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Archives for 2020
The Bicycle as a Vehicle of Protest | The New Yorker
Jody Rosen, June 10, 2020;A week ago, on Wednesday night, the third night of a citywide curfew in New York, police officers were seen confiscating bicycles
Feb 2018) Transport becomes most polluting UK sector as greenhouse gas emissions drop overall | The Independent
Tuesday 6 February 2018 14:30
Streetspace: where’s the pace? LCC
Euston Road, where’s the cycle track? Pic credit: Michiel Joseph; The pace of progress on TfL and the Mayor’s Streetspace plans is currently too slow. The plan itself is vital, and the progress thus far is valued. But we’re not moving fast enough.
‘The Netflix of bikes’: will a bicycle rental scheme catch on? | The Guardian
Sat 13 Jun 2020; Buzzbike hopes to tempt workers returning to the office as lockdown eases to try out its scheme
European Cyclists’ Federation launches online dashboard to track cycling infrastructure across continent | road.cc
New tool also ranks cities and countries including UK on how much is spent and how much is being built The European Cyclists’ Federation (ECF) has launched an online dashboard that tracks progress being made in countries and cities across Europe in implementing safe space for cycling during the coronavirus pandemic – with Paris, Barcelona… [Read More]
Call for cycling stats to be added to daily coronavirus transport figures | The Independent
Travel stats are regular fixture at daily press conferences but don’t include cycling 4 hours ago The government is being urged to add cycling to its daily round-up of coronavirus transport statistics in a bid to nudge people onto their bikes during the pandemic. The chief executive of Halfords, Britain’s biggest bike retailer, has written… [Read More]
COVID-19 Broke the Economy. What If We Don’t Fix It? – VICE
Instead of reopening society for the sake of the economy, what if we continued to work less, buy less, make less—for the sake of the planet? By Shayla Love Jun 16 2020, 3:00pmShareTweetSnap At the end of March, Donald Trump tweeted, in all capital letters, “WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM… [Read More]
British cities embrace cycling after lockdown – Channel 4 News
Alex Thomson Chief Correspondent 15 Jun 2020 The order’s gone out from up high – get people walking and cycling. So across Britain, streets are being transformed and we’ve begun to see what our new normal looks like. Our Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson has been on a Tour de England as our cities emerge from… [Read More]
U.K. Government Dangles £100 Billion For Green-Recovery Infrastructure—Deadline: June 18 – Forbes
Carlton Reid12:49pm EDT Jun 13, 2020, The U.K. government has asked local authorities to submit, as a matter of urgency, “shovel-ready” infrastructure ideas that could help boost the economy impacted by the coronavirus lockdown. Protected urban cycleway networks—more ambitious and longer-lasting than pop-up “corona” cycleways—could be among the projects to receive government backing, reports the… [Read More]
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