‘84.9 per cent of people living on streets with traffic filters want to keep their filter’

• FOLLOWING the announcement that the first consultation on Islington Council’s people-friendly streets implementation in St Peter’s has started (more information is available at LowTrafficIslington.org), it is worth pointing to some research done by Possible.

In July this year, volunteers for charity Possible (formerly 10:10 Climate Action) knocked on doors in four cities – Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds and London – to listen to communities about their experience of nearby traffic filters.

This is what they found…

They talked to 272 households in total and found that 84.9 per cent of people living on streets with traffic filters want to keep their filter, compared with just 8.1 per cent who want to remove it, and that people’s love for their filter grows over time.

For the full report visit Possible at: https://bit.ly/3hNyXXo.

JOHN HARTLEY, N1