Laura Laker has written about active transport for more than a decade; come for the reporting, stay for the whimsy - or vice versa.
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If Burnham wants Net Zero, he could look to his time in Manchester
Devolution and active travel - a recipe for success?
If Andy Burnham wants to reach Net Zero he could do worse than look at his time as mayor of Greater Manchester.
Croydon council was told TfL ‘no longer confident’ it can deliver on transport goals
Croydon council had its wrists slapped by Transport for London (TfL) and Will Norman for pulling out cycle segregation on a publicly-funded bike lane without asking anyone first – and Potholes and Pavements has had sight of the letter sent...
Ghost Plate Busters*
Some welcome action on a massive problem on our roads
London, September 2026. A merry tune announces the asthma-inducing arrival of one of the local ice cream vans that menaces my neighbourhood streets. The old wreck rattles along, its jol...
Turning disused railway viaducts and tunnels into cycle routes in Somerset
Gavin Mayall (pictured, left) has, for the past six years, led on a project to transform a section of railway tunnel and viaduct into a walking, wheeling and cycling route. Living just off the beautiful Ham Wood Viaduct, near Shepton Mallet...
An e-bike adventure across Dorset
A giant, an author and some very kind folks
The bridge in question must have washed away*. All that was there, at the bottom of a wooded valley, somewhere in Dorset, was a gully of mud, with a river running through it. If I were in America...
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