She said: “I cycle to work every day and quite often, I feel absolutely terrified. I’m just scared that they might kill me.”Published17 hours agoSectionBBC News Sheffield & South Yorkshire
Mark Sutton 10 January, 2022Harrison has a background that appears to align her with active travel and subjects like sustainability and road safety. Recently she has sought assurances on new road safety measures in Cumbria and in the past few months has shared the opinion that “the post-pandemic recovery will not be car-led.”
Furthermore, Harrison has become an electric bike advocate having tried one for herself, reminding her social media followers that such bikes are now easily obtainable on the Cycle to Work scheme.
“We are choosing a transport system fit for the future – a future of world class public transport infrastructure, green travel, accessible to all and the ability to choose from a range of shared, clean green forms of travel,” she reportedly told the recent Smart Transport Conference.
The Minister has reiterated the Government goal to see “half of all journeys by 2030, especially in towns and cities, to be active travel, so walking, cycles or scooters.”
Matthew Taylor
London has had dramatic improvements in its air quality since the coronavirus lockdown, with dangerous emissions at some of the capital’s busiest roads and junctions falling by almost 50%.
Figures released by the London mayor, Sadiq Khan, show that anti-pollution measures introduced from 2017 had already led to a 35% drop across the capital of the harmful gas nitrogen dioxide, NO2 – rising to a 44% reduction inside central London’s ultra-low emissions zone (ULEZ).
In the last four weeks of lockdown there have been further big reductions, with NO2 falling by a further 27% across London, and by almost half at some of the worst pollution hotspots.
“So, Mum/Dad, what are the railways for?” That is the question the UK rail industry will be dreading hearing in a post-pandemic world.
This is not quite the existential crisis rail faced in the aftermath of the extensive Beeching cuts to the network in the mid-1960s, but that’s cold comfort. There is a considerable risk that services are going to deteriorate massively in 2022, sending the sector into the kind of downward spiral that was last experienced in the 1970s and 1980s.
Carlton Reid Jan 12, 2022
Those who use bicycles for daily transportation are more likely to be college-educated than other city dwellers, finds a newly published study in the Journal of Transport Geography.
Those who use bicycles for daily transportation are more likely to be college-educated than other city dwellers, finds a newly published study in the Journal of Transport Geography.
Laura Cozzi, Chief Energy Modeler Apostolos Petropoulos, Energy Modeler Commentary — 21 December 2021
Global SUV sales set another record in 2021, setting back efforts to reduce emissions
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IEA (2021), Global SUV sales set another record in 2021, setting back efforts to reduce emissions, IEA, Paris https://www.iea.org/commentaries/global-suv-sales-set-another-record-in-2021-setting-back-efforts-to-reduce-emissions
As the global economy has recovered strongly this year, car sales have rebounded too. Globally, they are set to grow by 4% in 2021, according to the auto industry tracker MarkLines, reaching close to 80 million and making up part of the huge drop they experienced in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In particular, electric car sales have continued to show their resilience to volatility in the wider car market. In a few key car markets – such as Germany (above 34%), the United Kingdom (28%), France (over 23%) and China (18%) – the market share of electric cars reached record levels as of late November1.
Tell motorists to help tackle London’s toxic air peaks, authorities urged
Advise people not to drive or light wood burners rather than imposing restrictions on vulnerable, campaigners say
Matthew Taylor
Campaigners have called on the government to urge people not to drive or light wood-burning stoves during toxic air peaks rather than telling the vulnerable not to exercise or go outside.
London suffered its worst air pollution since 2018 on Friday, when experts predicted it would reach “band 10”, the highest level on the scale.
Ryan Mallon Sat, Jan 08, 2022
Police crack down on illegal parking in new experimental bike lane on Kingsley Road
Police in Liverpool have cracked down on motorists illegally obstructing cycle lanes after a complaint was made about a car which had been parked in one of the lanes on the Kingsley Road for days.
Responding to the complaint, Merseyside Police’s Roads Policing Unit visited the area in Toxteth and issued a number of tickets for “causing an unnecessary obstruction”.
Dates: consultation 18th December 2021 to 17th January 2022; Reply to: Healthy.School.Streets@camden.gov.uk; CCC member dealing with it John Chamberlain. Responded 15th January. Decision 1 March 2022 in favour.
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