Author name: Steven Edwards

Andi Adams 29 June 2021
Now here’s a startling fact: two people can travel along the same street at the same time but experience the journey in very different ways. One person’s 800m sprint is another person’s hurdles depending on age, gender, race, religion, belief, mobility (including ‘hidden’ disabilities), sexuality and more.
After the kidnapping and murder of Sarah Everard, thousands of women told their stories about how they walk with their keys gripped between their fingers, ready to become a makeshift defensive weapon. They told how they try not to travel alone at night or cross the road to avoid sharing the pavement with a stranger. Trans women, queer women and women of colour, women who wear garments such as the hijab or the burka may experience additional threat or sense of threat due to the compounding of intersectional characteristics. Existing in public as your authentic self can be dangerous. It can also be expensive. 
A study from New York showed that women on average spend between $26 (£18) and $100 (£72) a month more than men on transport, attributed to a need to feel safe (i.e taking a cab instead of the subway). 

Lucy Marstrand-Taussig 29 June 2021
Describing children as ‘vulnerable road users’ shifts the focus to the potential victim – we need to recognise that vulnerability is largely created by the physical environment, attitudes and laws, writes Lucy Marstrand-Taussig
Children are often described as ‘vulnerable road users’ which shifts the focus onto the potential victim rather than the external facts such as insufficient priority crossings
Figure 1: Temporary Strategic Cycling Analysis for Streetspace Plan 2020. Spider diagram routes are focussed on trips into and out of the city centre. Source: Appendix Four Analysis for the Temporary Strategic Cycling Analysis v1, TfL

In a bid to address the increase in cycle theft, the standard is for people purchasing, installing and managing public cycle parking in the UK. It is to ensure that the installations which they procure are easy to use, safe, secure, long lasting and in compliance with UK legal requirements

Council acted in line with regulations and did not discriminate against disabled people who rely on cars for transport

By Mark Moran 29 June 2021

Arya Assadi Langroudi March 15, 2021 2.29pm GMT

23 June, 2021

Analysis of Government transport policy and available data by think tank the Institute for Public Policy Research has concluded that an 11% rise in car traffic is likely between now and 2050, equating to 10 million more cars on British roads at a time when congestion is rising rapidly beyond pre-pandemic levels.
“Shifting to electric vehicles isn’t enough,” starts the guidance from the researchers who outline that “the average car is parked 96% of the time”, something that it stresses is an inefficient use of land.
Aside from adding a tenth of the volume to traffic, actual ownership rates would jump by 28%, equating to 43.6 million additional (largely electric) cars manufactured. This, says the IPPR, poses serious questions about the resources required to build the vehicles, as well as the associated infrastructure demands of large vehicles.

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