Firm is also set to offer customers a buy-back option on its old bikes
Decathlon has announced plans for a “Second Life Marketplace,” in its stores where refurbished second-hand bikes will be available for purchase. “Nothing will go to waste,” said the firm’s appropriately-named UK cycling leader, Pete Lazarus, when outlining the plans.
Cross-party group sign joint letter after inquest into death of nine-year-old Ella Kissi-Debrah
Matthew Taylor
Wed 27 Jan 2021
City mayors representing more than 17 million people across the UK are urging Boris Johnson to commit to tougher air pollution targets after the inquest into the death of nine-year-old Ella Kissi-Debrah.
The cross-party group, including the Labour mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, and the Conservative mayor of the West of England combined authority, Tim Bowles, have signed a joint letter along with city leaders from Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield and the North of Tyne to urge Boris Johnson to enshrine in law a commitment to achieve World Health Organization air pollution guidelines by 2030.
Dates: consultation 29th January to 12th February 2021; Reply to: safetravel@camden.gov.uk; CCC member dealing with it Jean Dollimore. RESPONDED 12 Feb 2021. Decision in favour 20 Apr 2021
Friday 29th January 2021
The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast
EPISODE 266: Move More With The Miracle Pill Author Peter Walker
SPONSOR: Jenson USA
HOST: Carlton Reid
GUEST: Peter Walker
TOPICS: A one-hour long conversation with Guardian political journalist Peter Walker talking about his new book, “The Miracle Pill.”
Dates: consultation 29th January to 21st February 2021; Reply to: safetravel@camden.gov.uk; CCC member dealing with it Jean Dollimore. RESPONDED 21 February 2021, Deadline extended to 21 March. Decision 17 Aug 2017. Further watered down March 22
Mark Sutton 26 January, 2021
Our highway law has developed in a way which indirectly favours driving and any change to that must be modified either at a national or local level.
Scientists say temperatures globally at highest level since start of human civilisation
Damian Carrington Wed 27 Jan 2021
The planet is now hotter than it has been for at least 12,000 years, a period spanning the entire development of human civilisation, according to new research.
The analysis of ocean surface temperatures shows human-driven climate change has put the world in “uncharted territory”, the scientists say. The planet may even be at its warmest for 125,000 years, although data from that period is less certain.
The research, published in the journal Nature, reached these conclusions by solving a longstanding puzzle dubbed the “Holocene temperature conundrum”. Climate models have indicated continuous warming since the last ice age ended 12,000 years ago and the Holocene period bega
Charity urges councils to back safe cycling infrastructure to provide cheap transport option
Young people are being hit hardest by the removal of pop-up cycle lanes, says Cycling UK. Highlighting that people aged under 25 are likely to be particularly affected by the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, the national cycling charity is calling on local councils to support safe cycle routes.
According to a YouGov survey commissioned by Cycling UK, 71% of 18-24 year olds – and 77% of students – say that the UK should make it easier for people to cycle by building more segregated cycle lanes, compared to 55 per cent of those aged 55-plus.
It’s time private cars were placed at the bottom of the transport hierarchy, writes Jon Burke.
19/11/2020
Britain will ban petrol and diesel vehicle sales from 2030 as part of a 10-point plan for a “green industrial revolution” to be unveiled Wednesday by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
“Not TV or illegal drugs but the automobile has been the chief destroyer of…communities,” the late heroine of human-scale cities, Jane Jacobs, once declared.
This sentiment – with which I wholeheartedly agree – is clearly shared. Following the prime minister’s announcement that no new petrol and diesel cars and vans will be sold in the UK beyond 2030, I tweeted that Hackney would be ready to respond with one of the largest electric vehicle charging programmes in the UK.
But outraged Twitter followers were quick to remind me that “electric vehicles will not save us!”.
The uncomfortable truth is, when it comes to the motor vehicle, we cannot live with them, but we cannot – entirely – live without them.
Environmentalists are right to be sceptical of the latest government announcement. Not only will no single measure address the major challenge of our ballooning land transport emissions, but this specific one will have limited impact on the UK’s ability to hit the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s “higher confidence” 2030 target of 45% fewer global warming emissions than 2010.
It will also, manifestly, not address many other problems arising from our growing addiction to cars. But, environmentalists would be wrong to presume that the proposal is entirely without merit.
