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Campaigners succeed in judicial review of decision to allow rat-running motorists to drive through Poole’s Keyhole Bridge

Simon Macmichael Nov 8, 2021

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) council has been ordered by a High Court judge to reopen a consultation into its decision in March to allow motorists to once again drive through Keyhole Bridge in Poole, which had been made a safe route for cyclists and pedestrians when motor traffic was banned there in August last year.
The application was made by local campaigners the Keyhole Bridge Group, who crowdfunded more than £12,500 for the challenge – although the council has now also been ordered to pay the group’s legal costs.

Petition update 15 Nov 2021
At the end of July, the Government put National Highways’ infilling and demolition of legacy rail structures on hold following the controversy caused by its unwarranted actions at Great Musgrave in Cumbria where a delightful masonry arched bridge – with a handful of minor defects – was opportunistically buried in pursuit of the company’s policy of liability reduction. The structure was needed for the reconnection of two heritage railways, neither of which was consulted about the scheme.

:excerptstartCampaigners are pushing for a redundant 2½-mile stretch of dual carriageway in Essex to become a country park with cycling facilities James TapperThere has been traffic here for millennia, from the Roman legionaries who marched from Londinium to Camulodunum to the speedsters who now reportedly race against police cars at night. But part of the A12 in north-east

Carlton Reid iNov 6, 2021

Sarah  @SarahJ_BerryInstead of urban motorways we could have this. It’s an absolute no brainer.(TikTok handle: travelwithanya)link to original article

Extinction Rebellion activists outside the DfTprotest against new road schemes
Ben Webster  November 11 2021
The government secretly sought advice on how to minimise “the chilling effect on road-building” of the need to cut emissions the day before announcing its transport decarbonisation plan.
The request was revealed in documents obtained by campaigners bringing a new legal challenge to try to block 20 major road schemes.
They argue that the government’s £27 billion road building programme is inconsistent with the government’s transport decarbonisation plan because the new roads will increase traffic emissions and make people more dependent on cars.
The schemes include widening the A66 across the Pennines, the A1 in Northumberland, the A12 and A120 in Essex, the A417 between Gloucester and Cirencester, putting the A303 in a tunnel at Stonehenge, and a new crossing of the Thames between Kent and Essex.
Grant Shapps, the transport secretary, published a transport decarbonisation plan on July 14, which he said would deliver “a step change in the breadth and scale of our ambition to reduce transport’s GHG [greenhouse gas] emissions to reach net zero”.
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Over 100 million car and taxi trips in the UK’s seven city regions could instead be completed on e-bikes if the Government is able to meet its cycling target, according to a new report by consultants Steer for the Urban Transport Group (UTG).The Fully Charged report – which was commissioned by the Urban Transport Group representing the UK’s

@carltonreidCOP26’s final document crap and weak? Obviously. Remember this was a save-the-Earth summit that platformed car executives instead of walk/bike/train org folks:link to original article

huck @HUCKmagazine
NEW: activists have deflated the [tyres] of around 60 4X4s in a Glasgow’s west end in protest at the cars high levels of emissions. according to the International Energy Agency SUVS were the 2nd largest contributor to the increase in global carbon emissions after power 2010-2018