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Cities, Environment, London, Road transport, Transport, UK news - April 23, 2021

Opponents of LTNs claim they delay emergency services – but look at the facts

One thing is clear: there is virtually no evidence that low-traffic neighbourhood schemes hold up emergency vehicles

If you were to read certain newspapers for long enough, the message would seem clear: the main cause of traffic congestion is measures to boost walking and cycling – that is, separated cycle lanes, and so-called low-traffic neighbourhoods, or LTNs.

LTNs, schemes to dissuade through traffic on smaller residential streets by filters permeable to people travelling by foot or cycle, but not by private motor vehicle – whether camera-enforced or in the physical form of planters or bollards – are at the centre of a particularly fierce transport-based culture war.

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Cycling, Environment - March 26, 2021

Want to make the streets safer for women? Start with cycling

The UK’s cycling infrastructure is hostile to women – and smart new measures in Paris and Lisbon show that change is overdue

It was enraging and exhausting to read comments on social media in the wake of Sarah Everard’s killing from men suggesting she had made a “poor decision” to walk home alone in the dark. Every day, women and gender non-conforming people reflexively make calculations about their safety in a way that most men do not have to – and yet sometimes, tragically, it still is not enough.

We have normalised a society in which men can move around as they please while the rest of us fear for our lives for the simple act of travelling home.

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Cycling, Environment - March 26, 2021

Want to make the streets safer for women? Start with cycling

The UK’s cycling infrastructure is hostile to women – and smart new measures in Paris and Lisbon show that change is overdue

It was enraging and exhausting to read comments on social media in the wake of Sarah Everard’s murder from men suggesting she had made a “poor decision” to walk home alone in the dark. Every day, women and gender non-conforming people reflexively make calculations about their safety in a way that most men do not have to – and yet sometimes, tragically, it still is not enough.

We have normalised a society in which men can move around as they please while the rest of us fear for our lives for the simple act of travelling home.

Kate Jelly is a researcher, specialising in gender, and is based in London.

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Cycling - February 19, 2021

End of UK lockdown may mean a rise in bike thefts

UK police services to launch national cycle crime partnership while pushing theft prevention

Bike theft is a perennial problem – and a pandemic-induced cycling boom inevitably means more targets for thieves.

However, last year there was a 16.3% drop in cycle theft, according to police data from Opal (the serious organised crime unit), partly because more people and their cycles were at home. Across the transport network theft dropped by 60%. Perversely, the main exception seems to be thefts from key workers such as hospital staff.

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Cycling - February 19, 2021

End of UK lockdown may mean a rise in bike thefts

UK police services to launch national cycle crime partnership while pushing theft prevention

Bike theft is a perennial problem – and a pandemic-induced cycling boom inevitably means more targets for thieves.

However, last year there was a 16.3% drop in cycle theft, according to police data from Opal (the serious organised crime unit), partly because more people and their cycles were at home. Across the transport network theft dropped by 60%. Perversely, the main exception seems to be thefts from key workers such as hospital staff.

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Opponents of LTNs claim they delay emergency services – but look at the facts

Want to make the streets safer for women? Start with cycling

Want to make the streets safer for women? Start with cycling

End of UK lockdown may mean a rise in bike thefts

End of UK lockdown may mean a rise in bike thefts

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