Brainstorm at Think&Do; safer routes to school; Meeting with CEC; Raising Awareness of the Useful Amount of High Quality Infrastructure that Now Exists in Camden
Archives for 2020
Bikehangar Consultations 2020
The pre-Covid consultations were all supported; the remainder were ETOs. Total seventy + two car bike ports 2020. Started to respond again for December batch
Map showing barriers that prevent people from cycling to school
Discussed at our meeting on 20th January and with Camden officers on 28th
New app will crowdsource data about bad drivers from cyclists | road.cc
A new app has been launched that allows cyclists in Washington DC to quickly report dangerous driving behaviour. In response to reports, OurStreets provides users with the vehicle’s outstanding parking and traffic camera offences and also shares all its information with various groups, including the city’s transportation departments. The app began in the summer of… [Read More]
So Near, So Far – The Ranty Highwayman
Saturday, January 11, 2020 I happened to be in Cambridge this week and I also happened to see some relatively new streets. You would think that in the UK city with the highest rate of cycling that I’d have seen some world class cycling infrastructure? Sadly not. OK, what I did see in the Eddington… [Read More]
“You think police would take a hit and run quite seriously” says disappointed Bristol cyclist who caught collision on camera | road.cc
A Bristol cyclist has accused police of “incompetence” after they failed to track down a driver he said was responsible for a hit and run – even though he’d provided them with footage of the incident. The Bristol Post reports that Dr Richard Patterson was riding down Kings Weston Road, Henbury, on March 5 when… [Read More]
A third of Brits don’t cycle more as it’s “too dangerous” – B ikeBiz
Rebecca Morley More than two in five (44%) UK citizens aged 16 plus never cycle, rising to over half (54%) of women, according to a new study from Savanta. A third of those surveyed (34%) say they don’t cycle more often because it’s “too dangerous”. The research points to five key worries overall, identified by… [Read More]
Feb 2008) Porsche threatens legal action over £25 London congestion charge | Daily Mail
19 February 2008 Ken Livingstone is facing a full-scale legal challenge to his plan to charge gas-guzzling cars £25 day in congestion charging. Porsche is writing to the London Mayor claiming his new scheme – unveiled last week – is “unjust” and says he must axe it or face a judicial review. It says that… [Read More]
Cyclists in Cork urge City Hall to consider increasing cost of on-street parking – Irish Examiner
By Eoin English January 06, 2020 Cyclists in Cork have urged City Hall to consider increasing the cost of on-street parking by up to €1 an hour and use the extra income to promote more sustainable forms of transport such as bus, walking and cycling. The Cork Cycling Campaign has also called on city chiefs… [Read More]
Mayor Anne Hidalgo is making Paris more friendly to cyclists – and more hostile to cars | CityMetr ic
Since Anne Hidalgo’s election as Mayor of Paris in 2014, she has pursued a genuinely radical agenda of greening the city by creating “urban forests” and re-engineering some of the city’s squares and roundabouts to be less centred on cars. Yet by far the most radical transformation Hidalgo has overseen has been the radical expansion… [Read More]
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