LettersTue 7 Jan 2020 • Your editorial (27 December) says that “In the age of climate emergency the car is no longer the star”. The car has never been the star – more an asteroid that hurtles on our roads, too often out of control. A significant omission from your long editorial was the annual […]

You won’t melt in the rain… That is not the answer you want to hear as a teenager when you complain to your mother about having to cycle to school in the rain. And yet that is exactly the answer generations of Dutch mothers have been giving their children. It shows. Whenever it rains you

3rd January 2020 If you are one of Britain’s one million uninsured drivers, you are more than likely to get away with it. Despite ANPR (automatic number plate recognition) cameras in some police force areas identifying over 4,000 uninsured vehicles every day, very few drivers receive a penalty or are sent for prosecution. In 2018,

Alex Bowden November 16 2018 Transport for London (TfL) research shows that improvements that make it easier and safer to walk and cycle in London’s high streets lead to more retail space being filled by businesses and a 93 per cent increase in people walking in the streets. The study, conducted by Matthew Carmona from

In the 1930s big auto dreamed up freeways and demanded massive car infrastructure. Micromobility needs its own Futurama—one where cars are marginalized. Terenig TopjianOctober 18, 2019 Perspective Why We Need to Dream Bigger Than Bike Lanes In the 1930s big auto dreamed up freeways and demanded massive car infrastructure. Micromobility needs its own Futurama—one where

The share of trips undertaken by bike in the capital is going up, with particularly strong growth seen in areas where high-quality cycling infrastructure has been put in place, according to new figures from Transport for London (TfL). In its latest Travel in London report, TfL says that on an average day, 2.5 per cent

Alissa WalkerJan 3, 2020, 1:50pm EST Imagine a city the size of Washington D.C. going an entire year without any pedestrians or cyclists being killed on its streets. That’s exactly what happened in Oslo, where officials reported this week that zero pedestrian or cyclist fatalities occurred on the city’s roads in 2019. City data for

Published 1 day ago Canada has recently been the fastest growing country in the G7, with a population rising at double the pace of the United States and United Kingdom, and four times that of France and Germany. According to Statistics Canada’s projections, our country could have 48.8-million people by 2050. And that’s the agency’s

Scotland’s Active Nation Commissioner says it’s a myth that the nation’s weather deters people from cycling. Former pro mountain biker Lee Craigie says that most people in Scotland continue to get in their cars purely because it remains the most convenient option. In an interview with inews.co.uk, Craigie said her first year in the role