UK Active Travel
- Amazon delivery vans were parked in bike lanes all over Cambridge today.mastodon.social Daniel Quinn (@danielquinn@mastodon.social)
Attached: 3 images #Amazon delivery vans were parked in bike lanes all over Cambridge today. #FuckCars
- The cyclists tracking down their own stolen bikeswww.bbc.com The cyclists tracking down their own stolen bikes
Fewer than 3% of reported bike thefts since 2019 resulted in a charge or summons, the BBC learns.
- Norfolk Broads villagers win 600m footpath row in Neatisheadwww.edp24.co.uk Villagers win fight over path to Broads 'hidden gem' after farmer blocked it off
Villagers in Neatishead have won the right to use a 600m footpath to a 'hidden gem' of the Norfolk Broads after it was blocked off by a farmer.
- Risley villagers stroll to victory in 21-year footpath sagawww.bbc.co.uk Risley villagers stroll to victory in 21-year footpath saga
Campaigners have spent two decades fighting for the right to use the closed route.
- Steel prices blamed for Evesham bridge cost increasewww.bbc.co.uk Steel prices blamed for Evesham bridge cost increase
Hampton Bridge was estimated to cost £4.26m to build in 2021, it is now thought to cost £16m.
- Woodstock Road: how a visionary scheme became paint on a pavementoxfordclarion.uk Woodstock Road: how a visionary scheme became paint on a pavement
Woodstock Road has a traffic problem. Your Clarion writer experienced this first-hand recently. It was 3.15pm, school run time, and traffic was moving desperately slowly – we would estimate an average of 5mph. It was stop-start all the way from First Turn to Squitchey Lane, where Team Clarion decid...
- Speeding delivery e-bikes are a menace – but the solution isn't to push all cyclists into the road | Peter Walkerwww.theguardian.com Speeding delivery e-bikes are a menace – but the solution isn't to push all cyclists into the road | Peter Walker
Birmingham’s plan to ban bikes from pedestrianised streets ignores the real problem of food couriers’ illegally souped-up cycles, writes Peter Walker, the Guardian’s acting deputy political editor
- Guildford: Active travel scheme scrapped over safety concernswww.bbc.co.uk Guildford: Active travel scheme scrapped over safety concerns
A cycling and shared pedestrian route on London Road in Burpham had been recommended for approval.
- Radcliffe: Lack of cycle path repair date causing frustrationwww.bbc.co.uk Radcliffe: Lack of cycle path repair date causing frustration
The council says it needs to figure out how the works will happen as it will use 'heavy machinery'.
- Strawberry Line: Bridge installed over busy road to help cyclistswww.bbc.co.uk Strawberry Line: Bridge installed over busy road to help cyclists
A new section of a cycle route will be opening, as a new bridge is lifted over a "busy" road.
- Active Travel Cafe [YouTube]www.youtube.com Active Travel Cafe
Weekly, free, online forum for all things active and sustainable travel - join us live on zoom every Tuesday at 5pm for news, views, speakers, solidarity and chat (or catchup via on YouTube).
- Hastings: Bus route changes anger transport campaignerswww.bbc.com Hastings: Bus route changes anger transport campaigners
Longer routes are being broken into two small routes, with passengers now having to pay twice.
- Durham Leazes footbridge to be demolished despite petitionwww.bbc.com Durham Leazes footbridge to be demolished despite petition
Campaigners say the new crossing would be unsafe but the council says it is the best solution.
- Major upgrade of 1930s Leicester cycleway completewww.bbc.co.uk Major upgrade of 1930s Leicester cycleway complete
The project has seen the original crumbling concrete replaced on the key route into Leicester.
- Number of cars or vans - Census Maps, ONSwww.ons.gov.uk Number of cars or vans - Census Maps, ONS
Census maps is an interactive tool to explore Census 2021 data across England and Wales for different topics down to a neighbourhood level.
As we were talking about street parking this is an interesting data set on how many cars each household has.
- What are your throughts on pavement parking?
Link is just to inspire discussion I know it's already closed.
- Government should “urgently” legalise e-scooters says shared transport charity - says serious safety incidents are rareebiketips.road.cc Government should “urgently” legalise e-scooters says shared transport charity - says serious safety incidents are rare
An open letter organised by national shared transport charity Collaborative Mobility UK (CoMoUK) is calling for the new Labour government to ‘urgently’ legalise e-scooters, saying it is the only way to resolve the problems caused by “entirely unregulated” privately-owned e-scooters being ridden on p...
- Labour investment in cycling and walking will be unprecedented, says Louise Haighwww.theguardian.com Labour investment in cycling and walking will be unprecedented, says Louise Haigh
Transport secretary says government’s strategy for active travel could cut GP appointments by millions
- Public rights of way applications backlog concerns campaignerswww.bbc.co.uk Public rights of way applications backlog concerns campaigners
Nearly 8,000 requests to get public paths added to an official map have not been processed.
