The comments were made by the Regent’s Park Cyclists group, as the Royal Parks have re-introduced paid car parking as lockdown restrictions continue to be slowly lifted. They claim that congestion has now returned to pre-pandemic levels, with cyclists once again having to negotiate traffic around the London park’s Outer Circle. Regent’s Park was one […]
Cycle Industry News) 10 June, 2020 Cycling Minister Chris Heaton-Harris has today announced new laws will come into force from 22 June to ensure safer journeys for cyclists. Local authorities in England will have new powers to use CCTV to issue penalty charge notices to drivers who park or load illegally in mandatory cycle lanes,
Busier roads to blame, with fears of worse to come as workers shun public transport Fiona Harvey Published on Thu 11 Jun 2020 18.30 BST Carbon dioxide emissions have rebounded around the world as lockdown conditions have eased, raising fears that annual emissions of greenhouse gases could surge to higher than ever levels after the
The oil giant funds both civil rights groups and police, saying “Black Lives Matter” while committing acts of environmental racism all over the world. By Amy Westervelt At left: A fire at Chevron’s Richmond refinery in 2013; at right, the company’s BLM Twitter post. At a House committee hearing on fossil fuel deception last year,
By Alex Gidden 9th June NEW cycle lanes which are completely separated from roads will be set up across the district in an effort to reduce the reliance on cars and public transport. One of the new ideas being considered is a new cycle route which would run adjacent to the A12. Witham North county
Sam Wollaston Tue 9 Jun 2020 It takes Sarah Cain, a medical secretary at the Callington Road hospital in Bristol, 40 minutes to get to work. Correction: it took Sarah Cain 40 minutes to get to work – until the day we speak, when it took 16 minutes. Because Cain, who previously walked to work,
10 June 2020 Finally, I was allowed to go to Utrecht again for work! It was only for one time, but I hadn’t been in my place of birth for almost two months. This had happened only once before in my life. You can’t imagine how happy I was to simply find my bicycle back
Cleaner skies were a silver lining of pandemic but data indicates air quality receding as lockdowns eased Niko KommendaWed 3 Jun 2020 09.18 BST Traffic in Beijing. Air pollution had dropped during the lockdown but is back to pre-pandemic levels. Photograph: Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images Air pollution in China has climbed back to pre-pandemic levels, and
Jonathan WattsSun 7 Jun 2020 15.00 BST Many urban dwellers have gazed in awe at their newly clean cities over the last few months. But three – Copenhagen, Oakland and Mexico City – are leading the way in making such transformations permanent. How? For those not directly affected, the ability to breathe more easily and
Stricter rules for cyclists should be introduced immediately to combat the increased number of two-wheeled law breakers hitting the road due to the Government’s recommendation for people to avoid public transport. Ministers ‘must introduce emergency legislation to tackle a boom in the toxic cycling which has emerged during the lockdown period’ and that ‘for too
