bsky.social Repirt is here: lcc.org.uk/campaigns/wo...lcc.org.ukWomen's FreedomLess than one third of cycle trips in London are taken by women - we want to close the gap and unlock cycling for women. 03916
Reposted by Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd ParkBob From Accounts 🚲 @bobfromaccounts.bsky.social · 28/01/2025If there was ever a clearer argument for cars never to be allowed within 500m of schools, 20mph zones, and restrictions on massive SUVs. Every UK school should have a School Street.theguardian.comWimbledon school crash driver arrested in reopened investigationDriver of car that crashed into school, killing two girls, held on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving 19820
Reposted by Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd ParkTom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 28/01/2025a design for life. 829336
Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd Park @healthyhighamhill.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Loving our new accessible pavements replacing parking, daylighting with cycle parking and informal play/seating. Fantastic to see thanks to @labourstone.bsky.social @kira.social @shumonalirahman.bsky.social @wfcouncil 0103
Reposted by Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd ParkWheels for Wellbeing @wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk · 06/01/2025Alongside our partners, we are very proud of the positive impacts on #InclusiveCycling and #ActiveTravel that the #Wheels4Me scheme is having for disabled people. 1186
Reposted by Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd ParkKatharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 09/01/2025I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️ 318318619158
Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd Park @healthyhighamhill.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Esther Road in Waltham Forest was subject to bad flooding in 2021. Parking out, rain gardens in. Beautiful, urban cooling, mental health boosting, biodiverse, flood mitigating awesomeness. @labourstone.bsky.social @meristemdesign.bsky.social #healthystreets #healthystreets4hhlp 07228
Reposted by Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd ParkBob From Accounts 🚲 @bobfromaccounts.bsky.social · 07/01/2025The people who loudly complain about bike share schemes tend to be strangely silent on this sort of thing 312922
Reposted by Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd ParkSundance @sundance.bikesky.social · 02/01/2025“The only thing that stops a bad guy with a truck is a good guy with a bigger truck” #BanCars #BanGuns #Satire 7627
Reposted by Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd ParkCarlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 16/12/2024Registered vehicles on UK roads: 1991: 20 million 2023: 41.2 million Congestion is caused — and air pollution and climate change is made worse — not by cycleways or LTNs, but by too many motor vehicles. 281109324
Reposted by Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd ParkJulia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 17/12/2024For the January/February issue of @motherjones.com, I wrote a column on the importance of making walkable cities accessible, especially as disabled people are more likely to not drive and take public transit. www.motherjones.com/environment/...motherjones.comDo car-free zones hurt disabled people? We asked experts.City planners and advocates are seeing "accessibility used as a political football." 216958
Reposted by Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd ParkTom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Breaking News. 1527156
Reposted by Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd ParkPeter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 18/12/202417-year-long Scottish study of 82,000+ adults finds commuting by bike reduces your risk of: • early death • hospitalisation for any reason • cardiovascular disease • cancer mortality • treatment for mental health problems. Yeah, but those LTNs and bike lanes are *really* annoying. 23979400
Reposted by Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd ParkDan Kelly @deekinstow.bsky.social · 18/12/2024More good stuff for walking from Waltham Forest. 021
Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd Park @healthyhighamhill.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Healthy Streets are accessible streets! Great to see the construction of a level footway here massively improving the accessibility on St Andrews Road with protection for some wonderful mature trees! Huge thanks to Cllrs, officers and campaigners for making streets more equitable. 2255
Reposted by Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd ParkCoHSAT - Coalition for Healthy Streets and Active Travel (Oxon) @cohsat.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Wheels for Wellbeing @wheelsforwellbeing.bsky.social the organisation enabling disabled people to cycle are now on Blue Sky wheelsforwellbeing.org.ukwheelsforwellbeing.org.ukCampaigning for inclusive cycling, Wheels for WellbeingWheels for Wellbeing is an award-winning charity supporting disabled people of all ages and abilities to enjoy the benefits of cycling. 2164
Reposted by Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd ParkKatja Diehl @katjadiehl.bsky.social · 01/12/2024"Evidence from the Netherlands (and increasingly from the UK, where new infrastructure has been built) shows that high quality cycling infrastructure is often shared with wheelchairs, mobility scooters and other assistive modes of transport." I saw this everywhere in Paris and dutch cities. <3 417247
Reposted by Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd ParkPedal Me @pedalme.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Free! Rides home from @columbiaroadmarket.bsky.social today and for the next three weeks courtesy of @zeroemissions.bsky.social 095
Reposted by Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd ParkKatja Diehl @katjadiehl.bsky.social · 01/12/2024“A decarbonised society means cleaner air. In Europe, the mistaken notion that diesel and wood are relatively climate-friendly fuels has left people living with excessive traffic emissions and in air pollution hotspots from home wood burning.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comHow climate policies reduce air pollution saving lives and moneyEarly deaths from air pollution in US could be reduced by between 4,000 and 15,000 a year by 2035, study shows 13310
Reposted by Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd ParkBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Every year, billions of vehicles worldwide shed an estimated 6 million tonnes of tire fragments. These tiny flakes of plastic, generated by normal driving, account for 28% of microplastics entering the environment globally. Heavy vehicles eg SUVs/EVs especially. theconversation.com/car-tyres-sh...theconversation.comCar tyres shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment – urgent action is neededTiny flakes of plastic, generated by the wear and tear of normal driving, eventually accumulate in the soil, in rivers and lakes, and even in our food. 341265507
Reposted by Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd ParkHealthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd Park @healthyhighamhill.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Sutherland Road improvements are in! The longest rain garden treatment on a residential street in the UK with vehicles moved from the pavement to the roadway and 68 new trees! Thanks to all those cllr's, campaigners and residents supporting healthier streets. #healthystreets4hhlp #healthystreets 142
Reposted by Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd ParkBob From Accounts 🚲 @bobfromaccounts.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Two years ago, this was just another road full of traffic in central London. Now, it's a calm place for people to sit and walk. Streets are for people. Alfred Place. 4575
Reposted by Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd ParkJon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 28/11/2024More than 90% of the U.K population live in suburbs. So, we’ll never take large numbers of cars off the road unless we connect every suburb in the land to the nearest train and bus station with fully segregated cycle lanes. This is well within our capabilities. Let’s do it. 1416635
Reposted by Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd ParkStephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 28/11/2024DfT launches a call for ideas to support the development of the Integrated National Transport Strategy for England. Date for the diary: 11:59pm on 30 January 2025 Everyone can respond - the public, transport workers and organisationsgov.ukIntegrated National Transport Strategy: a call for ideas 33819
Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd Park @healthyhighamhill.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Sutherland Road improvements are in! The longest rain garden treatment on a residential street in the UK with vehicles moved from the pavement to the roadway and 68 new trees! Thanks to all those cllr's, campaigners and residents supporting healthier streets. #healthystreets4hhlp #healthystreets 142
Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd Park @healthyhighamhill.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Gutted not to be there today but what an awesome transformation. Such an amazing project. 000
Reposted by Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd Parklabourstone.bsky.social @labourstone.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Gr8 to welcome @metecoban92.bsky.social, Sem Moema GLA, @graciemaew.bsky.social @ahsankhan9.bsky.social to Sutherland Rd, E17 today to unveil 'probably' the world's longest #RainGarden in a residential street- incl. 68 🌳's & plenty of plants! @wflabour.bsky.social @healthyhighamhill.bsky.social 0114
Reposted by Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd ParkHackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Removing through motor traffic from your local neighbourhood & replacing the space that was allocated to empty stationary cars with outdoor seating and bike parking ensures your neighbourhood become a place people want to stay, rather than just pass through, and also helps support local businesses 4619
Reposted by Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd ParkCllr Sam Easterby-Smith @samsterby.com · 21/11/2024I give you LTN BINGO! 39131
Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd Park @healthyhighamhill.bsky.social · 23/11/2024 Healthy streets means halved road injuries, reduced crime, and space where families can feel safe, hear each other and aren't constantly in fear of their safety. It means bus priority. It means people have choice. #healthystreets4hhlp #highamhill #highamhillroade17 010
Reposted by Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd ParkToby Spearpoint @tobyspearpoint.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Still my favourite Parklet. Delivered by @wfcouncil outside a school. It's just a much better way to use public space than parking for individuals in London. 073
Reposted by Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd ParkLiving Streets @livingstreets.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Today marks four years since the consultation on a #PavementParking ban in England - and we're still waiting for action. Disabled campaigner and journalist Katie Pennick says: "In this photo you can see what happens when parking places are put on the pavement. My wheelchair does not fit!" 13247107
Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd Park @healthyhighamhill.bsky.social · 22/11/2024LTN delivered last year in The Lloyd Park area has transformed the neighborhood and provided a safer, cleaner and greener school run. Great work by @labourstone.bsky.social Waltham Forest Council Cllr's, residents and campaigners. 031
Reposted by Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd ParkBob From Accounts 🚲 @bobfromaccounts.bsky.social · 22/11/2024remember when this peaceful, people-friendly oasis at the Strand Aldwych was nothing but four lanes of dangerous, toxic traffic? Once a change like this is made—even on a smaller scale—and through traffic is restricted, no one ever wants to go back to the way it was 1828170