Lee Waters on Streets Ahead Podcast Wales’s Deputy Minister for Climate Change appeared on the Streets Ahead podcast earlier this year, and chatted with hosts Adam Tranter, Laura Laker and Ned Boulting about roads and active travel. The episode aired
Laughable Tory “Plan for Drivers” The Tories have published a laughable “Plan for Drivers” as a government policy paper. Foreword The Foreword is full of gaslighting and Doublespeak such as ‘the easy political choice is to vilify the private car…’
Irresponsible Sunak Wants More Dangerous Streets Irresponsible Prime Minister Sunak wants English streets to be more dangerous, reports the BBC. Apparently Sunak is against traffic-calming schemes and 20mph zones. He says he wants to end a fictional “war on motorists”.
Results of Autumn 2022 Oatlands Consultation Still not Published The results of an Autumn 2022 consultation on active travel measures on Oatlands Drive and the Saints residential area still have not been published. The consultation was part of the so-called
Harrogate 20mph Zone Could Include Main Roads Harrogate’s proposed 20mph zone could include main and strategic roads, not just residential roads. That’s the request made by the Oatlands and Pannal Ash 20mph campaigners at a Harrogate & Knaresborough Area Constituency
Cycling Stripped Out of West Harrogate Sustainable Transport Package All meaningful cycling elements have been stripped out of the West Harrogate sustainable transport package by North Yorkshire Council (NYC). That emerges from a report in the Harrogate Advertiser about revised
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
Transport Planning Society Writes to Sunak to Defend LTNs The Transport Planning Society (TPS) has written to Rishi Sunak to defend and support active travel and mode shift schemes like Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs). It comes after Sunak used an
North Yorkshire Make Promises at Road Safety Meeting North Yorkshire County Council (NYCC) made road safety promises at a meeting at St Aidan’s School on Monday 21st March. This included a commitment to build a parallel crossing of Oatlands Drive
Draft Manual for Streets is Promising An early report about the planned new Manual for Streets (MfS) is encouraging. The Sunday Times’ Transport Editor Nicholas Hellen says that it will put the transport hierarchy into action. Pedestrians and cyclists are