Active Travel

Promoting Active Travel for a healthier life in a healthier environment.

[Kathryn Shaw @KathiElizabeth]

✅ "If you’re going less than a mile, walk or cycle. About half of car journeys are under two miles, yet these create more pollution than longer journeys as the engine isn’t warmed up yet." #NewYearsResolution
@livingstreets

https://t.co/kqPoWTuhfu

[Active Travel @_ActTravel]

"Living car-free might be the most impactful thing we can do to reduce our transport emissions"

https://t.co/fWnGWUJzKH

[Chris Boardman CBE @Chris_Boardman]

Inspiringly logical action @grantshapps @BorisJohnson

‘The Highway Code currently treats children walking to school and lorry drivers as if they are equally responsible for their own or other people's safety. These changes will redress that balance."⁩ https://t.co/4xltNxjWII

[Sustrans in London @SustransLondon]

Great to hear @grantshapps on @BBCr4today just now talking about how important #walking and #cycling are for short journeys, we agree! 🧑🏼‍🦯🛴🧑🏼‍🦽🚴🏼🚲👏🏼https://t.co/lkr12XkWaB

[Active Travel @_ActTravel]

This again...👇

[Active Travel @_ActTravel]

This... 👇

[Bike Is Best @BikeIsBestHQ]

Whilst Electric cars are undoubtedly a step in the right direction, we won't get to #NetZero without switching a lot more journeys to cycling (and walking): https://t.co/av2u1K99FC

[Edinburgh Reporter @EdinReporter]

Transport Scotland support for active travel welcomed https://t.co/Z9YSb1BeUo

[Active Travel @_ActTravel]

This is true. More people engaging in active travel is a huge part of the solution.

[Active Travel @_ActTravel]

This is true. More people engaging in active travel is a huge part of the solution.

[Sarah 🍓 @SarahJ_Berry]

We can argue about LTNs, cycle lanes, electric cars and idling as much as you want — but it’s not going to change the fact that cars cause air pollution and the only way to reduce air pollution is to reduce the number of cars on our roads.

[Active Travel @_ActTravel]

Show of hands please!

[Chris Boardman CBE @Chris_Boardman]

Hands up if you’d like your kids to go to school like this*

*I’d like to go to work like this

[Active Travel @_ActTravel]

When we say that roads are closed, what we often mean is that its closed for cars. We believe changing this phrasing can give positive promotion of active travel opportunities.

[Dr Scott Arthur MP (Edinburgh South West) 🌍🌈🌹 @DrScottArthurMP]

The Council is considering closing Braid Hills Drive to make it safer for pedestrians and cyclists. Will that cause the snow to melt? 🤔

[Sarah 🍓 @SarahJ_Berry]

To all of those who say “the research isn’t in” on the effectiveness of low traffic neighbourhoods…

I present, a thread:

(DM me anything I miss!)

[Active Travel @_ActTravel]

Want

[Dutch Cycling Embassy @Cycling_Embassy]

"Sustainable Safety" is one of the cornerstones of Dutch road safety policy.

Its ultimate goal is create a road network so reliable that everybody can get home safely. Not only fit able-bodied people or drivers in protected vehicles, but every road user.

https://t.co/uCEBKbmZQL

[Active Travel @_ActTravel]

This is great to see. It's easier than you think.

[Bike Is Best @BikeIsBestHQ]

In winter, we sometimes take trips by car that we would usually take by bike.

But remember, we’re not made of sugar and every trip you take by bike makes a difference to your health and the health of our planet.

Leaving your car at home can...

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[Ewan Jeffrey @paeonyfan]

Every day outside Edinburgh schools. Parents in cars swarm, then sit with car engines running, to pick up their kids, many of whom would prefer their independence, were that not considered too unsafe, because of the cars! @SpokesLothian @LivingStreetsEd

[Living Streets @livingstreets]

💬 Targets to reduce car mileage by 9% by 2035 will not be met with a shift to electric vehicles but by scaling up investment in walking.

- our @MaryCreagh_ comments on the UK's Sixth Carbon Budget.

Full comment ⤵️ #ClimateChange

https://t.co/0M2fAG2gUF

[Mummy's Gone A Cycle @mummycycle]

I started to write a blog post about cycling the school run and realised I had a lot to say. So I wrote eight! Here's the first (which has links to all the others)
https://t.co/hYJUrIuDuP
@sustrans @SustransScot @BCcoaches @ScottishCycling @CGCorstorphine @BikeBusEdin