The National Trust and Raleigh Bicycles have announced a collaboration which will see £42,000 of electric bikes and electric cargo bikes donated to National Trust properties, as the charity looks to reduce its reliance on traditional vehicles and reach carbon net zero by 2030. Hear more about this project in our... continue
The National Trust is collaborating with UK-based Raleigh to trial e-bikes – and soon e-cargo bikes too – to help them meet their climate change objectives. The e-bikes will be used by... continue
Birmingham City Council has made a commitment to work with... continue
Talking Heads' singer David Byrne, a keen cyclist, is among the judges of competition seeking to find more aesthetically pleasing ways of protecting cyclists and pedestrians on... continue
A series of striking public benches have been... continue
Great Northern and Thameslink commuters who cycle to London’s New Southgate station will find their bike parking facilities transformed when they return to rail... continue
A multi-storey car park providing 278 spaces for patients and visitors has opened at the Luton & Dunstable (L&D) Hospital in Bedfordshire. The car park will also serve as... continue
Pandemic restrictions mean that Parkex will be running digitally for 2021. Over a three-day period, traffic and... continue
Living Streets’ Walk to School Outreach programme has received £2.1m from the DfT. The initiative, which has been running with DfT support since 2017, promotes the health and environmental benefits of walking to school for children and their families. The DfT said the programme has a... continue
Work has started on a new cycle lane as part of the £102m programme being carried out by Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole Council and Dorset County Council. Protected cycle tracks are being built on both sides of Whitelegg Way between the Redhill and Northbourne roundabouts. The project... continue
A 28km circular cycling and walking route called the ‘Infinity Loop’ is due to be built in Kilmarnock, Scotland, next year. The £20m route would form a figure of eight providing connections between different communities on the outskirts of the town. The route would link to... continue
A pan-European Master Plan for Cycling Promotion has been drawn up by the PEP, a joint programme of United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the World Health Organisation (WHO). The Master Plan aims to help national and local stakeholders streamline efforts to promote... continue
Some local authorities in England are investing 170 times more per head on active travel than others, according to new research by Cycling UK. The cycling charity found that annual spending on active travel per head of population ranged from £34 to 20 pence. The figures, obtained by... continue
A new road scheme to improve journey times, provide new cycling and walking routes and support the construction of thousands of homes in Devon, the Department for Transport (DfT) has announced. The project will see the A382 widened between Trago roundabout and Forches Cross, boosting capacity on... continue
High streets across England will receive new funding to improve transport links, build new homes and transform... continue
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Planning for life on the electric highway
An important milestone has been passed on the road to a world of electric motoring. Sales figures for 2020 reveal that, for the...