Why Cambridge Sustainable Travel Zone is Needed – Sustrans Update 8th September 2023: at a meeting yesterday, the Greater Cambridge Partnership Joint Assembly effectively abandoned the Sustainable Travel Zone and Making Connections plan. This follows the current fashion, inspired by
York Cycling Plans to be Published this Autumn York’s cycling plans are to be published this Autumn. The information comes from a York Cycle Campaign post, after the campaign had a chat with its former Chair, Kate Ravilious. She is
Pickup Truck Drivers 200% More Likely to Kill People they Hit Pickup truck drivers are 200% more likely to kill pedestrians or cyclists they hit than drivers of average vehicles. The risk of serious injury to vulnerable road users increases
Majority of Car Trips are for Leisure or Shopping In a blow to those who like to portray cars as essential, government statistics show that the majority of drivers are pootling to a National Trust property or their local shops.
Paris Mayor Celebrates 40% Less Traffic and Pollution Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo yesterday celebrated the French capital’s achievement in reducing traffic and pollution by 40% in 10 years. In her Tweet, she said that she hadn’t finished yet, and linked
85% of Drivers Speed on 20mph Roads 85% of drivers exceeded the speed limit on 20mph roads in 2022, according to the DfT’s Vehicle Speed Compliance Statistics for Great Britain 2022. The caveat is that the speeds in these statistics
Andrew Jones MP’s Weasel Words on Station Gateway If you’re a supporter of sustainable travel, calling the flagship local sustainable travel project “dead” is a funny way of showing it. And yet that’s where we are with Andrew Jones MP.
Nidderdale Greenway Extension Survey A survey is open until 18th September 2023, to collect views about an extension to the Nidderdale Greenway. The Nidderdale Greenway is hugely popular with walkers, cyclists, wheelchair users and horse-riders, but it only runs between
Brussels Circulation Plan Sees Cycling Up 36% Cycling is up 36% in central Brussels a year after a circulation plan was introduced. There is 25% less motor traffic. The circulation plan was introduced to the Vijfhoek, or Pentagon, area at
Guest Post by Richi Sanuk Richi Sanuk is the fictional Prime Minister of a failed state off the coast of mainland Europe. Any resemblance to Prime Minister of Britain Rishi Sunak is entirely intentional. I want to make it clear