Hi Will - interesting stuff! School runs definitely make a big difference - hopefully roll out of school streets across Lambeth will help. On benchmarks, we decided to go with WHO to make it applicable globally. There is a mishmash of different limits and indices used across the world so WHO levels are the only really comparable ones!
Also, an observation I noted this week. Traffic levels on Brixton Hill have reduced dramatically this week. It appears that Croydon, Southwark and Bromley have their half-term school holidays, however, Wandsworth, Lambeth, Merton, Surrey, Sutton, Lewisham, Bexley and Kingston Upon Thames have theirs next week. I appreciate this is not true data lead science, but it does make you wonder, is all the traffic we witness travelling along Brixton Hill as a result of residents from Croydon, Southwark and Bromley? TfL needs to conduct a proper traffic study using the ULEZ camera technology to see if there are patterns that future public transportation solutions can help solve.
On the basis that the UK uses European standards for the ICE, EURO 6, 5, and 4, (and one day Euro 7) then maybe your benchmark should be the EU, not WHO. The UK can never achieve the WHO standard whilst it is using ICE designed for the EU market.
Hi Will - interesting stuff! School runs definitely make a big difference - hopefully roll out of school streets across Lambeth will help. On benchmarks, we decided to go with WHO to make it applicable globally. There is a mishmash of different limits and indices used across the world so WHO levels are the only really comparable ones!
Also, an observation I noted this week. Traffic levels on Brixton Hill have reduced dramatically this week. It appears that Croydon, Southwark and Bromley have their half-term school holidays, however, Wandsworth, Lambeth, Merton, Surrey, Sutton, Lewisham, Bexley and Kingston Upon Thames have theirs next week. I appreciate this is not true data lead science, but it does make you wonder, is all the traffic we witness travelling along Brixton Hill as a result of residents from Croydon, Southwark and Bromley? TfL needs to conduct a proper traffic study using the ULEZ camera technology to see if there are patterns that future public transportation solutions can help solve.
On the basis that the UK uses European standards for the ICE, EURO 6, 5, and 4, (and one day Euro 7) then maybe your benchmark should be the EU, not WHO. The UK can never achieve the WHO standard whilst it is using ICE designed for the EU market.