Scotland spending £1m on bike share schemes
The Scottish Government is supporting bike share schemes with £1m designed to enable access to a bike in an affordable, easy and convenient way. Delivered by Cycling UK, the Cycle Share Fund is designed to enable organisations to purchase cycles and equipment for schemes that provide people with access to a bike that they don’t […]
TfL opens 10 new low traffic cycleways
Transport for London has launched ten new low traffic cycleways across the capital, the most TfL have ever opened at one time, designed to make it safer and easier for people to travel around London by bike. The new routes are the latest additions to a series that mainly use new low traffic local streets […]
Active travel plans in Hove on hold over traffic implication fears
A plan to build a dedicated cycleway by losing a lane of traffic on the A259 in Hove has been put on hold over concerns about the design of a cycleway and reduction in the number of lanes of traffic. Councillors in Brighton and Hove made the decision to review seafront pedestrian and cycle provision […]
Welsh Government marks Clean Air Day with £58m spend on active travel
Wales’s Deputy Climate Change Minister has announced spending of more than £58m on ways ways to help people choose to walk and cycle for local journeys. Speaking on Clean Air Day, the Deputy Minister with responsibility for transport outlined how the investment would fund new and improved active travel routes across Wales. Since 2018, the […]
Connected Vehicle technology and artificial intelligence increase safety for bicycle traffic
Kapsch TrafficCom, in consortium with other organisations, has announced details of its research into ways to make bicycle traffic safer as early as 2020. In the course of the “Bike2CAV” project, the focus was primarily placed on road junctions, as these are traffic hubs with a high potential for collisions. The Austrian company says it […]
Cycling levels down a quarter on lockdown peak
New figures released by the Department for Transport suggest that cycling levels in England are down on their peak levels seen in March 2021, but that they are still far above 2013 levels. In March 2021, cycling levels peaked during the coronavirus pandemic with an increase of 63% since December 2013. COVID-19 restrictions were still […]
£3.6m boost for active travel in Glasgow
Projects that encourage walking, wheeling and cycling in Glasgow are to receive a £3.6m cash injection after the city’s council secured funding from Places for Everyone – an active travel infrastructure programme funded by the Scottish Government and administered by Sustrans. The funding will help progress a range of projects including the Govan City Network […]
TfL launches three new low traffic Cycleways
Transport for London has launched three new Cycleways across the capital, which it says will make it even easier for people to travel around London by bike. These new routes, the first of a series to be launched mainly using new low traffic local streets, are being delivered alongside TfL and the boroughs’ existing programme […]
Plymouth offers more sustainable travel options
A new scheme called Connect Plymouth is getting up and running offering new, more sustainable ways to get around the city. Docking stations have been popping up all over the city and when fully operational, Beryl Bikes will have a 500-strong fleet of electric bikes for hire from over 90 sites across the city. There […]
TfL confirms start of new Cycleway 50
Transport for London (TfL) has confirmed that construction work will begin on a new cycle route between Finsbury Park and Holloway Road on 20 February. The new section of Cycleway 50 will be the first along a major new corridor of safer walking and cycling infrastructure and will be a significant boost to London’s growing network of high-quality Cycleways. The new route, […]
