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Survey finds 65% of Londoners changed their usual mode of transport for the ULEZ - Green Car Congress
by Terry Zdan 11 May '20

11 May '20

https://www.greencarcongress.com/2020/05/20200510-ulez.html

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Cycle sales booming in UK
by C Feaver 10 May '20

10 May '20

Demand for more mobility and exercise amid lifestyle changes imposed by the lockdown has also boosted bike sales across the UK. "Very strong" bicycle sales at bike and car parts chain Halfords this week saw its shares soar by 23%. Some bike stores are battling to meet demand. Broadribb Cycles in Bicester normally despatches 20-30 bikes a week, but manager Stuart Taylor says the shop is currently selling 50 bikes every day - and seeing a commensurate rise in demand for servicing. "It's just gone crazy," he told the BBC. "People are dragging bikes out of sheds and garages and finding they need new tyres and cables. ... But rusty cyclists may be nervous on busy roads, so the pressure group Cycling UK has commissioned research showing how 100 "pop-up" lanes in 10 English cities could make cycling and walking easier. ... The Scottish government has announced£10m of funding for councils to provide temporary space on the roads this way <https://www.transport.gov.scot/news/10-million-to-support-pop-up-active-tra…>, and Cycling UK is urging ministers in Westminster to follow suit. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-52564351 -- Sent from my tablet

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Transport Committee launches e-scooter inquiry - Lexology
by Zdan, Terry (MI) 08 May '20

08 May '20

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=98338dea-2e74-4fb7-b58e-5d70… Happy Trails Terry Zdan

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London cycling could increase tenfold after lockdown, says TfL
by Charles Feaver 08 May '20

08 May '20

Cycling in London could increase tenfold and pavements could be widened to allow for <https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/22/uk-will-need-social-distancin g-until-at-least-end-of-year-says-whitty> physical distancing and queueing outside shops, under plans to overhaul the capital's streets post-lockdown. As part of the <https://www.theguardian.com/uk/london> London Streetscape plans, new walking and cycling routes along major corridors would be fast-tracked , including temporary cycle lanes along routes such as the busy thoroughfare of Euston Road. .. But the office of the London mayor, <https://www.theguardian.com/politics/sadiq-khan> Sadiq Khan, said millions of journeys a day would need to be made by other means, with London's public transport capacity potentially running at a fifth of pre-crisis levels. If people were to switch even a small fraction of those journeys to cars, Khan said, London risked grinding to a halt, air quality would worsen and road danger would increase. The mayor and <https://www.theguardian.com/uk/transport> Transport for London (TfL) said they would work with boroughs to focus on three areas: * The "rapid construction" of a strategic cycling network, using temporary materials, with new routes, aimed at reducing crowding on public transport. * A "complete transformation" of local town centres so that people can walk and cycle where possible, including widening footways on high streets so that people can safely queue outside shops. * Reducing traffic on residential streets and creating "low-traffic neighbourhoods". <https://www.theguardian.com/uk/tfl> TfL said its modelling suggested there could be a tenfold increase in distances cycled, and up to five times the amount of walking compared with pre-coronavirus levels, if travel demand returned. .. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/06/cycling-could-increase-five-fo ld-in-london-after-lockdown?CMP=share_btn_link

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Wpg Sun: Dropping speed limits best path to traffic ‘calming,’ says councillor (May6'20)
by Beth McKechnie 07 May '20

07 May '20

*Dropping speed limits best path to traffic ‘calming,’ says councillor* https://winnipegsun.com/news/local-news/dropping-speed-limits-best-path-to-… Changes to Winnipeg speed limits and new traffic safety measures could be on the horizon for city residents over the coming months. On Wednesday, a Standing Policy Committee report, advocated for “a whole new suite of traffic calming measures” was accepted by council – although the road to safer streets in Winnipeg is paved with controversy and complexity. The motion was partly in response to ongoing complaints filed by concerned residents regarding vehicle speed problems on city streets. Coun. Janice Lukes (Waverly West) said the report will align Winnipeg with many other jurisdictions regarding traffic safety initiatives. “There are many new approaches to traffic calming that many cities throughout the world are using,” she said. “One of the things that I’ve learned is traffic calming is very labour intensive, time-consuming and very expensive.” Lukes said that many Winnipeg streets were designed with cars at the top of the transportation pyramid – resulting in the need for traffic calming and road retrofits. “And expenses are being incurred,” she said. “Many of our streets are still being designed in a manner that does not encourage traffic calming. In my almost two decades of working on active transportation initiatives, I’ve never heard more public outcry than I have in the last few years.” To avoid wasting a fortune on road safety infrastructure, Lukes said the best way to bring about calmer streets is lowering speed limits. “Of course, there would be some initial investment for signage,” she said. “Cities all over the world are lowering speed limits on residential streets.” Coun. Ross Eadie (Mynarski) agreed with Lukes about the need for traffic calming but had his own take on excessive speed on Winnipeg streets. “The condition of the street dictates how fast people are driving,” he said. “Our streets are so bad that nobody’s actually speeding. They’re not speeding because there’s – I guess you could call them – natural decay speed bumps called potholes all over the place. I think it’s very important that public consultations do happen.” Cutting to the chase, Eadie said the biggest problem on Winnipeg streets is drivers who flout the rules. “And I’m not just going to blame drivers,” he said. “There are cyclists who don’t follow the rules of the road, and they cause problems for everybody as well. Everybody needs to follow the rules and do things appropriately. Driving is not a right, it’s a privilege. Police can’t be on every street and every block.” Coun. Sherri Rollins (Fort-Rouge East Fort Garry), said that a cost-benefit analysis leads her to believe that lowering residential speed limits to 30 km/hr is a “cheap alternative” to other, more costly, traffic safety initiatives like speed bumps. “I just want to acknowledge the budgetary reality that need not be if we just reduce speeds.” Coun. John Orlikow (River Heights – Fort Garry), said that if council decides to lower speed limits, residents will continue to “drive the road.” “We can arbitrarily say we should have 10 km/hr or 30 km/hr,” he said. “But the problem is we’re going to have to do some road modifications if we don’t want to have people driving at those speeds.” Orlikow said that safer streets can’t be predicated on a one-size-fits-all model. “We have to have many different facets to it,” he said. “But, it is a serious issue that we are facing.” Mayor Brian Bowman explained that creating safer streets is a long-term project that could take years. “I do obviously think that adopting new processes for triage, for analyzing and implementing requests for traffic calming measures is entirely appropriate at this stage.” jsnell(a)postmedia.com Twitter: @JamesWestgateSn

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WFP: Report puts more school-zone driving restrictions on city’s radar (May7'20)
by Beth McKechnie 07 May '20

07 May '20

Report puts more school-zone driving restrictions on city’s radar https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/ways-to-expand-30-kmh-zones-outline… SCHOOL-zone speed limits are here to stay and could be expanded in the future, according to a public service review from the City of Winnipeg. A review of all school-zone speeding tickets issued in 2018 in the East Kildonan and Transcona districts revealed the reduced 30 km/h limit appears to be achieving its goal of slowing drivers. Fewer speeding tickets were issued in those zones than in photo-radar areas near schools that didn’t have a lowered speed limit. Based on feedback from school administrators in six local school divisions, the report’s authors have flagged several school-zone changes the city could consider, including keeping lowered speed limits in effect all day, every day, not just during school hours; placing school-zone limits at middle schools and high schools; and expanding school-zone limits to streets that are near schools but not necessarily adjacent to school property. Those suggestions haven’t been officially put forward as recommendations, but the report notes some of the changes could be made with approval from city council and/or changes to municipal bylaws. The review, which was released as part of the agenda for next week’s East Kildonan-Transcona community committee meeting, was requested last spring by city councillor Shawn Nason (Transcona), who said he hears regular concerns about speeding in the ward, which contains several school zones, and he wanted to know the location of the problem areas. Nason said Wednesday he will review the report. “One of the things I was looking for was areas that were having increased photo-radar tickets, so that we could look at safety perspectives,” Nason said. The majority of speeding tickets issued near schools in the ward were via photo radar, on streets where there is no lowered speed limit. Very few tickets were handed out for speeding in 30 km/h school zones, according to the review. Most tickets were issued in “school areas” that have signs identifying them as such. The signs allow photo radar enforcement to happen there, but the posted speed limit is not lowered. The most common place to get a “school area” photo radar ticket was at northbound Plessis Road, north of Rosseau Avenue West. Of the total of 523 tickets issued in East Kildonan-Transcona in 2018, 198 tickets went to drivers in that spot. Another 104 speeding tickets were handed out near Polson School, at 491 Munroe Ave., which doesn’t have a lowered speed limit. Despite the 30-km/h limit in place outside of St. Joseph the Worker School, at 505 Brewster St., 25 speeding tickets were handed out there in 2018, making it the most commonly ticketed reducedspeed school zone in the neighbourhood. katie.may(a)freepress.mb.ca Twitter: @thatkatiemay

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Bike counts are booming in North America
by Beth McKechnie 06 May '20

06 May '20

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WFP: City eyes repairs, Arlington Bridge rebuild in limbo (May5'20)
by Beth McKechnie 05 May '20

05 May '20

City eyes repairs, Arlington Bridge rebuild in limbo https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/city-seeks-to-repair-arlington-brid… THE City of Winnipeg is seeking bids to extend the life of the Arlington Bridge — a century-old structure that has survived no shortage of criticism or construction since it was built in 1912. Last week, the city posted a request for tender for a contractor to undertake numerous structural steel-related repairs to the North End overpass. Among them: replacing eroding or corroded elements and installing new steel pieces, including diaphragms, support brackets and decking. The contractor would be required to temporarily support the floor beams framing to enable construction while the bridge is still open, according to the request. Bids will be accepted until May 22. For years, the city has sought technical expertise and community feedback on the future of the bridge, which was originally built to connect two Winnipeg neighbourhoods, the West End and North End, separated by the CP Rail yards. Since the 1940s, the bridge’s condition has been questioned, leading to countless temporary closures — as well as warnings of a permanent one. It was expected to be demolished this year. The latest posting comes almost one year since the city completed its “A Better Bridge for Arlington” project. “Today, the bridge is nearing the end of its usable life and must be replaced,” states a public engagement report posted on the city’s website in May 2019. Last year’s report expanded on a 2016 functional design study of the Arlington Street structure. The design study determined it was best to replace the bridge in its current location. Designs with accessibility standards, improved active transportation and better traffic flow in mind were submitted and considered. Two final proposals included three permanent traffic lanes (two northbound and one southbound), two unidirectional bike lanes and two sidewalks. However, the transformation of the viaduct remained in limbo because the project never received funding. The lowest estimated price tag for a replacement bridge is $319 million. In June 2019, a city report identified 22 major capital projects for the next decade — a new Arlington Bridge included — that totalled $4.9 billion. Mayor Brian Bowman said the report underlined the need for greater financial assistance from other levels of government. More recently, the city ranked upgrades to the aging North End sewage treatment plant, relocating its insect control centre, and replacing residents’ water meters as top infrastructure priorities. In a list of infrastructure priorities, the Arlington Bridge placed 31st. maggie.macintosh(a)freepress.mb.ca Twitter: @macintoshmaggie

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WFP Sou'wester: Cleaning up the Bishop Grandin Greenway (May3'20)
by Beth McKechnie 04 May '20

04 May '20

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/our-communities/souwester/Cleaning-up-the… Running alongside a major thoroughfare, it’s no surprise to see fast-food boxes and wrappers, bottles and cans, cardboard and plastic bags littering the Bishop Grandin Greenway in the spring. For years, the Friends of the Bishop Grandin Greenway have organized a spring clean-up event that sees community members remove thousands of kilos of garbage from the greenway. The greenway is a 4.7-kilometre long multi-use trail that stretches alongside Bishop Grandin Boulevard from the Red River to the Seine River, with connections into the Waverley Heights area. "In past years, we usually see 40 volunteers come out on a specific clean-up day," Nicole Grabowski, a Friends board member said. "Last year, we picked up 700 pounds (318 kilograms) of trash." This year, with the need to avoid contact to reduce the spread of COVID-19, the Friends cancelled the formal event and replaced it with a clean-up week from May 3 to 9. The Friends have attached garbage bags to the mileposts along the trail, which they are asking people to fill with garbage and debris as they travel the greenway. Once filled, the bags can be dropped at the mileposts — which are located near major intersections — or behind the service shed at the end of Glen Meadow St. (near the tunnel) or by the community garden. Bishop Grandin Greenway volunteers will collect the garbage bags throughout the week. "This is important to me, given what the greenway means. It’s a link to other active living paths in other parts of the city. You can see geese and other birds, and see a lot of people out enjoying the day, on bikes, roller blading and walking," Grabowski said. She is a resident of River Heights, but joined the board of the Friends a year ago in order to volunteer for a green project. Friends’ vice-president Derick Young has been a board member since 2009. He said the idea for the greenway came about 20 years ago when local seniors expressed dismay about the decline of green space in St. Vital. "People began working with the City of Winnipeg and the Winnipeg Trails Association, and they got the trail system put in place over the next eight years, along with a community garden," Young said, adding the greenway continues to be expanded. "We were supposed to hold a 20th anniversary event, but that had to be postponed until the fall," Grabowski said. The goal of the Friends is to restore the greenspace, and develop awareness of the area’s natural and historical value, he said. In the summer of 2019, they added a wildflower garden just west of St. Mary’s Rd., run by the Winnipeg Wildflower Project. The garden plot contains several different varieties of wildflowers and grasses from Prairie Originals. Once established, seed from the plot will be collected to grow native grasses and wildflowers elsewhere in the city. The trail now links with other trails extending to Sage Creek in the east, and to the Waverley West area. It will eventually join trails along McGillivray Boulevard and Sterling Lyon Parkway to form part of a city-wide active transportation network. For more information, see www.bishopgrandingreenway.com

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CBC: Why these advocates hope COVID-19 could lead to a more walkable, bikeable Winnipeg (May3'20)
by Beth McKechnie 04 May '20

04 May '20

COVID-19 has cut car traffic and made Winnipeg more bike-friendly — but will impacts last when lockdown lifts? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/winnipeg-pedestrian-cyclist-covid-1… Strolling down any of Winnipeg's traffic-free streets over the past several days has been a "beautiful experience," in the eyes of Patrick Krawec. "You're seeing lots of people, lots of smiles, lots of children, lots of play," said Krawec, the executive director of the Winnipeg Repair Education and Cycling Hub, or WRENCH. Traffic restrictions from the City of Winnipeg on a handful of streets across the city <https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/city-winnipeg-more-active-transport…> has turned them into physical distancing-friendly pedestrian and cycling paths for residents cooped up thanks to COVID-19. Temporary traffic restrictions on four streets were announced in April, with five more set to join on Tuesday, limiting vehicle traffic to one block, so people and families can walk and ride — while distancing — outside. "It is a very elegant, simple solution," Krawec said. "No costs, tons of savings and it was led by the people." Across the country, other cities have made similar moves, from a ban on cars <https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/stanley-park-vancouver-phys…> in Vancouver's Stanley Park to reduced traffic lanes <https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/biking-naheed-nenshi-covid-coronavir…> to make room for cyclists on some Calgary streets. Around the world, expansive, kilometres-long networks have sprung up in cities like New York, Paris, Lima and Bogota. Those, alongside tanking oil prices, have prompted some observers to wonder if COVID-19 could be a nail in the coffin of the car <https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200429-are-we-witnessing-the-death-of-…> . "It was like flicking a switch, and it achieved so many goals of community wellness," Krawec said of the changes he saw on closed streets in Winnipeg. "In a time of isolation, it has really brought people together, although they're staying apart." As Manitoba starts reopening Monday and restrictions roll back, Krawec and other advocates are hopeful the change in how Winnipeggers use and view their streets won't fade away. 'Reconnecting with nature' Cities across Canada and around the world have seen drops in traffic since the pandemic began <https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/satellite-images-no2-smog-gta-vancouver-1.…>, with wide swaths of the population staying home thanks to shutdowns and physical distancing measures. In Winnipeg, the traffic measurement company TomTom has recorded a congestion drop of 21 to 34 per cent <https://www.tomtom.com/en_gb/traffic-index/winnipeg-traffic/> during peak rush hour every day over the past week. Emptied streets combined with the need for physical distancing have thrown a sudden spotlight on decades of traffic-centred urban planning strategies, said Anders Swanson, executive director of the Winnipeg Trails Association. "You very quickly realize how the space has been allocated, as soon as you're walking down a 1.5 metre-wide sidewalk towards somebody [and] you're afraid of having them breathe on you," said Swanson on the phone from Finland, where he was stuck due to the pandemic. "You very quickly realize that you don't have anywhere to go to, except for this giant, wide street, which is right there and empty." Robin Cox, a professor of disaster and emergency management at Royal Roads University in Victoria, says that realization is being accompanied around the world by a greater value placed on getting outside. "We are witnessing in many areas, particularly urban environments, people … reconnecting with the value of nature to them and to their lives, as other aspects of their lives get more constrained," said Cox, who is also the director of the Resilience by Design Research Innovation Lab. The devastating global impacts of the pandemic have exposed or amplified fault lines in many sectors, she said — from social inequities on health outcomes to the fragility of global supply chains for food and medical supplies. It's also sparked a greater focus on health, particularly in how underlying conditions can influence the way individuals experience the disease, said Lawrence Frank, a professor in the school of population and public health at the University of British Columbia. Staying active can help prevent some of those pre-existing conditions, such as heart and lung disease, he said. "Myself and others have been doing lots of studies showing that active transportation contributes significantly to the reduction of chronic disease, reduces health-care costs," said Frank, who teaches sustainable transportation and health and runs the school's health and community design lab. When it comes to fighting chronic disease in general, and COVID-19 in particular, he said, "we think that investing in active transportation is, really, probably one of the best things we can do in the near- and long-term." Building back from crisis Global drops in traffic and air travel have been accompanied by a reduction in observed emissions. In late February, CO2 emissions in China dropped by 25 per cent <https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/covid-19-coronavirus-climate-carbon-emis…> after the country locked down entire cities and shut factories, highways and airports. The pandemic is now expected by some to lead to the biggest single-year CO2 emissions drop since the Second World War, according to the World Meteorological Organization. That group predicted COVID-19 would lead to a global drop of roughly six per cent by the end of this year. Scientists around the world have been clear these temporary drops won't make a dent <https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/covid19-co2-emissions-1.5521271> in long-standing climate issues. "We need to understand that the climate crisis is a health-care crisis that will impact, and has already impacted, health," Cox said. "And if this isn't a warning siren for that, then I'm not sure of what is." It's hard to say for sure whether temporary interventions like a few closed streets will translate to long-term policy change, said Cox. But hallmarks of communities that have faced disaster and come back better include slow, purposeful rebuilding, she said, along with early community engagement. Crises disrupt the "normal," she said, and should be followed by questions about what wasn't working. "We tend to be a reactive culture, whether it's health care or economics or whatever. And what we're seeing [about] that reactive culture is that it doesn't serve us well." 'Dipping one toe in the water' In Winnipeg, Swanson said he wants to see leaders do more for cyclists and pedestrians. Across Canada, he characterizes the policy moves made so far as focused on recreation, rather than transportation. "Most of the cities I've seen in Canada kind of made that same mistake, of only dipping one toe in the water — and Winnipeg, too," he said. Opening only a few streets at a time creates a destination, making it harder for people to stay distanced, he said. The Winnipeg Trails Association he heads is calling on the city to create an emergency cycling network and curbside lane dedications in its OpenStreets 2020 plan <https://www.winnipegtrails.ca/openstreets2020/>, to give more Winnipeggers access to trails to give commuters options as the economy reopens. Winnipeg Transit is reducing bus service and laying off 253 full- and part-time drivers <https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/winnipeg-layoffs-transit-covid-19-1…> because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and city officials said last month ridership dropped 72 per cent compared to the same timeframe in 2019. "When you have an entire transportation system shut down in the middle of an emergency … you would think that you'd want to have some kind of serious backup plan in place," Swanson said. A spokesperson for the City of Winnipeg said in an emailed statement the city is collecting data on the current routes to track usage. "The city will re-evaluate at the end of May to determine if the designations need to be extended," he wrote. Like Krawec, he's hopeful the pandemic will leave a long-lasting shift in how Winnipeggers see their streets. "We've known that people want to walk and bike a lot more than they can, but they just feel concerned about traffic, basically," he said. "It becomes a kind of a vicious circle, and all of a sudden, that vicious circle got broken."

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