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Richmond Park – a rat run for 80% of cars

I found this petition on 38 degrees. At present, based on Richmond Park’s own figures, the large majority of cars in the park (80%) are using it as a rat run. This is a Grade I listed area of natural beauty and scientific interest and yet cars are allowed to use it as a through road?!

This is the beginning of a re-evaluation of the use of cars in London.

Early in the New Year I will be setting up my own petition to reclaim Central London from cars, making it safe and enjoyable for the majority to use walking and cycling as the main forms of transport. This follows on from the radical changes announced in Madrid and Paris to ban cars in the centres of these cities.

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ban-cars-from-richmond-park

Ban Private Cars in London

~ Reclaim the streets for people who cycle and walk

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Mapping London’s Subterranean Rivers into Cycling Infrastructure

London’s subterranean tributaries The Blue Ribbon Network that could be replicated on the surface as cycling rivers (superhighways) Streams (blue routes, similar to bus red routes) Riverlets (quietways) and Back waters or Marshes (Home Zones)

TFL report on International Cycling Infrastructure Best Practice Study – 4. Loss of traffic capacity or parking to create better cycling facilities, while often a considerable challenge, is not a veto on such action.

Guns Don’t Kill People, Cars Do

Campaign for Better Transport Newsletter 23rd January 2015

Oxford Street pollution 3 times above legal EU safety limit

Ban Cars from Richmond Park – petition

Guardian review of ‘Roads Were Not Built for Cars’ by Carlton Reid

Michael Mason’s daughter Anna Tatton-Brown – “I have tried to do what my dad would have wanted. He was quite livid about bad driving on London’s roads and cyclists not being protected and being very vulnerable. Were he alive now, he would be fighting this tooth and nail.”

No prosecution after cyclist is run down from behind on Regent Street and Killed