Jonathan WattsSun 7 Jun 2020 15.00 BST Many urban dwellers have gazed in awe at their newly clean cities over the last few months. But three – Copenhagen, Oakland and Mexico City – are leading the way in making such transformations permanent. How? For those not directly affected, the ability to breathe more easily and […]
Stricter rules for cyclists should be introduced immediately to combat the increased number of two-wheeled law breakers hitting the road due to the Government’s recommendation for people to avoid public transport. Ministers ‘must introduce emergency legislation to tackle a boom in the toxic cycling which has emerged during the lockdown period’ and that ‘for too
Data reveals police recorded seven incidents of motorists in UK driving over 130mph Lisa O’CarrollTue 2 Jun 2020 00.01 BST Two-thirds of Britain’s police forces caught people driving in excess of 100mph during the first three weeks of the coronavirus lockdown, new data has shown. The extreme speeds were not confined to motorways, as drivers
Carlton Reid12:15pm EST Robots. AI. Podcasts. 5G. All of these are the sort of subjects you would expect to find plugged in a long-running annual tech predictions report. Bicycles? Not so much. But in a major innovations publication issued on December 10, 200-year-old bicycling is highlighted as a technological solution to many modern urban ills.
Carlton Reid Jun 4, 2020, To Milan, London, Berlin, and Paris, Lisbon can now be added to the major European cities using the pandemic to reshape streets. Portugal’s coastal capital city is to remove car parking spaces and replace them with alfresco cafes and restaurants; speed limits will be lowered to 18 miles per hour
Highway and traffic authorities have been told by the Transport Secretary to take measures to deliver ‘transformative change’ to their urban streets within an urgent timeframe. If they don’t, they could be in breach of new Statutory Guidance. Robert Huxford explored how local authorities could best respond in his contribution to last week’s LTT online
SIMON_MACMICHAEL WED, JUN 03, 2020 17:04 Campaigner urges government to include cycling statisticcs in daily briefings to encourage people into the saddle Chris Boardman has warned that “decisions made in the next two weeks will set the transport agenda for the next two decades” as the government introduces further easing of the lockdown in England,
Saturday, 6 June 2020 It’s high time we allowed people to cycle along motorways. I’m being completely serious because we’re spending all of this money on building road space and yet drivers won’t stick to these motorways. Therefore it’s time to allow cycling along them. Now I’ve got your attention and created outrage amongst the
By Jamie McIvor BBC Scotland local government correspondent Glasgow city centre is to suspend about a third of its on-street parking spaces to increase space for social distancing. The move is part of an initiative by the city council to create about 25km (15 miles) of extra space for physical distancing. The plan is to
Richard Masoner Discussion about fees and taxes for bicycles so that we cyclists “pay our fair share” often turn to mentions of the “Fourth Power Rule.” What is this mysterious Fourth Power Rule? Back in the 1950s and 1960s, highway engineers researched damage done to road beds and road surfaces for the purposes of allocating
