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From: Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com>
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
Subject: london cycling
Date: 10 Jul 2025 17:39:20 GMT
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<https://youtu.be/OunBRdTIe3w?si=v2Crsm2yMmF6aS5I>

Essentially numbers of cyclists are up and by quite some margin
particularly around Central london, aka City of London and areas like
Hackney.

The combo of direct high quality bike lanes, and Low traffic Zones ie
restricting motorists though traffic, which has been around for nearly 100
years but this is the new term for it, but it’s quite effective, I use a
few regularly be that by bike or car, or sometimes both.

<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/07/londons-low-traffic-zones-cut-deaths-and-injuries-by-more-than-a-third?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other>

May explain LTZ as not sure how common at all they are in the US, as ever
get a vocal minority who dislike and claim well falsehoods aka the traffic
is just moved and worse and so on, which is not backed up by any evidence.

Roger Merriman