By Claire Hutchison Thursday, 26 December 2019 Four women from the Adventure Syndicate are cycling 24 hours a day between Boxing Day and New Year’s Eve on cargo bikes, with the aim of reaching Copenhagen. Cycling UK’s Claire Hutchison caught up with them before they set off on their challenge. Two pairs of women from… [Read More]
Letters – Guardian (1)
LettersTue 7 Jan 2020 • Your article on York highlights how important it is for both central and local government to take urgent action to reduce air pollution in our cities and tackle the climate crisis. Transport is the only sector where CO2 emissions are rising as our reliance on motor vehicles remains at an… [Read More]
Letters – Guardian (2)
LettersTue 7 Jan 2020 • Your editorial (27 December) says that “In the age of climate emergency the car is no longer the star”. The car has never been the star – more an asteroid that hurtles on our roads, too often out of control. A significant omission from your long editorial was the annual… [Read More]
You are not made of sugar… | Bicycle Dutch
You won’t melt in the rain… That is not the answer you want to hear as a teenager when you complain to your mother about having to cycle to school in the rain. And yet that is exactly the answer generations of Dutch mothers have been giving their children. It shows. Whenever it rains you… [Read More]
Uninsured drivers enjoy 92% chance of getting away with it – ETA
3rd January 2020 If you are one of Britain’s one million uninsured drivers, you are more than likely to get away with it. Despite ANPR (automatic number plate recognition) cameras in some police force areas identifying over 4,000 uninsured vehicles every day, very few drivers receive a penalty or are sent for prosecution. In 2018,… [Read More]
Nov 2018) More shoppers, more shops: TfL stats show benefits of designing streets around cyclists and pedestrians | road.cc
Alex Bowden November 16 2018 Transport for London (TfL) research shows that improvements that make it easier and safer to walk and cycle in London’s high streets lead to more retail space being filled by businesses and a 93 per cent increase in people walking in the streets. The study, conducted by Matthew Carmona from… [Read More]
Why Asking for Bike Lanes Isn’t Smart – CityLab
In the 1930s big auto dreamed up freeways and demanded massive car infrastructure. Micromobility needs its own Futurama—one where cars are marginalized. Terenig TopjianOctober 18, 2019 Perspective Why We Need to Dream Bigger Than Bike Lanes In the 1930s big auto dreamed up freeways and demanded massive car infrastructure. Micromobility needs its own Futurama—one where… [Read More]
Cycleways are getting more Londoners in the saddle, says new TfL report | road.cc
The share of trips undertaken by bike in the capital is going up, with particularly strong growth seen in areas where high-quality cycling infrastructure has been put in place, according to new figures from Transport for London (TfL). In its latest Travel in London report, TfL says that on an average day, 2.5 per cent… [Read More]
Oslo has virtually eliminated pedestrian and cyclist deaths – Curbed
Alissa WalkerJan 3, 2020, 1:50pm EST Imagine a city the size of Washington D.C. going an entire year without any pedestrians or cyclists being killed on its streets. That’s exactly what happened in Oslo, where officials reported this week that zero pedestrian or cyclist fatalities occurred on the city’s roads in 2019. City data for… [Read More]
Globe editorial: Canada’s cities are about to add millions of new residents. They can’t all drive to work – The Globe and Mail
Published 1 day ago Canada has recently been the fastest growing country in the G7, with a population rising at double the pace of the United States and United Kingdom, and four times that of France and Germany. According to Statistics Canada’s projections, our country could have 48.8-million people by 2050. And that’s the agency’s… [Read More]
