Thanks to everyone who came along to the public meeting on 13th October "The Big Green Pow Wow".
We've developed our draft response to the transport consultation and we'd like your comments before we submit it.
Please comment below this blog post, like it, share it or email us at info@sustainablehackney.co.uk We are also responding to the Air Quality Action Plan.
Transport Strategy generally:
Public Transport:
Liveable Neighbourhoods
We strongly support the council’s objective to create and sustain “liveable neighbourhoods,” with initiatives ranging from tree planting and safe play streets to safe pedestrian routes, cycle and car share schemes and new areas for communal food growing. But these ideas need coordinating and discussing with residents. We want to see a borough wide Liveable Streets Forum and the council to encourage discussion on liveable street improvements in Ward Forums so people can take ownership of street greening.
We strongly support increasing street tree cover – but this should be in the context of the Biodiversity Action Plan.
We support increasing community street planting, but we think a more pro-active approach is needed and that biodiversity is a better objective than food growing.
We support a Hackney-wide Freight Action Plan.
We want to see targets for more car-sharing bays and electric car charging points.
UPDATE our final submission is here Transport Strategy - comments from Sustainable Hackney - Final.pdf
Steve Dowding
I wonder if anything could be said on the issue that sometimes Hackney Planning makes decisions contrary to its own declared policy, I'm thinking increasing parking and traffic on Hackney Marshes here?
Oct 27, 2014
Harry Hewat
Water Freight seems to be a major omission in the Hackney Draft Transport Strategy.
The River Lea, Hackney Cut & Regent Canal all pass though Hackney and present a major opportunity to move freight from road to water.
The basic infrastructure is already in place with recycling facilities, waste handling, aggregates distribution and container terminals all located waterside on the Lea and Thames rivers.
The existing waste handling facility on Millfields Road could be converted back to a wharf for waste products and new wharfs provided in Hackney Wick and along the Regents Canal.
The environmental advantages are huge - Water freight uses significantly less carbon than either road or rail (by between a third and a quarter less than road-freight); and by reducing the amount of HGV's on the roads, they would be less polluted, less congested and safer.
The waterways are an underused resource. They were the backbone of our transport network 200 years ago and could play a significant role in a low carbon economy.
Nov 5, 2014
Sustainable Hackney
Nov 7, 2014