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.
Did you see the damp kestrel hunched in the hawthorn by Sawyer’s Hill? – Martin Williamson – Twitter
Did you see the damp kestrel hunched in the hawthorn by Sawyer’s Hill?
Shocking footage of road rage driver repeatedly trying to ram cyclist off bike – road.cc
Police claim insufficient evidence to press for more serious prosecution — driver admits driving without due care, fined £100 and given three points
by Dan Alexander 4/3/22
On December 15th last year, road.cc reader Kionne Potter went on his usual one-hour lunchtime training loop, the footage he sent us today shows the shocking road rage attack that followed from a driver who repeatedly tried to ram the West Midlands cyclist from his bike.
The motorist involved admitted driving without due care and received three penalty points and a £100 fine after West Mercia Police downgraded the report from assault to dangerous driving, and then once more to driving without due care, saying there was insufficient evidence for a more severe prosecution.
Mind the gap: Lime reports 162% increase in e-bike rides from closed London Underground station – cyclingindustry.news
24 February, 2022 Simon Cox
A 162% increase in e-bike rides from Bank station, coupled with a 136% increase at London Bridge station: These eye widening numbers have been recorded by e-mobility provider Lime, as a direct result of London Underground’s Northern Line closure for improvement works.
For context, Transport for London (TFL) reports that, “Bank and Monument (Northern Line) stations see a combined total of more than 120 million passengers in a normal year.”
Road to bankruptcy – change.org – Stop The Wensum Link
Petition update 17 Feb 2022
Is Norfolk County Council gambling on receiving Government funding to avoid possible bankruptcy with the funding of this doomed road? This was the question arising out of yesterday’s Council’s Scrutiny Committee’s meeting.
Following the meeting Councillor Osborne posted this on Twitter:
‘Norfolk County Council have NO contingency reserve if the Norwich Western Link fails. If it fails, the cost will completely wipe out their general revenue reserves at £20million. This is huge. @NorfolkCC is gambling with Norfolk’s financial future’
“Not even close” – European cities failing on green mobility transition, says study – cyclingindustry.news
4 March, 2022 Mark Sutton
A new study from the Clean Cities Campaign has outlined just how far off the pace European cities are when it comes to meeting targets on climate-friendly mobility forms.
“No major European city is fully on track to move its citizens onto more climate-friendly forms of transport by 2030, threatening to undermine a vital component of the EU’s efforts to cut greenhouse gases,” starts the campaign in its statement.
Sustrans reports ‘huge progress’ in improving National Cycle Network – transportxtra
Deniz Huseyin 28 February 2022
More than 300 barriers have been removed or redesigned on the National Cycle Network (NCN) over the past three years, Sustrans has reported. The walking and cycling charity, which is the custodian of the UK-wide NCN, launched a strategy in late 2018 to improve the NCN.
Sustrans says it is on course to make 66% of the NCN traffic-free, adding an extra 5,000 traffic-free miles, by 2040.