I’m looking across at the mainland again this week towards Sweden and the country’s Vision Zero programme. Sweden is held up as a progressive nation when it comes to dealing with road death, but it wasn’t always the case with road death being treated as an everyday occurrence. The change in approach came in 1995 […]
Peter Walker Thu 30 Jan 2020 00.03 GMT Report says UK one of only three EU nations where pedestrian casualties rose in last decade Significant reductions in road casualties for vehicle occupants across Europe in the last decade have not been matched by equivalent safety gains for pedestrians and cyclists, a report has shown, with
Cycle Industry News) Mark Sutton31 January, 2020 The European Transport Safety Council has call for urgent action to protect those making active travel choices as it has been revealed cyclist deaths have fallen eight times as slowly as deaths in motor vehicles across Europe. The authors of a new report on the topic found that
Alex HernFri 31 Jan 2020 12.10 GMT If there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s that being hit by a scooter hurts less than being hit by a bike. That may sound like a strangely negative place to start, but it’s sort of fundamental to why I’m glad the government is finally showing
Before & After Bikeway Installation: Avenue Road To Shaw Street There are more customers on Bloor after the bikeway installation. Average number of customers served per weekday Customer spending grew more on Bloor than surrounding areas, and about the same as rest of the city overall. Bikeway installedPeople who bike or walk to Bloor visit
The city with the only Green MP in the country is the latest council to consider banning private vehicles from its centre to reduce pollution and improve citizens’ quality of life Harriet SherwoodSun 26 Jan 2020 10.35 GMT In a multi-storey car park in the centre of Brighton, Peter Willcocks – on hand in a
Hayley Everett24 January, 2020 A UK-first trial of artificial intelligence (AI) technology could make it much easier to plan and operate new cycle routes in the capital. Until now, Transport for London (TfL) has relied mainly on manual traffic counts to record how many people are cycling on any given road, with this information used
Research shows that cyclists and walkers are three times as likely as motorists to be injured in icy conditions. Are York’s ‘baby gritters’ the solution? Kate RaviliousFri 24 Jan 2020 21.30 GMT Two years ago we had an icy winter in York. For those of us who like to walk or cycle it became treacherous
Transport is now the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the UK and emissions are rising. This briefing outlines far-reaching changes to deliver the reductions needed and ensure a decent transport system that works for everyone. Lynn Sloman and Lisa Hopkinson, Transport for Quality of Life 26 Oct 2019 Summary This paper – written
Daniel Gillett 11 Dec 19 The Sustrans manifesto. This year has brought a number of unique weather events to the UK: the highest temperature ever recorded, unprecedented flooding, and the prospect of a sub-zero general election. And while we might struggle to lay the blame for hiking to the polling station in crampons at the
