Simon MacMichael Oct 07, 2021
Hit-and-run driver who killed cyclist jailed for 12 months
Lucy Ashton left NHS worker Jennie Dowd for dead after crash in Liverpool
The Camden Branch of the London Cycling Campaign
Simon MacMichael Oct 07, 2021
Hit-and-run driver who killed cyclist jailed for 12 months
Lucy Ashton left NHS worker Jennie Dowd for dead after crash in Liverpool
Rhodri Clark05 October 2021
Sustrans Cymru has called for an active travel commissioning framework, to help local authorities overcome a shortage of skilled practitioners.
t is eight years since the Welsh Parliament passed the first legislation in the world compelling councils to plan and progressively implement walking and cycling networks. But Sustrans Cymru told a Welsh Parliament committee last month that councils still lacked the skills to deliver those networks.
:excerptstart The 1.4-mile (2.3km) Queensbury Tunnel was closed to trains in 1956 Work to stop a disused railway tunnel collapsing has finished at a cost of £7.2m, officials have said. The 1.4-mile (2.25km) Queensbury Tunnel connects Holmfield, Halifax and Queensbury, on the edge of Bradford, beneath the Pennines in West Yorkshire. National Highways said its lining… [Read More]
BBC News19 July
Three dedicated carriages for bikes are being introduced on one of Scotland’s most scenic rail routes in a scheme which ScotRail says is a UK first.
The Highland Explorer carriages will be in operation along the West Highland line from Glasgow to Oban from Monday.
They can accommodate up to 20 bikes and bulky gear including rucksacks and ski bags.
There are spaces for ordinary bikes, a limited number of tandem cycles and an e-bike charging socket.
The route takes passengers through Loch Lomond and the Trossachs to Oban.
Campaign for Better Transport @CBTransport
In 2021, Tony and Linda Dobbs cycled 1,132 miles from John o’Groats to Land’s End on their e-bikes. A keen environmentalist, 73-year old Tony decided to support Sustrans by raising money on this long distance ride. Here, he shares his story along with some great tips for fellow adventurers.
Tony and Linda Dobbs began their e-bike JOGLE journey at Dunnet Head in Scotland.How the journey began: falling in love with e-bikes
Until 2019 I did not think of myself as a ‘cyclist’.
I’d used a push bike all my life and I rode around town and sometimes beyond, but only for a few miles.
Then, my wife tried an e-bike while we were on holiday in Belgium.
Liberty Sheldon7 October, 2021
Released as part of a new strategy to promote active travel, the plans will add 270km of high quality cycleways and improved footways along main roads in Glasgow.
Councillor Anna Richardson, City Convener for Sustainability and Carbon Reduction, said: “Safety is the number one reason for people being discouraged from using active travel and in particular, cycling. The existing network is expanding and the Spaces for People project helped show the appetite for change. By creating a network of cycle lanes and associated footways that reaches into every corner of the city we will maximise the opportunity for active travel to be the first choice for everyday journeys.
4 October 2021
Richmond Council has commissioned an independent assessment to review the levels of air pollution in Richmond upon Thames since the implementation of the 20mph scheme in late 2019 and early 2020. The assessment has now shown that levels have dropped since the lower speed limit was introduced.
The assessment took place in three locations, Queens Road, St Margaret’s Road and Petersham Road, and measured nitrogen dioxide (NO2) levels before the implementation of the scheme and once the scheme had been established.
George Monbiot
There is a box labelled “climate”, in which politicians discuss the climate crisis. There is a box named “biodiversity”, in which they discuss the biodiversity crisis. There are other boxes, such as pollution, deforestation, overfishing and soil loss, gathering dust in our planet’s lost property department. But they all contain aspects of one crisis that we have divided up to make it comprehensible. The categories the human brain creates to make sense of its surroundings are not, as Immanuel Kant observed, the “thing-in-itself”. They describe artefacts of our perceptions rather than the world.
Nature recognises no such divisions. As Earth systems are assaulted by everything at once, each source of stress compounds the others.