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…
Miniaturised trackers have become a cost effective way to keep of personal items – including bicycles. While most users might attach their Apple Airtag or Tile tracking device to a key chain, there are accessories that you to attach them discreetly to a bicycle. In the event that the bike is stolen, it can be tracked via an app. Without…
Following a successful three-month trial, holders of a travel pass in Prague now have free access to the city’s bike share scheme. Users are entitled to up to four free 15-minute hire every day. The initiative incorporate bicycles into Prague’s public transport system by providing a solution to what transport planners refer to as ‘the final mile’ – the last…
London will need to act decisively in order to reach net-zero by 2030 and help the UK reach its national target, announced before COP26. Between 2000 and 2018, London achieved a 57 per cent reduction in workplace greenhouse gas emissions, but only a 7 per cent reduction in emissions from transport. In order to reduce transport emissions by anywhere close…
France has banned internal flights where the same journey could be made by train in under two-and-a-half hours – a move that is expected to ground 12 per cent of domestic flights. By UK standards, the ruling -which forms part of a wider package of environmental measures unveiled last year – seems wildly ambitious but the French national assembly had…
