Most of us who live in cities become blind to the endless rows of cars parked along every street – immune to the visual clutter and numb to the road danger to which they contribute. We forget that the streets on which we live are for people first. However, there are those who make a stand. Environmental campaigner and supporter…
This month marks 25 years since we inaugurated Britain’s first national Car Free Day – an event that’s now global and still going strong. Many hundreds of town and cities around the world are expected to take part in this year’s event on 22 September 2022. While we’re celebrating the quarter century since we helped usher in the UK’s first…
The government’s chief medical officer for England, Sir Chris Whitty, has urged people to get cycling. Speaking at the annual conference of the Local Government Association and the Association of Directors of Public Health, Whitty said people should be encouraged to incorporate walking or cycling to work into their daily lives to help combat obesity and that exercise is among…
Chris Boardman is to head up Active Travel England (ATE) – a new Ofsted-style organisation that will rate councils on how well they make provision for walking and cycling. ATE will be consulted as part of major planning applications to advise on provision for walking and cycling and inspect infrastructure built by local councils. Local authorities could lose funding if…
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan this week warned that over-reliance on cars for short journeys ‘will replace one public health crisis with another – caused by filthy air and gridlocked roads’. His prediction followed news that over one third of car journeys in London could be walked in 25 minutes and that congestion associated with those trips costs the city…
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