Britain welcomes Car Free Day 2009
World Car Free Day, or ‘In town without my car day’ as it is now referred to in Britain, takes place on 22nd September 2009 as an international celebration of environmentally-sensitive transport.
World Car Free Day, or ‘In town without my car day’ as it is now referred to in Britain, takes place on 22nd September 2009 as an international celebration of environmentally-sensitive transport.
One in five young drivers do not have valid car insurance, new figures from the Motor Insurers’ Bureau have shown.
The statistics revealed that this represents 250,000 people aged between 17 and 20 years old.
Adam West, chief executive for the researcher, commented that these motorists need to think about the consequences of their actions, rather than just the short-term cost s
The transport operator, Stagecoach, is being battered as its revenue growth slows, but the company’s founder, Brian Souter, has upped his support for sustainable fuels by investing in a producer of biodiesel from used chip fat.
Synthetic ‘trees’ that are thousands of times more effective at absorbing CO2 than their natural counterparts could one day help slow climate change according to a report by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
Network Rail has unveiled proposals for a high-speed train service that could see journey times from Edinburgh to London cut from more than four hours to a little over two