rdrfukJuly 24, 2019 (This article appeared in the 19th July 2019 issue of Local Transport Today as “Viewpoint” – online here) Last week Lord Berkeley retired after 26 years as President of the Road Danger Reduction Forum (RDRF). So what has been achieved since we were set up in 1993? Is road danger being properly […]

ES News email The latest headlines in your inbox Councils that block attempts to cut road deaths and injuries in London could have key roads taken out of their control, the Standard can reveal. City Hall is investigating ways to stop boroughs from “holding the city to ransom” by refusing to allow segregated cycle lanes

How to deal with despair over climate change. Mary Annaise HeglarNov 27, 2018, 1:02pm EST The National Climate Assessment released a report last week with a startling warning: climate change could cause more damage to the American economy by 2100 than the 2008 Great Recession. It’s the second report in the last few months with

For a century, we’ve loved our cars. They haven’t loved us back. Nathan Heller …………….. For years, I counted this inability to drive as one of many personal failures. More recently, I’ve wondered whether I performed an accidental kindness for the world. I am one of those Darth Vader pedestrians who loudly tailgate couples moving

Carlton Reid Jul 22, 2019, 07:01pm Using cars for almost every journey leads to congestion, air pollution, and unhealthy citizens, argues a report from the U.K. parliament’s transport select committee, published July 23. To reduce the number of such unsustainable journeys the MPs on the committee recommend that the British government should prioritize cycling and

Sunday, July 21, 2019 >>Extinction Rebellion’s Rupert Read is an Oxford‑educated philosopher with impeccable manners. You can’t save the world without a bit of havoc, he says<< Article by Julia Llewellyn Smith July 21 2019, 12:01am, The Sunday Times Rupert Read admits he’s not always the jolliest company. Take him now, describing a possible Britain

Sun 21 Jul 2019 The climate activist answers questions from famous supporters and Observer readers, with an introduction by Ali Smith ‘Everyone is welcome. Everyone is needed’: Greta Thunberg photographed in her home city, Stockholm, March 2019. Greta Thunberg. This time last year she was unimaginable. Then, pretty much from nowhere, there she was: small

Source: Parliament TV Last modified on Wed 10 Jul 2019 10.18 BST The naturalist David Attenborough appears before a parliament select committee to discuss environmental policy with MPs. He says the government’s commitment to net zero carbon emissions for the UK by 2050 is not necessarily the best approach. ‘The question is: what is practically

These ‘green’ vehicles may cut pollution but still rely on fossil fuels and do not end the inactivity causing our obesity crisis Ian Walker and Gustav Bösehans Fri 8 Jan 2016 You could be forgiven for thinking that electric cars are a magic bullet for transforming the streets of the UK. London mayoral candidate Zac

by Alex Bowden July 18 2019 A recent poll found that 70 per cent of French motorists admit to having used their mobiles while driving. Another poll found that six per cent use their phones while driving on the motorway, including 15 per cent of truck drivers. The Telegraph reports that a new measure, due