NEWS
Parents 'stop children cycling'
Parents' fears about road safety are turning children into a lost generation of cyclists, says a government-backed agency that promotes cycling.
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Northern Irish Pupils highlight school run CO2 problem
Schoolchildren across Northern Ireland will be finding out just how much carbon dioxide the school run is responsible for on Wednesday 6th February and how much they can save by walking to school instead of being driven.
The event, which is being called ‘Carbon Saving Day', is being organised by Sustrans as part of its Rural Safe Routes to Schools project. Schools across Northern Ireland have been given red balloons with ‘CO2' printed on one side and ‘Walk to School' on the other. Children are being encouraged to make a special effort to walk to school and will be given the balloons to raise awareness of the amount of carbon dioxide produced by the school run.
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Call on MSPs to support healthy, active travel in Scottish Environment Week
Two leading charities are calling on MSPs to focus on creating an environment in Scotland which encourages people to travel in a healthy and environmentally-friendly way. The call from Ramblers Scotland and Sustrans Scotland comes as thoughts turn to all things green in Scottish Environment Week (5 -11 February). The charities have organised a lunchtime event on Wednesday 6th February, hosted by Nanette Milne MSP at the Scottish Parliament, for MSPs to find out more about how ongoing investment in planning, designing and promoting walking and cycling can help bring about significant changes in the way people in Scotland travel.
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Obituary - Hans Monderman
The Dutch traffic engineer Hans Monderman, who has died from cancer aged 62, inspired and developed a fundamental change in thinking about the relationship between people, places and traffic. He challenged many long-established assumptions about safety and the relationship between pedestrians and traffic. In so doing, he initiated a new approach to the creation of civilised streets and public spaces.
Read his Obtituary in the Guardian
NICE publish public health guidance on creating environments to encourage physical activity
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has issued guidance on promoting and creating built or natural environments that encourage and support physical activity. This guidance represents the first ever national, evidence-based recommendations on how to improve the physical environment to encourage physical activity to improve health
Modeshift is welcomes the inclusion of calls for comprehensive networks of walking and cycling routes to schools and the recognition that the work undertaken by in safer routes to school can led to increases in walking and cycling for school communities