Hundreds of cyclists poured into the streets of central London tonight to demand safer roads, after a 39-year-old woman became the eighth to die at on or near a notorious junction.
Cyclist Shatha Ali died at the scene following a collision with an lorry at the gyratory outside Holborn Station on Tuesday morning.
The lawyer died at the scene in High Holborn on Tuesday morning.
Sadiq Khan plans to extend £12.50 ULEZ charge to whole of Greater London – independent.co.uk
The Mayor of London has announced plans to extend the city’s Ultra-Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) to the whole of Greater London.
Sadiq Khan said in a speech on Friday that the policy would help tackle the “triple challenge” of air pollution, the climate emergency, and congestion.
Under the plans, from next year motorists in vehicles that do not meet emissions standards would have to pay £12.50 a day to drive in Greater London.
The policy already extends to the capital’s north and south circular roads, taking in inner London.
Police search for motorist who knocked 10-year-old girl from bike before driving off “at speed” – road.cc
The girl, who was cycling with her family at the time, suffered cuts and bruises and her bike was damaged in the incident
Police in Bristol carried out house-to-house enquiries after a 10-year-old suffered bruises and grazes in an alleged hit-and-run incident while cycling with her family last month.
The family were riding their bikes in a 20mph zone on Bristol’s Hartcliffe Road, at the junction with Instow Road and Bideford Crescent, on Tuesday 1 February at around 8pm, reports BristolLive
According to Avon and Somerset Police, a motorist struck the girl with their car, knocking her off her bike. She suffered grazing and bruising in the incident, and her bike was damaged.
Highway Widening Chief Abdollah Ansari Has Left Metro – la.streetsblog.org
By Joe Linton
Abdollah Ansari, Metro’s Senior Executive Officer for Construction and Engineering, abruptly left Metro last week. Ansari was the head of Metro Highway Program. In recent years, Ansari was one of the agency’s most rigidly pro-freeway and pro-car-capacity leaders.
Streetsblog made inquiries to Metro regarding Ansari five days ago, but has yet to receive the statement that a Metro spokesperson said was forthcoming. If any further information is received, this post will be updated.
In recent years, Ansari’s steadfast commitment to widening freeways/ramps/roads set up clashes with environmentalists, public commenters, cities, Councils of Governments, Caltrans, the federal Environmental Protection Agency, and some Metro boardmembers.
Notably, during the board’s discussion on suspending the 710 Freeway widening last May, Ansari clashed with L.A. County Supervisor (and now Metro Board Chair) Hilda Solis
The man challenging anti-cycling trolls to change their ways | Cycling | The Guardian
Andrew Tierney is part of a new breed of cycling activists tackling a rise in online abuse head-on
Carlton Reid
“If someone deletes their comment, that’s success for me,” says Andrew Tierney. “Hopefully, that person will think about what they’re saying in the future.”
Tierney, who goes by the name @cybergibbons online, is part of a new breed of cycling activists. After noticing an increase in the amount of abuse and violent threats on social media directed at people who ride bikes, Tierney decided to take action. He started calling out the posters online, with the result that many deleted their comments or even their accounts.
“If someone says something racist [online], on the whole, people will challenge those views,” he says. “It should be the same for threats made against cyclists; challenge those who make these statements.”
There has been a noticeable increase in virtual threats against cyclists since the Highway Code changes and clarifications have been in the news, Tierney believes, and he has started responding to the most serious ones.
“It was on TikTok that I suddenly thought: ‘Wow, people think it’s socially acceptable to make [comments about harming cyclists]’,” he says. “A user made a comment about harming cyclists if they saw them adhering to one of the new Highway Code rules, and it got lots of likes.”
Ship carrying luxury cars sinks near Azores Islands after burning for weeks – theguardian
Authorities fear that thousands of tons of fuel carried onboard could leak and pollute the ocean
The merchant ship Felicity Ace was carrying cars worth millions of dollars as well as thousands of tons of fuel and oil. Photograph: Staff and agencies in Lisbon 2/3/22
An abandoned ship carrying an estimated $401m (£295m) worth of cars, including Porsche, Audi, Bentley and Lamborghini models, has sunk nearly two weeks after a fire broke out onboard.
The Felicity Ace sank on Tuesday about 400 kilometers (250 miles) off Portugal’s Azores Islands as it was being towed, MOL Ship Management in Singapore said in a statement. A salvage team had put out the fire which had burned for days, fueled by lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles onboard.
Coventry’s protected cycleways to deliver safe routes across the city –
Andy Street, mayor of the West Midlands, Adam Tranter,
Work has started on a 6km segregated cycleway in Coventry, which will connect the city centre to University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire.
The West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) board approved £8.6m to fund the new Binley Cycleway.
Coventry City Council and Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) will oversee development of the cycleway, due to be completed by March 2023. It will form part of a wider 10km East-West connection, linking with the Coundon Cycleway, which is…
“White lines do not work”: Oxford campaigners call for urgent action after cyclist is killed at notorious junction – road.cc
A man has been charged with causing death by careless driving after a woman in her 30s died following a collision involving a lorry at The Plain roundabout
Ryan Mallon 3/3/22
The First Step Toward Saving the Planet Is Ignoring the Economists – rollingstone.com
The U.N.’s latest climate report shows that we don’t know how expensive the climate crisis will be, which means cost-benefit analyses weighing how to combat it are pointless
Andrew Dessler
The latest report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is stark. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres describes it as “an atlas of human suffering and a damning indictment of failed climate leadership.” If the world can’t solve this problem, there will be a lot of blame to go around, but one group in particular shouldn’t be able to skirt it: economists who have relentlessly downplayed the seriousness of climate change and overstated the costs of solving it.
The Bicycle Thieves – mattstoller.substack.com
Matt Stoller
In 1817, German Baron Karl von Drais introduced a two wheeled machine called the Dandy Horse to the world. The Dandy Horse had no pedals or gears, but it was the first of what would eventually become known as the bicycle. Eventually engineers and tinkerers added modern tires, brakes, drivetrains, and so forth, improving comfort, feel, and speed. There were two ‘bicycle crazes’ in the 19th century alone, and mass production began in the 1860s. The bike industry, in other words, is very old.
Today there are a billion bikes worldwide, and in some cities, biking is a key part of taking cars off the road, improving traffic and reducing pollution.
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