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In the absence of town planning that places the needs of people above those of cars, widespread 20mph speed limits are a must. We can dream about the widespread dedicated cycle infrastructure, interconnected public transport and pedestrianised zones that have become standard practice in the Netherlands, but given we're already 50 years...

Glasgow City Council has voted to make women central to all aspects of planning and public realm design. Green Councillor Holly Bruce proposed the motion, which could see changes to the infrastructure such as wider pavements to accommodate prams and safer travel routes. Speaking to The Scotsman newspaper, Holly Bruce explained: “For too...

It costs a little over £1,500 per year to rent 17 cubic metres (600 cubic feet) of storage space in Greater London. Alternatively, you could spend £400 on an old caravan, pack it full of stuff and park it on the road outside your house without any further expense. Lots of folk would object to having residential streets lined with caravans...

Clock change or no clock change, you need never be caught without lights thanks to the Knog Blinder Twinpack. A compact design means they're slim enough to keep in your pocket and USB cable-free charging saves having to scrabble about for batteries. Putting out a punchy 200 lumens up front and 100 at the rear, both lights are brilliant for...

Sunday's one-hour lie-in comes at a heavy price. It's estimated there would be 100 fewer deaths and a reduction of 200 serious injuries on the roads each year if we stopped putting the clocks back in winter. The UK has already tried year-round BST - once during the war to maximise daylight working hours and again between 1968 and 1971. The...

How do you create a bikeable town or city without the need for costly infrastructure or additional road space? The Belgian city of Bruges this week transformed 90 of its streets into a cycling zone - an area in which all motor vehicles must yield to bikes. In the zone, cyclists not only have the right to ride in the middle of the lane, but...

Halloween or no Halloween, British roads can feel like a horror show when you're on a bike. It got us thinking about how a trusty bicycle might fare should the worse happen. Bikes are already the quickest way to get around town, but the chronic shortage of petrol following a zombie apocalypse would render cars all but useless making pedal...

Staying puncture-free is the Holy Grail of cycling - and for good reason. You can try your best to remain free of flats, but whether or not you fit reinforced rubber, apply slime or run the correct pressure, the puncture fairy is always lurking. And infuriatingly, flats are like buses - you stay puncture-free for many hundreds of miles and...

The old trope that e-bikes are a cheat never rang true with anyone who'd actually taken the time to ride one. And now scientific research has stepped in to reaffirm the numerous benefits electric bicycles have to offer. Research published by sciencedirect.com has found that e-bikes are used for longer trips compared to conventional cycles....

Transport policy without road-user charging is doomed to fail. Essentially this is because roads are free – and when anything is free there's a tendency for it to be overused. In the case of roads, this leads to congestion. It's clear motoring taxation needs to change in a way that is fair and sustainable. Pay-as-you-go driving is simply a...