Satnav rat-run round-up @RatRound
Sharing news, research and solutions to the growing issue of satnav directed through traffic on minor roads. Joined November 2019-
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@benjarom3 @livingstreets @sianberry @Sustrans @Chris_Boardman @jonburkeUK No but will keep an eye out! Maybe we should start one...
The transformation of people's lives when through-traffic is kept off the streets is astonishing. Low traffic neighbourhoods bring communities back to life. But the new barbarism is waging war on them. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
How Google Maps is ruining your neighbourhood citymonitor.ai/community/neig… via @CityMonitorAI
10 years of sat nav has doubled car traffic on minor roads. Active travel - eg walking and cycling - is the healthy, green alternative. That’s why it’s so important to connect low-traffic neighbourhoods together & encourage all active travellers to use these safe routes.
The Government's latest paper suggests that low traffic neighbourhoods are popular with those they affect. I look into the economics of why. createstreets.com/how-low-traffi…
The importance of shielding people from traffic so they can build important social capital and cohesion. From one of the most influential books in the 20th Century, Livable Streets. For the update, go here: elsevier.com/books/livable-…
This also shows that google maps doesn’t see the role they’ve played in destroying neighbourhoods by routing traffic through residential streets that were never meant to take them. This change will just make streets even less safe for everyone who isn’t in a car.
Your regular reminder that google maps destroyed the neighbourhood
Pissed off about LTNs? Wish things could just go back to the way they were? Well we hope you're directing that anger towards the big tech companies like Google and Waze because if it weren't for them, we might not have even needed LTNs in the first place. Here's why...
Birmingham to become super-sized low traffic neighbourhood theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/o…
Satnav apps will continue to direct traffic such as vans through dangerously narrow and bendy side streets. The only solution to this is instituting low traffic neighbourhood systems that ensure motor traffic stays on main roads, and that side roads are strictly for access only.
I drove a van around London today. It is astonishing how many communities Google Maps ruins - where I realised I overrode it and kept to main roads. This is one example. The traffic was frustrating, naturally, but I kept remembering that I was the traffic, not just stuck in it.
I drove a van around London today. It is astonishing how many communities Google Maps ruins - where I realised I overrode it and kept to main roads. This is one example. The traffic was frustrating, naturally, but I kept remembering that I was the traffic, not just stuck in it.
Between outdated traffic lights that cause long backups and GPS apps like Google Maps and Waze, data shows hundreds of cars cutting through residential side streets that already lack infrastructure like sidewalks and full paving. pamplinmedia.com/scc/103-news/5…
Oh no. Waze and Google maps pushing more traffic onto residential streets has not been without consequences...
As traffic on residential streets has increased, so has the number of collisions. Sadly, over the last decade, the number of walking & cycling casualties on neighbourhood streets increased by 38% - almost double the 21% increase on main roads.
Low Traffic Neighbourhoods cut road casualties by half! New independent research using police data shows London's new LTNs dramatically reduce road danger - particularly for pedestrians - making neighbourhoods safer places for all. theguardian.com/world/2021/jul…
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