Carlton Reid Jun 4, 2020, To Milan, London, Berlin, and Paris, Lisbon can now be added to the major European cities using the pandemic to reshape streets. Portugal’s coastal capital city is to remove car parking spaces and replace them with alfresco cafes and restaurants; speed limits will be lowered to 18 miles per hour […]

Highway and traffic authorities have been told by the Transport Secretary to take measures to deliver ‘transformative change’ to their urban streets within an urgent timeframe. If they don’t, they could be in breach of new Statutory Guidance. Robert Huxford explored how local authorities could best respond in his contribution to last week’s LTT online

SIMON_MACMICHAEL WED, JUN 03, 2020 17:04 Campaigner urges government to include cycling statisticcs in daily briefings to encourage people into the saddle Chris Boardman has warned that “decisions made in the next two weeks will set the transport agenda for the next two decades” as the government introduces further easing of the lockdown in England,

Saturday, 6 June 2020 It’s high time we allowed people to cycle along motorways. I’m being completely serious because we’re spending all of this money on building road space and yet drivers won’t stick to these motorways. Therefore it’s time to allow cycling along them. Now I’ve got your attention and created outrage amongst the

By Jamie McIvor BBC Scotland local government correspondent Glasgow city centre is to suspend about a third of its on-street parking spaces to increase space for social distancing. The move is part of an initiative by the city council to create about 25km (15 miles) of extra space for physical distancing. The plan is to

Richard Masoner Discussion about fees and taxes for bicycles so that we cyclists “pay our fair share” often turn to mentions of the “Fourth Power Rule.” What is this mysterious Fourth Power Rule? Back in the 1950s and 1960s, highway engineers researched damage done to road beds and road surfaces for the purposes of allocating

Juliana O’Rourke 01 June 2020 Local authorities have, in recent weeks, been responding to calls for action regarding street and road space transformations in the light of the pandemic restrictions and changes in traffic levels and travel behaviour. LTT’s online discussion last week heard that, despite some lack of clarity in government guidance, and obvious

SIMON_MACMICHAEL TUE, JUN 02, 2020 16:30 Press watchdog the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) has rejected complaints regarding Rod Liddle’s recent column in The Sunday Times in which he wrote that he found it “tempting” to “tie piano wire at neck height across the road” to target cyclists, with the regulator saying that the article

This blog post is from Westminster Healthy Streets, originally published here. Westminster City Council have released their plans to “get the economy moving again” by reallocating space for walking, cycling and social distancing on their streets. See the announcement here. Will these plans prevent traffic flooding back and keep the clean air and all-age active