By DuncanDollimore Thursday, 5 December 2019 Hundreds of candidates are pledging to support increased investment in cycling and walking, but will your next MP stand up for active travel, and are the political parties promising any new money for cycling and walking? Cycling UK’s Head of Campaigns Duncan Dollimore reports who’s said what on funding. […]

By Tim and Laura Moss Monday, 25 November 2019 Three months before their son was born, Laura and Tim Moss embarked on a cycle-camping trip up the west coast of Denmark. Our plan was to cycle through Denmark on the North Sea Cycle Route, which weaves up the west coast of Jutland. We were drawn

Dutch Entrance Kerb – Available from 2020 Entrance blocks that allow safe vehicular crossing over the cycle carriageway when accessing from main streets into side streets, and entrances to buildings, where drivers need to cross footways and cycle lanes. Features and benefits Keep footways and cycle tracks at a constant level to improve walking and

We compare the manifestos, from Labour’s £8.2bn a year to the Tories’ pothole fund Laura LakerSun 1 Dec 2019 08.00 GMT In an election dominated by Brexit, the climate crisis and the NHS, cycling is not most people’s top priority. However, with transport now accounting for a higher share of overall emissions than any other

Results chime with earlier review indicating almost every cell in the body may be affected by dirty air Nicola DavisWed 27 Nov 2019 23.30 GMT The number of health problems linked to air pollution could be far higher than previously thought, according to research suggesting hospital admissions for conditions ranging from heart failure to urinary

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