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August 19, 2015 Cycling
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August 19, 2015 Better public transport
April 14, 2019 The big questions about electric cars
April 13, 2019 20-minute suburbs: Australia’s walking-friendly cities
April 13, 2019 Labor Government could buy petrol, diesel, jet fuel and crude oil to prevent Australia running out
April 13, 2019 The Biggest Saudi Oil Field Is Fading Faster Than Anyone Guessed
April 13, 2019 Saudi Aramco says climate lawsuits ‘could result in substantial costs’
April 13, 2019 Australia’s plunging wind, solar, storage costs stun fossil fuel industry
April 13, 2019 Rethinking traffic congestion to make our cities more like the places we want them to be
April 13, 2019 The Political Battle Over California’s Suburban Dream
April 13, 2019 Cars are killing us. Within 10 years, we must phase them out
April 13, 2019 Carmakers on course for $2-12bn fines for missing EU CO2 targets: Moody’s
April 13, 2019 Commercial hybrid-electric aircraft, reduced carbon emissions
April 13, 2019 Shipping Comes to Terms With $50 Billion Clean-Fuel Bill
April 13, 2019 a 22-fold increase from the current levels of one in 50 children cycling to school. Current (left) and potential (right) for cycling to school. Propensity to Cycle Tool, Author provided Even today’s best performing areas would see growth. For example, in Cambridge (with the highest levels of cycling across the country), the amount of children cycling to school would rise from 30% to 53%. All areas see substantial increase, even rural and hillier places; and no English local authority would have fewer than 16% of trips to school cycled. At present, child cyclists are almost absent from most of our streets, and this amount of child cycling is hard to imagine. To help planners visualise and plan for growth, the PCT maps cycling to school, along routes, in neighbourhoods, and for individual schools. Some roads might have as many as 500, 1,000 or more children pedalling along them, if we were able to create conditions that prioritise children over cars. “School streets” are one such policy, restricting car access at school times, leaving streets clear for children to walk, cycle, play, and socialise without fear of traffic injury. A school street in Southwark, London. © Will Norman, CC BY-NC Other options are to create more widespread interventions. For instance, London’s mini-Holland programme (in Enfield, Kingston, and Waltham Forest) involved closing some neighbourhoods to through motor traffic. Replacing rat runs with planters, play areas, and bike parking, the scheme is already resulting in an increase in walking and cycling. Health and climate benefits What might the benefits be of getting more children to ride to school? Many benefits can’t easily be quantified, such as the impacts of redressing long-term decline in children’s independent mobility. For children, available space has too often shrunk from whole neighbourhoods, to streets, to front or back yards – with the greatest impacts on children without access to private outdoor space. But some impacts can be quantified. The PCT shows that if England achieved its school cycling potential, the benefits could be huge. The calculations suggest that achieving the scenario outlined above would increase physical activity from school travel among pupils by 57% and reduce transport-related carbon emissions by 81 kilotonnes per year. These benefits vary by primary versus secondary school. Primary school children would see a 9% increase in physical activity from school travel (largely because many walk at present, with distances short). Secondary school children would see a 97% increase. Using World Health Organisation physical activity targets, the proportion of secondary school children getting at least half their recommended physical activity from active school travel would increase threefold, from 13.6% to 40.4%. We’ve got a long way to go before cycling to school is normalised. If we get there, the benefits are great: improved health and well-being, cars off the road, greater child (and parental) mobility and independence. This will involve a shift in mindset, prioritising children’s health over adults’ car-driving convenience. The new PCT layer contributes to an emerging evidence base to help local policymakers plan for, and prioritise, child cycling.
April 13, 2019 Twenty times more English children could cycle to school with better transport planning
April 13, 2019 Cycling now the most popular form of rush hour transport on London streets, report shows
April 13, 2019 Why Trains Are So Much Greener Than Cars or Airplanes
April 13, 2019 Melbourne airport rail link accord
April 13, 2019 Crossrail project likely to open in 2021 and cost more
April 13, 2019 Can rail investment act as an economic growth driver?
April 13, 2019 Albanese labels Budget ‘con job’
April 13, 2019 Free public transport is an attractive idea. But would it solve our traffic woes?
April 13, 2019 Local business to help build next generation of Transperth buses
April 13, 2019 Call that an EV? This is an EV… Volvo rolls out self-driving electric bus
April 7, 2019 The Biggest Saudi Oil Field Is Fading Faster Than Anyone Guessed
February 24, 2019 Living ‘liveable’: this is what residents have to say about life on the urban fringe

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