Another impressive piece of exceptional cycling infrastructure was opened in The Hague.

Mark Sutton28 August, 2020England and Wales’ Local Government Association has published a new report calling on couriers and small business to trade in vans for environmentally friendly cargo bikes specifically for “last mile” deliveries.Coming at a time when the cargo bike segment is racking up column inches due to trend changes for inner city logistics, the new report emphasises that commercial vehicle traffic is already back north of pre-pandemic levels and only likely to increase. This was illustrated earlier this week in a CI.N assessment of the traffic patterns, where vans and HGVs were indeed accelerating road use north of pre-covid trends.

Join our Cycle Caterpillar  and Park Gathering, Monday 31st August at: Hermit Road Recreation Ground, Hermit Road, Newham, London, E16 4JT

Mark Sutton28 August, 2020The BikeIsBest industry campaign has today penned an open letter to the Prime Minister, urging for a follow through on political will that promises to deliver better conditions for sustainable transport forms.In the face of significant headwinds, both from motoring groups and in some cases local politicians, the letter urges for the fast-tracking of Active Travel England‘s creation to oversee the roll out of dedicated sustainable transport infrastructure that is in line with the newly-created design standards.

This week’s Good Cycling Facility is a Low Traffic Neighbourhood in the Highfields area of the city of Leicester.
As might be guessed from the trees in the street, this is an old scheme, dating back several decades – a series of modal filters like the ones in the photograph have effective converted a formerly ‘open’ network of residential streets into a series of access-only dead-end streets for motor traffic, while full permeability has been retained for walking and cycling.
It’s worth remembering that Low Traffic Neighbourhoods are not new – they have been around for a very long time, and that where they do exist, there are no efforts to remove them!

If we’re to get more people walking and cycling in our cities, then we need to make it easier for them

Pablo Guillen, Miguel Loyola and Ursa Komac for The Conversation
Fri 28 Aug 2020
Walking and cycling are in the spotlight given the need to keep fit, get about and keep a social distance from others during the pandemic.

We have pop-up cycleways, enlarged footpaths and even whole streets closed to traffic.

But even if the new cycleways stay in place after the Covid-19 crisis, we’ll still be far from being as bicycle-friendly as Copenhagen or Amsterdam over in Europe.

Loop starts in Winchester and takes in tree-lined lanes, open plains and plenty of pubs

Rob Noonan August 25, 2020

As the summer holidays come to an end and children return to school following lockdown, there couldn’t be a better time for us to consider the school commute. Nowadays, many children in the UK commute to school by car. But getting more parents to ditch the car for school journeys and switch to more active modes of travel, such as walking or cycling, is of great public health importance.