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Air pollution figures bad news for giants, even worse for children, say Green Party candidates

  Caroline Russell, long-time road safety campaigner and Green Party candidate for the forthcoming Islington Council by-election, was joined by Mayoral candidate Jenny Jones and parents and children from local schools after a local study revealed that nitrogen dioxide levels exceeded national and European target limits in half the measuring stations across the borough.   […]

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Greens call for safer streets at “ghost bike” unveiling

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Caroline Russell to contest St Mary’s for Greens

Local walking champion, Caroline Russell has lived in Islington for 25 years. Working with Living Streets she helped campaign for the recent improvements at Angel and collaborated with cyclists on the design of the new crossing at Madras Place. She is passionate about addressing health inequality by improving our streets, making them into places for […]

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What a Green councillor could do for Islington

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What our Green Councillor would do for Regents Canal users

St Peter’s ward by-election Green Party candidate Caroline Allen explains how she would help users of the local canal as a Green Councillor. As a regular user of the Regents Canal as it passes through Islington I am well aware of problems over how this resource is shared between the different users; as well as […]

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Sign our petitions to introduce 20 mph limits to Islington’s main roads

Islington Green Party has launched two new petitions to introduce 20 mph speed limits to Islington’s main roads. Part of our Safer Streets for Islington campaign, the petitions call on Transport for London and Islington Council to extend the 20 mph speed limits from Islington’s residential roads to New North Road and Essex Road in […]

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Islington Greens call for collaboration to tackle anĀ INVISIBLE PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS

More than half of Islington’s 45 primary schools (23) are within 150m (492ft) of roads arrying more than 10,000 vehicles a day, putting pupils health at risk.   Figures obtained by the Clean Air London (CAL) campaign, through a freedom of information request to Transport for London, show 36 primaries and 6 secondaries are within 400m […]

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