LCC has launched its “One year on, one year to go” report following up the Climate Safe Streets campaign at last year’s local elections. It shows a big gulf between London boroughs on active travel and car use reduction scheme delivery with, unsurprisingly, Sutton not faring well compared with many other boroughs. LCC’s recommendation is that: “Sutton is one of the boroughs that delivered a few schemes during the start of the pandemic and then quickly removed them in response to noisy opposition. The issue with this approach of course is it does rather leave the borough stuck trying to deliver anything on climate and roads transport. If Sutton is serious about climate, make the borough default 20mph tomorrow, start rolling out cycle parking and car parking charges – all three of these approaches are at some of the lowest levels in London in Sutton. And really, if you can’t manage all of those, let alone any at speed, it doesn’t look like you’re taking the ‘emergency’ in your ‘climate emergency declaration’ very seriously.” Following this up, the chair of Get Sutton Cycling has sent the report to Ruth Dombey, Sutton’s council leader, with an open letter highlighting the lack of progress in relation to our set of campaign “asks” and offering to discuss with her the schemes we’ve asked for. |