Living Streets, the UK charity for everyday walking, has celebrated its 90th anniversary by paying... continue
The winners of the 2019 everywoman in Transport & Logistics Awards have been revealed. Over the past 12 years... continue
The Annual Survey of Mobility as a Service is now in its third... continue
Former Oxfordshire County Council transport and planning... continue
The campaign to make 20mph the default speed limit on most... continue
Kent County Council is to pilot measures to slow vehicle speeds to 24mph so that signed-only 20mph speed limits can then be justified. Kent... continue
Transport for London is consulting on cutting the speed limit on all of its roads within the central London congestion charge zone from 30mph to 20mph by May next year. The policy would apply to 5.6 miles of road including Millbank, Albert Embankment, Victoria Embankment, Lambeth Palace... continue
Uber-owned electric bike hire firm Jump has launched its first UK?scheme in the London Borough of Islington. The scheme features 350 bikes. Users locate available bikes with an app. A hire costs an initial £1 with the first five minutes free and a charge of 12p a minute thereafter. The clock... continue
Nottingham City Council is to introduce a new bike hire scheme, funded with a slice of the city’s recently awarded Transforming Cities Fund grant. Nottingham’s existing Citycard Cycles bike hire scheme features just 40 bikes and seven docking stations, and is operated by the council... continue
London mayor Sadiq Khan has criticised Westminster City Council and other un-named boroughs, accusing them of trying to thwart his cycling agenda. The... continue
Oxfordshire County Council has approved a scheme to improve cycle safety at a notorious city centre junction. Oxfordshire’s cabinet member for the environment, Yvonne Constance, last week approved the redesign of... continue
Cycling infrastructure design standards often fail to meet the needs of those using adapted cycles including tricycles, tandems and cargo bikes, according to a new report by Sustrans and consultant Arup. “Adapted cycles are typically wider (up to 1.2 metres), longer (up to 2.8 metres) and... continue
Municipal bus operator Newport Transport has become the first transport operator to use a new £120m financing facility for the roll-out of electric vehicles. The operator has struck a deal with Zenobe Energy for the supply of 15 electric single-deck buses. Zenobe will finance the buses,... continue
“There’s a cheap joke to be made about Transport for London’s decision to bring in a 20mph speed limit across central London – for drivers stuck in endless city jams, 20mph sounds like a distant speedy dream,” an editorial in The Evening Standard began on 5 June.... continue
I t was always mistaken to think that transport is only about vehicles. The logic was flawed, for many interlocking reasons including its failure to deliver promised benefits even on the classical rather narrow appraisal criteria dominated by speed. Walking and cycling are more important for... continue
Highways England is to shorten the intervals between emergency areas on smart motorways in response to continuing concerns that the roads are unsafe. Transport minister Jesse Norman told MPs of the plans last month. “To help drivers feel more confident they can find a place to stop in an... continue
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