Streets Ahead
Cities around the world are finally discovering the pitfalls of a car-centric transport system, with the most progressive cities implementing protected cycle lanes, liveable streets and low traffic neighbourhoods for improved cycling and walking.
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She called for cyclists to be banned. Then she gave up her car. (opens the original)
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In 2015, Yvette Caster wrote a Metro article declaiming cyclists as a menace, and cycling as something that shouldn’t be taking place on the roads, which she saw as the domain of drivers. By 2023, however, she had changed her position entirely, given up her car and written for The Guardian about how it happened. She said: “When I wrote the piece, nowhere I had ever lived, which included cities across the country, seemed suited to cycling, and I, like my friends, viewed cyclists as eccentrics.” L
Is this England's worst cycling and walking route? (opens the original)
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Laura takes another road trip - this time literally - to Brighton, to look at an infamous cycle route alongside a dual carriageway. Laura’s guide, Chris Todd, formerly of campaigning organisation, Transport Action Network, wants improvements to a dangerous four-mile stretch of shared use pavement along the A27 in East Sussex. While a hardy few use the path, which is part of National Cycle Network route 90, it's a gap in an otherwise safe network connecting Brighton and its universities with the
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