To assist in implementing these wide ranging schemes, the council have to date secured approximately 1.5m of funding from Transport for Londons (TfL) Streetspace for London programme as well as 100,000, the maximum available, from the Department for Transports (DfT) Emergency Active Travel funding, with further opportunities being pursued.

Councillor Harrison continued:

The steps we have taken to meet the safe travel challenge include ten full road closures that enable walking and cycling whilst restricting through-traffic; four cycle permeability schemes; widening pavements at over six locations across our town centres, high streets and residential roads that have only limited footway space; pop-up cycle lanes and improved existing cycle lanes, and facilities including installing new cycle hangars, with 84 now available across Camden.

During this period, Camden Council also continued work to complete a number of longer-standing transformational walking and cycling schemes including the West End Project, as well as at Camden Park Road, Brunswick Square and Prince of Wales Road (eastbound permanent cycle lane).

Councillor Harrison continued:

We will continue to carry out a wide range of measures to enable safe, healthy travel as clear alternatives to car use. For example, we are currently implementing two new pop-up cycle lanes, on York Way (southern section) and Prince of Wales Road (eastbound), as well as improving the cycling connection at Patshull Road-Kentish Town Road.

We are also developing plans for further pop-up cycle lanes, Low Traffic Neighbourhood schemes across different parts of the borough, a range of through-traffic restrictions, and more new cycle hangars.

We will also roll out new dockless bike hire bays which will mean that riders will need to leave the dockless bikes in designated areas, rather than anywhere. This will help address the clutter these bikes can sometimes cause.

By the start of the new school year in September, eight further schools across Camden will have timed road closures at the start and end of the school day as part of our Healthy School Street programme, making it safer and easier for parents and children to walk, cycle or scoot to school.

Building on Camdens success on healthy streets we have recently been rated top in London, in the published results of theLondon Boroughs Healthy Streets Scorecard.

For more information on road safety changes we are making in response to Coronavirus (COVID-19)visit our dedicated webpages.

Since lockdown the council have:

Further plans include:

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