News Archives - March 2012

Road user charging needed for better roads

Most people want a strategic road network that is safe, reliable, high quality and with traffic that flows freely – and the ETA believes the best way of achieving it is to directly charge the driver for each mile used.

Battersea Cogs Home rehomes abandoned bicycles

Many of the millions of bicycles that lie languishing unused in garden sheds, cast aside in roadside verges or abandoned at bike racks around the country are to be offered a new lease of life by a new bicycle-rehoming organisation called Battersea Cogs Home.

Specialized turbo electric bicycle

One of the world’s biggest bicycle brands has launched what it claims is an entirely new category of eBike: a speed-focused, high-tech urban bike that just happens to have an electric motor.

Bicycle helmet walkie-talkies

Motorcyclists have long enjoyed a choice of helmet-mounted radios that allow them to stay in touch with each other, but now cyclists can buy the world’s first Bluetooth Communication and Entertainment System for bicycle helmets.