@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

:excerptstartThe risks are compounding, and without immediate action the impacts will be devastating. Research paper 14 September 2021 Summary •If policy ambition, low-carbon technology deployment and investment follow current trends, 2.7°C of warming by the end of this century is likely, relative to pre-industrial temperatures. A plausible worst case of 3.5°C is possible (10% chance). These projections assume Paris Agreement signatories meet their NDCs. If they fail… [Read More]

Phil Goodwin points to new data that exposes the ‘absurdities’ of treating the carbon impact of the road programme, and its individual schemes, as trivially insignificant
16 December 2021
It was a pleasure to visit the Smart Transport conference last week, to give a talk with the challenging title of ‘The cost of achieving net zero’. I was one of three speakers in the opening ‘plenary’ slot, sharing the platform with transport minister Trudy Harrison, who gave an enthusiastic speech mainly focused on cycling, and Lord Deben, conservative member of the House of Lords and Chair of CCC, the Climate Change Committee, who gave a speech marked by its simple, direct, comprehensible honesty about how humanity has created the conditions for a future which will proceed under higher global temperatures than have ever experienced during human history.