Nice thread here on the situation with the #WestHamParkLTN, which in another survey had satisfied 59% of residents and has had positive outcomes for congestion, safety, and air quality—but is still being sent back for reconsideration. We naturally hope the decision makers won’t change their mind.

According to officers' reports, over a year, traffic volumes went down 46% inside the LTN and down 9% on boundary roads, while cycling was up 18% and walking up 36%, with recorded air quality improvements too.

And this is the whole debate in a nutshell. The idea that one person’s entitlement to the shortest possible car route in every direction is more important than the quality of life of the whole neighbourhood, and even the ability of kids to safely walk to school.

This is ridiculous. They’ve actually managed to get support in one of these self-selecting surveys of disgruntled drivers, & overwhelmingly positive data, & still it isn’t enough. Why do opponents get a veto on other people’s safety?

We’re disappointed by repeated political opportunism around the West Ham Park #LTN, which has made clear improvements for road safety, air quality, and reducing congestion on our streets. If your car journey is longer, you can leave a few minutes earlier—a small price to pay for everyone’s safety.

There's not an uproar because most people want to drive to just outside the shop they live 1/2 a mile away from and pollution is invisible.

Giving away permits for the first car will cost around £20 million over fours years in lost revenue- a massive tax giveaway to the 50% of households that have a car. While the 50% that don't end up with either poorer services or higher council tax as a result.

A Newham @livingstreets.bsky.social group is launching this week in Canning Town. Go along if you can 🚶‍♀️🚲🛴🦽🦯 www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-of-...

Great to be working with @plaistovian.bsky.social & colleagues from Newham Council. This new crossing on Water Lane will make it easier and safer for people to walk and cycle in the area.

Compare Labour's communications in Camden, compared with Newham's new mayoral candidate.

‘Free parking’ is *never* free! It is paid for in 2 ways: 1) Direct financial subsidy from the taxes of everyone who doesn’t use it (eg bus passengers) 2) External costs paid by society at large - the extra pollution/casualties/spatial implications & other harms induced by the ‘incentive to drive’

Good to see work underway on Cycle Future Route 7 - between Leyton, Stratford, West Ham & Plaistow in Newham. Phase 1A will run along Liberty Bridge Rd, and the A112 from Leyton Rd at Chobham Rd to Angel Lane at Great Eastern Rd. newhamco-create.co.uk/en/projects/...

And the signs are in along Cycleway 54 from Canning Town to City Airport 💚

Pledges of the Labour candidate for Newham Mayor have now been thrown into disarray by a mildly comical combination. newham65.wordpress.com/2026/01/22/f...

The Court of Appeal's judgement stopping Tower Hamlets from ripping out safety infrastructure is good news for Londoners. It's good for road safety & reducing danger. It's good for air quality, good for health, and good for communities across the capital. www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

This is significant news for schemes delivered across London in the last nine years. It means politicians can't simply 'rip out' LTNs and bike lanes they don't like. Some of those running in May's elections are going to have to rethink their pledges www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

This is what real leadership looks like! Making tough choices that's right for Londoners.

Sadiq, please tell Forhad Hussain and Mehmood Mirza in Newham! @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social @metecoban92.bsky.social @sebdance.bsky.social @ellybakeram.bsky.social newham65.wordpress.com/2026/01/22/f...

Forhad Hussain’s early pledges are in tatters newham65.wordpress.com/2026/01/22/f...

New blogpost: #Newham council's three big parties have announced their candidates for Mayor. forestgate.net/2026/01/07/c...

James Asser did a great job on Newham Council. But his legacy is under threat from the policies of an imposed Labour candidate for Mayor of Newham. And his neighbour @umakumaran.bsky.social is opposing even a 'school street'!! newham65.wordpress.com/2026/01/02/l...

Cllr Areeq Chowdhury will be the Green Party candidate for Mayor newham65.wordpress.com/2026/01/07/c...

After the recent successes of the excellent folk in Newham’s sustainable transport team, this suggested backwards step is even bigger…

Appalling first policy announcements from Labour's candidate for Newham Mayor newham65.wordpress.com/2026/01/02/l...

"We would describe this as driving a coach and horses through Sadiq Khan’s Transport Strategy but a coach and horses would be less damaging to the Labour Mayor of London’s air quality targets than this giveaway to drivers will be." newham65.wordpress.com/2026/01/02/l...

Labour Promises a Return to Robin Wales in May 2026 newham65.wordpress.com/2026/01/02/l...

Forhad Hussain ought to have spoken out by now on the current genocide in Gaza. This meant distancing himself from the national Labour Party, even though he owes his position – as an imposed candidate for Mayor – to them, not to a local selectorate. newham65.wordpress.com/2025/09/19/n...

No "Forhad bump" in the Plaistow South by-election newham65.wordpress.com/2025/09/19/n...

Plaistow South newham65.wordpress.com/2025/08/23/p...

Genuinely don’t understand why the council’s comms team are being used to address what is an internal Labour Party matter.

"A team emerged via a deselection battle within the Labour Party that brought together a diversity of talents and skills which had had little outlet in the Robin Wales era, and yet the new Mayor insisted only her own talents and skills were required." newham65.wordpress.com/2025/07/25/t...

The 2nd Mayor of Newham newham65.wordpress.com/2025/07/25/t...

Cash for Cars, but the Future is sold to Developers newham65.wordpress.com/2025/07/17/c...

My road has been partly closed due to Thames Water works. Cars can’t get through, but pedestrians and cyclists can. Already noticeable how much quieter it is. An #LTN would make this pleasant change permanent but the council is too cowardly.

“One of the best stretches of cycleway built in London in years” – in Newham newham65.wordpress.com/2025/07/06/o...

Who will oppose the disability benefit cuts? newham65.wordpress.com/2025/06/24/w...

Greenway Closure Extended and Extended newham65.wordpress.com/2025/05/26/g... h/t @newhamcyclists.uk

🔊 Greenway update - response in from @willnorman.co.uk for TfL. Given the likely extension of the closure I'm glad that TfL are now working on a better diversion with Newham Council. 🔗 to Greenway letter and responses in next tweet ..

When other personalities have sought escalation and conflict, the outgoing Newham Council O&S Chair and the outgoing Chief Whip Labour have separately used their positions to cool high political temperatures on many occasions. newham65.wordpress.com/2025/05/22/s...

Stability is Change? newham65.wordpress.com/2025/05/22/s...

As the Mayor to a city of more than one million Catholics, I want to express my sadness, and the sadness of all Londoners, at the passing of His Holiness Pope Francis. He was a man of courage and humility who demonstrated how cooperation between faiths was a force for good.

There has been much discussion, and quite a few YouTube videos, on the eyebrow-raising Silvertown Cycle Bus. This from Jon Stone is surely the best so far. Not much use for Newham despite being near some excellent new cycle schemes in the Royal Docks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyRH...

youtu.be/7UQ3SZJuw88?... Before you head to work thinking you'll try the bike shuttle... 🫠

Our friends @wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk has issued guidance for the new #SilvertownTunnel bike bus, and it’s not pretty: they found “it has poor accessibility and is unsafe for most Disabled cyclists.” wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk/silvertown-t...

Once again: Less road capacity means less traffic and less congestion and less pollution. Traffic data from Hammersmith Bridge expose the ludicrous situation where building Silvertown Road tunnel is being paid for by tolling Londoners to use Silvertown AND Blackwall tunnels to MANAGE DEMAND.

Mayor of Newham quiet as pressure grows to improve road safety newham65.wordpress.com/2025/03/02/m...

Havering Cyclists supported a protest ride last night following the tragic death of a young man killed while cycling in Stratford High Street on 13 January 2025. Havering has a list of dangerous junctions. If you would like to help us improve them, click below: www.haveringcyclists.org/join-us/

Heading home from a vigil organised by @londoncycling.bsky.social for a young man in his twenties killed while cycling in Stratford, east London. I’m struck by the terrible loss and trauma for families and friends affected and how stupid it is that Vision Zero is not yet even vaguely a reality.

Joined @newhamcyclists.bsky.social and others including @carolinerussell.bsky.social at a protest six weeks after the death of a young man cycling at this Stratford junction. Campaigners call on Newham Council and the mayor to act on dangerous junctions across London