{"id":384304,"date":"2026-01-22T14:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T14:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/384304\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T14:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T14:32:07","slug":"tower-hamlets-defeated-in-low-traffic-neighbourhoods-court-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/384304\/","title":{"rendered":"Tower Hamlets defeated in Low Traffic Neighbourhoods court fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A TfL spokesperson said: &#8220;Walking and cycling infrastructure, such as LTNs, plays an important role in making our streets safer and encouraging more active travel across London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are very pleased with the court&#8217;s decision in this case, which provides welcome clarity on the scope of London boroughs&#8217; legal duties to implement and retain schemes funded by TfL to implement the mayor&#8217;s transport strategy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson for Mayor of London Sir Sadiq Khan said: &#8220;It&#8217;s good for road safety and reducing road danger, it&#8217;s good for tackling air pollution and important for delivering healthy, more liveable neighbourhoods.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Caroline Russell, Green Party member of the London Assembly, called it &#8220;a brilliant victory for Bethnal Green residents&#8221; which protects &#8220;safer, quieter and less polluted streets&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson for Tower Hamlets Council said: &#8220;We are disappointed with the ruling, not least because previously the courts have ruled in our favour. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We will review the judgment and consider the next steps.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A TfL spokesperson said: &#8220;Walking and cycling infrastructure, such as LTNs, plays an important role in making our&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-384304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}