0 an area where vehicles cannot travel on certain residential roads (= roads where people live), created in order to reduce the general level of traffic in that area:
Councils across the UK have been introducing more low traffic neighbourhoods.
Low-traffic neighbourhoods aim to make the character of residential streets more pleasant and safer for people to walk and cycle.
A low traffic neighbourhood is an area which is closed off to through-traffic – so you can drive to it but can’t drive through it.
Quiet streets in low traffic neighbourhoods make it safer to transport young children on cargo bikes.
For every low traffic neighbourhood there will be a high traffic one, unless there are viable alternatives to driving including safe cycle routes.
