Low traffic neighbourhoods putting lives at risk by delaying ambulances
Road closures introduced in ‘green transport revolution’ are thwarting emergency services in life and death race to reach patients quickly
A road closed off in Ealing, West London, with planters and a bollard
Credit: Heathcliff O Malley
Paramedics reported low traffic neighbourhoods and pop-up cycle lanes for causing delays to life saving 999 calls every other day in London, the Telegraph can reveal.
In just eight months to February this year, ambulance staff logged 159 occasions when their dashes to medical emergencies were thwarted by road closures introduced as part of Grant Shapps’s “green transport revolution”.
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