Court rules Dutch government has duty to protect citizens’ rights in face of climate change Isabella KaminskiLast modified on Sat 21 Dec 2019 04.15 GMT The Netherlands’ supreme court has upheld a ruling ordering the country’s government to do much more to cut carbon emissions, after a six-year fight for climate justice. The court ruled […]

18 December, 2019 Data released from the Department for Transport this week covering the nation’s transport habits in 2018 has shown UK cycling levels remain flat. This year’s report mirrors several of those prior, with ‘since 2002’ used regularly within the document as a benchmark for progress. The graph linking then to now is, however,

This week’s Good Cycling Facility is an underpass running directly under (and allowing easy access to) Bilthoven railway station in Utrecht province, in the Netherlands. Previously (as can be seen on Streetview) there was no underpass at this location, and a road crossed the railway at precisely this point on a level crossing. Now only

This week’s Good Cycling Facility is a cycle path running parallel to a fast N-road (the equivalent of a UK A-road) near the town of Zeist in the Netherlands. The path is well-separated from the road with a wide verge, and trees have been planted between the path and the road to increase the feeling

Rebecca Morley The climate change crisis is amongst the greatest environmental and health risks of the 21st century. Transport accounts for 26% of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions, with the main sources being petrol and diesel cars. It comes as no surprise, then, that Sustrans is calling on all political parties to take bold action

Rebecca Morley The Mayor of Bristol has completed VOLT’s e-bike challenge – to cycle to as many of his mayoral engagements across a two-week period as possible. Marvin Rees completed the challenge last week and over the period had cycled to and from work every day, as well as riding to all engagements in Bristol,

Rebecca Morley Almost three-quarters of consumers (74%) would be happy to wait longer for goods if the delivery method was more sustainable, a survey commissioned by international branding and customer experience agency I-AM has revealed. The ‘HERE: NOW Exploring The Next Generation of Convenience’ survey reports that these planet-conscious consumers would approve of deliveries by

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

The family of a teenage cyclist who was killed by a speeding driver in Coventry have appealed for motorists to drive within the speed limit. Police investigators said that Tajinder Rai was doing a minimum of 67mph in a 40mph zone when he hit 17-year-old Ryan Willoughby-Oakes. The Coventry Telegraph reports that Rai was driving

The West Yorkshire Combined Authority has applied for £23m to turn the Queensbury Tunnel into a “high quality cycling route”. It has also urged the government to act swiftly before Highways England’s work to abandon the tunnel has progressed too far. The Queensbury Tunnel was closed more than 60 years ago and is currently managed