Campaign for Better Transport 10 May 2018 Responding to the Secretary of State’s decision on the Silvertown Tunnel planning application, Bridget Fox, sustainable transport campaigner at Campaign for Better Transport, said: “This is a bad decision for Londoners and sets a poor precedent for the rest of the country. Committing billions to build this four-lane […]

A couple of weeks back I wrote about how the Design Manual for Roads & Bridges (DMRB) was changing and this week I’m doing to have a dig through CD195 – Designing for Cycle Traffic. The first thing to say is the DMRB is a standard to be used on Highways England and devolved administration

This week’s Good Cycling Facility is a filtered street in the city centre of Utrecht. The canal on the left is a replacement of the original city canal that had been filled in, in the 20th century, for an inner ring road. The large junction that was at this location has now gone, and the

Rebecca Morley Cycling UK has written to all the main parties’ candidates asking them to make a ‘simple pledge’ to stand up for cycling and walking if they are successful in their election campaigns. The charity is calling on each candidate to pledge their support to an increase in investment in cycling and walking to

Mark Sutton15 November, 2019 A newly published study of Denmark’s cycling infrastructure and the associated benefits attached to safe cycling has cemented links to improved health, reduced congestion and ever increasing numbers taking to bikes. Pulling data from eight of the key cycle superhighways that are present in the capital region, it was found that

‘We’re in a deep hole over the climate crisis and we need to stop digging,’ warn experts Damian CarringtonLast modified on Wed 20 Nov 2019 17.16 GMT The world’s nations are on track to produce more than twice as much coal, oil and gas as can be burned in 2030 while restricting rise in the

Stephen Burany Thu 21 Nov 2019 A cosy consensus among politicians allowed lofty targets to be set, and then ignored. But now voters want actual solutions The most shocking political development of 2019 may be the end of the nearly three-decade old consensus that the public doesn’t care about the climate crisis. People were hopelessly

Head of World Meteorological Organization says ‘no sign of a slowdown, let alone a decline’ Damian CarringtonLast modified on Mon 25 Nov 2019 18.48 GMT The concentration of climate-heating greenhouse gases has hit a record high, according to a report from the UN’s World Meteorological Organization. The jumps in the key gases measured in 2018