How have Low Traffic Neighbourhoods ignited a culture war on Twitter?

Jimmy Tidey
8 min readDec 9, 2020

London’s new traffic reduction policies have caused protests, vandalism and furious online arguments. This is the first of three posts analysing the Twitter debate around London’s contentious Low Traffic Neighbourhoods.

An LTN in Oval, photo from Lambeth.gov.uk

When the #LTN hashtag appeared in my Twitter feed in July 2020, it caught my eye. It affects the area I live in, but I also…

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Jimmy Tidey

PhD on digital systems for collective action and social network analysis. jimmytidey.co.uk/blog