I am part of the group. I have been sharing the petitions, emailing to the relevant emails (heard nothing back yet) and am writing as both a business owner of a shop on Balham High Road and as an Auntie of a shielding Nephew going through Chemotherapy who needs to be in a car to get to his appointments. My family are stuck in the middle of this madness.
Many people will know that my shop is Natural for Baby, inside the shop it's all organic and natural ethically made baby and toddler products. Of course I want people to depend on their cars less as I am all up for looking after our planet. I am walking to and from the shop each day rather than taking a train (as I did before lockdown, I haven't been on public transport since the beginning of March!). There are however times when we need to use a car or even a bus and if I had an emergency and needed an ambulance, police car or fire engine, I wouldn't want the drivers to be stuck in the middle of this. Ultimately this could result in the loss of lives as well as cutting off vulnerable and isolated residents.
As a business owner, this is of course affecting footfall in the area in a negative way, just as things were starting to go in the right direction. My shop is also a UPS Access Point and the drivers who would usually have short days in August are working the same hours they would work around Christmas time - not only do they have a lot of deliveries, but they can't get from A to B in a timely manor.
Later this evening, I am one of the business owners meeting with a local MP, I will be voicing my concerns at this meeting in the most constructive and polite way possible - after all, we're both so local, we had the same primary school teacher back in the day (different schools)!
In addition to joining us in the Facebook group, please do sign the petitions for the road closures schemes that are simply very extreme and on the whole have caused more pollution, more traffic and even the cyclists are on the whole not happy with the poles on cycle lanes and are not moving onto the side roads (one of the points of the scheme). Crime has been reported to be rising too with criminals escaping on mopeds.
https://www.change.org/p/wandsworth-council-objection-to-tooting-s-low-traffic-neighbourhood-ltn?cs_tk=AmsYhQLYRljyA3ZXQF8AAXicyyvNyQEABF8BvGuceuGZ8TQJxwzu9m0nIqc%3D&utm_campaign=4f35a8318b0a4fd590637b8a7d808027&utm_content=initial_v0_1_1&utm_medium=email&utm_source=petition_signer_receipt&utm_term=cs
https://www.change.org/p/transport-for-london-stop-tfl-s-new-bollards-across-london?recruiter=66213958&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_abi&utm_term=petition_published_onboarding_0&recruited_by_id=2d3778d7-4315-4d72-ac5a-6c4cf4045958&utm_content=fht-24231020-en-gb%3A2
