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The growing gap in pedestrian and cyclist fatality rates between the US & the UK, Germany, Denmark, & the Netherlands, 1990–2018 – T & F Online

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Using official national data for each country, this article calculates trends in walking and cycling fatalities per capita and per km in the USA, the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, and Denmark. From 1990 to 2018, pedestrian fatalities per capita fell by 23% in the USA vs. 66%–80% in the other countries; cyclist fatalities per capita fell by 22% in the USA vs. 55%–68% in the other countries.

How Oslo Achieved Zero Pedestrian and Bicycle Fatalities, and How Others Can Apply What Worked | TheCityFix

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Anders Hartmann

In 2015, the City of Oslo, Norway, made a commitment after years of rising transportation injuries to reduce car traffic and prioritize the safety of pedestrians, cyclists and the environment. Unlike in the United States and other countries where transportation fatalities are often viewed as unavoidable, the government of Norway made a strong commitment to eliminate serious injuries and fatalities on their roadways nationally and has worked towards this vision for nearly two decades.



Sir Keir Starmer leads tributes to daughter of Labour MP killed in crash on Merseyside | London Evening Standard

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5 hours ago
Jennie Dowd, daughter of Bootle MP Peter Dowd, was knocked off her bike while cycling near her home on Lunt Road in Sefton Village on September 27.The 31-year-old NHS worker died of her injuries in hospital on October 6th.A fundraising page has been set up to raise money for The Walton Centre charity in her honour.

Sir Keir tweeted that his thoughts were with Mr Dowd and his family.

“My thoughts are with my friend @peter_dowd and his family after the tragic loss of their daughter”, he wrote.

Aug 2020) Two Weeks After Fox News Showed Joe Biden Cycling, Donald Trump Counters ‘I’ll Never Ride A Bicycle’ – Forbes

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Carlton Reid

Aug 22, 2020,
He may have sponsored a grandiose U.S. bicycle race in the 1980s but President Donald Trump isn’t likely to be seen on a bicycle any time soon, he pointed out on August 21. And that’s despite Fox News showing a clearly virile and fit Joe Biden riding his bicycle near a reporter earlier in the month.

Trump’s aversion to cycling—and, it so happens, sharks—was delivered in a speech given in Old Forge, Pennsylvania, close to Biden’s Scranton birthplace and hours before the former Vice President was scheduled to give a prime-time speech accepting the Democratic presidential nomination.
“I’ll never be riding a bicycle,” said President Trump, adding that his worry wasn’t about balance, bone spurs or bicyclists’ tan, but injuries: “I’m not getting hurt riding a bicycle.”

What is stopping women from cycling? – BBC News

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21 January 2018

By Anna Allatt

BBC News
The bicycle was once a symbol of women’s emancipation, with suffragettes taking to two wheels to spread their message of equal rights. But the latest figures show a big gender divide when it comes to cycling. Why?
About 50% fewer women than men cycle twice a week or more, according to walking and cycling charity Sustrans, and when it comes to cycling on the roads, the number drops again.
Commonly cited reasons for shunning the benefits of getting into the saddle include sexual harassment, fears about appearance and concerns about safety. So what can be done to get more women on their bikes and out on the road?
Tackling sexist attitudes among male road users would be a first step, says Leigh Campbell, who leads all-women cycling rides in Nottingham.
“Sometimes, when I’ve been out cycling on my own, I’ve had male drivers shout at me as they’re overtaking,” said the 45-year-old British Cycling Breeze Champion.
“I’ve been told to ‘read the Highway Code’ and ‘get off the road’. I’ve also been sworn at.

Paris Mayor: “Forget Crossing Through The City By Car” – Forbes

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Carlton Reid 08:26am EDT

In the first major interview since her re-election as Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo told Le Parisien that her manifesto promise to crack down on motoring in the French capital would be kept.
“We must forget the crossing of Paris from east to west by car,” she told the daily newspaper.
‘The city needs to evolve,” she added.
Comfortably re-elected in June for a second term, she said she intends to create permanent curb-protected cycleways and expand the number of lockdown cycleways, known in French as “coronapistes.” At an urban planning conference later this month she also plans to reveal plans on restricting petrol-powered motoring on the usually car-clogged highways on the upper quays of the Seine.

Lambeth council “inundated” with requests for low traffic neighbourhoods across borough – londonnewsonline

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9th October 2020
By Grainne Cuffe, Local Democracy Reporter
Lambeth council has been “inundated” with requests for low traffic neighbourhoods across the borough – but doesn’t have money to implement more.
Lambeth received £2,639,000 from the Mayor of London’s Streetspace plans, the most out of all London councils, to cover emergency transport measures to aid social distancing and promote active travel in the wake of Covid-19.
LTNs, which involve placing camera-enforced or physical barriers in streets to prevent through-traffic, are being implemented across the capital as part of the scheme.

Let’s all welcome low-traffic neighbourhoods | Evening Standard

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Matthew Pencharz

A bitter row is raging over Low Traffic Neighbourhoods — or LTNs — as they are being brought into force across the capital. Since the Government gave councils £250 million of new “active travel” funding in May, barriers have been put up in many residential areas to prevent motorists cutting through side streets (while allowing residents access in their cars). This change has not been welcomed by all.

Hackney proposes low traffic neighbourhoods in every area – TransportXtra

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2/10/20
The London Borough of Hackney has published plans for low traffic neighbourhood (LTN) traffic restrictions across every residential neighbourhood in the borough. Hackney has already introduced numerous LTN schemes that prevent through traffic passing along residential streets. The proposals to implement LTNs across the borough feature in an emergency transport plan considered by councillors this week.

Bicycles And Buses Will Be Future’s Dominant Modes Of Urban Mobility, Predict 346 Transport Experts – Forbes

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Carlton Reid

A significant new report supported by the World Economic Forum argues there must be a “transport transformation” if the planet is to benefit from the Paris Agreement’s decarbonization commitments, signed in 2016.


The Transport for Under Two Degrees project published a report on October 8 arguing that governments around the world should stop subsidizing motoring and must, instead, build cycleways and wider sidewalks to anticipate the likely future of “active transport” in cities.

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