6 September, 2019 Transport for London (TfL) will go ahead with proposals to lower speed limits on TfL roads in central London after a positive response from the public consultation. The move, mooted earlier this summer, will bring the limit in the Congestion Charge Zone down, on around 8.9 km of road. New 20 mph […]
A British activist is trying to reduce her personal carbon footprint to one tonne of CO2 per year. This is very hard. Remember the 100 mile diet? That was for wimps and so 2007. English environmental activist Rosalind Readhead is doing something much tougher: a One Tonne Diet, where she gets her personal carbon emissions
Press release sent from London Cycling Campaign and six other active travel and environmental organisations today: A group of seven campaigning organisations wrote to the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, last week to ask him to use the current enforced pause on the four lane Silvertown road tunnel between East and South East London, due
A northwards extension of London’s Cycleway 6 has been officially opened today, with more routes due to follow over the next month, says Transport for London (TfL). The extension launched today connects Kentish Town with King’s Cross and then links with the existing route originally known as the North-South Cycle Superhighway, whish heads south to
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…However, with 40% of car journeys in England being less than two miles, the best behaviour change is to walk or cycle on short trips. Gentler acceleration and electric vehicles can reduce air pollution but walking or cycling are best Thu 12 Sep 2019 Local authorities are encouraging people not to leave their cars idling
This week’s Good Cycling Facility is a service road, running alongside a main road in the Utrecht suburb of De Meern. The road here has a 50kph speed limit, which is inappropriate for mixing with cycling. A parallel service road is the ideal cycling environment, with people cycling only mixing with the small numbers of
Earlier this year, LCC supported the Youth Climate Strikers by organising a ‘Climate Strike on a Bike’, adding our voice to their call for urgent global action to avert catastrophic climate change. We will be joining them again on September 20th, leading a ride into the Global Climate Strike in Central London. Start point: St
Michael Hanley deliberately hit Morgan Berry in his 4×4 and then punched him in face Helen Pidd and agencies Wed 11 Sep 2019 A man who used his 4×4 to knock down a teenage cyclist before beating him up and trashing his new bicycle during a road rage row has been jailed for six months.
With more and more cars becoming less polluting, the Government can see that the revenue generated from Vehicle Excise Duty is set to decrease year by year. Car tax will no doubt be restructured to account for this but there’s also a very strong argument that motorists should pay to use the roads they damage.
