Released as part of a new strategy to promote active travel, the plans will add 270km of high quality cycleways and improved footways along main roads in Glasgow.
Councillor Anna Richardson, City Convener for Sustainability and Carbon Reduction, said: “Safety is the number one reason for people being discouraged from using active travel and in particular, cycling.  The existing network is expanding and the Spaces for People project helped show the appetite for change. By creating a network of cycle lanes and associated footways that reaches into every corner of the city we will maximise the opportunity for active travel to be the first choice for everyday journeys.

Richmond Council has commissioned an independent assessment to review the levels of air pollution in Richmond upon Thames since the implementation of the 20mph scheme in late 2019 and early 2020. The assessment has now shown that levels have dropped since the lower speed limit was introduced.
The assessment took place in three locations, Queens Road, St Margaret’s Road and Petersham Road, and measured nitrogen dioxide (NO2) levels before the implementation of the scheme and once the scheme had been established. 

There is a box labelled “climate”, in which politicians discuss the climate crisis. There is a box named “biodiversity”, in which they discuss the biodiversity crisis. There are other boxes, such as pollution, deforestation, overfishing and soil loss, gathering dust in our planet’s lost property department. But they all contain aspects of one crisis that we have divided up to make it comprehensible. The categories the human brain creates to make sense of its surroundings are not, as Immanuel Kant observed, the “thing-in-itself”. They describe artefacts of our perceptions rather than the world.
Nature recognises no such divisions. As Earth systems are assaulted by everything at once, each source of stress compounds the others.

But force underlines that action can be taken against people riding irresponsibly and putting others in danger

There are certain things just about “everyone” does when driving that makes driving less safe for just about everyone. Speeding is one of those things. It makes near-misses turn into collisions, it turns mild collisions into severe collisions, and it turns severe collisions into fatal ones.
I’ve written about dozens of collisions that could potentially have been survivable, had one or both drivers involved not been speeding. I’ve also written extensively about car technologies that are helping people survive collisions that would have been universally fatal just a decade or two ago on our roads, such as side impact intrusion resistance in cars, SUVs, minivans, and small vehicles. This is a topic that deserves as much attention as we can give it as a society.