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Robin McKie

Mark Sutton Tuesday, 21 June 2022

eta.co.uk 24th March 2022
In news that will surprise nobody who ever walks or cycles, research from America has found that SUVs and vans are substantially more likely than cars to hit pedestrians when making turns.
“We already know that larger vehicles cause more severe injuries when they strike pedestrians,” said Jessica Cicchino, one of the authors of the research by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. “The link between these vehicle types and certain common pedestrian crashes points to another way that the increase in SUVs on the roads might be changing the crash picture.”

Neil Franklin A new poll from Direct Line Cycling Insurance claims that commuters are being increasingly discouraged from cycling to work by a number of factors, and those who do ride in face a dilemma on where to store their bike. While an estimated £1 billion worth of bikes are used to commute every day across the UK, the research suggests that as many as 1.5 million cyclists are deterred by the lack of bike storage facilities at their workplace

Joe Talora

The DfT has launched a public consultation that sets out plans for legislative changes needed to reform the railway. This follows publication of the Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail in May 2021, and announcement in the Queen’s Speech on 10 May 2022 to introduce a Transport Bill to Parliament to modernise rail services. 

Control of rail infrastructure and trains will be brought under the control of new public centralised body Great British Railways (GBR). It will own the infrastructure,…

Jun 16, 2022
The auto industry to fuelling the CARbon crisis. There are already nearly 40 million vehicles on the roads in the UK. We don’t need more cars, we need fewer cars. We can reduce car use, we must reduce car use to meet Net Zero but the media and Government are not talking about it.

10th June 2022 
We know some of you appreciate a little extra guidance and help with responding to the consultations, so here is our step by step to the Local Refinement Consultation, which we hope helps!

Bill McKibben
For the second time in my lifetime, we’re about to make a crucial political mistake as a nation based on high gas prices. In 1980, after the oil shocks and gas lines of the previous decade, we elected Ronald Reagan, ushering in forty years of a world where “government is the problem, not the solution”—and therefore ushering in ecological crisis, cartoonish inequality, and racial backsliding. And now, even as the January 6 hearings definitively uncover the rot at the core of the Republican party, we’re about to return them to control of Congress mostly because gas is five bucks a gallon.