How Can CyclingTransform Cities Across Portugal? city Conference
How Cycling Can Transform Cities Across Portugal?
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Doctors and nurses urge Sadiq Khan to press ahead with road safety changes | Evening Standard
Doctors and nurses urge Sadiq Khan to press ahead with road safety changes
22,500sq m of extra pavement space reallocated to pedestriansand 1,400 new cycle parking spaces have been added.
In addition, a 20mph speed limit – already in place in the congestion charge zone since March – was introduced on Edgware Road, Park Lane and Hampstead Road.
Today’s letter to the Mayor raises concerns about growing traffic levels in London and states: “Supporting people to walk and cycle with Streetspace is the best chance we have to arrest this rise and avoid a damaging car-based recovery that could set London back many years in progress on active and sustainable transport, road danger reduction and clean air.”
Hit and run driver jailed for killing Aldenham cyclist – BBC News
BBC News1 day ago
Cyclist Nicholas Keeler was a former semi-professional golfer and a keen environmentalist
A hit and run driver who killed a cyclist after he had been drinking and taking cocaine has been jailed.
Nicholas Keeler, 45, was cycling home after work on Radlett Road, Aldenham, Hertfordshire, when he was struck at about 00:40 GMT on 11th February 2018.
He was left to die in the road by Stephen Allitt, 44, of Mountfield Road, Finchley, London, a court heard.
Allitt pleaded guilty to causing death by careless driving at St Albans Crown Court and was jailed for 32 months.
Mr Keeler’s mother Monique said: “The thought he was left dying at the side of the road will always haunt me.”
Driver fiddling with mobile when he ran over cyclist threw phone away to try and hide evidence | road.cc
Geraint Coombes was jailed for 27 months following crash that left cyclist Edward Taylor seriously injured
A driver who was fiddling with an app on his mobile phone when he ran over a cyclist, causing him serious injuries, threw his phone away immediately after the crash in a bid to hide evidence, a court has heard.
The cyclist, Edward Taylor, sustained a fractured pelvis, right elbow and left wrist and four broken ribs when Geraint Coombes hit him in his Land Rover Discovery Sport on the A469 at Llanbradach on 3 August last year, reports the South Wales Argus.
Privately-owned cars should be BANNED from London by 2030, says pro-Corbyn think tank | This is Money –– AUGUST 2019: Revival needed? SE)
By Rob Hull 2 August 2019
Private ownership of cars should be banned in London by 2030 in an effort to tackle the capital’s air pollution crisis, a new report has boldly claimed.
The published paper – uncompromisingly titled Away with All Cars – has been released by a think tank of academics supporting Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn with the help of environmental campaigners Greenpeace UK.
Common Wealth, which has former Labour leader Ed Miliband on its advisory board, called for Transport for London to introduce its own car hailing service, provide free tube travel and offer e-scooters around the city in an effort to drag down the capital’s ever-increasing carbon emissions.
Away with All Cars: A think tank says all private cars should be banned from London in 2030 to tackle the city’s air pollution crisis
The group – founded by influential left-wing Labour figure Mathew Lawrence – was formed in April to set out plans for ‘ownership models’ for a more sustainable future economy.
It wants to see the nationalisation of utility companies and a wider use of co-operatives and more public involvement in ownership models, including in the area of transport.
In its new report released this week it said: ‘The privatisation of public transport in the UK has had widespread negative impacts on human welfare and social justice.
‘But these are dwarfed by what may prove to have been the most profoundly damaging privatisation project of all time: the relentless subjugation of the public realm to the exigencies of the private motor car.’
The think tank pulled no punches in its criticism of the government’s Road to Zero strategy, which has set a deadline for a ban on the sale of all new petrol and diesel cars in Britain by 2040 to push more towards low-emissions hybrid and electric vehicles.
‘To get onto an emissions pathway consistent with our commitments under the Paris Agreement, it is estimated that the UK will need to see a reduction in overall traffic volumes of between 20 per cent and 60 per cent by 2030, depending on how fast we can switch to EVs. That is a lot of traffic to lose,’ it warned.
‘Yet the DfT’s Road to Zero strategy for decarbonising transport contains no measures to reduce traffic growth.’
Ideas with beers 27.10.20 – Speakers: Dr Robert Davis (RDRF) weekly update The Ranty Highwayman – The Joy of Kerbs
Weekly session discussing topics in transport (particularly walking, cycling and decarbonisation). Takes the form of an informal chat down the pub so people can share ideas and come up with plans together. Held every Tuesday at 5pm UK time on zoom. Email ideaswithbeers@gmail.com for the link. Speakers: Dr Robert Davis (RDRF) weekly update 0:00, The Ranty Highwayman (?) The Joy of Kerbs 22:50
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Rob Newman’s Half-Full Philosophy Hour – Rob Newman – What Is A City For? – BBC Sounds (Recommended SE)
Rob dices with death on the school run, sets up a Slow Travel rail franchise, and offers a bonanza of future-proofing pollution solutions. Written by Rob Newman Performed by Rob Newman, with Rachel Austin Produced by Jon Harvey A Naked production for BBC Radio 4
Drive less or face post-lockdown gridlock, UK transport experts warn | The Guardian
Campaigners urge more walking and cycling schemes despite opposition from ‘vocal minority’
Peter WalkerSat 31 Oct 2020 00.01 GMT
Many Britons will have to get used to driving less if the country is to avoid gridlock on the roads once coronavirus restrictions ease, and councils must provide better routes for cycling and walking, transport experts say.
Government statistics show motor traffic is almost back at pre-lockdown levels, and only 59% of employees have returned to their workplaces. One study predicts that with health concerns reducing the use of public transport, up to 2.7 million more people could end up using cars for commuting trips alone.
Cyclists are not the bad guys – Financial Times
Henry Mance 30/10/20
4-5 minutes
Apple founder Steve Jobs once wanted to call the Macintosh computer “the Bicycle”. He was that amazed by the two-wheelers’ efficiency. He was right: bikes are incredible machines. You can cycle five miles expending as much energy as it would take you to walk one.
Diary of a New Cyclist Part 6 — An Open Letter to the Drivers Who Put Me in Danger Today | by Sarah Berry | Oct, 2020 | Medium
excerptstartSarah Berry Hey, it’s me.Do you remember?Maybe you don’t.I’m the girl you overtook so closely in Wimbledon that I could have tapped on your window if I was brave enough to let go of my handlebars.I’m the girl you veered into the kerb as you rushed to overtake me on that roundabout in Balham.And the… [Read More]
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