Traffic Management
19 April 2021
The City of London Corporation is proposing to make permanent many of the temporary traffic management measures implemented during Covid-19.
The Corporation plans to retain a number of the traffic restrictions that operate between 07.00 to 19.00 Monday to Friday. These permit access to only emergency vehicles, refuse collection, and local authority services vehicles.
West Kernow Way is fourth long-distance trail devised by the charity and will be ready to ride in September
Starting and finishing in Penzance, the West Kernow Way is designed to be ridden over three or four days and celebrates Cornwall’s landscape, culture and history.
The UK government has unveiled a £3bn transport strategy for England that it claims will lead to the creation of hundreds of miles of new bus lanes, fares with daily price caps and more evening and weekend services
The DfT said the government’s new bus strategy envisages passengers across England benefiting from bus services that are more frequent, reliable, easier to use and understand, better coordinated and cheaper.
Internal emails sent between senior Highways England officials and members of the organisation’s Freedom of Information (FOI) team show deliberate attempts to obfuscate the FOI process, according to MPs and campaign groups.
In the emails – released to MPs and seen by NCE – Highways England officials discuss ways of “closing down the FOI/EIR [environmental information request] route in the future”.
The emails relate to an FOI request submitted by MP for Sefton Central Bill Esterson and campaign group Rimrose Valley Friends (RVF) in relation to the controversial A5036 Port of Liverpool access scheme that would demolish the 3.5km Rimrose Valley Country Park in Merseyside.
Specifically, Esterson had requested meeting notes between Highways England and stakeholders involved in the Port of Liverpool scheme.
Results are a wake-up call to 2021 candidates: Reimagining streets isn’t just good policy, it’s good politics too.
January 26, 2021
Taken together, streets are the largest public space in New York City, adding up to an acreage nearly twice the size of the Bronx. More than three-quarters of that streetscape is dedicated to moving and storing vehicles. But for all the space given over to cars, only a minority of New Yorkers own one, and less than one in three trips citywide involve a car. This inequity is stark. The status quo must end.
A new poll, commissioned by Transportation Alternatives and conducted by the Siena College Research Institute, details New York City voters’ wide support for addressing that inequity and converting street space for more safe, equitable, and vibrant neighborhood use. The survey reveals that a majority of voters from households that own cars broadly support many of these street improvements too. With the 2021 elections approach, it’s clear that candidates running with a strong vision to reimagine New York City’s streetscape will have public opinion on their side.
9 April 2021
The citybound hard shoulder on part of the M8 and M9 in west Edinburgh are to be converted into bus lanes.
The lanes will run for four miles from a point south of junction 1 of the M9 to the Hermiston Gait roundabout (junction 1 of the M8).
Transport Scotland says the lanes should reduce bus journey times and improve reliability, particularly at junction 2 of the M8 and on the approach to Hermiston Gate where peak period congestion is a problem.
19 April 2021
On 31 March the council published an order to prohibit through traffic from a network of 34 lanes between Clevedon, Yatton, Nailsea, Claverham and Backwell.
The intention of the ‘quiet rural lanes’ plan was to create a recreation space for cyclists and walkers and continue to give access to residents and businesses.
Samuel Nello-Deakin 25 Apr 2019
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The recommendations require, among many other things, a reduction in miles traveled by car and more travel on transit and a massive increase in walking and cycling.
Ahead of the UN’s COP26 climate summit to be held later this year in Glasgow, the U.K. government has accepted the Climate Change Committee’s goal to reduce emissions by 78% by 2035 compared to 1990 levels.
The new U.K. target—up from a previous pledge of a 68% reduction—will be announced during a climate summit on Thursday, when President Joe Biden is due to outline a new national goal for U.S. carbon reduction.
“Car travel dominates surface transport emissions,” said a Climate Change Committee report published last year.
“There are opportunities to reduce demand for car travel, through both societal and technological changes and by enabling journeys to be shifted onto lower-carbon modes of transport,” continued the report.
