LCC member Jonathan Kelly is a co-founder of the new Better Streets for Kensington & Chelsea group, and Divisional Manager of Barts Heart Centre at St Bartholomew Hospital. He’s helped and encouraged his staff to cycle to work during the coronavirus crisis and he’s also been instrumental in Brompton’s scheme to loan bikes to NHS […]

By Roger Harrabin BBC environment analyst The aftermath of the Covid-19 crisis will transform the way we live, work and travel in the UK, the AA says. It predicts a permanent reduction in the demand for travel because people have learned during the crisis to use home-working technology. The implications are profound for commuters and

By SimonM on 1 day ago Following the closure of Richmond Park to cycling, one of eight Royal Parks in London, our local group, the Richmond Cycling Campaign, has written to The Royal Parks regarding the situation. The LCC alongside our borough groups in Kingston, Merton and Wandsworth, bordering the park, and Regent’s Park Cyclists,

Richard1st March 2020 I’ve been searching this morning for a tweet sent by a local councillor within the last few months asking why so many people drive when the evidence is clear that the pollution is a killer and the congestion means that in a city it is nearly always the slower way to travel.

Motor traffic and air pollution decline steeply, with walking and cycling in cities also down Damian CarringtonLast modified on Fri 3 Apr 2020 15.35 BST The coronavirus outbreak has brought Britain to a near standstill, with road travel plummeting by as much as 73%, to levels not seen since 1955. All forms of travel have

01-04-20 Scientists from the fields of mobility research, psychology and health sciences call for the provision of a mobility infrastructure in the face of the corona pandemic that enables the required spacing and promotes people’s health. As society is faced with the Covid-19 pandemic, limiting contact between potentially infected and uninfected people is a primary

Chop Chop service repurposes closed Blackfriars store to assist customers in lockdown Sarah ButlerThu 2 Apr 2020 12.40 BST The Chop Chop service was suspended last month because Sainsbury’s was struggling to serve stockpiling customers. Photograph: Graham Flack/Sainsbury’s Sainsbury’s is using bicycles to transport essential groceries from a closed convenience store in London in an

Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez Signs advise drivers not to not turn onto Market Street from Pine and Davis streets. (Kevin N. Hume/S.F. Examiner) A traffic nightmare. Congestions madness. Carmageddon. Those were the fears voiced by naysayers when San Francisco moved to ban private vehicles from Market Street on January 29 this year. Now, newly released traffic

DANA RUBINSTEIN03/20/2020 03:51 PM EDT With New York City residents increasingly turning to bikes and their own two feet to navigate city streets, Council Speaker Corey Johnson on Friday urged the city to close certain streets to traffic to give more room to pedestrians and urged the state to declare bike shops “essential” businesses that

The Colombian capital of Bogotá is opening 76km (47 miles) of temporary bike lanes to reduce crowding on public transport and help prevent the spread of coronavirus (Covid-19), as well as to improve air quality. This will expand the 550km (340 miles) of existing permanent bike lanes. Further, 22km (13 miles) of the new lanes