January 2020

Before & After Bikeway Installation: Avenue Road To Shaw Street There are more customers on Bloor after the bikeway installation. Average number of customers served per weekday Customer spending grew more on Bloor than surrounding areas, and about the same as rest of the city overall. Bikeway installedPeople who bike or walk to Bloor visit […]

The city with the only Green MP in the country is the latest council to consider banning private vehicles from its centre to reduce pollution and improve citizens’ quality of life Harriet SherwoodSun 26 Jan 2020 10.35 GMT In a multi-storey car park in the centre of Brighton, Peter Willcocks – on hand in a

Hayley Everett24 January, 2020 A UK-first trial of artificial intelligence (AI) technology could make it much easier to plan and operate new cycle routes in the capital. Until now, Transport for London (TfL) has relied mainly on manual traffic counts to record how many people are cycling on any given road, with this information used

Research shows that cyclists and walkers are three times as likely as motorists to be injured in icy conditions. Are York’s ‘baby gritters’ the solution? Kate RaviliousFri 24 Jan 2020 21.30 GMT Two years ago we had an icy winter in York. For those of us who like to walk or cycle it became treacherous

Transport is now the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the UK and emissions are rising. This briefing outlines far-reaching changes to deliver the reductions needed and ensure a decent transport system that works for everyone. Lynn Sloman and Lisa Hopkinson, Transport for Quality of Life 26 Oct 2019 Summary This paper – written

Daniel Gillett 11 Dec 19 The Sustrans manifesto. This year has brought a number of unique weather events to the UK: the highest temperature ever recorded, unprecedented flooding, and the prospect of a sub-zero general election. And while we might struggle to lay the blame for hiking to the polling station in crampons at the

Planners and engineers have been rapped for allowing new housing developments to be dominated by roads. A report says too many highways engineers are still approving roads that do not fully account for pedestrians and cyclists.   link to original article

Carlton ReidMon 20 Jan 2020 Birmingham – once, proudly, the UK’s “motorway city” – has announced plans to entice people out of cars and on to bikes and buses. If officials get their way, the city will be split into zones, and, rather than driving direct, motorists will have to use the ring road for