Road safety complacency must end
The parliamentary debate this week on improving conditions for cyclists raises a far wider question: Why do we put up death and injury on the roads at all?
The parliamentary debate this week on improving conditions for cyclists raises a far wider question: Why do we put up death and injury on the roads at all?
A trailers increase dramatically the amount of cargo you can move by bicycle, but despite there being a wide range of different types – from designs that carry kids and shopping to those built for expeditions – they are seldom seen on British roads.
According to the inventors of the Defender, a bicycle light designed to stay permanently locked to the handlebars, their target market is potentially huge; 1 in 3 city cyclists have had their lights stolen and 80 per cent frequently forget their lights at home.
More than 25,000 people have so far pledged their support for the Times’s Cities “Fit for Cycling Campaign”:/2012/02/03/save-our-cyclists-fear and a parliamentary debate has now been scheduled in Westminster Hall for Thursday 23 February.
The environmental arguments surrounding the use of biofuel have reignited ahead of Government plans to increase the proportion of biofuels in petrol to 10 per cent. The move will increase prices at the pump, carbon emissions and the strain on people in developing world who are forced off land as biofuel crops compete with food crops according to research by ActionAid and Friends of the Earth.