Hertfordshire gets £6.4m in second tranche of Active Travel Fund
Hertfordshire CC has been awarded £6.4m by the Department for Transport after a successful bid by the County Council for a share of the second phase of the Active Travel Fund grant. The first phase of funding allocated to Hertfordshire in June (£1.25m) enabled the county council to implement a range of temporary active travel […]
Electric vehicles and active travel at the heart of Prime Minister’s new plan for a ‘green industrial revolution’
Accelerating the transition to electric vehicles and making cycle and walking more attractive ways to travel are at the heart of a ten point plan for a ‘green industrial revolution’, launched by the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson. The plan is to provide more ‘backing’ for the UK’s ‘world leading’ car manufacturing bases including in the […]
TTF data confirms cycling-weather correlation
The latest Transport Technology Forum weekly digest of transport use suggests the increase in cycling since the Coronavirus crisis hit has begun to reduce, possibly due to changes in the weather. Data from a range of authorities indicates cycling volumes rose last week but they are down 20 percentage points from two weeks before, probably […]