PJA Consults developed a pollution map in 2023 that clearly shows excessive pollution on main roads at the boundary of the Scheme. This means there is no need to reduce vehicle use in less polluted 'LTN' areas, where accidents are rare. The Scheme forces residents into unnecessary exposure to harmful pollution by enforced boundary travel of any kind.
Boundary road congestion affects drivers, active travellers, and bus passengers alike. Telram data from a Blackheath Hill location suggests that up to 40 per cent of traffic travels on average at less than 12 mph, meaning almost permanent congestion on this steep hill.
Issues that the Council continues to ignore includes information provided to them in 2023.
In 'Baseline' studies for the Council, PJA consultants:
Peer reviewed academic research unanimously shows that the poor produce the least emissions, but are polluted the most, suffering the most ill-health from vehicle exhaust and safety risks of living as pedestrians on busy roads.
Children and young people are most susceptible to the effect of pollution but have the least say over where they live.
'Greenwich East and West Baseline Studies' were published in August 2023.
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Boundary road congestion affects drivers, active travellers, and bus passengers alike. Telram data from a Blackheath Hill location suggests that up to 40 per cent of traffic travels on average at less than 12 mph, meaning almost permanent congestion on this steep hill.
Issues that the Council continues to ignore includes information provided to them in 2023.
In 'Baseline' studies for the Council, PJA consultants:
- drew graphic attention to the area's steep gradients that are unsafe for wheelchair users and cyclists, and which make active travel unnecessarily taxing for protected groups - such as pregnant women and older people with arthritis or heavy shopping - within the legal definitions of the Equalities Act.
- recorded a lack of accidents within the LTN areas, together with an alarming accident rate involving pedestrians and cyclists on Trafalgar Road and Blackheath Hill, both boundary roads.
- failed to identify primary schools and nurseries in the area and the risks to child health associated with the planned schemes.
- produced a map of the entire area demonstrating significantly higher levels of pollution, exceeding the UK legal limit only on the boundary roads. LTN areas within the boundaries have relatively little pollution.
- Defined areas of high social definition on and outside the boundaries of the scheme.
- No analysis was undertaken to assess the likely damage to the local economy.
Peer reviewed academic research unanimously shows that the poor produce the least emissions, but are polluted the most, suffering the most ill-health from vehicle exhaust and safety risks of living as pedestrians on busy roads.
Children and young people are most susceptible to the effect of pollution but have the least say over where they live.
'Greenwich East and West Baseline Studies' were published in August 2023.
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