PCSOs did not get out of car and spent less than 10 minutes looking for Jacqueline Parsons after she crashed while riding through a cemetery in Hull
The family of a cyclist who froze to death after police were alerted to the fact she had fallen off her bike but did not get out of their car to look for her have won compensation from Humberside Police.
Two PCSOs from the force stopped searching for Jacqueline Parsons after less than 10 minutes despite a call being received to tell police that she was in distress.
Ms Parsons, aged 56, had fallen from her bike as she rode through Western Cemetery in Hull, East Yorkshire in October 2018.
Visualisation tool allows residents to transform their streets – transportxtra
Deniz Huseyin25 May 2022
New software has been developed that allows anyone from professionals to local residents to swiftly create visualisations of how they think streets could look. Users can drag and drop a range of features – including street surfacing, kerb build-outs, trees, rain gardens, bollards, bike racks and hangars – onto an image of a street. Features are set to the correct scale to give an accurate representation of how they would look in reality.
The BetaStreets computer-generated image (CGI) design and visualisation tool is the brainchild of Jon Little and Andy Heather. They believe the tool will allow visualisation to be used more often and make design more open and inclusive, with local people able to interact with scheme developers earlier in the process.
Andy Heather is a visualisation specialist while Jon Little is specialist in active travel, liveable streets, shared and combined mobility, and the author of Waltham Forest’s successful Mini-Holland bid, which paved the way for the transformation of streets in the London borough.
Photo evidence from public key to behaviour change, says traffic officer – Transport Xtra
Deniz Huseyin 25 May 2022
A scheme that involves people in the West Midlands sending the police photos of dangerously and thoughtlessly parked cars will change driver behaviour, predicts traffic officer PC Mark Hodson.
Operation Park Safe has resulted in “thousands” of fixed penalty notices being issued to motorists since its launch in 2018, said Hodson, who has for many years been pioneering road safety initiatives.
The scheme has also resulted in the removal of hundreds of dangerously parked vehicles, some of which were stolen or cloned, reports Hodson.
He has trained PCSOs across the West Midlands on how to handle third-party reports. “I’ve shown PCSOs what evidence is needed to prosecute various traffic offences – the types of photos and what needs to be included in the reports,” said Hodson.
“If you ask people about policing priorities they say: parking, speeding, littering and dog poo. These come above robberies and anti-social behaviour. Pavement and obstructive parking impact on people’s lives, especially those who are mobility or sight impaired.”
Bikes4ukraine Crowdfunds To Send Bicycles And Pop-Up Cycleways To Car-Choked Lviv – forbes.com
Carlton Reid
Danish-Canadian urbanist Mikael Colville-Andersen—presenter of the Canadian TV series Life-sized City—is behind an initiative to bring bicycles and pop-up cycle infrastructure to the Ukrainian city of Lviv, 50 miles from the Polish border.
As Russia’s invasion forces continue to bombard the east of Ukraine the western city of Lviv has become home to 200,000 Ukrainians fleeing the war. Many of these internal refugees arrived in Lviv by car, an influx which has continued to grid-lock the city. Public transport has also been overwhelmed.
Bicycling could be the answer. Lviv’s transport department contacted Colville-Andersen to ask his advice on boosting bicycling in the city. Based in Copenhagen, Denmark, Colville-Andersen—the Anthony Bourdain of urbanism—has worked on cycle initiatives in cities across the world.
Peter Kalmus: ‘As a species, we’re on autopilot, not making the right decisions’ | Climate crisis | The Guardian
Active Travel – The Art of the Possible – Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (YouTube)
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Liverpool City Region Walking and Cycling Commissioner Simon O’Brien looks at the possibilities around Active Travel.
Quote of the month: “It’s not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot…” – Twitter – marksuttonbike
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Quote of the month: “It’s not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it’s the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you’re going to put them.” Miguel Anxo, Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain.
Stonehenge scheme re-appraisal badly flawed, says Goodwin – transportxtra.com
Peter Stonham 18 May 2022
Phil Goodwin – National Highways’ continued promotion of a new two-lane dual carriageway with a tunnel on the A303 in Wiltshire – the “A303 Stonehenge Scheme” – does not stand up to new Govt objectives for net zero by continuing to reflect expanding road provision to match forecast increases in road traffic, Professor Phil Goodwin argues in his latest column for LTT.
The scheme was approved by the Sec of State for Transport in 2020 and, despite that decision being overturned in a High Court challenge by objectors in 2021, he decided to ‘redetermine’ National Highways’ application, and National Highways’ updated case for doing so was published in April (https://bit.ly/3yxxk9F).
Following an Examination in Public in 2019, the planning inspectors recommended rejection of the scheme, because of the serious and irreversible damage it would do to the Heritage Site.
This is just incredible. The level of law-breaking among British drivers is off the scale. 23,500 *before it was switched on – Jeremy Vine – Twitter
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This is just incredible.
E-cycling made E-asy with loans in five locations
Cycling made E-asy will provide free short- and long-term loans of e-cycles and adaptive e-cycles, giving communities in five target locations in England the opportunity to experience the benefits of e-cycles, dispelling myths and creating the environment where cycling is a natural first choice for short journeys