News from Elsewhere

Mind the gap: Lime reports 162% increase in e-bike rides from closed London Underground station – cyclingindustry.news


24 February, 2022 Simon Cox
A 162% increase in e-bike rides from Bank station, coupled with a 136% increase at London Bridge station: These eye widening numbers have been recorded by e-mobility provider Lime, as a direct result of London Underground’s Northern Line closure for improvement works.
For context, Transport for London (TFL) reports that, “Bank and Monument (Northern Line) stations see a combined total of more than 120 million passengers in a normal year.”

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Road to bankruptcy – change.org – Stop The Wensum Link


Petition update 17 Feb 2022
Is Norfolk County Council gambling on receiving Government funding to avoid possible bankruptcy with the funding of this doomed road?  This was the question arising out of yesterday’s  Council’s Scrutiny Committee’s meeting. 
Following the meeting Councillor Osborne posted this on Twitter:
‘Norfolk County Council have NO contingency reserve if the Norwich Western Link fails. If it fails, the cost will completely wipe out their general revenue reserves at £20million. This is huge. @NorfolkCC is gambling with Norfolk’s financial future’

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“Not even close” – European cities failing on green mobility transition, says study – cyclingindustry.news


4 March, 2022 Mark Sutton
A new study from the Clean Cities Campaign has outlined just how far off the pace European cities are when it comes to meeting targets on climate-friendly mobility forms.
“No major European city is fully on track to move its citizens onto more climate-friendly forms of transport by 2030, threatening to undermine a vital component of the EU’s efforts to cut greenhouse gases,” starts the campaign in its statement.

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Sustrans reports ‘huge progress’ in improving National Cycle Network – transportxtra


Deniz Huseyin 28 February 2022
More than 300 barriers have been removed or redesigned on the National Cycle Network (NCN) over the past three years, Sustrans has reported. The walking and cycling charity, which is the custodian of the UK-wide NCN, launched a strategy in late 2018 to improve the NCN. 
Sustrans says it is on course to make 66% of the NCN traffic-free, adding an extra 5,000 traffic-free miles, by 2040.

Consultations

Parklet consultations 2022

Dates: GOS Parklet consultation  11th Jan to 2nd Feb  2022; Somerstown parklets 28 Jan to 21 Feb; Antrim Road 7-27 Mar; Reply to:  safetravel@camden.gov.uk; CCC member dealing with it Jean Dollimore. Responded 1st and 21st February and 24th March.

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Weekly Round-up

Sian Berry shows how the Mayor CAN cancel the Silvertown Road Tunnel, and develop smart fair privacy friendly road charging at the Blackwall Tunnel. – Caroline Russell – Twitter February 27, 2022 By Steven Edwards @CarolineRussellMy brilliant Assembly colleague @sianberry shows how the Mayor CAN cancel  the Silvertown Road Tunnel, and develop smart fair privacy friendly road charging

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