03 May 2022

A third of car owners who have joined a car club have got rid of at least one vehicle since joining, with more than two-thirds (68%) of those cars that were disposed of being at least five years old, according to a survey published by Enterprise Rent-a-Car. The research involved more than 4,000 Enterprise Car Club members across the UK and was carried out by shared transport charity CoMoUK.
The study showed that half (51%) of car club users also own a vehicle, but that car club membership gave…

The expected departure of future climates from those experienced in human history challenges efforts to adapt. Possible analogs to climates from deep in Earth’s geological past have been suggested but not formally assessed. We compare climates of the coming decades with climates drawn from six geological and historical periods spanning the past 50 My. Our study suggests that climates like those of the Pliocene will prevail as soon as 2030 CE and persist under climate stabilisation scenarios. Unmitigated scenarios of greenhouse gas emissions produce climates like those of the Eocene, which suggests that we are effectively rewinding the climate clock by approximately 50 Million years, reversing a multimillion year cooling trend in less than two centuries.

The survey, and involving 507 Scotland-based drivers, was commissioned by Cycling Scotland as part of its Give Cycle Space campaign. This includes a TV ad showing a ‘close pass’ from the perspective of a cyclist.  

The city of ʼs-Hertogenbosch has a new cycle street. A very special version of a cycle street, where is not the cars which are guest but buses! The street is closed to private motor traffic. The Van Berckelstraat in the city centre had been closed since August 2020, but this spring the street was redesigned and reconstructed. The closure for private motor traffic is now permanent. Residents and the Cyclists’ union had waited more than 30 years for this to happen.

A congestion tax for Sydney’s CBD and distance-based road user charges will be considered by the NSW government under long-term plans to overhaul the state’s transport network amid escalating budgetary pressures.

A cabinet sensitive document obtained by the Herald and Nine News warns that road users “do not pay the true costs” of driving and causing congestion around the city and floats broader road-use charging as a potential remedy.

The organisation was set up in January as part of the Government’s £2bn commitment for cycling and walking during this parliament. ATE will be responsible for awarding funding to projects that improve both health and air quality.

The ‘Tyre Extinguishers’, a UK-based climate protest group, said in a statement to 1News that “concerned residents” were behind the deflated tyres in Sandringham.
They said that was “the first action in a new wave of climate protest in New Zealand”.
The group declined an interview for “security reasons”.
Following a number of social media reports, 1News was able to confirm on Friday that two vehicles in the same Auckland street were targetted by Tyre Extinguisher-inspired activists.

It was a beautiful evening in my neighbourhood, and I was enjoying one of my giant homebrews on a deck chair I had placed in the middle of the street, as part of a nearby block’s Annual Street Party.

I was talking to a couple I had just met, and the topic turned to the beauty of the neighborhood. “Wow, I didn’t even realise this area was here”, the guy said, “It’s beautiful and old and the trees are giant and all of the families hang out together outside as if it were still 1950!”. “Yeah”, said his wife, “We should really move here!”.