I went inside a "war on cars" neighbourhood in the UK

Perhaps the defining battle in the UK's culture wars in the past few years has been over LTNs, or "low-traffic neighbourhoods." Depicted by some as a "war on cars" and by others as a simple plan to preserve residential neighbourhoods, the skirmishes over these ideas have even become national election issues. So I got a tour of one of these neighbourhoods and realized the things that make up an LTN might already be in your neck of the woods.

Thanks to Jakub Mamczak of the London Cycling Campaign for the tour of his neighbourhood.

0:00 Introduction
1:04 What exactly is an LTN?
2:49 Camera-enforced modal filters
3:42 Continuous footway
4:19 School streets
4:52 Controversy over a high street
5:44 Modal filters in other cities
7:36 Are they actually controversial?

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