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Brussels has doubled the amount of money it pays residents who give up their car. The Bruxell’air scheme launched in 2006 and until recently paid drivers €500 to give up their car. This cash incentive has now doubled to €900 (£762). The financial incentive aims to encourage motorists in Brussels to give up their cars in favour of modes of...

Whether you use your phone while riding to plot your route, take pics or call on our cycle rescue service if you break down, it's all for nothing if it runs out of juice. Power banks offer a back-up, but better still a solar-powered phone charger. We've got a phone charger to give away that offers the best of both worlds. Four fold-out...

Following news that New Yorkers can now earn a generous bounty if they submit camera footage of illegal idling lorries, comes a British-designed app that can identify and help report speeding drivers. With speeding on British roads commonplace and for the most part unchallenged due to an underfunded police force and a government unwilling...

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...

We've collected all manner of weird and wonderful cycling-related goodies over the years so we're having a spring clean clear-out. The good news is we're packing the good stuff into a series of mystery boxes that you can win. This week's box will contain brand new cycling-related items worth at least £100. We're not going to list the...

The law on people using their mobile phones while driving becomes stricter from 25 March 2022. Drivers can now be fined up to £1,000 and receive six points on their licence for any hand held phone use. Since 2003, it’s been an offence to use a hand-held mobile phone for 'interactive communication' while driving. However, over the last...

In news that will surprise nobody who ever walks or cycles, research from America has found that SUVs and vans are substantially more likely than cars to hit pedestrians when making turns. “We already know that larger vehicles cause more severe injuries when they strike pedestrians,” said Jessica Cicchino, one of the authors of the research...

Now that every man, woman and child seems to have their own smartphone, why don't we help prosecute dangerous drivers by paying a bounty to those who catch them in the act? After all, our police is overstretched and crimes such as driving while using a mobile phone have become endemic. The law on mobile phone offences is being tightened...

As the price of a litre of diesel this week topped £1.75, video surfaced of a driver in a supermarket car park filling his car's fuel tank with bottle after bottle of vegetable oil - footage which quickly went viral on social media. Vegetable oil from the supermarket costs as little as £1.15 per litre, and you can use up to 2,500 litres of...

We've known for decades that higher traffic speeds increases road danger. As a general rule for every 1 mph reduction in average speed, collision frequency reduces by around 5% (Taylor, Lynam and Baruya, 2000). It's the reason the ETA helped found 20s Plenty to campaign for a speed limit of 20mph to be normal on residential streets and in...