Have your say: Hackney Council consults on congestion, cycling, walking and buses

No two ways about it: Stoke Newington High Street at present. Photo: Hackney Council

Hackney residents are being asked what improvements they want to see to make getting about the borough safer and easier. The council is consulting on what is being called its ‘local implementation plan’ for 2011-2014. It sets out its proposals for implementing the London mayor’s transport strategy locally.

The official aim of the plan is “an efficient, sustainable transport system that will connect and integrate Hackney with the rest of London and beyond”.

The council says that too much motorised traffic (cars and lorries etc) currently use Hackney’s roads, and that “congestion on the road network has an adverse impact on economic activity and can make areas less attractive to live”. It gives a number of ways in which people might be encouraged to get round the borough using cleaner, safer and less noisy means.

The proposals include measures to increase the number of people who cycle and walk as well as to reduce the number injured and killed by motor vehicles and to make cycling safer.

Targets include:

1. Increasing from 13% to 15% the proportion of residents travelling to work by cycle as the main mode by 2013/14 and to 20% by 2031.
2. Increasing from 51% to 100% the proportion of residents living within a 3 minute walk of a car club bay by 2014.

Commenting on the consultation document, a spokeperson for Hackney Friends of the Earth said, “Schemes include cycle awareness training for lorry drivers, and more cycle training for adults and estate cycle parking. It also includes investigating the removal of the Stoke Newington gyratory as part of creating a cycle ‘superhighway’ route along the A10. Another aim is to improve the reliability of the borough’s bus services, which suffer from notorious delays and bunching. A reduction in the carbon emission associated with transport is also part of the plans.”

Councillor Feryal Demirci, Cabinet Member for Neighbourhoods, said: “We want to ensure that the second Local Implementation Plan helps deliver an efficient, sustainable transport system that will connect and integrate Hackney with the rest of London and beyond. This will enable easy access to economic, social and cultural opportunities both locally and London wide. It is essential that we hear from local people, businesses, community groups and other stakeholders to ensure they are involved in its preparation.”

Comments received will be considered as part of the production of the final plan, which will be produced by summer 2011. The document will then be submitted to the Mayor of London for approval.

The consultation runs till 6 May.

View the consultation documents and have your say here.

Alternatively, send in your view by email or post; download the LIP 2 questionnaire (PDF, 214KB) and return your response by either email to: consultation@hackney.gov.uk
or by post to: LIP 2 Consultation, Freepost 18819, Consultation Team, London Borough of Hackney, Mare Street, E8 1EA.

There is also a stakeholder workshop planned for Hackney and London based organisations with an interest in transport issues in the borough. There is a ‘short and focussed’ session to discuss the plans and network on Wednesday 2 March 2011, 10am-12noon, at Assembly Hall, Hackney Town Hall, Mare Street, London E8 1EA. Places are limited, to book a space email: consultation@hackney.gov.uk

For more information about the consultation, including requests for translated versions, please contact the Traffic and Transportation team on 020 8356 4891; email: consultation@hackney.gov.uk; or visit the LIP2 consultation page.

7 Comments

  1. NoopyDoopy on Sunday 27 February 2011 at 19:05

    Isn’t there more important things to be done than persuading people to cycle?

    Doesn’t TfL run buses anyway?



  2. Tony N on Monday 28 February 2011 at 20:48

    Wonder how many of the top bods at the council travel on public transport?



  3. The Great Smell Of Brute on Saturday 5 March 2011 at 10:04

    Has the long-mooted idea of a Hackney-Chelsea Tube line been buried, or just dismembered by other rail schemes?



  4. Tony N on Saturday 5 March 2011 at 11:18

    Money is being diverted into existing lines for the thing next year that has Boris so excited. As a line couldn’t be finished in a year everything is on the back burner till we have finished entertaining the world with road works blocking the games. I wonder who will be getting passes for the CPZs around venues? Lord Coe or residents?



  5. pat on Saturday 5 March 2011 at 12:48

    Good to see that we can still afford a consultation team,They did fine work on the nil sex policy. All we need now is a consultation on the consultation team.



  6. Tony N on Saturday 5 March 2011 at 14:34

    Wonder how much they would save but not bothering with consultations. They dont take any notice of them so whats the point. Thats 3 or 4 jobs saved.



  7. GeoffB on Monday 14 March 2011 at 08:18

    TheGreatSmelllofBrute asks a question which it could surely easily answer for itself on the web. Try Crossrail 2 for a start- essentially the same but a main line size version.



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