Dublin overhauls Transport Strategy, but car remains king – Cycle Industry News
Mark Sutton 2 December, 2021
While welcoming the sentiment attached, campaigners with the Dublin Commuter Coalition fairly criticise the plan, which shoots only for a four percentage point increase in public transport and eight percentage point growth in cycling. “How can we be this unambitious?”, wrote the group.
Tripling Bicycle Use Would Pump $6.5 Billion Into London’s Economy Each Year, Says Report – Forbes
Carlton Reid Nov 23, 2021
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A report by an academic research company estimates that tripling bicycle use in cash-strapped London by 2030 would save lives, create jobs and result in an annual economic dividend of $6.5 billion. And that’s on top of cleaner air and less congested streets.
TfL halts road safety ad after ‘victim blaming’ backlash from cyclists | TfL | The Guardian
London mayor’s cycling and walking chief pauses ad showing cyclist and driver making up after collision
Mark Sweney and Sarah Butler
Transport for London has halted an ad campaign promoting road safety that featured a driver and cyclist making up after the latter was almost hit, following a backlash accusing the ad of “victim blaming”.
The TfL campaign, called See Their Side, was launched during Road Safety Week last month as part of the London mayor Sadiq Khan’s long-term goal of having no deaths and serious injuries on the capital’s roads by 2041.
Look mum, no hands! Frank Lampard caught on camera by Cycling Mikey allegedly juggling coffee and phone at wheel | road.cc
Nick ‘Mr Loophole’ Freeman will represent former Chelsea and England star in court next month
Simon Macmichael DEC 03, 2021
Former Chelsea and England football star Frank Lampard has allegedly been caught on camera by Mike van Erp – better known on social media as Cycling Mikey – holding a cup of coffee in one hand and a mobile phone in the other. The ex-midfielder is due in court next month to defend the charge, and will be represented by none other than celebrity driving offences lawyer, Nick ‘Mr Loophole’ Freeman.
Van Erp says he spotted the 43 year old, who was sacked as Chelsea manager last January, in South Kensington on 27 April, using one of his wrists to steer his Mercedes, reports the London Evening Standard
Was the Automotive Era a Terrible Mistake? | The New Yorker
:excerptstartFor a century, we’ve loved our cars. They haven’t loved us back. Nathan HellerJuly 22, 2019The summer I was eighteen, I visited a parking lot forty-five minutes north of town and got behind the wheel for what I hoped would be the first real rite of my adulthood. I was tall, gangly, excitable. Less than a week
Britain’s rail industry responds to government’s Integrated Rail Plan – global railway review
The government has shared its proposals to transform the rail network in the North and Midlands, but leaders in the rail the industry are voicing their concerns about the abandonment of the HS2 Eastern Leg and the scaling back of Northern Powerhouse Rail.
Cyclist deaths soar on rural roads in England – BBC News
21 hours ago Claire Marshall
The coronavirus lockdowns created a cycling boom in England, with record numbers of people out on their bikes to get exercise and fresh air.
However, official data from the Department of Transport also shows that many more cyclists died on rural roads in 2020 than in the previous two years.
89 people lost their lives on countryside roads last year – up by almost 50% from 60 fatalities in 2019.
In 2018, 48 cyclists were killed on rural roads.
This was despite fewer vehicles using rural routes, and a marked drop in the amount of traffic during the pandemic restrictions.
New Zealand MP goes into labour, cycles to hospital to give birth – road.cc
It’s the second time in three years that Green politician Julie Anne Genter has pedalled her way to the maternity ward
Simon Macmichael Nov 28, 2021
A New Zealand MP who went into labour in the small hours of the morning jumped on her bike to ride to hospital to give birth.
Just as the Green Party MP Julie Anne Genter did three years ago when her first child was born, the 41 year old took to two wheels for the 10-minute ride.
Cambridge cyclists issue impassioned ‘Please stop killing us’ plea – road.cc
Greater Cambridge Partnership receive stark feedback after public consultation into £20 million funding plan
by Nick Howes Nov 27, 2021
Cyclists campaigning for change to junctions in Cambridge have issued a heartfelt message: ‘Please stop killing us’.
The appeal was made to the Greater Cambridge Partnership who recently conducted a Cycling Plus consultation asking how £20 million of funding should be allocated to improve ‘active travel’ routes for cyclists and pedestrians.
The consultation requested feedback on 13 routes identified as being missing links in the city’s current infrastructure. It found 91% of respondents felt junctions in the city needed improving.
How Helsinki and Oslo cut pedestrian deaths to zero | World news | The Guardian
After years of committed action, neither city recorded a single pedestrian fatality in 2019
Jessica Murray
They cut speed limits, changed street design, removed space for cars and generally made life harder for motorists.
Now it appears the work is paying off. Two of Europe’s smaller capital cities – Oslo and Helsinki – are reaping the rewards of committed action on making their roads safer, reducing pedestrian fatalities to zero last year.
Helsinki recorded no deaths for the first time since records began in 1960, down from an average of 20-30 a year in the 1990s. In Oslo, there were also no pedestrian or cyclist deaths in the city, which has a population of 680,000, and no children under 16 died in traffic crashes in the entire country.
In comparison, 57 pedestrians died in London in 2018; 2019 figures have yet to be released.
The Nordic achievements beg the question: what did they do to achieve such dramatic improvements?