New traffic monitoring from the Homerton low traffic neighbourhood shows traffic down both inside the LTN and on boundary roads.

The data, taken in May 2021 at 24 locations in and around the low traffic neighbourhood, shows traffic down on average inside the LTN by 35%, and down on boundary roads by 5% compared to before the pandemic.

At the same time as these reductions, background traffic levels according to counts taken on 12 of the borough’s main roads, were shown to be on average 1% higher than in the same period in 2019*.

Following the introduction of the Barnabas Road traffic filter on 4 June 2020, which was joined by filters on Ashenden Road and Meeson Street in Homerton on 11 June 2020, to complete the Homerton low traffic neighbourhood.

The Council has been monitoring traffic levels in the area, and has also carried out air quality monitoring at nine sites in the area, which it will share in the coming weeks.

Monitoring from November 2020 showed traffic down by 40% inside the LTN and 7% on boundary roads.

The Council will be releasing updated traffic and air quality monitoring for all of its new low traffic neighbourhoods in the coming months. 

Find out more about the Homerton LTN: https://rebuildingagreenerhackney.commonplace.is/proposals/homerton 

Notes

*Council analysis of TfL traffic counts at 12 sites in Hackney shows that overall traffic in the borough between 22 and 28 May 2021 was 1% higher than over the same period in 2019.

The tables below show changes in traffic on roads in and around the Homerton low traffic neighbourhood from a pre-pandemic baseline to November 2020 and May 2021. They show daily average flows over a seven day period on roads in and around the Homerton LTN before the introduction of the LTN, and how that flow has changed since the introduction of the LTN when monitoring counts were taken in November 2020 and May 2021