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Ravenscote is much like any other junior school - its students are forced to run the gauntlet of dangerous roads and matters are made worse because they are refused a safe crossing. Parents have been campaigning for a safe crossing for years so in an effort to help, we erected the ETA's pop-up zebra crossing to help with their latest...

This time of year is hard on the commuter bicycle, but help is at hand with this bike cleaning kit from Green Oil. Road grime and mud contribute to the wear and tear of drivetrain and other systems on your bike so cleaning becomes a ritual that's especially important in winter months. Helping to ensure that bike cleaning remains as...

Quicab's extraordinary and brilliant 'taxi-bike' has the potential to revolutionise door-to-door serviced travel in London. Everything about it suggests 'taxi'- its appearance, the sense of being chauffeured swiftly along the urban streets, easing your journey to a critical meeting or to the station or a hotel. Or carrying parcels between...

November 17th is the World Day of Remembrance for crash victims. RoadPeace would like to invite you to attend a service for the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims which is to be held at St James’s Church, Piccadilly, on Sunday 17th November at 2.30pm – 4.00pm. https://twitter.com/RoadPeace/status/1187405498955550722?s=20 The...

Chris Boardman is an exceptional ambassador for active travel. Charged by Manchester to transform the city into one of the greenest in Europe, Boardman is helping to plan and build a huge network of connected cycleways, but it's when he presents the case for active travel to the unconverted that he impresses the most. On Question Time this...

A new design of pedal-powered van aims to radically transform the way deliveries are made in towns and cities. Driven in large part by the British enthusiasm for online shopping, the number of vans on our roads has increased by 59% since 2000 – double the growth rate for cars. No other country in Europe has our appetite for buying goods and...

We find it profoundly regrettable that the Government has taken so long to take any action to deal with pavement parking. So says a recent report by the parliament's Transport Committee - a body appointed by the House of Commons to examine the expenditure, administration, and policy of the Department for Transport. Their frustration is...

A new type of roadside camera that catches drivers using a mobile phone behind the wheel has been launched by police in the Netherlands. During 18 months of testing, the system used so-called 'machine learning' to distinguish between a driver holding a phone and other objects. The cameras have now been installed at two locations in the...

Autumn is nature's signal to cyclists that it's time to dig out base layers, hats, gloves and extra lights. But what about protecting your bicycle from the ravages of winter? Keeping a bicycle under cover protects it from wet weather and prying eyes, but with urban areas short on garages and sheds, for many it's easier said than done. When...

We've done it. Thanks to the generosity of over 200 supporters who helped raise £10,000, we've made a documentary about road danger. Stop Killing our Children examines how road danger damages us all, whatever our age and however we travel, and questions our collective blindness to both its cause and remedy. The 40-minute, crowdfunded film...