SAT, JAN 25, 2020 16:25 Hundreds of people turned up to attend a discussion chaired by Chris Boardman on multi-million pound plans for the UK’s largest inner city walking and cycling route. The Active Neighbourhood plans for Urmston, Greater Manchester got an £11.3 million funding boost earlier this month from Mayor Andy Burnham’s Walking and […]

February 29, 2020 I REALISE I SPEND A FAIR BIT OF TIME WRITING ABOUT URBAN CYCLING INFRASTRUCTURE AND SO THIS WEEK I THOUGHT IT WAS TIME TO TALK ABOUT THE RURAL EXPERIENCE. I think there are three strands to this; cycling within villages, cycling between villages and towns (or other villages) and what to do

aseasyasriding On a sunny September day last year, I headed out from the city centre of Utrecht to take a look at the town of Bilthoven, about five miles away. Despite being a fairly small settlement (Bilthoven itself only has a population of around 20,000 people, although it closely adjoins the larger town of De

This week’s Good Cycling Facility is a two-way protected cycleway with a floating bus stop in Stratford, London. This road was formerly part of the Stratford gyratory system, but has been converted to two-way flow for motor traffic, with the addition of protected cycleways. This two-way cycleway passes a bus stop on a new island,

As with many British towns in the wake of the 1963 Traffic in Towns report, Horsham responded to the coming age of the motor car with a mixture of enlightenment and destructiveness. In doing so, it largely reflected the nature of the Report itself, which presciently diagnosed the enormous problems mass motoring would present, but

Buffalo Bikes help people in rural areas get access to education, health services, and economic opportunities The non-profit organisation World Bicycle Relief has distributed its 500,000th Buffalo Bike. The charity believes its efforts have positively impacted the lives of more than 2.5 million people. WBR was founded in 2005 in response to the 2004 Indian

French photographer Alain Delorme became fascinated by the piles of stacked products migrant Chinese workers loaded into their bicycles. The precariously overloaded packages often assume unusual forms. His documentation of the packed bicycles forms a series of photographs entitled Totems, which are both aesthetically glorious and astoundingly indicative of daily life in China. The images

Jonathon Harker21 February, 2020 Shifting to walking, cycling and public transport is crucial if Europe has any hope of meeting its long-term sustainability targets and policy objectives defined by 2019’s European Green Deal. The European Environment Agency (EEA) has published a report assessing how green and sustainable ‘first and last mile’ transport options truly are,