The researchers surveyed around 2,000 customers and 145 retailers on Kottbusser Damm (Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district) and Hermannstraße (Neukölln district). The vast majority of shoppers – 93% – had not travelled to their destination by car. 91 per cent of the revenue generated by these businesses came out of the wallets of customers who walked, cycled or used public transport to reach them. Customers that drive to the shops accounted for just 9 per cent of sales.

Posted  on March 3, 2020
A UK car insurance provider has finally proved what we all suspected – that road cyclists are safer car drivers than non-cyclists.
Specialist broker, carinsurance4cyclists.com (Ci4C), is the first in the UK to observe the relationship between road cycling and a clean driving record, rewarding cyclists with significant savings as a result.
Cycling car drivers are safer, claiming half as often as non-cyclists

“The DfT will soon be issuing ‘statutory guidance’ which will mean that cycling and walking schemes will not be able to be removed until they have been in place long enough for their impacts to have been “properly assessed”.
Chris Heaton-Harris Minister of State (Department for Transport)  responding to a question from Andrew Slaughter Labour, Hammersmith

Richard Dilks 13 July 2021
What little experience I have gleaned has taught me that far too much of the discussion and decision-making about cars in the UK falls into one of these camps: 
1. Camp Dalek: Exterminate! Cars are bad. We must price them off and design them out. There are nearly 40 mn cars and vans so we’d better get cracking.  
2. Camp Ostrich: Cars are bad. That’s why we are doing so much on cycle lanes, bus subsidy, lowered kerbs (delete/add to list as appropriate).
3. Camp Fatalist: Cars are bad. But we have nearly 40 mn of them. If we make it harder, more expensive, asocial even for people to use them then they just will not like us. 
4. Camp Vroom: Cars are good. They enable us to do all sorts of useful things, they give us freedom, protection and pride and they play our favourite music.
That’s why we have nearly 40 million of them. Anyway, aren’t they all going to be electric soon?

Deluge raises fears human-caused disruption is making extreme weather even worse than predicted

14 July 2021
A “beautiful and kind” seven-year-old girl has died after a crash with a lorry while riding her bike.

The girl, named only as Eloise, was taken to Salisbury District Hospital but died a short time later.
It happened on the A338 Church Street in Collingbourne Ducis in Wiltshire shortly before 18:30 BST on Tuesday.
She attended Collingbourne Primary School and headteacher Dan Crossman said the school sent her family “our sincerest sympathy and support.”

Letters Fri 16 Jul 2021
In his otherwise insightful article about how our interactions with strangers have changed (Remember hand shakes and small talk? The lost art of living with strangers, 10 July), Joe Moran omits to mention another important influence: cars, and our relationship to them. In the suburban neighbourhood where I now live, it is virtually impossible to encounter the strangers who are my neighbours, apart from those immediately next door.
Almost everyone else is only ever seen stepping from their front door to their car, parked a couple of feet away in what was the front garden, driving off, and then returning later to scuttle from car to front door. Few people walk to the local shops. One 88-year-old resident I chatted to at a community event confirmed this impression. When I asked why she didn’t know as many people in the street as she had in the past, she gave a one-word answer: “Cars.”
Isabella Stone Sheffield