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Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd Park

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Promoting clean,#healthystreets for the people of Higham Hill & Lloyd Park in our corner of E17. Email us at highamhillhealthystreets@gmail.com to get involved

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 22/10/2025
The 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
Harmful roadside NO2 concentrations down by estimate 27% across London thanks to ULEZ compared to a no-ULEZ scenario.
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Mums for Lungs @mumsforlungs.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Today 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! 💚 😘
A group of people stand facing the camera, with placards about clean air and saving the planet. The Houses of Parliament are in the background. Three people stand in front of a busy road holding up a banner made of babygrows that spells out "Clean Air Now". A child is in the foreground on a scooter. Pic taken by Chris Harvey. Two people are standing holding a placard that says "We're fighting for clean air". A group of people, one holding a baby, stand smiling at the camera. They are at a market stall about air pollution.
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Dan Kelly @deekinstow.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
1 minute action, you know you should : )
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Bella Chu @isabellachu.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Twice 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.
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Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Has 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👇
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Nature Emergency
Has your council declared a nature emergency?
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Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
A 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
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Stephen 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👇
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/02/2025
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23/02/2025
If 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 Todt
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If 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 Todt
Deaths on the road costs countries up to 5% of GDP. Centring transport around people, not cars, can propel development
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Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
So much this 👇
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 13/04/2024
Hybrids 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...
Chart showing significantly higher real world emissions per car manufacturer roughly about 3 to 4 times for each company then their claims which are much smaller for plug-in hybrid electric cars
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Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
A 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".
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Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd Park @healthyhighamhill.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
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Mums for Lungs @mumsforlungs.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Latest 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...
Text says "Accredited official statistics. Emissions of air pollutants in the UK - Summary. Updated 13th February 2025".
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Caroline 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.uk
Women's Freedom
Less than one third of cycle trips in London are taken by women - we want to close the gap and unlock cycling for women.
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Bob From Accounts 🚲 @bobfromaccounts.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
If 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.
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Wimbledon school crash driver arrested in reopened investigation
Driver of car that crashed into school, killing two girls, held on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
a design for life.
blue text on black

FORCE ADULT
DRIVERS TO BE SAFE BY DESIGN
INSTEAD OF JUST ASKING KIDS TO BE PERFECT
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Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd Park @healthyhighamhill.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Loving 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
New accessible pavement around trees with cycle parking and seatingNew accessible paving
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Wheels for Wellbeing @wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk · 06/01/2025
Alongside our partners, we are very proud of the positive impacts on #InclusiveCycling and #ActiveTravel that the #Wheels4Me scheme is having for disabled people.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 09/01/2025
I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️
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Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd Park @healthyhighamhill.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Esther 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
A terraced street with parking removed and rain gardens installed both sides
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Bob From Accounts 🚲 @bobfromaccounts.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
The people who loudly complain about bike share schemes tend to be strangely silent on this sort of thing
Pavement parking Pavement parking Pavement parking Pavement parking
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Sundance @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
A picture of CEO, Jim, Farley of the Ford motor company and standing in front of a blue truck with a thumbs up in front of a built Ford proud billboard sign text reads the only thing that stops. A bad guy with a truck is a good guy with a truck.

Making fun of the NRA doofus who said the same thing after a mass shooting at an elementary school

Don’t give me that constitutional bullshit about guns we’ve made amendments for other things. It’s time we ditch the things that kill the most in our society. 

If you’re so worried about every life being so precious and let’s start with not killing the ones that are already living
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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 16/12/2024
Registered 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.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
For 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.com
Do car-free zones hurt disabled people? We asked experts.
City planners and advocates are seeing "accessibility used as a political football."
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Breaking News.
text on black background:

MY KID KICKING HIS YOUNGER BROTHER AS REPORTED IN THE MEDIA:
A shoe somehow lost control & ended up hitting the stomach of a walker. We're told it was dark in the hallway where the accident happened and that the walker had black pi's on. Speed was not a factor. More to come.
ROVÉLO CREATIVE
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
17-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.
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Dan Kelly @deekinstow.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
More good stuff for walking from Waltham Forest.
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Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd Park @healthyhighamhill.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Healthy 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.
Pavement with mature tree with routes making trip hazardsA steet with work to install a level footway around mature trees
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CoHSAT - Coalition for Healthy Streets and Active Travel (Oxon) @cohsat.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Wheels for Wellbeing @wheelsforwellbeing.bsky.social the organisation enabling disabled people to cycle are now on Blue Sky wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk
wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk
Campaigning for inclusive cycling, Wheels for Wellbeing
Wheels for Wellbeing is an award-winning charity supporting disabled people of all ages and abilities to enjoy the benefits of cycling.
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Katja 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
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Pedal Me @pedalme.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Free! Rides home from @columbiaroadmarket.bsky.social today and for the next three weeks courtesy of @zeroemissions.bsky.social
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Katja 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/...
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How climate policies reduce air pollution saving lives and money
Early deaths from air pollution in US could be reduced by between 4,000 and 15,000 a year by 2035, study shows
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Every 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...
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Car tyres shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment – urgent action is needed
Tiny 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.
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Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd Park @healthyhighamhill.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Sutherland 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
Sutherland road with rain gardens and trees. Sutherland road with rain gardens and trees and cycle stands. Sutherland road parking with lines showing where it used to be on the pavement. Sutherland road raised crossing with cycle stands and rain gardens.
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Bob From Accounts 🚲 @bobfromaccounts.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Two 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.
Alfred place, London. Pedestrianised with seating, playground and treesAlfred place, London. Pedestrianised with seating, playground and treesOriginal 3 lanes of traffic Alfred place, London. Pedestrianised with seating, playground and trees
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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
More 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.
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Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
DfT 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 organisations
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Integrated National Transport Strategy: a call for ideas
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Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd Park @healthyhighamhill.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Sutherland 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
Sutherland road with rain gardens and trees. Sutherland road with rain gardens and trees and cycle stands. Sutherland road parking with lines showing where it used to be on the pavement. Sutherland road raised crossing with cycle stands and rain gardens.
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Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd Park @healthyhighamhill.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Gutted not to be there today but what an awesome transformation. Such an amazing project.
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labourstone.bsky.social @labourstone.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Gr8 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
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Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Removing 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
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Cllr Sam Easterby-Smith @samsterby.com · 21/11/2024
I give you LTN BINGO!
LTN BINGO
A bingo card designed to look like an LTN road network. Squares saying things like “I have been robbed of my freedom” and “but it’s raining” and “it would be easier to walk”
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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
Higham Hill Road with drivers on the pavement and heavily congested. Artist impression of Higham Hill Road with reduced traffic, parking, more trees and a nicer environment.
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Toby Spearpoint @tobyspearpoint.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Still 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.
A blue boat turned into a Parklet on a road in London with planting, and a slide.
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Living Streets @livingstreets.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Today 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!"
A street with cars parked on the pavement. A line of bins further obstructs the walkway.
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Healthy Streets for Higham Hill & LLoyd Park @healthyhighamhill.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
LTN 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.
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Bob From Accounts 🚲 @bobfromaccounts.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
remember 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
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