Low-traffic schemes benefit everyone, not just better-off, finds study

Exclusive: authors find no clear social equity problem related to low-traffic neighbourhoods' after studying slew of projects sparked by Covid restrictions

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There is no evidence schemes that try to limit rat-running" traffic along residential streets disproportionately benefit better-off households, research has concluded, contradicting a common view cited by objectors.

A study of low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs), which have mushroomed as part of efforts to boost walking and cycling amid coronavirus, found that the vast majority of people lived on streets that could be part of such schemes.