The motorist was reported for driving without due care and attention for cutting up the officer, who was participating in a close pass operation in Malvern
A motorist in Malvern was reported yesterday for driving without due care and attention after committing a dangerous close pass on a bike-riding police officer.
The officer was taking part in a close pass operation in the town, targeting motorists who overtake cyclists too closely, when the driver – seemingly unaware of an oncoming lorry – decided to pass him on a bend.
The motorist then had to sharply swerve back in front of the cyclist as the lorry approached, narrowly avoiding a collision with both the HGV and the police officer.
The officer, who captured the dangerous overtake on his helmet camera, reported the motorist to court for driving without due care and attention.
West Midlands Local Transport Plan focuses on tackling climate emergency – transportxtra.com
Peter Plisner 31 January 2022
Policy
The LTP seeks to encourage more people to ride rather than drive
The board of the West Midlands Combined Authority has approved a draft of the core strategy for the region’s fifth Local Transport Plan (LTP). The document, being put together by Transport for West Midlands (TfWM), sets out the overall aims, vision and approach that will map out the development and delivery of transport policies until the end of 2041.
The plan seeks to address what it terms the ‘challenges and opportunities’ currently facing the region’s transport system. After decades of under investment, the document states, the region is beginning to turn things around. But that significant challenges remain in “tackling the defining issues of our time”, such as climate change, air quality, health issues and the recovery from the pandemic.
‘Get yourself a car, you loser… who do you think you are! – Cycling Professor – Twitter
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: Icelandic Lampoon show 2019
MEDIA RELEASE: London boroughs must take more action on parking – CPRE London
cprelondon.org.uk 10th February 2022
CPRE London is calling on London boroughs to re-assess their parking policy as they launch a new Parking Policy Benchmark Assessment Tool designed to enable boroughs to identify areas for improvement. They say most London councils are nowhere near making best use of their parking powers [1].
Alice Roberts of CPRE London said: “After a preliminary assessment of a sample of borough policies, we noticed very low ambition in using parking policy to tackle serious issues like climate change and air pollution, so we decided to try to raise the bar by creating a benchmark, which we have done in consultation with sustainable travel organisations.
Private car ownership can “represent a cost equal to housing” says research – transportxtra.com
Juliana O’Rourke
08 February 2022
Table 5: Lifetime earnings in comparison to private car ownership cost, The lifetime cost of driving a car, Ecological Economics, Volume 194, April 2022
The car is one of the most expensive household consumer goods, yet there is a limited understanding of its private (internal) and social (external) cost per vehicle-km, year, or lifetime of driving, says a new research study based in Germany.
This comes as MPs urge Government to urgently explore the options for a distance- and vehicle-type national road-pricing scheme in the UK.
2019) Protests against German car industry draw 25,000 – The Local De
15 September 2019 AFP
Between 15,000 and 25,000 people — according to estimates from the police and the organisers respectively — turned out calling for radical change, in a sign of growing impatience with the motor industry.
Diesel-fuelled cars have remained at low levels of popularity in Germany following Volkswagen’s massive “dieselgate” emissions cheating scandal of 2015.
“The motor show represents the last century,” Christoph Bautz, director of Campact, one of the campaigning group’s behind the protest, told AFP. “We want the future to belong to the bus, the trains and to bicycles — we don’t want any more.”
Two stretches of motorway were sealed off to allow thousands of the protesters to make their way to the venue on bicycles.
How Urban Highway Removal Is Changing Our Cities – lincolninst.edu
Kathleen McCormick, April 14, 2020
lincolninst.edu
With the interstate highway system in its seventh decade, the condition of many urban highways in the United States has deteriorated. Crumbling viaducts and other unsafe conditions call for an urgent fix. But rebuilding is complicated by rising construction costs, higher engineering and safety standards, scant funding, and other factors.
Angry residents on ‘rat race’ South London road demand 10mph speed limit mylondon.news
mylondon.news Robert Firth
Clapham residents living on “rat run” streets fear someone will get killed unless the speed limit is dropped to 10mph. Locals on Lynette Avenue and Klea Avenue have suffered years of nuisance from motorists who use their one lane streets as a short-cut to avoid traffic on main roads.
Drivers cut down their roads to get onto Clapham Common South Side – a main route into central London. The shortcut lets them avoid going through a congested junction with three sets of traffic lights.
Families given option to trade in car for bicycles under new pilot scheme – independent.co.uk
A city council in England is to give residents the power to trade in their family car for bicycles, under a new pilot scheme.
The programme, launched by Coventry City Council and Transport for West Midlands, is the first of its kind in the country and aims to cut air pollution by helping people travel more sustainably.
Under the scheme, which is open to people in the worst-polluted parts of Coventry, families are given a pre-loaded £3,000 cashcard if they give up their car for scrap.
Nottingham is setting a revolution in motion – transportxtra.com
The Workplace Parking Levy enables Nottingham to invest in its future economic and environmental health, says Cllr Rosemary Healy 08 February 2022
Those who know Nottingham and its history will not be surprised that it is the first city in the country to introduce a workplace parking levy (WPL), and that tackling climate change and improving air quality are central to the council’s vision.
Over many years, Nottingham City Council has taken seriously tackling climate change and improving air quality. The workplace parking levy and wider public transport policy have been central to that journey.
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