Mark Sutton1 October, 2020The European Parliament has secured an informal deal with rail operators that will see greater provision for multi-modal travel, including cycling, as part of new developments and carriage upgrades.Developed in the spirit of aligning the railways with the Green Deal, rail companies will now need to deliver an “adequate number of bicycle carriage spaces on board their trains.”
To the best of our knowledge all *red routes* within the following boroughs are now “At Any Time”. Rolling out a change this big overnight was impressive but there’s some snagging to be done. The existing signs have been modified with stickers but it seems that some have been missed.
You can help by reporting them to us and we’ll collate and pass on to TfL.
Email your reports to LondonCyclingData@lcc.org.uk
With so much change happening both in London and beyond we’ve been getting a lot of requests for guides on campaigning, background information and evidence to support the effectiveness of walking and cycling schemes. We’re in the process of updating our website and getting all this stuff in better order but for now this is your go-to page so get it bookmarked.
• By CPManager on about 10 hours ago
Watch a recording of out October 2020 Webinar here – A national Gear Change for cycling? How the government started to take cycling seriously and why we need to crank up the pressure nowWhat a summer it has been for cycle campaigning. The pandemic has seen infrastructure been put in place to create more space for walking and cycling – especially with the introductions of emergency walking and cycling schemes across the country. One of the bigger announcement has been the Department for Transport’s Gear Change report . LCC recognised many of the policies from our campaigning work in Love London, Go Dutch and the subsequent cycling investment in London. So is this is what is going to happen across the country? Is the campaigning work done
Vulnerable road users made up three quarters of fatalities last year – with vehicle speed a factor in half of deaths on capital’s streetsTransport for London (TfL) says that efforts to target speeding drivers are being stepped up after new figures reveal that 125 people – five of them cyclists – lost their lives on the capital’s roads last year.
Besides the five cyclists who were killed last year – down from 12 in 2018 – 68 pedestrians lost their lives compared to 57 the previous year, as well as 31 motorcyclists, up 22 in the preceding 12 months.
Europe’s Cycling Revolution
Our World
Over a billion euros has been invested in cycling across Europe since the start of the pandemic. Some of the continent’s biggest cities are being transformed as people seek alternative, safer, greener ways to move around. Anna Holligan travels across Europe to see how people are getting on their bikes and asks if the surge in cycling is the start of a much bigger change in the way we travel.
One of the issues about working from home and keeping off public transport has been that cycling around to look at stuff has been that my range has been somewhat restricted and generally, positive street changes in my wider neck of the woods have been few and far between.
I did cycle into Central London at the beginning of August, but being a Saturday, having to worry about taking space up on a train coming back out wasn’t an issue and perhaps I’ll pootle in to look at something else soon.
Martin PorterLast modified on Mon 28 Sep 2020 12.02 BST
There’s a problem with how we talk about our roads. From news reports on “accidents” to who gets blamed for road danger in comment pieces, our media sources sometimes flip the sources of death and injury on their head.
Language and accuracy matter, and too often reporting contributes to making the roads less safe.
That’s why the Active Travel Academy has drafted media reporting guidelines which we hope broadcasters and publishers will adopt, just as they have adopted guidelines for reporting on suicide or domestic violence.
There is excellent reporting out there – , but there is also less thoughtful output. For example, the majority (61%) of coverage of cyclists is broadly negative, focusing on road danger, criminality or bad behaviour, although studies have shown cyclists are generally far more law-abiding than motorists.
Steven Herrick Sun 27 Sep 2020 18.30 BST
Campaigners urge city leaders across the world to see coronavirus and climate crisis as call to actionMatthew TaylorThu 24 Sep 2020 16.39 BSTOne of the first “low-traffic neighbourhoods” to be created in the UK was in Hackney, east London, in the early 1970s, when residential roads were closed to through traffic but remained open to local residents, pedestrians and cyclists.Since then, most of the borough’s other residential roads and backstreets have been given over almost completely to cars.But as the coronavirus crisis upended city life, a dramatic shift has been taking place. Across the country there has been a concerted effort to prioritise cycling and walking over driving, widening pavements, closing rat runs and building hundreds of miles of new cycle lanes
