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Logistics companies should switch to EV/ Improve cycle infrastructure
Our streets are clogged with delivery vans. Drives leave engines running as they rush to make deliveries, ramping up local air pollution and creating so much traffic - a switch to 100% electric would reduce noise and pollution, E- Cargo bikes would make a big difference in reducing traffic. We also need streets that are designed for people, not cars. I hope the temporary cycle lanes will become permanent around West London but they are still not fit for purpose - look at how the Dutch do it. Proper investment would encourage parents to cycle with children - it's currently not safe IMO and main roads are still way too polluted. The School streets initiative should also be permanent - we don't want cars outside school gates (obvious exceptions for disabled etc).
Play parks and pocket parks need more investment. Our trees need proper protection everywhere. Brent council is all too happy to chop down mature trees and developers MUST be made to preserve trees as part of any new development. The removal of mature trees at Wornington House to make way for developers in North Kensington recently was appalling - the same can be said for HS2 and the damage being done Wormwood Scrubs. Planting a few saplings is not a substitute for a 40+ year old tree.
I'd like to see projects like NYC's High Line in London - we have enough disused areas that could be turned into much loved and used public spaces with a bit of creative thinking.
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Community Member 4 years agoSupported. Islington is one of the worst culprits.
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Community Member 4 years agoBig thumbs up to the electric delivery vans.
Show full commentI live on a road which is the border of the congestion charge, so it will always be heavily used by vans and cars avoiding the central London charge. As the CC border isn't changing soon, we're...
Big thumbs up to the electric delivery vans.
Show less of commentI live on a road which is the border of the congestion charge, so it will always be heavily used by vans and cars avoiding the central London charge. As the CC border isn't changing soon, we're stuck with the road being highly trafficked. It's not a wide road and currently there are queues of idling vehicles from 7 -7 every day with the pollution building up to a point where I can't open the windows to my flat, and feel pains in my chest if I walk down to the shops (I'm a non asthmatic, under 30 year old). Although the traffic seems to be 2/3 private cars, requiring delivery vans to become electric would go such a big way to help air quality and my quality of life. Where we live in such close proximity to the roads, it's shocking that so many Londoners have to suffer from breathing in these toxic fumes, especially when EV's are an option.
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Community Member 4 years agoI forgot to add that we need local pick up points for deliveries like they have in Japan. These are located at convenient places like public transport stations. Therefore, you can collect smaller packages or parcels from a pick up point on...
Show full commentI forgot to add that we need local pick up points for deliveries like they have in Japan. These are located at convenient places like public transport stations. Therefore, you can collect smaller packages or parcels from a pick up point on your way home, for example, and this reduces the number of delivery vehicles on the road. If online shopping and home delivery is only going to increase, we need the solutions in place to save our air and streets.
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