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Labour's Low Traffic Neighborhood Scheme is Ridiculous.

Low traffic neighbourhood scheme in Birmingham
Ever heard of the LTN scheme?
It’s a scheme that will do exactly what it says on the tin – lower traffic in neighbourhoods.
Birmingham city council says the project will make roads safer, quieter and better for neighbours “to stop and have a chat in”.
Sounds good to be fair.
However, not all is as good as it seems…

The Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN) scheme installed in Kings Heath is supposed to reduce the number of cars on the road, although in reality all it has done is funnel them onto fewer roads, increasing congestion and raising the emissions levels on those roads.
Well of course it has!
You can’t close a road and not expect traffic to use an alternative route? What did they think? That by closing some roads, the traffic that would normally take those routes would just disappear?
Lisa Trickett and Birmingham’s Labour council are chasing cash being offered by the government to those who introduce these ludicrous measures. To get their hands on the cash they had to act fast, which is why they dumped their giant wooden boxes in Kings Heath:
“Birmingham city council said it would have to implement them before the end of August to secure government funds having been allocated £1 million from the first tranche of the Department of Transport’s (DfT) Emergency Active Travel Fund, with match-funding bringing the total to £1.6 million.