Experts urge councils to reallocate roads and prevent congestion when restrictions are lifted Laura LakerTue 28 Apr 2020 11.17 BST Politicians and experts have called for urgent action to create more space for walking and cycling during lockdown in the UK, and to avoid a “nightmare” rise in traffic as restrictions on movement are lifted. […]
Carlton Reid Apr 27, 2020, Leicester has installed a 500-meter pop-up cycleway close to the city’s NHS hospital. Marked out with traffic cones, the cycleway has been put in place to help key workers cycling to and from Leicester Royal Infirmary during the coronavirus lockdown. Leicester—famous for links to King Richard III; he was found
Barcelona removing more on-street car parking to add 12km of emergency pavements, 21km of emergency bike lanes + improve bus lanes David Guerrero, Barcelona | Actualizado a 25/04/2020 13:41 La necesidad de preservar una distancia mínima entre las personas que salgan a la calle en el progresivo desconfinamiento de la ciudadanía obliga al Ayuntamiento de
Simon Munk 24.04.20 We’ve asked our borough groups to send us the highest priority routes for temporary protected space for cycling during lockdown and as it eases. We’re looking for those routes with most potential to be rapidly deployed – main roads with multiple lanes, now spare capacity – and which parallel key bus and
Along streets suddenly devoid of traffic, pedestrians get a fresh look at all the space that motor vehicles have commandeered. Tom VanderbiltApril 24, 2020 Author of Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do The New York City streetscape has become a strange, inverted mirror image of the normal world. Suddenly, if you have a
Carlton ReidApr 22, 2020, “Whenever feasible, consider riding bicycles or walking,” recommended the World Health Organisation (WHO) on April 21 in new technical guidance on moving around during the COVID-19 outbreak. Cycling and walking are useful for both social distancing and meeting the minimum requirement for daily physical activity, states the WHO guidance. Cities around
Joe Dunkley I tweeted a little clip of something from a commute of a few months ago. It was the police making a couple of annoying, potentially very dangerous, and entirely understandable mistakes. First, the police driver has blocked an advance stop box. I imagine probably the lights were green when they entered it, but
With more space needed for walking and cycling for the foreseeable future, online tool will help you get in touch Cycling UK is urging people to ask their councils to create wider footpaths and temporary cycle lanes in response to the coronavirus pandemic. “Social distancing is likely to be the ‘new normal’ for quite some
Understanding the key concepts of transmissibility and infectious dose should reassure you. Sigal SamuelApr 24, 2020, 8:00am EDT Under social distancing, we’re all doing our best to stay sane, and one of the best ways to maintain sanity is to go out for some nice fresh air. But venturing outside can be stressful if you’re
Carlton ReidApr 21, 2020, The U.K. government’s £28.8 billion plan to expand Britain’s road network is set to be challenged by the same legal team which, in February, halted the Department for Transport’s plan to expand Heathrow. The Court of Appeal ruled Heathrow expansion plans were illegal because the Department for Transport’s plans did not
