Parking charges and residents’ permits rarely, if ever, reflect the real estate value of the land or road space occupied by the car. And yet, it’s an issue that drivers feel extremely strongly about. Earlier this year we built a fake skip in which to store bicycles, but so angry were some drivers that we were temporarily replacing a single…
Car passengers are being promised a new gizmo that promises to reduce the risk of them ‘dooring’ a passing cyclist. Doors opened into the road by drivers and passengers who have failed to look behind them have potentially fatal consequences for cyclists, so Mitsubishi has developed a new car feature that projects a symbol onto the road when a door…
The Bookman bicycle whistle might be based on nineteenth century technology, but its benefits for urban cyclists are current. Established in Birmingham in 1870, Acme Whistles has teamed up with Swedish bicycle accessory supremo, Bookman, to create a new design of whistle for today’s rider. According to Bookman’s Johan Lidehall: “Most of our customers probably wouldn’t like the look of a big…
Here at the ETA, we are proud to have helped coin the phrase “Twenty’s plenty” and thrilled that over the years it evolved into 20’s Plenty for Us, a campaign group we continue to support. 20’s Plenty for Us recently analysed road casualty figures for 2016 and found there to be ‘no justification for 30 mph as the national speed limit’. DfT statistics published…
Cyclists in Eire and Northern Ireland are having a hard time of it. First came the news this summer that electrically-assisted bicycles in Northern Ireland have no legal classification and as a result are considered in law to be little different from mopeds and as such require insurance, and MOT and VED to be paid. Over the border, the transport…
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