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Thursday, 08 October 2020

BBC News

• Supercars: Cameras set up to detect Knightsbridge noisy driversKensington and Chelsea residents complained that some streets were a
• Should your accelerator pedal curb your speeding?The EU proposes fitting all new cars with technology that makes it harder to exceed the speed limit.

Financial Times

• Parcel groups seek to deliver greener ‘last mile’ processesSolutions to logistical problems have a nod to the past with an eye towards the future

The Guardian

• The e-scooter: road menace or saviour of the commute?They may be a common sight, but privately owned motorised scooters are still illegal on Britain’s roads and pavements. But with rental scheme trials taking place across the country, could they be answer to getting to work in the pandemic? Standing upright, you glide, ghostlike, along the street. You have no emissions. You are alone, outside, unlikely to catch anything or pass anything on. You are no burden to the public transport system, nor do you contribute much to congestion. You take up little space.Now you join a busier road, one with buses. Perhaps you feel small, vulnerable. But when th...

Times Online

• Cleaner air must be a lasting legacy of the national crisis - Grant Shapps MP and Alok Sharma MP [subscription]ir pollution has troubled humans for thousands of years. The residents of ancient Rome referred to their city’s smoke cloud as heavy heaven (gravioris caeli) and infamous air (infamis aer). Emperor Justinian even attempted to legislate on air quality, proclaiming the importance of clean air as a birthright.
• Keeping lower levels of air pollution in and around schools could help pupils’ education [subscription]Reducing air pollution in and around schools could improve children’s ability to learn, and bestow the same benefits as almost a month of extra lessons, research has found.

Liverpool Echo

• 'Shoddy' roadworks cordoned off after concerns over street hazardRoad users were warned to beware after the work was carried out

Green Miscellany

• Walk to School Week is more important then everThe Walk to School Week event is close to our hearts. The first Walk to School week in 1995 involved five primary schools taking part in our very own Green Transport Week. Since then the initiative has grown and is more important than ever; a generation ago, 70% of us walked to school – now it’s less than half. Now… The post Walk to School Week is more important then ever appeared first on ETA.