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Sadiq Khan urged to take ‘rapid action’ to prevent more cyclist deaths – Evening Standard

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Joe TaloraSadiq Khan has been urged to take “rapid action” to address critical safety issues at dangerous junctions in London to protect pedestrians and cyclists.At least 53 pedestrians and cyclists have been killed on London’s roads so far this year, while 55 pedestrians and seven cyclists were killed during 2020.At a meeting of the London Assembly on Thursday, members agreed to forward a

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Are the big car companies the capitalist dinosaurs whose time has come if we are to beat climate change? – taxresearch.org

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Richard Murphy November 10 2021 As the FT notes this morning: Despite months of pressure by the UK, four of the world’s five largest carmakers — Volkswagen, Toyota, the Renault-Nissan alliance, and Hyundai-Kia — have not signed up [to ending new car emissions by 2040].BMW is also holding back, I believe. There may be others doing

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Glasgow signs to global tools exchange campaign to deliver safe cycling – Cycle Industry News

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Mark Sutton 10 November, 2021 Glasgow has joined 25 cities around the globe in joining the Cycling Cities Campaign, an Institute for Transportation and Development Policy concept that is designed to share the tools and learnings from around the globe where successes in growing cycling levels have become evident.Launched yesterday at COP 26, the Cycling Cities campaign is dedicated to

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Laundry business invests £2.5 million in electric cargo bike fleet – Cycle Industry News

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Mark Sutton 9 November, 2021 In what will come to be one of the UK’s largest electric cargo bike fleets, Laundryheap will invest £2.5 million to add 200 vehicles to its fleet following successful trials.The astonishing investment has electric cargo bike firm EAV as the main beneficiary of the cash outlay. The firm’s EAV2Cubed vehicle will form the basis of

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“NASA has declared automobiles are the largest net contributor of climate change pollution in the world.” Your regular reminder that cars aren’t part of the problem—they *are* the problem. Taras Grescoe Twitter

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Taras Grescoe @grescoe
“NASA has deared automobiles are the largest net contributor of climate change pollution in the world.”
Your regular reminder that cars aren’t part of the problem—they *are* the problem.
[And replacing 1.3 billion gas cars with EVs isn’t going to help.]
https://giss.nasa.gov/research/news/

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The hidden climate costs of America’s free parking spaces | Environment | The Guardian

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The street space occupied by parked cars may not seem like much, but it adds up. The US has an estimated 3.4 spaces for every car. In New York City, the amount of road space reserved for parking is roughly the size of 12 Central Parks, according to one estimate, and most of the city’s 4m street parking spots are free.

“The curb lane is some of the most valuable land on Earth,” said Donald Shoup, a transportation professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. “I think that’s our biggest mistake, to take some of the most valuable land on Earth and give it away, free, to cars.”
Street parking doesn’t just take away space. It can inform how people get around. “Parking is one of the things that has a really powerful impact on people’s decisions whether to drive or not,” said Daniel Firth, transportation director at C40 Cities, a network of more than 100 cities around the world with ambitious climate goals.
Shoup and others have found that underpriced street parking keeps people driving in cities, even in those that have good alternative transport options. More people driving means more city traffic – increasing congestion and pumping out pollution.
But cities that want to price, or even convert, free street parking face obstacles – and not just from drivers. Most cities don’t have enough information about how their curbs are used, making it difficult to decide how to manage this valuable space.

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STOP road safety campaigns that target our children! – linkedin.com

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Marco Te Brömmelstroet
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Marco Te Brömmelstroet Nov 3, 2021 
Let’s STOP with road safety campaigns that target our children.

They have no positive impacts on any meaningful dimensions

but do have profound perverse effects
Instead of taking the danger away (as we do in many other domains), we instead normalize the traffic violence that we inflict on them. 
No positive impact on any meaningful dimension:

In the Netherland, every day 17 children (4-18 year) are involved in traffic crashes and this number is growing. [Source]

A majority of people is afraid in public space. In Amsterdam, a recent study shows that over 70% of the survey participants are (often) afraid in traffic.

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