Fast Urbanism at work in Brixton: widened pavement created overnight at busy bus stop PRESS RELEASE 12 MAY 2020 : FAST URBAN CHANGE FOR LIVE-SAVING STREETS Urban Designers call for urgent changes to the design of town and city streets and spaces to address the crises of COVID 19, Air Quality, Obesity and Wellbeing, and […]

2 hrs ago Extinction Rebellion (XR) campaigners will set about creating scores of pop-up bike lanes and walking routes in towns and cities across the UK this weekend, in an effort to “reclaim the streets” from polluting traffic. The climate campaign group said it feared traffic levels in towns and cities would revert back to

Carlton Reid03:48pm EDT |3,038 views|May 11, 2020, The professional association for British airline pilots has released a combative statement attacking the U.K. government’s £2 billion plan for cycling and walking during the lockdown. “British pilots will be absolutely aghast and frankly furious at £2 billion being found for walking and cycling when the airline industry,

London and Manchester already have measures to restrict traffic, encourage walking and cycling, and cut air pollution Toby HelmLast modified on Sat 9 May 2020 22.05 BST Roads are to be temporarily closed near schools when parents drop off and pick up their children, in order to deter people from driving on the school run

By Justin Rowlatt Chief Environment correspondent 9 May 202 We need to protect the public transport network as lockdown is lifted, the UK’s transport secretary is expected to say at a press conference on Saturday. The BBC understands Grant Shapps will encourage the public to continue to work from home if they can. Those who

Laura LakerMon 11 May 2020 15.13 BST Saturday’s announcement of extra funds for walking and cycling was a rare example of political focus on sustainable travel. Could the investment announced by the transport minister, Grant Shapps, help usher in what Boris Johnson pledged a week earlier: a ‘golden age for cycling’?. The measures announced at

Give people the public space they need right now. James Hamblin, M.D., is a staff writer at The Atlantic. He is also a lecturer at Yale School of Public Health and author of the forthcoming book Clean.May 10, 2020 New York’s cemeteries have overflowed before. In the 1850s, the people filling the cemetery were not

Sean IngleSun 10 May 2020 18.30 BST Exercising is a better way to help the NHS than clapping once a week and more needs to be done to enact real change Fifteen years ago I was waiting by a red light when a dishevelled-looking cyclist, blond mop-top untamed by comb or helmet, pootled past without

Would-be cyclists keen to exercise during the lockdown have cleared stores of their stock Harriet Sherwood 10.05.20 Isabel had not ridden a bike since university 10 years ago when lockdown motivated her to seek out two wheels. But half a dozen cycle shops in south London gave her the same answer: no chance. We’re out

Susanna RustinSat 9 May 2020 06.00 BST It was a grim irony that the best transport news in ages was buried in the first few days of the coronavirus lockdown. On 26 March, the government published a document, Decarbonising Transport, which went further in facing up to the problem of emissions from air and vehicle