“The Mayor of Amsterdam says in this interview: “Hop on your bike if you can, it is the healthy option!” This is a good message for the governments of Italy and Spain” Pascal, Amsterdam, Velo Mondial, ‘Autovrij,Tenzij’ @Pascal_Amsterda 17 maart 2020, 10:48 Interview De manier waarop Amsterdammers omgaan met de coronacrisis is ‘ontzagwekkend en ontroerend’, […]

After years of committed action, neither city recorded a single pedestrian fatality in 2019 Jessica MurrayMon 16 Mar 2020 10.20 GMT They cut speed limits, changed street design, removed space for cars and generally made life harder for motorists. Now it appears the work is paying off. Two of Europe’s smaller capital cities – Oslo

The boss of Transport for London today put drivers on notice that private cars “do not have a long-term future” in the centre of the capital. Transport Commissioner Mike Brown said that in the “medium to long term there is a major question to be asked about whether they should be in a central city

By Winnie Hu Updated 11:20 a.m. ET More New Yorkers are turning to cycling to minimize their coronavirus exposure. Citi Bike trips surged to more than half a million this month. Halimah Marcus’s bike had been collecting dust for five years. But as coronavirus fears exploded in New York, she pumped air into the tires

11 March 2020 Snow on the morning of the 26th of February last! Surprisingly, this was only the very first snow of the entire winter of 2019/2020 in the Netherlands. For that reason I simply had to get out in the morning and film a bit. If it hadn’t been for the winter weather and

Rishi Sunak fails to even mention energy efficiency, the no-brainer climate policy Damian CarringtonLast modified on Wed 11 Mar 2020 23.35 GMT The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and in his budget the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, headed off down the motorway towards climate catastrophe, all the while proclaiming his intention to protect

Cities placing amenities within 20-minute walk, cycle or public transport trip to combat climate crisis Gary FullerThu 12 Mar 2020 21.30 GMT One quarter of car journeys in England and Wales are less than 3km. Nearly two-thirds are less than 8km. Converting these journeys to walking, cycling or public transport could tackle air pollution, climate

Paul Gannon Thank you to @SaveBloomsbury for taking time to lay out the reasons for your dislike of the ‘Taviplace’ cycle scheme. To start, I should declare an interest in the matter in that I was responsible in the late 1990s for coming up the idea for the Taviplace cycle route and that on Royal

SIMON_MACMICHAEL MON, MAR 09, 2020 12:28 Latest annual Global Traffic Scorecard from Inrix includes cycling metrics for the first time Cycling is the quickest way of getting around some of the UK’s most congested cities, according to the latest annual Global Traffic Scorecard from traffic data experts Inrix – which, for the first time, includes