Date: Sunday 22 September 2019 Time: 10:30am to 5:00pm Venue: Londonwide Cost: Free – no tickets required London’s biggest ever Car Free Day celebration will take place on 20km of traffic-free roads around Tower Bridge, London Bridge and the City of London (see map). Free entertainment and fun activities will include: cycling opportunities like e-bike […]
“The good news is that there are many ways to prevent children from getting asthma because of their air pollution exposure. Making it easier to cycle, walk or run to get places, for example, has many benefits for society – including improved air quality, increased physical activity and less climate-warming pollution…. “We also need the
Fiona Kolbinger, 24, rode from Bulgaria to France in 10 days, two hours and 48 minutes Helen PiddTue 6 Aug 2019 15.13 BST A German cancer researcher has become the first woman to win one of the world’s toughest cycling races in her first ultra-distance event. Fiona Kolbinger, 24, from Dresden, said she was “so
Netherlands-based cargo bike manufacturer Babboe has donated a Babboe Dog-E bike, a cargo bike specially designed to transport dogs, to Battersea Dogs and Cats Home, in partnership with James Middleton. The bikes are designed as the “ideal solution for dog lovers”, allowing riders to transport their pets with ease especially if they are older or
Opinion: Citizens’ Assemblies have the power to break tribal politics PUBLISHED: 14:30 08 August 2019 Farhana Yamin and Maya de Souza feel Citizens’ Assemblies have the power to tackle climate emergency. Boris Johnson has become prime minister at a time when British democracy is going through a crisis. Parliament appears deadlocked, our politics is polarised,
Alan J Taylor 9 avril 2015, 07:32 CEST Yellow truly is the colour of cycling in the UK. The victories of Sir Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome in the World’s biggest bike race, the Tour de France, thrust cycling into the headlines. The visit of Le Tour to England in 2014 kindled a Lycra-led euphoria
Mark Sutton7 August, 2019 In the Austrian capital of Vienna there are signs that the growing popularity of the electric scooter may lead to an increase in safe cycling infrastructure. At present, there are 7,000 of the light mobility vehicles on the streets of Vienna; Lime, Bird, Tier Mobility, Wind Mobility, Circ and Hive have
Mark Sutton5 August, 2019 The levels of dangerous particulates in the air, once again, have nosedived alongside the RideLondon route. Showing drastic improvement across all metrics, wide-ranging road closures over the weekend gave ample evidence to support the case for lowered car use in urban spaces at a time when poor air quality is said
Kerala floods turn deadly as India suffers relentless monsoonal deluge Colin DailedaAugust 9 at 2:06 PM More than three-dozen people are dead and thousands have been forced from their homes as floods ravage parts of southern India, particularly the state of Kerala, which was devastated by flooding in 2018. The floods are associated with the
Summer wildfires are nothing new in Siberia, but bigger environmental changes are afoot. Leonid BershidskyAugust 9, 2019, 6:56 PM GMT+2 Summer wildfires devouring Siberian forests are hardly unusual, but this year’s are a bigger worry than normal because clouds of smoke have reached big cities in the Asian part of Russia and because the authorities
