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Devon cameras catch 3,000 speeders on one road in three weeks – BBC News

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19 November 2021 PA Media

Once the road works are complete, average speed enforcement cameras will be installed

More than 3,000 motorists have been caught speeding on one road in a three-week period, say police.
The drivers have been spotted on the A361 North Devon Link Road near Barnstaple, which has had a temporary 40mph limit for roadworks since February 2021.
The numbers were “simply unacceptable”, said Devon and Cornwall Police.

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I now realise that I’ve protected myself all these years by intellectualising the problem. But as governments keep failing, I can’t keep stifling the sense of loss. – George Monbiot

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There is a point beyond which our grief about the gathering collapse of Earth systems can no longer be suppressed. I now realise that I’ve protected myself all these years by intellectualising the problem. But as governments keep failing, I can’t keep stifling the sense of loss.
@GeorgeMonbiot

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Tourists’ cars may be banned from most popular parts of Lake District – the guardian

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Helen Pidd 14/11/21
For most of the years he explored his beloved Lakeland fells, Alfred Wainwright arrived by bus, carefully timing his descents so he never missed the last service back to Kendal.
Thirty years after his death, more than 90% of the Lake District’s 19 million annual visitors arrive by car, seeking – perhaps ironically – the unspoiled views, clean air and stunning scenery Wainwright extolled in his Pictorial Guides.
Now, in a move that might prompt a smile from the curmudgeonly AW beyond the grave, tourist cars could be banned from some of the most popular parts of the Lake and Peak Districts next summer as they struggle with surging de

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Gender on the Agenda: the gap between planners, public transport, public space and the needs and experiences of women

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Natalie Draisin, Chair and moderator for the third Gender on the Agenda session, is Director, North American Office and United Nations Representative for the FIA Foundation. Along with expert UK-based speakers, this next session will explore practical approaches to making public spaces and transport systems welcoming to all…
Juliana O’Rourke
16 November 2021

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The moral case for destroying fossil fuel infrastructure | Andreas Malm | The Guardian

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The climate struggle has entered a new phase. It is marked by a search for different tactics: something that cannot be so easily ignored, a mode of action that disrupts business-as-usual for real, some way to pull the emergency brake. This search has only just begun, but the signs are there.

In Berlin, half a dozen young climate activists calling themselves ‘The Last Generation’ recently went on a hunger strike, eventually refusing liquids and becoming quite frail before calling the action off. But there are other things than our own bodies that can be shut down. In conjunction with this summer’s Ende Gelände camp against fossil gas, a group calling itself ‘Fridays for sabotage’ claimed responsibility for rupturing a piece of gas infrastructure and urged the movement to embrace this tactic: ‘There are many places of destruction, but just as many places of possible resistance.’ This followed the development of a veritable archipelago of forest occupations in Germany, some of which have damaged equipment for coal extraction.

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