Canonbury East people-friendly streets neighbourhood scheme what this means for you People-friendly streets in In Canonbury East around half of all comments were about traffic taking the Canonbury East area – short cuts through residential areas trial measures and concerns about road danger, Throughout the current crisis, local including the safety of children, and people have had more space outside people walking and cycling. in clean air, to walk and cycle safely We are taking action on residents’ and to relax or play. It’s likely that concerns by making some changes social distancing will be in place for on a trial basis. some time which means that people will avoid using public transport. To stop traffic from cutting through the area and to reduce traffic on all We have been listening. streets we will be installing traffic Local people have told us they want: filters on ten streets. y local streets to be friendlier places A traffic filter is a physical that are easier for everyone to use restriction in the road which everyday prevents motor vehicles from passing through. In some cases, y to enjoy being outside in clean traffic filters are enforced by traffic air, to walk and cycle safely and to cameras. relax or play This will stop non-local cars driving y our streets and footpaths to be through your area but cycles, made safer to practise social emergency vehicles and buses will distancing be able to get through. Islington Council has also Every street in the area will remain been asking for residents’ open to motor vehicles. If you have a views about how to improve car you will still be able to drive to our local streets through our your home, as will visitors, but you public engagement website – may need to take a different route. islingtonpeoplefriendlystreets. commonplace.is Installing the measures as the measures will be changed, made permanent or removed. If the an 18-month trial measures are made permanent, What we install will be temporary there may be an opportunity to and can be changed if it does not improve your area with permanent work. features such as greening, tree planting and play-spaces. To ensure that local people have a say in how the measures You can continue to comment or are working we have chosen to add your ideas about the measures implement the scheme under an on the Commonplace website experimental traffic order. islingtonpeoplefriendlystreets. commonplace.is This means that for the first six months we will monitor how the For more information visit measures are working and you can www.islington.gov.uk/ let us know your views. We will peoplefriendlystreets where make any necessary changes so that you will also find answers to the new people-friendly streets work frequently asked questions or you as well as possible. can get in touch by emailing us at peoplefriendlystreets@islington. Local people know their local area gov.uk best and we will listen to your feedback. Yours sincerely, Once you have had a chance to experience the changes and for traffic patterns to have settled down we will conduct a full public consultation 12 months into the trial to find out what you think of the measures. Councillor Rowena Champion Based on our monitoring and Executive Member for feedback from the consultation, Environment and Transport The map below and photographs show the locations of the traffic filters where we will install temporary signs, bollards and traffic cameras. Works to install the measures will start on Monday 27 July 2020. CANONBURY Key ST PAUL’S KEY - PEOPLE FRIENDLY STREETS SHRUBBERY CANONBURY EAST People-friendly BALLS POND RD MODAL1 FILTER 1 1 streets Canonbury ST PAUL’S QUIETWAY 2 CYCLE ROUTE East modal filter SOUTH OPEN 2 SPACE Quietway 2 NIGHTINGALE cycle route PARK OCK ENDO N RD 3 D 4 ENG R LEFIEL Dove Road X D R E D S 2 S E Camera enforced traffic filter 5 NO RTHC HURC allowing buses through 6 H RD ELM ORE ST 7 8 E V H A A H D D L T R R L E I B E E F A N O Z T ASTEY’S R R I A U D L O R S E G ROW B O T H T T ES H L U C ER C MORTON F O E IE S LD RD PARK S ROTHERFIELD T 9 CT PARK SHE ROSEMARY PPER TON GARDENS RD N E W N 10 O R T H R D Ockendon Road 3 UNION ARLINGTON Camera enforced traffic filter SQUARE SQUARE GARDENS GARDENS SHOREDITCH PARK at existing width restriction – four parking bays suspended Henshall Street Englefield Road 1 4 Physical traffic filter with bollards Camera enforced traffic filter at existing width restriction Northchurch Road Halliford Street 5 8 Camera enforced traffic filter Physical traffic filter with at existing width restriction bollards – four parking bays suspended Elmore Street Downham Road 6 9 Camera enforced traffic filter Camera enforced traffic at existing width restriction – filter allowing buses two parking bays suspended through – three parking bays suspended Cleveland Road Shepperton Road 7 10 Physical traffic filter with Physical traffic filter with bollards - four parking bays bollards - four parking bays suspended suspended Islington Council will continue to monitor progress, and you can continue to comment or add your ideas about the measures at islingtonpeoplefriendlystreets.commonplace.is To find out more, including how the experimental traffic order works, please visitwww.islington.gov.uk/ peoplefriendlystreets where you will also find answers to frequently asked questions but if you have further questions drop us a line at [email protected] Do you need this information in another language or reading format such as Braille, large print, audio or Easy Read? 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