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Rhodri Clark 14 March 2022
 The expected opening of Cardiff’s central bus station next year has prompted Cardiff Council to prepare plans to integrate transport technology systems. The draft plans acknowledge that improvements to pedestrian crossings and pavements are among the measures needed.
The new bus station, on the ground floor of a tower block, will have significantly lower capacity than its predecessor, which the council closed in 2015 to make way for property development. 

Boardman left the role in January to head newly-launched government body Active Travel England
by Dan Alexander

Britain’s most successful Paralympian Dame Sarah Storey has been appointed Greater Manchester’s new active travel commissioner.
Last week, the 17-time Paralympic gold medallist announced she would be stepping down as Sheffield’s active travel commissioner in May, and today it was revealed she will be taking the Manchester role over from Chris Boardman.
Boardman left the role in January to head the newly-launched government body Active Travel England.

By Ruth Rosas
Often we hear people talking about great walking, biking, and transit infrastructure and culture in European countries as being the best in the world. Famous bicycle boulevards and crowds of people on bikes all over the streets are what these countries are known for. Very few non-European cities, especially in Latin America, ever make the Most Bike-Friendly Cities on the Planet lists. More often than not, the images of cities in the Global South that come up in movies and TV are dirty, poorly maintained, unsafe, polluted, and overcrowded places.

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Speed cameras could be used to check tax, insurance and MOT, IAM RoadSmart reports
04 March 2022
The overwhelming majority of UK motorists support the use of safety camera technology to check for insurance, MOT and road tax offences.
Research conducted by the charity IAM RoadSmart revealed that 89% of over 2,000 motorists surveyed supported the idea of safety cameras being used to spot those who decide to flout the rules and drive illegally on public roads without the required documentation.

External interventions from national governments will be required to achieve these ambitious targets – road charging schemes and measures to increase the cost of car use for short or unnecessary journeys

Sarah Wilson
A group calling themselves The Tyre Extinguishers targeted “well-to-do” neighbourhoods and say their aim is to make it “impossible” to own a 4×4 in urban areas.
A climate activism group calling themselves The Tyre Extinguishers deflated hundreds of SUV tyres across the UK on Monday night in a protest against the polluting “killer vehicles”. 
The stunt, which the group said was the “first in a new wave of protest”, was taken to discourage the use of 4×4 cars in urban areas with the ultimate aim of making it “impossible” to own one. 

Jon Owen@anotherJon
“Motorists underestimate the full private costs of car ownership, while policymakers & planners underestimate social costs.” New research from
@StefanGossling , J. Kees & @LitmanVTPI
has calculated that the lifetime cost of a small car is about £500,000 of which society pays 41%.

Hackney Council
Traffic is down by a half on Stoke Newington Church Street, and footfall is up by 2% following the introduction of its low traffic neighbourhood (LTN) in September 2021. 
The low traffic neighbourhood consists of a 7am-7pm bus gate on Church Street, which only buses, cyclists, waste and emergency vehicles are permitted to pass through during operational times, and five 24-hour filters in the surrounding area. 
This was aimed at supporting people to walk, shop and cycle locally and tackling poor air quality in the area. 
As the LTN comes to the end of its trial period, the Council is urging people to have their say by 31 March, when it will analyse comments from residents alongside traffic, air quality and footfall monitoring data before making a decision on whether or not to make the low traffic neighbourhood permanent. 
Monitoring of other roads shows that there has also been traffic reduction in other roads in the area. Lordship Road is the biggest beneficiary of the low traffic neighbourhood: with 17,000 fewer vehicles now using the road each week – a 77% reduction.