Joe Parkin DanielsLast modified on Fri 4 Oct 2019 17.57 BST As the cable cars that connect downtown Medellín – Colombia’s second city – to the hillside slums pass overhead, a band of teenage cyclists have gathered at the side of the road. Vallejuelos is a downtrodden neighbourhood, rife with crime and unemployment, but “gravity […]
Last modified on Fri 11 Oct 2019 She has barely ever been in a car, and never eaten meat or flown. Now 31, she lives on the 15th floor of a city centre tower from where she can just see the ocean 500 yards away on one side and the suburbs and informal settlements sprawling
I do like those little places that one just stumbles across in the street network which give joy and Lamlash Garden tucked behind the Elephant and Castle in London is one just place. I was on my way back to the City from a meeting in Brixton using one of Central London’s hire cycles and
Last modified on Mon 7 Oct 2019 Roger Hallam, 52, organic farmer from Wales and XR co-founder Hallam was arrested in 2017 for criminal damage when he and another person spray-painted “Divest from oil and gas”, “Now” and “Out of time” on walls at King’s College London, using water-soluble chalk-based paint. Both were cleared of
In a week where the government has proudly said it will fund £13m for bikeability training in a press release that as usual just drones on about cycling being a good thing I am still looking at tumbleweeds rolling past on design guidance. For a rounded rant about the lack of funding for cycling infrastructure,
Escalating pressure from investors is pushing airlines to address environmental concerns, according to the International Air Transport Association (Iata), which acknowledged that the trend toward “flight-shaming” could weigh on the industry’s future growth. Speaking at a conference in London where airlines vied to demonstrate plans to decarbonise, Iata said the climate was now “top of
The city just approved a plan to redesign Market Street, making it safer for pedestrians, adding protected bike lanes, and eliminating private vehicles to help speed up buses and lower the injury count on the street. San Francisco’s Market Street, which leads from the city’s iconic Ferry Building through the financial district and past shops,
City-wide Met police operation begins to clear Trafalgar Square and other protest sites Mon 14 Oct 2019 Police have banned Extinction Rebellion protests from continuing anywhere in London, as they moved in almost without warning to clear protesters who remained at the movement’s camp in Trafalgar Square. The Metropolitan police issued a revised section 14
Hayley Everett11 October, 2019 The Government has admitted that funding per head in England must double if it is to reach its cycling target by 2025, TransportNetwork reports. The Government’s Cycling and Walking Investment strategy set an aim of doubling cycling ‘stages’ from 800 million in 2013 to 1.6 billion in 2025, however ‘interim results’
4 October, 2019 Construction work on a new five kilometre Cycleway between Hackney and Westferry in east London is set to begin this winter, TfL has announced. In May, TfL invited people to have their say on the plans, which propose to reduce danger to people walking and cycling in the area and add two
