Alex MistlinMon 24 Aug 2020 23.01 BST
Infants exposed to even low levels of air pollution experience reduced lung function as children and teenagers, researchers have found.
Their study found that exposure to air pollution in the first year of life reduced lung function development from the ages of six to 15, even at pollution levels below EU standards.
What Australia can learn from bicycle-friendly cities overseas | Pablo Guillen, Miguel Loyola and Ursa Komac | The Guardian
If we’re to get more people walking and cycling in our cities, then we need to make it easier for them
Pablo Guillen, Miguel Loyola and Ursa Komac for The Conversation
Fri 28 Aug 2020
Walking and cycling are in the spotlight given the need to keep fit, get about and keep a social distance from others during the pandemic.
We have pop-up cycleways, enlarged footpaths and even whole streets closed to traffic.
But even if the new cycleways stay in place after the Covid-19 crisis, we’ll still be far from being as bicycle-friendly as Copenhagen or Amsterdam over in Europe.
‘Like cycling through history’: 220-mile King Alfred’s Way launched | The Guardian
Loop starts in Winchester and takes in tree-lined lanes, open plains and plenty of pubs
You pass great cathedrals and prehistoric barrows, castles, medieval farms and the remnants of second world war defences. You cycle across sandy heathland, through sunken tree-lined lanes, along chalky paths and on grassy open plains
School run: cutting car use will take much more than educating children and parents – The Conversation
Rob Noonan August 25, 2020
As the summer holidays come to an end and children return to school following lockdown, there couldn’t be a better time for us to consider the school commute. Nowadays, many children in the UK commute to school by car. But getting more parents to ditch the car for school journeys and switch to more active modes of travel, such as walking or cycling, is of great public health importance.
Common sense coming for the Highway Code – LCC
You lobby and wait years for improvements to the Highway Code that help walkers and cyclists, and then a dozen useful changes arrive at once.
Key changes proposed include a hierarchy of users that puts walkers and cyclists at the top, and priority for walkers and cyclists (on the road, in lanes or on tracks) over turning traffic at junctions. These are changes LCC has campaigned-for for years and we strongly urge you to support them. The proposed changes clearly have the potential to reduce road danger and potentially make road design more effective.
#ideaswithbeers Brian Deegan (Zoom) – LTNs / messaging / pushback / cycling at only c.30% more than last year etc I Tuesdays 5pm
@CHAIRRDRF
almost full for Tuesdays #ideaswithbeers update on Transport in the time of COVID-19. At 5pm,
e-mail @bricycle ideaswithbeers@gmail.com to attend the Zoom session.
Lots on LTNs (messaging, pushback), cycling at only c.30% more than last year etc.
Room for UK outside London news.
Finding your way on London’s cycle infrastructure (Part 2) – LCC
Signage of cycle routes in London is a mess – there’s now a mix of Sustrans National Cycle Network signs, London Cycle Network, the original Cycle Superhighway/Quietway and the new Cycleway signage. London now has LCN5, CS5, Q5 and C5. Quietway route 5 was partly rebranded C5, and Q5 replaced some bits of the old LCN route (but the old signage and paint wasn’t removed where it remains, in weird disconnected sections). What does a 5 painted on the road mean? Answers on a postcard, please. And does anyone understand the point of un-numbered bits of Q or C signage that appear without destinations? So there’s a bit of good cycle route there but it’s up to you to work out if it takes you anywhere useful. Great.
Finding your way on London’s cycle infrastructure (Part 1) – LCC
Right now London has both a lot of new cycle infrastructure (and quieter streets for cycling in Low Traffic Neighbourhoods) and a big growth in new cyclists trying to find their way around the post-COVID city with its restricted public transport.
Silvertown road tunnel plan in London fatally flawed, say opponents | The Guardian
Campaigners ask authors of two reviews of TfL finances to look again at scheme
Matthew TaylorWed 19 Aug 2020 09.41 BST
Plans to build a four-lane road tunnel under the Thames in London should be dropped as part of an overhaul of transport spending in the capital, campaigners say.
Opponents of the proposed £1.2bn Silvertown tunnel scheme have written to the authors of two separate reviews of Transport for London finances, asking them to look again at the project.
Cycling to work lowers risk of death by 20%, says NIHR Census study – Cycling Industry News
Cycling to work versus driving has been shown to reduce the risk of premature death by 20%, death by cardiovascular complications by 24% and cancer by 16%, a National Institute for Health Research study of Census data has found.