HeyJaredPotholes and Pavements - the bumpy ride continues
Laura Laker has written about active transport for more than a decade; come for the reporting, stay for the whimsy - or vice versa.
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If Burnham wants Net Zero, he could look to his time in Manchester (opens the original)
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If Andy Burnham wants to reach Net Zero he could do worse than look at his time as mayor of Greater Manchester.
Croydon council was told TfL ‘no longer confident’ it can deliver on transport goals (opens the original)
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Ghost Plate Busters* (opens the original)
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Turning disused railway viaducts and tunnels into cycle routes in Somerset (opens the original)
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An e-bike adventure across Dorset (opens the original)
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The bridge in question must have washed away*. All that was there, at the bottom of a wooded valley, somewhere in Dorset, was a gully of mud, with a river running through it. If I were in America, it might have been named Abel’s Gulch. For a time, I looked behind shrubs and peered into the river – there must be a bridge somewhere, I thought. River crossings don’t just disappear – least of all in a record-breaking heatwave. I was trying to catch a train, but what initially seemed like a generous
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