BetaStreets x London Cycling Campaign

BetaStreets is delighted to announce the launch of BetaStreets x LCC, its collaboration with London Cycling Campaign. BetaStreets x LCC is a purpose-built version of the BetaStreets platform., available to members of London Cycling in the lead up to the local elections in May 2022.

Once signed up members can use the software to create a transformation of a street in the borough they live or work in. LCC will also be asking local people to suggest streets that need transforming if the capital is to have a zero-carbon road system by 2030.

The visualisations can then be used to raise awareness and gain political commitment to positive change to support more active travel. This is to be a key part of the Climate Safe Streets campaign

BetaStreets

BetaStreets is a purpose-built design and visualisation tool for use in street design, highways and placemaking. BetaStreets is a Computer-Generated Image (CGI) design tool developed to make street design, and placemaking accessible to anyone.

BetaStreets simplifies the design process, meaning high quality visualisations can be created in the fraction of the time it would take to produce the same using traditional methods. It lets people use images of the present, combined with items from our library of street furniture and materials to make visions of how streets and places could be.

For beginners, BetaStreets enables someone to create a simple transformation of a normal street into a place for people. It increases participation in the design process by removing barriers to inclusion.

For professionals BetaStreets can be used as a design tool in the field or desktop, to create powerful images for use in public engagement, funding applications or design reports.

The #ClimateSafeStreets campaign

London Cycling Campaign is calling for the next council leaders across London's 33 boroughs to take bold and urgent action on the climate crisis to reduce emissions fast. Council leaders elected in 2022 will be in post until 2026 – with just one term after that until 2030, when London must be carbon neutral according to Mayor Sadiq Khan (and experts and LCC).

So, the next four years will be vitally important. If council leaders cannot or will not deliver on climate emissions boldly now, it'll be too late by the end of this term to reach 2030 targets just four years later. Leaders must act now, in the next four years.

For more information about BetaStreets, visit betastreets.co.uk or to arrange a demo of our software please email contact@betastreets.co.uk.