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Hammersmith Safer Cycle Pathway Festive Celebration Family Ride Tickets, Sat, Dec 18, 2021 at 11:00 AM | Eventbrite

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Join other locals and families to welcome the new bike lane. We will ride from Lyric Square to Kew Bridge and back. Joining with Hounslow Cycling, we are supporting W6 Safe Cycling Families.

Easy pace, suitable for children. Anticipated duration is about an hour and a half. Meet 10:45am for 11am departure.
This ride is supported by Hammersmith & Fulham Cycling which is part of the London Cycling Campaign.

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Government urged to act on pavement parking – transportxtra

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Cycling and walking organisations write public letter to transport secretary
Mark Moran 26 November 2021
Research commissioned by Living Streets, found that 87% of parents with children aged 4 to 11 have had to step into the road because of vehicles parked on the pavement
Living Streets calls on the government to issue its response to the Pavement Parking in England consultation, which closed over a year ago.
In a letter to Grant Shapps MP, the charity says the government “has an opportunity now to achieve progress on this longstanding problem – doing nothing is not an option”.
The letter is supported by the Walking and Cycling Alliance (WACA) comprising Bicycle Association, British Cycling, Cycling UK, Ramblers and Sustrans. Other signatories…

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TfL slammed for “victim-blaming” road safety ad (+ video) – road.cc

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Spot which suggests drivers and cyclists share equal responsibility described as “crass, old fashioned ‘false equivalence’ nonsense.”
by Simon Macmichael Nov 25, 2021
Transport for London (TfL) has been slammed on social media for an advert launched during Road Safety Week earlier this month, with Twitter users accusing it of “victim blaming” and promoting “false equivalence” by suggesting that all road users share the same responsibility for ensuring the safety of others.
The integrated campaign, entitled ‘See their Side’ and which will run “for a number of years,” aims to change the culture of road users and contribute towards Mayor of London Sadiq Khan’s Vision Zero goal of having zero deaths and serious injuries on the capital’s roads by 2041.
It includes the above 60-second film that is currently airing on TV and which, according to the agency VCCP London, which drew up the campaign, “directly tackles the tribal culture which currently dominates London’s roads.”

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2018) BMW drivers named most dangerous on UK roads – Go Compare

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New research from GoCompare Car Insurance reveals BMW drivers are the most likely to speed, run a red light or make an at fault claim.
17 December 2018
Go Compare Car Insurance has found that BMW drivers are the most likely to be convicted of an offence and cause a collision on the road.
More than one in six BMW 4 series drivers (17.1%) have at least one conviction – more than double the average across all models (8.5%), while one in five (21.3%) BMW 4 series drivers have also made an at-fault claim.
The research shows that overall, those driving luxury car brands are the most likely to cause a collision or be convicted of an offence on the road.
Along with BMW drivers, Audi A5 (15.5%), Mercedes Benz C220 (14.8%), Mercedes Benz E220 (14.8%), Jaguar XF (14.3%), Mercedes Benz CLA (14.3%) and Mercedes Benz GLC (14.0%) all feature in the top-ten car models whose drivers are most likely to be convicted of an offence on the road.

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Strava Metro update gongs Manchester as UK’s per capita cycling capital – Cycle Industry News

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Mark Sutton 19 November, 2021

New data released by Strava’s commuter focused Metro platform has placed Manchester as the UK’s per capita leader on cycling in the UK.
Efforts to make cycling more friendly in the northern city have been spearheaded by Transport Commissioner and former Olympian Chris Boardman and arteries with safe infrastructure appeared frequently in datasets. Oxford Road, Manchester Road and the Bridgewater Canal were most used.
Chris Boardman said: “It’s fantastic to see Greater Manchester leading the way on the number of commuters who chose to travel by bike and that’s before we have wide scale provision of connected routes. It’s no coincidence that the current number one route is Oxford Road which is where we have quality, segregated lanes in place. The appetite is clearly there to ride when it feels safe.

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‘Every tree counts’: Dutch come up with cunning way to create forests for free | Trees and forests | The Guardian

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More Trees Now aims to give away 1m unwanted saplings to farmers and councils with hope idea will spread across Europe

Senay Boztas

In a clearing in the Amsterdamse Bos, a forest on the outskirts of the Dutch capital, is a “tree hub” where hundreds of saplings, among them hazelnut, sweet cherry, field maple, beech, chestnut and ash, are organised by type.
The idea behind it is simple: every day unwanted tree saplings were being cleared and thrown away when those young trees could be carefully collected and transplanted to where they are wanted.
Volunteers have already collected thousands of saplings cleared from woodland paths and those unlikely to survive in the forest shade. On Saturday, on donate a seedling day, people will be encouraged to take unwanted saplings or cuttings from their own gardens and give them to 200 tree hub locations across the Netherlands.
This winter, Meer Bomen Nu (More Trees Now) aims to give away 1m young trees to farmers, councils and landowners. The small Dutch foundation hopes this circular practice will become commonplace across northern Europe.

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Motoring is at war with life on Earth – John Dales

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Despite all the evidence linking cars to climate change, many in the UK appear reluctant to change their driving habits, writes John Dales. Reflecting on COP26’s ‘Transport Day’ discussions, he warns that our failure to drive less is an act of self-harm

This was written in Glasgow, on what was ‘Transport Day’ at the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26). From many people, with many different perspectives, there’s been a pretty good deal of eye-rolling, frustration and indeed anger about the COP26 proceedings. However, there is, in my view, and to steal a turn of phrase from Oscar Wilde, only one thing in the world worse than talking about climate change, and that is not talking about climate change.

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Transport for a flourishing Future with John Whitelegg – accidentalgods.life

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55-69 minutes

Manda: My guest this week is a huge help on that path. I haven’t had so much fun recording a podcast for a very long time. Dr John Whitelegg has been, amongst other things, visiting professor of sustainable transport at Liverpool, Professor of Sustainable Development at York’s Stockholm Environment Institute. And he is currently a fellow in transport and climate change at the Foundation for Integrated Transport. He’s written massive numbers of papers and books, including a small book called Mobility, which is available on Amazon. He’s one of the most articulate individuals I have ever met on the subject of how we get about; how we do it now, how we do it wrong and how we do it right.

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