Better Streets for Tower Hamlets
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We're campaigning to make Tower Hamlets a better borough to live, work and travel. More 🚶🧑🦽 More 🚴🏿♀️ Better streets for all 🌳🌿 DM us to get involved.
Tower Hamlets
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A very Merry Christmas to all our friends and neighbours in Tower Hamlets, however you get around the borough! 🎄🎁☃️
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🎉🎉SUCCESS🎉🎉 Thank you @TowerHamletsNow for fixing this. Wheelchair users can now cross this entrance way to a four bay car park and continue their journey @THLivingStreets @BetterStreetsTH
#AccessibleStreets 🧑🦽🧑🦼🧑🦯
How do we end up in a situation where we prioritise a 4 space car park over pedestrians? No dropped kerbs = wheelchair users unable to use the pavement Reported to @TowerHamletsNow CC: @CllrKabirAhmed @mukitmbe 📍Brick Lane, Bethnal Green #AccessibleStreets 🧑🦽🧑🦼🧑🦯
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The very best of luck to our friends and neighbours in Bethnal Green and Shoreditch today, as they fight for clean air and safe streets.
We are in the High Court today! Our legal team are beginning the challenge to protect Tower Hamlets safer streets. Support our campaign with a monthly donation from £5: https://t.co/hW1L920OFd
#SaveOurSaferStreets
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A big week for safer streets and active travel in Tower Hamlets >> "Mr Rahman and the council have ridden roughshod over the plurality of voices who live and work in Tower Hamlets, in particular the majority of households in the borough who don’t own a car."
The Evening Standard covers our High Court challenge against Tower Hamlets' £2.5m safer streets removal. https://t.co/yuWfPc6ELa
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Bethnal Green's streets have been made healthier and safer by the LTNs: proposals to remove them are misguided, as we argue in this article about the petition organised by @SaveBGstreets. https://t.co/LGPsnUtSXj
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A crash this evening on one of Tower Hamlets' more unpleasant multi-stage crossings for pedestrians, at West India Dock Road. 😟
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A good mix of face to face meetings at City Hall and getting out of the office this week! The @SaveBGstreets campaigners would love you to sign their Save our Safer Streets petition and having visited I can see why: https://t.co/LoXGEXSVDG
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Sign this petition to stop Tower Hamlets from wasting millions removing schemes residents want to keep! https://t.co/Yt4aXDWXsg
you.38degrees.org.uk
Tower Hamlets Council is proposing to remove Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTNs) schemes that cost over £2 million to implement. These include pedestrian areas, pocket parks, bike lanes, and new...
Tower Hamlets is removing these beautiful, safety-enhancing public improvements in Bethnal Green at a cost of millions, despite residents saying no twice. Sign our petition to stop this waste and keep our streets safe: https://t.co/U8u3Y1Opu2
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Love #towerhamlets? Love active travel and the community? Have a 👀 at our new job going and share it around! Deadline 30 October https://t.co/wwnlGAwRmE
#walking #cycling #saferstreets
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Save our safer streets is hiring a community organiser! 🖊️ Deadline for applications October 30th 🔗 For more info visit https://t.co/ez4kRku2m0 📣 Please share it round your networks ⁉️ get in touch @SaveBGstreets with any questions, get involved with the campaign if you can
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Come join Tower Hamlets Wheelers for the Glamour Ride! 🪩
Join us! This Saturday 2⃣1⃣ it is the annual Tower Hamlets Wheelers ✨ glamour ride ✨ We'll be touring the East End in our most glamorous attire, setting off at around 2pm from our cycle workshop 🛠️ at Limehouse Town Hall💃🕺
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But it's OK, cos a handful of buses per hour will use the new tunnel 🤔
Wait, tolls were necessary to disincentivise driving to keep #AirPollution down. Now the tolls are being made cheaper, using ULEZ scrappage money?? What else could £12m be spent on….Cheaper public transport? School Streets? Cleaner buses? #Silvertown
https://t.co/LSMu9VEJT2
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Burdett Road is also on the route of the stalled Hackney to Isle of Dogs cycleway, which'd give a safe, north-south connection through the borough, linking homes and jobs. What's so bad about that, @towerhamletsnow ? How did the good folk of Burdett Rd and Grove Rd hurt you? 🫤
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Would have been nice for @thameswater and @towerhamletsnow to provide an alternative crossing during these works on Burdett Road...
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As others have pointed out, there are @TfL crossings (including here in #TowerHamlets) that don't even have green man phases, so pedestrians have to dash and hope. But money that could be used to fix these is being spent on subsidising driving. Think again, @MayorofLondon!
Well this isn't going to increase traffic is it... https://t.co/0OSdqfJ5qN
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The consultation on refreshing the transport strategy is likely to happen this autumn. And transport will be discussed at the Overview and Scrutiny Committee at 6.30 this (Tues) evening - you can watch it here: https://t.co/GS8SJ1WrKw
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Council priorities include: - Delivering 1,000 more car parking spaces - Avoiding 'penalising' those who drive - 'Reopening' the roads (they *are* all open, to people) - and some vague support for public transport and clean air, despite the contradictory focus on driving 😕
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Again, while very positive, ULEZ, Whitechapel step-free access and the fares freeze are not Tower Hamlets Council projects. So what are the Council priorities? On the next tweet you may recognise some from the Aspire manifesto >>>
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In the presentation put together for today's meeting, they list some wins, although many were driven through by TfL (the Elizabeth Line?!). School Streets may be higher in number, but they are not always being enforced.
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