Frustrated drivers who use short cuts off the main roads during rush hours are increasing journey times for everybody else, researchers have found. And they suggest that persuading drivers to give up their short cuts could cut time wasted in congestion for other drivers by almost a third.
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to tell overweight Britons they need to increase their activity levels to better fight against infection from the novel coronavirus. Being obese or overweight puts people at greater risk of serious illness or death from COVID-19, experts have said this week. Cycling to work is a key way of losing weight and changing sedentary lifestyles, Johnson will advise on Monday.
Residents will get powers to banish through-traffic from local streets and councils will be prevented from building substandard cycle lanes under what Downing Street has billed as a revolution for cycling and walking in England.
Government is committing more than £100 billion to the HS2, project, which involves the destruction of large areas of ancient woodland, and which function as a carbon sink, extracting carbon from the atmosphere; along with £27.4 billion to a 5-year road building programme…
23 July, 2020. New research by YouGov is illustrating the strength of the motoring lobby against changing the status quo in favour of a green recovery and more infrastructure to encourage active travel.
22 July, 2020. With phase one Emergency Active Travel funding currently in circulation a recycled kerb business has come to market to help local authorities (LAs) with a flexible solution to temporary and semi-permanent cycling infrastructure.
