How opponents of LTNs are adopting the climate-sceptic playbook

Critical coverage in UK papers has been rising with more anti-LTN articles per day in 2023 than ever before

In recent months, it seems barely a day goes by without a slew of hostile newspaper coverage – or prominently placed diatribes – about low-traffic neighbourhoods.

Indeed, 19 weeks into 2023, the UK’s main newspapers have published 177 articles on LTNs. Most of them were unfavourable and were published in the Mail (75), the Telegraph (32) or the Times (22).