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Rhodri Clark
Rhodri Clark 14 February 2022
Lynn Sloman: Heading panel that is to review 55 road schemes in Wales
The Roads Review Panel set up by the Welsh Government has advised against proceeding with a second road scheme in North Wales, and revealed yesterday that it will review 55 other schemes. It will also consider a sample of new roads related to housing, health and schools projects, in order to provide general advice to the government on such roads.
A North Wales Transport Commission will be formed as a consequence of the panel’s advice that grade separation to replace two roundabouts on the…

Cities curious about the workplace parking levy should talk to Nottingham City Council, says Nigel Hallam
08 February 2022
Local authorities are currently facing the huge challenge of improving air quality and many have declared climate emergencies. The challenge is how do they raise the finance to do so? One solution is to create a workplace parking levy (WPL) scheme, which enables a local authority to raise funds that can be invested in better public transport and active travel schemes.

The green tree dominates the image’s centre, towering over a tangle of highways, which are themselves rendered in shades of dull, newsprint grey. Printed along the bottom in red is a poetic message: Und Neues Leben Blüht aus den Ruinen – “And new life blooms from the ruins.” Created in 1979, this is just one of many anti-car posters created by the German political activist and graphic designer Klaus Staeck.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/feb/14/klaus-staecks-posters-attacking-car-culture-in-pictures#img-10

James Woodcock
1. Introduction
There is international academic and policy interest in cycling. Reasons range from spatial and temporal efficiency to health, the local environment, and climate change, compared to other modes. However, cycling levels vary widely. In Western Europe, variation in cycling mode share (e.g. 2% in United Kingdom (UK) vs. 26% in the Netherlands: Buehler & Pucher, 2012b, & John Pucher (Eds.), 2012b. International overview: Cycling trends in Western Europe, North America, and Australia. City Cycling (MIT Press), 9–29. [Google Scholar]) indicates substantial scope for increasing levels of cycling. Such variation also exists within countries; for instance, many cities in the UK have cycle commuting rates of ∼1%, but in Cambridge this figure is 33% (Goodman & Aldred, 2018Goodman, Anna, & Rachel Aldred. 2018.

Michael Perry
Greenwich is at the Eastern edge of the bowl that forms London. It’s one of our oldest towns, is home to the Maritime Museum, the Old Royal Naval College and the Royal Observatory and thriving markets. It is a beautiful place. However, much of London’s pollution flows our way on the wind – we are, as they say, at the “arse end of the whale”. On winter mornings you can see the smog lying below the hill and across to the City. That’s the reason the West Greenwich Low Traffic Neighbourhood has been such a breath of fresh air: we no longer have traffic adding to that smog.

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David Pett Ringland 6 Feb 2022
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09 February 2022
WYCA’s ‘maximum ambition pathway’ estimates an 83% reduction in emissions could be achieved in West Yorkshire by 2038
The West Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA) has allocated £40m from the Mayoral devolution deal to tackle the climate change. The Climate Fund, which will come mostly from WYCA’s £1.8bn devolution deal with the Government, will be used to deliver the West Yorkshire Climate and Environment Plan. This maps out how the region will meet its net zero targets by 2038. 
The plan considers a ‘maximum ambition pathway’, based on the emission reductions that could be achieved with a predominately electricity led approach to decarbonisation. This would include:

A new road tunnel in London – due to start being built within months – will be “devastating” for a local borough that is “already the most polluted” in the UK, according to campaigners. 
They urged the mayor to scrap plans for the Silvertown Tunnel, claiming it will be incompatible with targets to reduce traffic in the capital and worsen air quality.
The call came after a meeting with Seb Dance, the city’s deputy mayor for transport, on Tuesday – the anniversary of the death of nine-year-old Ella Kissi-Debrah from south London, for which air pollution was a contributing factor. 

Ross Lydall 
Residents living near one of London’s historic town centres are campaigning to save their low-traffic neighbourhood (LTN) to avoid having their homes deluged by rat-running commuters.
In an unusual twist to often vocal opposition against LTNs, people living in west Greenwich want councillors to keep the scheme in place to avoid a return to the narrow streets being used as “race tracks”.
More than a third of the 163 LTNs across the capital that were funded by Transport for London have been axed after protests from some motorists, leaving 106 in place, though 22 more schemes are in the pipeline.
Other footage shows schoolgirls having to wait more than a minute before motorists were prepared to stop at a zebra crossing to enable them to cross the road