Robin McKie
About half of all hospital doctors and nurses have had accidents or experienced near misses while driving home after a night shift.
The risks they pose to themselves and other road users have been calculated as the same as those posed by drivers who are over the legal alcohol limit, delegates at a European medical conference were told last week.
As a result, health experts have called for doctors and nurses to be allowed to take 20-minute power naps during night shifts. This would make their journeys home safer and would also help to protect patients from mistakes they might make through tiredness when administering drugs or other treatments.
Infrastructure investments paying off on cyclist safety, shows research – Cycle Industry News
Mark Sutton Tuesday, 21 June 2022
Forming the basis of the study, analysis of Department for Transport Road Safety Data published in November of 2021, paired with Freedom of Information requests to local and county councils, reveals that what are officially badged as road traffic accidents involving cyclists and motorists have come down by 10%.
Greater danger from SUVs and vans | ETA
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.”
Cycling to work uptake held back by significant obstacles – Workplace Insight
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
London councils pledge 30,000 new bike storage spaces amid four-year wait lists | Evening Standard
Joe Talora
Newly-elected councillors in London have pledged to install a total of 30,000 new cycle parking spaces across the capital in a bid to cut long waiting lists.
The Standard reported in March that some Londoners were facing waits of up to four years for secure bike parking, with waiting lists topping 60,000 across the capital’s boroughs.
Views sought on legal framework for Williams-Shapps Plan for rail – Transport Xtra
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,…
In China, you don’t deliver bicycles by car. You deliver cars by bike! – Cycling Professor – Twitter
Man Transports Car On His Three-Wheeler
BIG WHEELS
Toyota Stop Dirty Lobbying (Enfield) – XR Roads Rebellion – Youtube
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.
Local Refinement Consultation Step by Step – LTC Action Group (Deadline Mon 21 June 23:59)
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!
It’s Cars That Done It – billmckibben.substack.com
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.
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