The share of trips undertaken by bike in the capital is going up, with particularly strong growth seen in areas where high-quality cycling infrastructure has been put in place, according to new figures from Transport for London (TfL). In its latest Travel in London report, TfL says that on an average day, 2.5 per cent […]
The family of a teenage cyclist who was killed by a speeding driver in Coventry have appealed for motorists to drive within the speed limit. Police investigators said that Tajinder Rai was doing a minimum of 67mph in a 40mph zone when he hit 17-year-old Ryan Willoughby-Oakes. The Coventry Telegraph reports that Rai was driving
The West Yorkshire Combined Authority has applied for £23m to turn the Queensbury Tunnel into a “high quality cycling route”. It has also urged the government to act swiftly before Highways England’s work to abandon the tunnel has progressed too far. The Queensbury Tunnel was closed more than 60 years ago and is currently managed
Mark Sutton16 December, 2019 Ireland’s state-owned postal service will shift towards the use of an electric cargo bike fleet in order to make efficiency gains, C.I.N has learned. The large scale contract landed by Irish specialist retailer and distributor GreenAer will initially see around 138 rear-loaded Radkutsche cargo haulers distributed to the postal service with
Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) are a key part of delivering safer, better, healthier streets in London by removing through (or “ratrun”) motor traffic from an entire residential area. They cut overall motor traffic and create large neighbourhoods where air pollution, carbon emissions, noise and congestion are dramatically lowered. These are great for walking and cycling,
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People cycling were on the receiving end of 91 per cent of tickets by the Metropolitan Police on a major cycleway corridor into London, a Freedom of Information (FOI) request has revealed – despite the fact 90 per cent of casualties on the route the previous year involved motor vehicles. According to the Metropolitan Police
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PA Media Tue 17 Dec 2019 13.56 GMT Ella Kissi-Debrah, nine, who lived near South Circular Road in south London, died in 2013 An inquest in 2014 concluded Ella Kissi-Debrah’s cause of death was acute respiratory failure as a result of a severe asthma attack. Photograph: Ella Roberta Family Foundation A fresh inquest into the
