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Replace asphalt with green, car-free areas
I'd love to see a total, radical change regarding cars in the streets of my neighbourhood. I'd love to see the closure of the narrower streets to traffic, and convert them in green areas with trees, and relaxing and healthy walking paths with a safe lane for cycles and scooters. I'd also love to see much more of those in the streets replacing cars and buses, with a change in the regulations to allow the use of private scooters safely: helmet, only in cycle/scooter lanes, and following the traffic signage to cross streets. In big parks, create an area with free allotments where the neighbours can gather and grow their own food. These allotments could be asigned by the council to people with specific conditions, elderly or for wellbeing reasons.
Suggested by Lola.Carbajal
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Community Member 4 years agoWonderful idea! Thanks Lola!
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Community Member 4 years agoCan we have some practical thinking please. I’d like food to be able to be delivered to shops for example and workers able to use public transport to get to work without the endless problems ill thought through road closures have caused.
Show full commentCan we have some practical thinking please. I’d like food to be able to be delivered to shops for example and workers able to use public transport to get to work without the endless problems ill thought through road closures have caused.
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Community Member 4 years agoDefinitely! The Mayor seems beset on building and building. The excuse seems to be that the "previous mayor" built for business and the "current" Mayor needs to build housing. Well, if we are working from home and office space is...
Show full commentDefinitely! The Mayor seems beset on building and building. The excuse seems to be that the "previous mayor" built for business and the "current" Mayor needs to build housing. Well, if we are working from home and office space is redundant, I suggest that the current Mayor takes on those business premises and converts them into residential, rather than DESTROYING anything that is left in London to build ever more: More residents = more traffic.
More residents = more of that "gig" economy (i.e. scooters delivering whatever they do apart from food)
More houses = more people flock to London - London is now nearly 11m (in 1990, it was less than 7m).
More people = more easily transmitted diseases.
Mr Khan: You promised a green canopy = with all those building works you never achieve this.
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