Agreed. In the case outlined above, it’s because there is a faster parallel main road, so relatively few drivers ‘need’ to use this route. You’d only use it to go to a handful of places, creating a decent low-traffic cycling/horseriding route, and pretty good for walking and wheeling too.
We don’t necessarily need bespoke infrastructure everywhere.
Sometimes, quiet, low-speed & low-traffic rural lanes, waymarked as such, can function in such a way to enable sustainable transport.
I saw max dozen cars in total during a 15 minute ride - but similar no. peds and cyclists - perfect 👌
I happened to capture this photo while cycling to the nearest town to me in the New Forest.
It’s a quiet back route between small villages & hamlets - and a great example of what can happen on low-traffic rural lanes.
✅ Walking
✅ Horse-riding/walking
✅ Cycling
✅ Driving - carefully as a ‘guest’
Is it feral cycling, or sheer numbers of cyclists outgrowing the infrastructure? I’d suggest it’s the latter personally, and that further road space reallocation is needed. (Parliament Square walking and cycling only anyone?!)
If you book carefully, it doesn’t have to be. There was a £50 per person difference in price for the trip - but we reckon we saved most of that in the fact we arrived directly into the city centre, didn’t have to pay an extra bag fee etc.
I’ve also done that route many times, when I worked in Geneva - for Milan, you can go via Zurich and change, but Paris to Milan is direct and easier!
This is the route!
I mean, it’s just spectacular 🤩
Photo shows a stunning winters scene of brown scrub and trees in front of a green field, with snow capped mountains in the background
This train is full of ordinary people making fantastic use of the 7 hours on a train:
- Finishing Christmas shopping
- Watching a movie or TV
- Listening to music & watching the view
- Working/studying
- Reading
- Chatting in the buffet car
I’ll never take a short-haul flight again ☺️
My ‘office’ for today is a TGV train from Paris to Milan - via stunning scenery of mountains, waterfalls, lakes and forests 🌲🗻
I gave up short-haul flying 4 years ago for climate reasons - but I genuinely just prefer this way of travelling now.
@flightfreeuk.bsky.social
Sun was setting as I came back - nothing like trundling along in the autumn sunshine ☀️ 🍁
Stunning cycle commute to a work meeting today 🚲
After a year back in the New Forest, I am off *all* asthma medication, and am enjoying much better health and wellbeing ☀️
It's amazing how much of a difference the congestion charge in Oxford has made. The roads are much quieter, it's so easy driving around the city centre now and being able to keep to time. My job has become less stressful.
Every death & serious injury on the roads brings devastating pain & trauma to victims, family, friends, communities & colleagues.
Our powerful new road safety campaign is shaped by real stories of loss - massive thanks to RoadPeace for working with us.
#VisionZeroLDN
My stepmum on her e-trike - she’s 76 and struggles to walk long distances, but this makes door to door trips easy!
Don’t love the tone of this. Leans into lots of stereotypes.
“Let’s call it for what it is: bullshit. The truth is, politicians have talked about little else but immigration for decades and in the most dehumanising ways.
Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.”
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Amazing to see this Will! How far this project has come in a year - thanks in significant part to your hard work.
Interesting policy suggestion from @transenvuk.bsky.social - Large Vehicle Levy, where cars are charged £10 per kg over 1600kg in weight (with a 400kg allowance for EVs).
Suggest it would raise £2 billion for the Treasury.
Slide reads ‘A tax haven for cars’ and
The U.K. isn’t using its tax regime to disincentivise SUV purchases.
A UK driver pays just £3200 acquisition tax on an £85k car, compared to *£66k* in France!!
As a result, 4x as many are sold here in the U.K. than France.
@transenvuk.bsky.social
Slide shows that adults are 17% more likely and children are 77% more likely to suffer fatal injury if hit by an SUV, compared to a normal car
Shocking stats that show that adults are 17% more likely and children are *77%* more likely to suffer fatal injury if hit by an SUV, compared to a normal car.
Back to school now…it’s not just speed, but weight of cars that matters when determining outcomes of crashes…including fatalities.
We are now onto the substance - and some shocking stats on SUV sales 👇
Kicking off with @carltonreid.com in conversation with @sianberry.bsky.social and @barrysheerman.bsky.social - starting with a bit of history on Urban 4x4s and the campaigns against them.
This is not new! But it *is* pressing and urgent that we address SUVs in cities now.
Good morning London 👋 amazing to see so many people walking and cycling to work, as I head to the @cleancitiescampaign.org Carspreading Conference on the bus 🚌 jealous that a running injury means I can’t join them!
The number of children injured or killed by cars while walking or riding a bike has fallen steadily since the 1970s, but CDC researcher note that this decline is not because streets are safer, but because fewer kids are out and about in the first place.
Two different views of the future of deliveries in Oxford.
Both have their place - a zero emission van on the left, and a cargo trike max on the right.
Great innovation from the university to have bulk of internal mail delivered by cargo trike 🙌
Another child tragically killed by a driver who got behind the wheel under the influence of drugs/ alcohol.
We have technology to stop people driving in this state.
But as a society we’ve decided such deaths are acceptable collateral damage from car-domination.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Southampton is not always the most beautiful city from a public realm perspective - it’s a busy port city that’s often car dominated 🚗
But this piece of public realm design is genuinely very nice 👌
And great to see it being used by kids, playing with friends on a summer’s eve ☀️
