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Pedal-powered LTNs: Could mobile modal filters help protect school streets?

Towns and cities can be safer and more pleasant places to live and work when motorised traffic is restricted, so how best to enforce LTNs and school streets? Planters and bollards are often used to create low traffic neighbourhoods by blocking rat runs, and cameras are relied on to safeguard school streets, but how about the idea of a mobile…

Bag yourself a Boxing Day bicycle build

Let’s hear it for old-school Xmas day presents. If you remember a world before smartphones and consoles, you may have fond memories of analog gifts you had to put together yourself. Like the classic 1/8 scale model bicycle kit we’re giving away. If you spent your childhood dreaming of finding a 10-speed racer under the tree, leave us a message…

As Scottish city bans pavement parking, is it time to retire the Catclaw?

Edinburgh will be the first city in Scotland to completely ban pavement parking.  In a change to the law seen as long overdue by anybody who has had to negotiate a blocked footpath while pushing a buggy, steering a mobility scooter or travelling by wheelchair, drivers who mount the kerb will from next month be fined £100. Double parking and…

Protest, paint and pop-up zebra crossings: How people power can make roads safer

20mph limits only work if they’re stuck to. A vocal minority of drivers have unusual ideas about why lower speeds in the areas people live, work and go to school are a bad idea, but what can be done to help those who are supportive of traffic calming measures? After all, everyone benefits from safer roads – however they travel.…

Our mobility scooter ice cream trailer: Bringing sunshine whatever the weather

Do you know someone with a mobility scooter or powered chair who deserves a pick-me-up? We’ve built the world’s first mobility scooter ice cream trailer to deliver a taste of sunshine (and ice cream) to the most deserving people. However dreary the weather, our mobility scooter ice cream trailer can drop in on community centres, workplaces, care homes – we…