Can low traffic solutions help re-shape and revive our streets?The spread of people-friendly streets across Waltham Forest, plans for safe cycling corridors through Liverpool City Region, and Project Centre’s approach to winning local support for schemes were discussed at Landor LINKS’ Low Traffic Neighbourhoods webinar. Deniz Huseyin repor
We have approached the Government with 30 towpath improvement schemes for inner city and urban areas, as the Government signalled plans for a walking and cycling ‘revolution’
The proposed improvements include places such as Burnley, Wigan, Sheffield, Bradford, Birmingham, Leicester and London. We are seeking to secure a combination of government and local authority funding for the schemes.
Sep 11, 2020
A cyclist found guilty of breaching Hemel Hempstead’s town centre Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) has been fined a total of £563 for cycling through two car parks.
Councillor Julie Banks commented: “This prosecution sends a clear message that breaching the town centre PSPO will not be tolerated and that enforcement action will be taken where necessary.”
Mark Sutton3 September, 2020
A new study on the behavioural habits of new electric bike riders has concluded that increasingly they leave the car at home as time goes on.
The finding is attributed in part to people discovering that a motor-driven tailwind will take them further than they perhaps previously could have gone by bicycle. In fact, the researchers discovered that electric bike riders were averaging 340% longer journeys in a day, but also seemingly taking more journeys.
Philip OltermannMon 24 Aug 2020 14.45 BST
A coronavirus-related drop in traffic and new protected bike lanes have failed to make Berlin’s roads safer for cyclists, as the German capital reports a four-year record in fatalities.
A woman run over by a right-turning articulated lorry in the district of Reinickendorf on Friday became Berlin’s 14th official cycling fatality of 2020 – more than twice as many as the six recorded in 2019.
The prospect of less congested roads due to more people working from home had initially spurred hopes that the global pandemic could permanently change the infrastructure of cities – and make them more friendly for those commuting by bike.
Low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) have been around for decades, but local authorities are currently using emergency active travel funding from the government to roll out a great many more. The fact that these schemes are all at different stages of development means it’s quite hard to get a sense of exactly how common they are, but one man has made an attempt to document every LTN currently proposed.
They are the hulking cars that have conquered the world. Spreading from the heartlands of the US to a new generation of eager buyers in China to dominate even the twisting, narrow streets of Europe, the sports utility vehicle, or SUV, has bludgeoned its way to automobile supremacy with a heady mix of convenience and marketing muscle.
Fearing red signs sent the wrong message, one resident created an alternative – and councils are taking note
Claire Hamlett Thu 3 Sep 2020
An alternative road sign is being adopted by communities around England to promote the benefits of low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTN).
Finding that the official signs on the temporary barriers installed in her own LTN in Brixton, London, conveyed the wrong message, Sarah Berry and other local residentsdesigned a green sign reading “road open to” with icons showing pedestrians, a scooter user, a wheelchair user and a bicycle.
Jon HenleyThu 3 Sep 2020 14.51Billed by the economy minister, Bruno Le Maire, as a “big green recovery plan”, one-third of France’s major €100bn (£90bn) post-Covid economic stimulus package will be spent, in the government’s words, on “ecological transition” and “greening the economy”.
Another impressive piece of exceptional cycling infrastructure was opened in The Hague.
