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Ang Mo Kio, Bukit Batok West, Tampines, Toa Payoh, and West Coast can all look forward to new pedestrian and cyclist-friendly features!

SINGAPORE - The elderly, persons with disabilities and families with young children can expect a safer, more pleasant stroll within their neighbourhoods when a new initiative retools streets to improve the walking and cycling experience here. The Land Transport Authority (LTA) on Friday (March 3) set out a plan to create what it calls Friendly Streets, which will incorporate elements...

Several Hamilton residents say that sidewalks in their areas still haven’t been cleared a week after a blizzard blanketed the city with snow.

Islington Gazette letters on Low Traffic Neighbourhoods/People Friendly Streets.

More Islington Gazette reader letters on Low Traffic Neighbourhood schemes - for and against.

Meg Howarth, Ellington Street, Islington, writes: Partners Islington is a Private Finance Initiative (PFI) ‘special purpose vehicle’, set up by a previous Lib Dem administration to manage the council’s 6,500 street properties. It isn’t, nor ever was, a housing association (Islington Council urges: ‘Raise repairs before Partners hands back homes’). ‘We wanted to get into as many basement flats as we possibly could, as we know there are concerns around damp.’ What programme manage...

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The People Friendly Streets neighbourhood in Highbury, on Gillespie Road. - Credit: Polly Hancock A High Court ruling against road schemes in London will not affect Islingtons People Friendly Streets, the council has claimed.  On January 20, Mrs Justice Beverley Lang ruled that Mayor Sadiq Khan and Transport for London (TfL) had acted unlawfully over a particular aspect of their Streetspace programme. In the judicial review brought by United Trade Action Group and the Licensed Taxi Drivers A...

Readers letters Cycle lanes have proved beneficial in lockdown - Credit: Tim Ireland/PA Images Benefit of People Friendly Streets Tash H, Islington, full name and address supplied, writes: As Lockdown 3.0 was announced, one of the first things I noticed was the number of people outdoors going for walks and cycle rides. With gyms shut and lockdown restrictions in place, getting outdoors is the main way many people are getting their exercise. For some people, it is currently their only way of hav...

, a free downloadable book from America Walks. AARP is a sponsor of America Walks and a partner in its Every Body Walk! Collaborative. Used with permission. Photo by Jon Pavlica Photography for the Friendly Streets Initiative A block party on the Victoria Street bridge over I-94 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, included a performance by the Afoutayi Dance, Music & Arts Company. Laughter, lively music and a lip-smacking appreciation of food from many cultures animated St. Anthony Avenue in Saint Pau...