News on Lewisham Safer Streets

2020 saw the introduction of the Lewisham and Lee Green Low Traffic Neighbourhood, and we want to thank everyone who gave their views. This has been invaluable to us in putting the scheme in place and adjusting it as necessary.

After a festive break we will now continue with our work and monitoring the impact. Our task is to make the LTN as safe and as accessible as possible for pedestrians and cyclists. You have told us that introducing School Streets for the 5 schools impacted by changes to the LTN should be a priority. We are seeking to update residents on these proposal and introduce measures as soon as possible.

In October 2020 we published a monitoring strategy for the Lewisham & Lee Green Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN), which laid out our plans for measuring the impacts of the scheme using a range of metrics. You can now find the full reports for each of the following

• Traffic flow and speed data on Lewisham managed roads

• Bus journey times and traffic flow/congestion levels on Transport for London (TfL) managed roads

• Initial feedback from the project pages on Commonplace

• Air quality data

We already have 10 School Streets in the borough:

We are moving forward with our plans to implement 16 more. Delivery of School Streets has been impacted by a nation-wide shortage of enforcement cameras, but over the coming months we will start to work on those next 16. There may be some limited disruption while we put in signage, paint road markings and move traffic away from those streets. All households in roads on School Streets will receive a letter and we will keep all subscribers up-to-date with our regular emails so that you can prepare if needed.

Residents may also spot enforcement cameras being installed over the next few weeks. Again we will send updates about the installations as soon as the dates are confirmed. However, the cameras will not come into operation immediately and we will give plenty of notice about when they will be turned on to play their role in improving safety.