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Road Collision Reporting Guidelines
Media Reporting Guidelines for Road Collisions
Every 20 minutes someone is killed or seriously injured on UK roads. Much of the reporting around these incidents portrays collisions as unavoidable, obscures the presence of certain actors or omits crucial context as to why crashes happen and what we can do to prevent them. 
These Guidelines were produced in consultation with road safety, legal, media and policing organisations and individuals, to supplement professional codes of conduct and support the highest standards of reporting in broadcast, print and online.

Plain-clothes police to wage war on close overtaking of cyclists | Scotland | The Times

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Thomas Hornall Tuesday June 01 2021,

Drivers who overtake cyclists too closely could be pulled over and cautioned for dangerous driving under a new policing operation this summer Operation Close Pass will have Police Scotland deploying plain-clothes officers on bikes to catch reckless drivers who put cyclists at risk.

Motorists will be pulled over and “if someone is unreceptive to education they will be cautioned for careless or dangerous driving and receive a court summons”, according to a statement from Cycling Scotland.
It comes as the national cycling organisation launches a campaign to improve road safety, with figures showing that at least three cyclists a week suffer serious injuries.

“The Power Of Parking” City releases game-changing report rethinking parking in Kingston – City of Kingston

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1/6/21

The City’s Department of Planning Services has released a unique new Discussion Paper entitled “The Power of Parking: A New Parking Paradigm for Kingston?” The Paper, now online, starts and supports an important new public conversation about how parking powerfully affects every aspect of how the city is built. It includes big, strategic new ideas that could lead to a potentially very different approach to how parking is regulated in the City’s upcoming new Zoning Bylaw.

Those key public goals include: climate change and pollution mitigation; improved affordability; better social equity; lower public infrastructure costs; a healthier post-pandemic economic recovery; and more inviting, healthy and sustainable choices around how we live and get around.

Intervention tackles the root causes of driving offences – MORSE

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:excerptstart 4 May 2021 A multi-agency initiative is seeking to improve road safety in West Mercia by tackling the root causes of risky driving behaviours.#MORSE is a driver intervention programme led by YSS – a charity which supports vulnerable children, young people and adults – in partnership with the police and crime commissioner for West Mercia, West Mercia Police, Hereford &… [Read More]

Lancaster Boulevard | CNU

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:excerptstartThe City of Lancaster, California, converted a drab, automobile-oriented arterial at the heart of downtown into a lively, pedestrian-friendly center. The nine-block makeover of Lancaster Boulevard has become a regional draw and attracted significant economic development in its first two years. In a dramatic demonstration of the value of smart streetscape investment, Lancaster spent $11.5 million on… [Read More]

The Business Case for Car-Free Streets – Bloomberg

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Where Covid’s Car-Free Streets Boosted Business

Yelp data shows greater consumer interest at restaurants on pedestrian-friendly “slow streets” that limited vehicle traffic during the pandemic.
Laura Bliss May 11, 2021
At first, the empty city streets of the pandemic were an eerie sign of a world in disorder. But when dozens of cities converted some of them to pedestrian-friendly corridors with restricted vehicle access, they became something else: an example of how readily urban space can be repurposed for mobility and play, and how quickly human activity can surge back when cars are removed. 

To Save the Planet, Kill Minimum Parking Mandates – Bloomberg

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April 26, 2021
There’s a crisis plaguing cities throughout the U.S. that’s driving up poverty, homelessness and carbon emissions. It lowers quality of life, brings respiratory illness and makes cities less affordable. It also makes our streets more dangerous — and it’s entirely preventable.
The culprit: minimum parking requirements, which force developers to set aside vast amounts of valuable land and construction budgets to create vehicle parking for residential and commercial buildings alike. 

Car Free London: An Introduction – Possible – YouTube

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In the UK, one-third of our carbon emissions come from transport, and private cars are the biggest contributor. Not only do we need to drastically reduce our car use to reach climate targets, but our aim of fewer cars on the road will help people live healthier lives too.
The current way our cities are structured means that we accept the harm that comes with cars – the grime, pollution, and congestion. This affects us all. But older people, disabled people, children, and communities where people of colour, and poorer people live are hit the hardest.

DfT study finds 64% support cycle lanes roll out, even if car space cut – Cycle Industry News

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Mark Sutton28 May, 2021

The Department for Transport’s annual National Travel Attitudes (Wave 5) study has found that the majority of people (nearly two thirds) support the roll out of dedicated cycle lanes, even if it comes at the expense of less road space for cars.
Each year the online and telephone survey of people across England seeks to gauge the public mood on various travel forms and, coming on the day #BikeIsBest launch a witty new campaign video (below) asking whether the appropriate tool for the job is used for many journeys, the DfT data confirms a warming stance on cycling for transport.

“Cycling saved my life”, says Queen’s Brian May| road.cc

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The legendary guitarist clearly likes to ride his bicycle, saying cycling saved his life after a heart attack.

May needed surgery last year, but believes cycling has given him a new lease of life after the operation: “It really saved me,” he told Kerry Ellis on her Keep Calm and Kerry On podcast.
“When I’m in pain, which I was a lot, getting on the bike makes you feel human again. I’m finding life hard right now, this whole lockdown thing – I find the physical stuff is what gets me through.” 
May also revealed that he thinks his heart attack could have been brought on by COVID-19, believing that he likely caught the virus while Queen were touring in early 2020, and that gardening was another pastime that helped him through lockdown: 

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