Over 100 people attend safe urban driving courses provided by Transport for Greater Manchester and Nationwide Cycling Academy
More than 100 people from across Greater Manchester have attended a safe urban driving training course designed to help drivers hone their skills to improve road safety for cyclists and pedestrians. Individuals and employees of businesses based in the region have been taking part in the course run by the Nationwide Cycling Academy, in partnership […]
Sustrans to launch the Walking and Cycling Index, the first report to include walking data
Sustrans, in partnership with 18 urban areas across the UK and Ireland, is set to launch the Walking and Cycling Index. This is the new name for Bike Life, its assessment of cycling in urban areas that has been running for eight years, and for the first time will include data on walking and wheeling. […]
Greater Manchester Mayor welcomes cycle hire milestone with 100,000km ridden
Greater Manchester’s new cycle hire scheme has reached a landmark of more than 100,000 kilometres collectively ridden since it launched to the public in November 2021 – the equivalent of a quarter of the distance to the moon or two-and-a-half times ridden around the world. Overall, there have been over 39,000 journeys taken on the […]
New cycle lane for Greenwich
The Royal Borough of Greenwich and Transport for London have confirmed plans to make improvements to a cycle route between Greenwich and Woolwich, following a successful initial trial period. The council says the temporary cycle lane was installed during the pandemic to help people get around the borough by bike more easily and safely. Following feedback […]
Bury and Salford get £5.4 million boost for cycling and walking schemes
Two cycling and walking schemes in Bury and Salford will share from £5.4 million of funding from the Mayor’s Cycling and Walking Challenge Fund (MCF), allowing both schemes to now move forward to delivery. The Salford Chapel Street East scheme has received over £4.1 million to transform a section of Chapel Street into an attractive […]
Number of cyclists has overtaken motorists on A-roads, says DfT
The number of cyclists has surpassed that of motorists on several UK A-roads, according to Department for Transport (DfT) data for 2020. In London, 87% of traffic on sections of Lambeth Road consists of cyclists while in the City, Royal Mints Street has registered 81% of cycling traffic, the Sunday Times reported. Other four locations […]
Report talks of £5bn cycling boost to London’s economy
A new report suggests that tripling the amount of cycling in London would create 25,000 new green jobs in London’s ‘Bicycle Economy’ and an economic dividend of nearly £5 billion a year. The Bicycle Association commissioned the report from research group Transport for Quality of Life with the support of more than a thousand “investor in cycling” companies who […]
How turning travel into a game increases walking and cycling
A new report into an experiment to increase active travel has explained how making it a game in one London borough increased the number of people walking and cycling. Website The Conversation has published an article about gamification in Hounslow in 2019, where people were offered points, badges, prizes or spots on a leaderboard in […]
New cycling and walking infrastructure given the green light in Essex
Changes to make it easier and safer for residents to walk and cycle have been given the go ahead. They form part of our ambition for Essex to become safer, greener and healthier. Improvements will be made to infrastructure in five parts of Essex. This includes the creation of new segregated cycleways, Schools Streets, Liveable […]
New data shows that people cycling in London are more diverse than ever
Transport for London (TfL) has published new data showing that long-term trends in who cycles have changed, with participation much more representative of Londoners in 2020/21 than previous years. Londoners from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities were not significantly less likely to have cycled over the past 12 months than white Londoners. 27% as […]