@FrancescaBerry9
Shaking. On my way back from the school drop I’ve just been deliberately swerved at and v close passed on Kings Heath high st by a driver who said he wanted to kill me because “it’s against the law for cyclists to be on the road”.
@grantshapps and @DailyMailUK see what you do??
Street clutter: ‘If you are not disabled you don’t see it’ – .transportxtra
Street clutter, such as cars on pavements and badly placed bins and signs, clogs up pavements and makes it difficult – and dangerous – for people to get around.
Clarke and her daughter have formed a local Living Streets group after hearing about the Cut The Clutter campaign. She has been interviewed as a witness for the Welsh Government Cross Party Group as part of its active travel act review.
The Five Borough Bikeway – RPA
As described above, the vision for the Five Borough Bikeway is a fully constructed network of lanes, but if certain stretches can be developed with more short term, “quick-build” approaches (paint and bollards, parked car separation, etc.), those should be pursued in an effort to put the Bikeway on the map, but with a clear commitment and timeline for more complete construction.
New UK Transport Secretary Was Road Campaign Chief, Denied Climate Change – Forbes
Carlton Reid
Anne-Marie Trevelyan was last night appointed as the U.K.’s transport secretary in the first cabinet reshuffle of Prime Minister Liz Truss’s new administration. The former Secretary of State for International Trade tweeted that she was “thrilled” to have been appointed to her new role, adding that “transport is crucial to our lives.”
Among the emojis on her tweet, there was a train, a bicycle, and a spaceship but no pedestrian or bus.
Before entering parliament in 2015 as the MP for Berwick, Trevelyan was the campaign director for “Dual the A1 Campaign,” a lobbying group she founded in 2007.
In 2014, then PM David Cameron pledged $330m to widen parts of the A1 road between England and Scotland. However, earlier this year the plan for the road was halted subject to a new decision expected in December.
“Having campaigned and stressed to Government on the importance of this scheme for over a decade, I have no intention of stopping now,” Trevelyan said in March.
A “dual the A1” petition to parliament set up by Trevelyan in 2012 attracted just 624 signatures over six months.
£18 billion required to deliver cycling masterplan, says Boardman – Cycling Industry
Chris Boardman says England would need up to £18bn to grow cycling equitably between rural and urban areas, against a current pot of up to £3.8bn.
Active Travel England (ATE), of which Boardman is head, is tasked with meeting the target that half of all journeys in towns and cities are made by cycling and walking by 2030, and Boardman acknowledges to meet that target with the current budget they need to focus on high-yield urban routes.
While Boardman stresses his role is not as an advocate, he told a Transport Committee this morning while ATE will deliver some rural routes, he’d love to see a “more equitable approach”.
He said targeted increases in active travel to meet the 50% target would cost £9bn, while doing so equally across rural and urban areas would cost double that, adding “this is what it takes to deliver the product. And then it’s a political decision of how important you think it is”.
Cancer breakthrough is a ‘wake-up’ call on danger of air pollution | Cancer research | The Guardian
Hannah Devlin
The findings outline how fine particulates contained in car fumes “awaken” dormant mutations in lung cells and tip them into a cancerous state. The work helps explain why so many non-smokers develop lung cancer and is a “wake-up call” about the damaging impact of pollution on human health.
“The risk of lung cancer from air pollution is lower than from smoking, but we have no control over what we all breathe,” said Prof Charles Swanton of the Francis Crick Institute, who presented the findings at the European Society for Medical Oncology conference in Paris on Saturday.
“Globally, more people are exposed to unsafe levels of air pollution than to toxic chemicals in cigarette smoke, and these new data link the importance of addressing climate health to improving human health.”
Why are Tesla fanatics putting their children in the path of moving cars? | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian
I’ve been a mum for a relatively short time; I’m not exactly an expert when it comes to this whole parenting thing. Still, there is one piece of advice I can confidently dole out: don’t instruct your child to run in front of a moving vehicle so that you can win an argument with strangers on the internet. Elon Musk obsessives, I’m looking at you.
This month, a software CEO called Dan O’Dowd, who is hellbent on trying to ban Tesla’s “full self-driving” programme, launched an ad campaign claiming that if you put a Tesla in this mode it will mow down children. He based this assertion on a test he ran using a child-sized mannequin dressed in a safety vest, which came to a sticky end in the middle of a road in California.
The passing of HM The Queen – Cycling UK’s longest standing royal patron – Cycling UK – Twitter
We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of HM The Queen. As well as being Britain’s longest reigning monarch, she was also Cycling UK’s longest standing royal patron. We are so thankful for her 70 years of support. Our thoughts are with her family at this difficult time.
Will Charles III be as green a king as he was a prince? | King Charles III | The Guardian
In 1970, the young Prince of Wales made a speech warning of the dangers of pollution, and said society must deal urgently with the cost of cleaning it up, and preventing it in the first place.
“We are faced at this moment with the horrifying effects of pollution in all its cancerous forms. There is the growing menace of oil pollution at sea, which almost destroys beaches and certainly destroys tens of thousands of seabirds,” he told the Countryside Steering Committee for Wales. “There is chemical pollution discharged into rivers from factories and chemical plants, which clogs up the rivers with toxic substances and adds to the filth in the seas. There is air pollution from smoke and fumes discharged by factories and from gases pumped out by endless cars and aeroplanes.”
Cycling is so dangerous now, my children have had to stop | The Guardian
Karen Murphy
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