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E-motorbike mania, #232 (opens the original)
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This week, the growing problem of illegal e-motorbikes is evident not only here in the UK, where commuters are turning to dodgy products, but into Europe. Streets Ahead shadows the City of London’s cycling team catching e-motos. Meanwhile, the EU industry calls for a crackdown on non-compliant products and their knock on effect on road safety, cycling uptake and the regulated industry. In happier news elsewhere, cycle lanes are up and traffic lanes and parking are down.BIG STORIES FOR CYCLING AD
Bigger bonnets, better routes and Barcelona backs e-bikes, #231 (opens the original)
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This week, I’ve been at the Making Active Places conference in Manchester - Active Travel England’s first annual get-together sharing knowledge and best practice across transport and placemaking. Elsewhere there’s calls for e-moto bans, warnings over bigger car bonnets, and we look to Barcelona where e-bike subsidies are the latest solution for a city already hit hard by the climate crisis.BIG STORIES FOR CYCLING ADVOCACYGET E-MOTO MENACE OFF OUR ROADS. The Guardian’s senior political correspond
The spaces between, #230 (opens the original)
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This week, I was struck by something Chris Boardman said (link below to his new Substack) about what happens between the places we are coming from and the ones we’re going to. These spaces might range from a roaring urban freeway to a sanitised and uninspiring pedestrianised square. To work, these places need to consider who is using them, whose experiences they enable and whose they limit. Wouldn’t it be great if we started thinking this way?BIG STORIES FOR CYCLING ADVOCACYLTNS FOR NYC. Uncheck
Disappearing bike lanes, murky algorithms and ghost number plates, #229 (opens the original)
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This week, we’ve an array of stories ranging from tackling antisocial and dangerous driving, to dealing with councils who pull out cycling safety measures. The government hopes to tackle ‘consultation culture’ that stops real change happening on the ground, while delivery riders are calling on firms like Deliveroo to reveal the mysteries of ‘black box’ algorithms that dictate their working lives.BIG STORIES FOR CYCLING ADVOCACYAN END TO CONSULTATION CULTURE? Consultations are valid ways to help
Power to the cities, #228 (opens the original)
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This week, cities are in the spotlight for their abilities to change not only the lives of their residents but to shape the national narrative. Birmingham is looking to roll out 20mph speed limits, despite the culture warriors; London is pushing back gently against the rush to robotaxis, and we ask what the future of devolution in England will look like - via some less evolved thinking in one city authority. Meanwhile, how much does the ‘eye-level’ street environment impact our health?BIG STORIE
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