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2023 Media Release

As childhood obesity continues to plague London, a major coalition of campaigners gives awards to boroughs supporting active lifestyles The London Healthy Streets Coalition –

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Bus priority indicator

Metric for Buses For the first time in July 2022, the Healthy Streets Scorecard published data on the proportion of the total length of bus

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Trust for London’s Map of the Month

Trust for London, an independent charitable foundation that aims to tackle poverty and inequality in London, has re-produced the 2022 Healthy Streets Scorecard data in their September Map of the Month.

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2022 Scorecard Media Release

New data reveals huge disparities in action to improve health of Londoners New Scorecard ranks how well boroughs are doing at creating healthier streets Concerns

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Healthy Streets News, Issue 6

In this issue: 1. Haringey Council’s Cabinet approves three new LTNs 2. Massive attitude change in favour of measures to reduce traffic on residential streets

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Healthy Streets News, Issue 5

In this issue: 1. More School Streets in the pipeline in Wandsworth   2. Latest data shows Hackney has the highest proportion of adults cycling

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2021 Scorecard Media Release

Islington leads on Healthy Streets action says active travel coalition Latest Healthy Streets Scorecard shows huge divergence in action among London boroughs on measures to

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2020 Scorecard Media Release

Progress on making London’s streets healthy and safe far too slow to meet Mayor’s own targets, say transport campaigners as they launch a new website

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Covid-19 and Healthy Streets

Covid-19 crisis engulfs transport “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen”, said Lenin. And that is how it has

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School Streets in Islington

Islington is leading the way, putting in traffic-free streets around schools Islington was the top-scoring borough for School Streets in this Healthy Streets Scorecard measure,

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Freight consolidation

Consolidating freight deliveries to reduce London’s congestion and air pollution The quantity of freight being transported to London homes and businesses is growing along with

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Crossings and Junctions

Why we need safer junctions and crossings In 2019, 146 people were killed on London’s roads, according to provisional figures from Transport for London (TfL).

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Lockdown street changes

London boroughs and the changes to street design in response to COVID-19 As a result of Coronavirus there is now a necessity to move around

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Streets into parks

London has less than two thirds of the open green space it needs. Some boroughs are starting to tackle this by turning streets into parks

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Giving up the car

Roughly half of London households live without a car. Will the other half be following soon? There are 2.66 million cars registered in London. The

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2019 Scorecard Media Release

Postcode lottery for walking and cycling and healthy streets, claim campaigners producing first ever “London Boroughs Healthy Streets Scorecard” New scorecard shows wide variation between

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