Cambridge looks set to become a test bed for driverless buses – otherwise known as autonomous mass-transit travel. The Affordable Very Rapid Transit (AVRT) would run overground on segregated routes and tunnelled sections . Headed up by Professor John Miles, an expert on transport systems at the University of Cambridge, a feasibility study estimates the cost of a 75kms network…
The cost of motoring looks set to increase further this year with news that car insurance premiums are up this year by 11 per cent on average – the biggest hike since records began. A major factor in the soaring cost of insurance premiums has been the increasing number of fraudulent claims. The chancellor last year announced plans to remove…
The story of Jenni Morton-Humphreys and how she mounted her own sting operation to recover a stolen bike when police refused to help is a parable about cycling in Britain in 2017. With hundreds of thousands of bicycles pinched across Britain every year, the theft itself was unexceptional – as was the bike’s appearance a few days later on Facebook’s…
We think the number of bicycle baskets per 100 riders is probably a good indicator of how far cycling has evolved in any given area. The fact they are used on town bikes by people running errands demonstrates cycling has become an unexceptional, inclusive and everyday activity – a world away from a sport. To promote this cycling utopia, we…
Buses in Britain have a poor image largely due to decades of underinvestment and our car-centric culture. However, neither of these factors had prevented the launch of a luxurious inter-city sleeper bus service in the land of the car. Cabin is a new bus service between Los Angeles and San Francisco that offers its customers their own bunk as well as…
