Schemes boosting cycling and walking accelerate across the UK

Campaigners urge city leaders across the world to see coronavirus and climate crisis as call to actionOne of the first “low-traffic neighbourhoods” to be created in the UK was in Hackney, east London, in the early 1970s, when residential roads were closed to through traffic but remained open to local residents, pedestrians and cyclists.Since then, most of the borough’s other residential roads and backstreets have been given over almost completely to cars. Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/sep/24/schemes-boosting-cycling-and-working-accelerate-across-the-uk

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