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Ryan Mallon Sat, Jan 08, 2022 
Police crack down on illegal parking in new experimental bike lane on Kingsley Road
Police in Liverpool have cracked down on motorists illegally obstructing cycle lanes after a complaint was made about a car which had been parked in one of the lanes on the Kingsley Road for days.
Responding to the complaint, Merseyside Police’s Roads Policing Unit visited the area in Toxteth and issued a number of tickets for “causing an unnecessary obstruction”.

Dan Alexander Fri, Jan 07, 2022
The European Commission has proposed an overhaul of urban infrastructure which would prioritise cycling and walking to aid the EU’s net-zero goal by 2050. 
The significance of the plans was summed up by the European Cyclists’ Federation, which said it is “the first time in history” the Commission has prioritised investment in active travel as the “backbone of urban mobility”.
Although still to pass, if approved the Efficient and Green Mobility package would require the 424 largest cities in the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) to form sustainable urban mobility plans based around active travel by 2025.

As global warming threatens the future of our society, Jo Fidgen tackles the ways in which ordinary people can make a difference.
We’re often told that we could help the environment by driving less, eating less meat, or using less water.
But in the face of a challenge as significant as global warming, how big a difference can small changes really make? And what would the world look like if we took those solutions to their logical extremes?
Cars are one of the climate’s biggest problems, from burning petrol to the carbon cost of manufacture. But they’ve also revolutionised how we get around and embedded themselves in the way our cities and societies are designed. Can people really be convinced to cut down their time behind the wheel?
Producer: Robert Nicholson
A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4

@grescoe
Fietsen door de Bomen, “Cycling through the trees,” a corkscrewing bike path that takes you up to the treetops in a park in Limburg, #Belgium 

Mark Sutton4 January, 2022
A growth in spend on cycling initiatives in Europe has naturally stimulated active transport, but alongside this new data shows utility cycling continues to be a key beneficiary, prompting fast growth in cargo bike sales.

Sami Grover
Shane Topley rented an e-bike during lockdowns as a way to help clean up the city’s air.
Treehugger design editor Lloyd Alter looked at the long history of using cargo bikes for business and asked an interesting and critically pertinent question: “I wonder what combination of difficult parking, high fuel prices, and congestion charges would make this way of doing business viable again.” It’s just possible the answer to that question may simply be “whatever they are doing in London,” because cargo bikes in general (and e-bikes in particular) are becoming ever more commonplace on the streets of the United Kingdom capital.
And then there’s the story of West London plumber Shane Topley, who rented an e-bike during the COVID lockdowns as a way to help clean up the city’s air. His story, first shared by Transport for London (TFL), spotlights how many businesses can embrace e-bikes. 

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SUVs are polluting, tacky, and more likely to result in a fatal collision than any other kind of car. So why do rich people like them so much? Ash Sarkar goes to Kensington and Chelsea – home to more SUVs than any other part of the country – to find out whether posh people can be convinced to give up their gas guzzlers for a cleaner, greener planet.

Joost de Kruijf 17/06/21

Peter Walker

@RoadsXR
You can say that again “Any relapse or stasis in #emissions reduction policies could lead to a plausible worst case of 7°C of warming by the end of the century (10% chance)” http://chathamhouse.org