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Streets Ahead

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Cities around the world are finally discovering the pitfalls of a car-centric transport system, with the most progressive cities implementing protected cycle lanes, liveable streets and low traffic neighbourhoods for improved cycling and walking. Each episode, we discuss the news and views in the fast-paced world of active travel, cycling, walking and urban planning in a jargon-free safe space.


Streets Ahead is co-hosted by Adam Tranter, Laura Laker and Ned Boulting.


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Episodes

The Plan for Drivers

March 19, 2024 11:30 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MB

In a special emergency episode, Ned and Adam try to make sense of the Plan for Drivers announcement. What does it mean for active travel and public transport? Will it actually change anything? What are the politics behind the announcement? You can read the Low Traffic Neighbourhood review here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/low-traffic-neighbourhood-review In the episode, Adam mentioned there wasn't reference to air quality on boundary roads. The report actually said the view ...

Podcast Without Portfolio

March 18, 2024 14:33 - 40 minutes - 37 MB

From lost panniers, stolen bikes and a proposed HS2 cycleway - this is our podcast without portfolio (our favourite kind) where we chew the fat on active travel. By the way, if you want ad-free listening, behind-the-scenes and bonus content and to help support the podcast - head to (https://www.patreon.com/StreetsAheadPodcast). We’ll even send you some stickers!  We’re also on Twitter and welcome your feedback on our episode: https://twitter.com/podstreetsahead If you're reading this, ple...

BONUS: Mudlarking

March 14, 2024 12:20 - 19 minutes - 18.2 MB

Okay, it's not strictly active travel - but it is walking, sort of. In this short bonus episode, Laura and Adam go Mudlarking on the Thame's foreshore and find Medieval pottery, clay tobacco pipes, a Boris bike and a traffic cone. Thanks to Chris from the Thames Explorer Trust for being our guide. There’s also some extra bonus content on our new Patreon. That’s right - if you want ad-free listening, behind-the-scenes and bonus content and to help support the podcast - head to (https://www....

Solving the problem of cargo bike storage

February 03, 2024 10:48 - 38 minutes - 390 MB

Cycling is booming in London, and in cities around the world, as are cargo bikes. With prices ranging upwards of £2,000, theft is a real and present concern for owners, and a major barrier to more people experiencing the joy and convenience of owning a larger bike, whether for work, carrying children, or as a mobility aid. In this episode Laura travels to north London for a celebration of possibly the UK's first on-street dedicated secure cargo bike parking, joining about 50 other cargo bik...

Mark Nieuwenhuijsen in Barcelona

January 05, 2024 15:10 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MB

Welcome to this special episode, in which it’s just Laura, her suitcase and one amazing guest, sat on a bench in the middle of one of the city’s famous Superblocks. There’s also some extra bonus content on our new Patreon. That’s right - if you want ad-free listening, behind-the-scenes and bonus content and to help support the podcast - head to (https://www.patreon.com/StreetsAheadPodcast). We’ll even send you some stickers!  In late 2023 Laura travelled to Barcelona by train from London. ...

Our Year in Review

December 21, 2023 14:57 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MB

And we have reached the end of 2023! What a year that was: we had highs, we had lows, we had some culture wars, we did a podcast in a pub. How was 2023 for you? Ned, Laura and Adam give their perspective. >> Oh, and we're on Patreon! If you'd like to support Streets Ahead, get ad-free listening, behind-the-scenes content AND receive wonderful stickers, please head to: https://www.patreon.com/StreetsAheadPodcast << We’re also on Twitter and welcome your feedback on our episode: https://twi...

Streets Ahead Live! From Waltham Forest

December 08, 2023 07:31 - 1 hour - 65.1 MB

For this episode, Ned, Adam and Laura navigated east London's cycle lanes and Low Traffic Neighbourhoods to speak in-person, in front of a live pub audience, to Councillor Clyde Loakes, at the Wanstead Tap in Waltham Forest. For the past decade Cllr Loakes has led his borough's transformation for walking and cycling. Waltham Forest is very much no longer a forest, in North-East London, but has become world famous for its Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, people-friendly high streets and for pione...

Disinformation in Active Travel Part 2

November 16, 2023 05:54 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MB

In the second of a two-part mini-series on online disinformation Laura, Ned and Adam talk to Shayoni Lynn, whose company specialises in the behavioural science of mis- and disinformation, and how to tackle it. After ministers admitted this autumn making decisions based on ‘online discussions’ that veered towards fringe conspiracy theories, around things like 15-minute cities, and as the climate conference COP28 approaches, our guest has some timely insight into the world of disinformation.  ...

'I tell families they won't get justice in the criminal courts'

October 25, 2023 09:18 - 54 minutes - 49.9 MB

This time Ned, Laura and Adam meet Polly Herbert, a solicitor who represents the loved ones of those killed and seriously injured in road traffic collisions. Working for the law firm Hugh James, Polly represented the family of Frankie Jules-Hough, a pregnant mother-of-two who was killed by a speeding driver who filmed himself driving in excess of 100mph, in May. In 2022 judges were given the power to hand greater sentences to those convicted of causing death by dangerous driving. With the ...

Disinformation in Active Travel Part 1

October 09, 2023 14:07 - 44 minutes - 60.7 MB

Disinformation is seeping from social media into public debate, and even politicians are being sucked in - with real-world consequences for democracy. From 15-minute cities, to ULEZ, active travel has found itself on the frontline of the battle for truth - but what is actually happening, and how does it affect us? In the first of a two-part miniseries on the topic, Adam, Ned and Laura talk to Amil Khan, founder of Valent, a company that “deals with disinformation by understanding who is beh...

Safe Streets Now: Britain's Stop de Kindermoord moment?

September 28, 2023 12:19 - 48 minutes - 66.8 MB

Safe Streets Now was born out of growing concerns over what campaigners have called an epidemic of speeding and red light jumping in Birmingham. Better Streets for Birmingham saw residents collect data on speeding and red light jumping in the city earlier this year, a citizen science project that attracted attention with the scale of the significant problem it revealed on the roads. Then, over the summer, a tragic string of hit and run collisions galvanised those concerns. Children were, tra...

Lee Waters, Wales’ ‘no more roads’ man

August 01, 2023 09:21 - 50 minutes - 69.5 MB

This time Ned, Adam and Laura are talking about roads. Are they good, are they bad, and do we really need to take sides? In a week where the Prime Minister claimed there’s a ‘side’ where driving is concerned, we look to Wales, where they're taking perhaps a more balanced approach to transport.  Lee Waters is Wales’ Deputy Minister for Climate Change. He works in a department that brings together society's most polluting sectors and seeks to reduce their carbon emissions, not least for the s...

Lee Waters, Wales’ ‘no more roads’ man

August 01, 2023 09:21 - 50 minutes - 69.5 MB

This time Ned, Adam and Laura are talking about roads. Are they good, are they bad, and do we really need to take sides? In a week where the Prime Minister claimed there’s a ‘side’ where driving is concerned, we look to Wales, where they're taking perhaps a more balanced approach to transport.  Lee Waters is Wales’ Deputy Minister for Climate Change. He works in a department that brings together society's most polluting sectors and seeks to reduce their carbon emissions, not least for the s...

Cycle instructors on strike

July 20, 2023 12:11 - 41 minutes - 57.3 MB

This time Laura and Adam are Ned-less because there is still a bicycle race happening over in France All cyclists start somewhere - whether it’s wobbling along with stabilisers, or without. In the UK, because we often end up sharing the roads with motor traffic, many of us will also have received training from a professional at some point - under the Bikeability standard, or Cycling Proficiency as it was once known.  In recent years cycle instructors have increasingly voiced concerns over...

Pedways: pedestrian paradise or ponderous paths?

July 04, 2023 13:45 - 35 minutes - 49.3 MB

Ned and Laura go exploring on foot with Alderman Alison Gowman around the City of London's mid-century raised walkways. Known as Pedways, when they were conceived and built in the 1960s, their architects believed they would be the future of the urban pedestrian experience... except they didn't quite work. More than half a century later, many of them are slightly bleak and under-used spaces, because they failed to meet the needs of pedestrians who, it turns out, will stubbornly take the easie...

Live from London Walking and Cycling Conference

June 12, 2023 14:34 - 47 minutes - 64.7 MB

For this special episode Laura Laker chairs a live podcast recording from the annual London Walking and Cycling Conference. The London Walking and cycling conference, for those of you who don’t know, is an annual get-together where London gets to be smug and show off a bit. It started life as the Hackney walking and cycling conference in 2017 and has gone from strength to strength, attracting speakers from all over the world. This year’s theme is: ‘taking walking and cycling to the next l...

Active Travel Budget Cuts

March 15, 2023 15:14 - 40 minutes - 55.4 MB

A pre-budget announcement on HS2 last week revealed a £380m cut to cycling and walking funding. This represents a two-thirds reduction of funding in England, and leaves just £100m for active travel in the current financial year.  Cycling and walking contributed £36.5bn to the UK economy in 2021, according to Sustrans.  Ned, Laura and Adam convene to discuss what's happening and the impact it'll have. We’re on Twitter and welcome your feedback on our episode: http://www.twitter.com/podstre...

Refurbishing bikes, rebuilding lives

March 09, 2023 14:42 - 49 minutes - 67.6 MB

In this episode, we have a special feature in which Ned travels to his spiritual home in Lewisham Shopping Centre to meet the folks at XO Bikes. Founder, Stef Jones, was mentoring in prison and noticed the same people kept coming back - not that they wanted to. These people were lacking opportunities; prison is 'full of entrepreneurs, shifting the wrong product,' he says. Stef left his ad agency to set up XO bikes, to train, employ and inspire people and support them to change their lives, ...

Mums For Lungs

February 17, 2023 16:48 - 50 minutes - 68.9 MB

We speak to Mums For Lungs founder Jemima Hartshorn to chat ULEZ, campaigning and the worrying and urgent need to clean up our dirty air. Almost exactly ten years ago, nine-year-old Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah died following an asthma attack, later becoming the first person in the UK to have air pollution listed as a cause of death. Ella lived near the South Circular Road in Lewisham.  In 2017 Jemima and a group of fellow mums, on parental leave in south London, decided to act after noticing ho...

What It's Really Like Being a Councillor

December 17, 2022 09:00 - 46 minutes - 64.1 MB

What is it really like being a Councillor, especially one who has implemented LTNs? Ned, Laura and Adam speak with Ian Barnes, formerly of Enfield Low Traffic Neighbourhood fame. As Deputy Leader of Labour-run Enfield council until 2022, Ian was among those responsible for delivering Low Traffic Neighbourhoods both before and during the pandemic. We discuss: listening to resident concerns, Mini Hollands, road pricing, the abuse some Councillors face and more. We’re on Twitter and welcome y...

When is a Bike Lane Not a Bike Lane?

December 02, 2022 10:50 - 46 minutes - 63.3 MB

In this special episode Laura goes to the seaside. It may be pouring with rain but Brighton and Shoreham-by-Sea offer a warm welcome, showing us the good stuff happening for cycling in Brighton, and the latest (largely bad stuff) on the short-lived cycle lane on Upper Shoreham road. This ill-fated cycle lane in West Sussex was removed after a few short weeks, despite huge support and a tripling of cycle trips during its existence. What's next for the frankly terrifying road it once sat on, a...

When is a Bike Lane Not a Bike Lane?

December 02, 2022 10:50 - 46 minutes - 63.3 MB

In this special episode Laura goes to the seaside. It may be pouring with rain but Brighton and Shoreham-by-Sea offer a warm welcome, showing us the good stuff happening for cycling in Brighton, and the latest (largely bad stuff) on the short-lived cycle lane on Upper Shoreham road. This ill-fated cycle lane in West Sussex was removed after a few short weeks, despite huge support and a tripling of cycle trips during its existence. What's next for the frankly terrifying road it once sat on, a...

Active Travel & The Economy

November 18, 2022 09:08 - 37 minutes - 38.3 MB

Ned, Laura and Adam discuss active travel and the economy. We know that cycling and walking are great for our health and the environment, but is the economic case sold strongly enough? This episode was recorded before the UK Government Autumn Statement on 17/11/22 but talks generally about active travel's impact on the economy and the importance of cheap transport during a cost of living crisis. We’re on Twitter and welcome your feedback on our episode: http://www.twitter.com/podstreetsahe...

Cost of Living & Transport

October 27, 2022 08:12 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MB

The cost of living crisis is forefront in many people's minds at the moment, but while the pressure has ramped up since the war in Ukraine, for some people transport poverty has plagued their lives for far longer. Our guest Professor Sarah Marie Hall is a geographer with a focus on geographical feminist political economy. She describes this as "understanding how socio-economic processes are shaped by gender relations, lived experience and social difference". Sarah Marie tells us how the im...

World Car Free Day

September 24, 2022 12:29 - 36 minutes - 32.7 MB

Ned, Laura and Adam hang out in a dilapidated old petrol station for an impromptu pod on World Car Free Day to discuss how we use public space, parklets, and how cycling is diversifying. You can check out the Possible Parklet Plotter here: https://wearepossible.github.io/parklet-plotter/ We’re on Twitter and welcome your feedback on our episode: http://www.twitter.com/podstreetsahead If you're reading this, please can you take 1 minute to give us a rating and write a review? It helps us m...

Why is Oxford so popular for cycling?

August 16, 2022 11:46 - 57 minutes - 56 MB

Ned, Laura and Adam head to Oxford to ask: Why is the city so popular for cycling? Is it something to do with the university, or is it an ingrained cycling culture? Is it because for decades they’ve filtered through traffic on minor roads? Is it because it costs £35 to park a car for 24 hours?  In this episode, we'll be exploring Oxford’s new Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and how they have struck a nerve - but we’ll also look at older filters that are the staple of Oxford’s cycling network, a...

Routing for cycling

June 30, 2022 11:14 - 45 minutes - 43.6 MB

This episode Adam, Ned and Laura meet in person in the grass beside Herne Hill Velodrome. Adam also takes us on an audio journey through South London using a Beeline routing widget to avoid the main roads and discover some quiet gems - and some strange cycleway nomenclature - along the way. As well as pondering the many uses of bollards, not least in creating quiet routes, the Streets Ahead trio discuss the challenges, and solutions, of finding your way by bike, away from the main roads, fr...

Detective Superintendent Andy Cox

May 19, 2022 07:37 - 29 minutes - 33.3 MB

A special edition of Streets Ahead, in which Laura travels to the Isle of Wight to meet Detective Superintendent Andy Cox for day one of his nationwide challenge to cycle and run 30 miles a day for a week, raising awareness of road danger, and money for charity RoadPeace. Andy is on a mission to drive a culture change around roads policing and road danger, having this week revealed, via the Times, a major shakeup in how police record contributory factors in road collisions, which revealed s...

Pod Without Portfolio

May 07, 2022 08:03 - 48 minutes - 46 MB

For Streets Ahead's second birthday, Adam, Ned and Laura go rogue - or at least go outdoors - sitting together on the banks of the River Thames to shoot the breeze. We are, for this episode, a pod without portfolio - drifting beside the Thames like an empty crisp packet and seeing where the current takes us. The Streets Ahead trio reveals the topic, if not the title, of Laura's forthcoming book, and a street that's being named after her late dad, as well as discussing e-scooters, e-bikes, t...

Tactical Urbanism

April 11, 2022 08:02 - 49 minutes - 505 MB

Cities around the world used quick, cheap materials to transform streets for people during the pandemic, but tactical urbanism can, in theory, be initiated by communities and individuals to transform a bare patch of their neighbourhoods at any time. Laura, Ned and Adam talk about their greening efforts, and Laura shares recordings from her giant planters project, during two weeks of construction and two community planting days. Adam also talks about £254m of funds recently awarded for active...

Dame Sarah Storey

March 17, 2022 09:36 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MB

Ned and Laura chat with Dame Sarah Storey, not only Britain's most successful Paralympian, but the new Cycling & Walking Commissioner for Greater Manchester, having previously held the role for three years in South Yorkshire. We hope you enjoy this episode of Streets Ahead, a podcast dedicated to the world of active travel, liveable streets and people-focused urban design. We’re on Twitter and welcome your feedback on our episode: http://www.twitter.com/podstreetsahead If you're reading t...

Mapping Walking Routes

February 14, 2022 08:00 - 40 minutes - 32.8 MB

This time we’re talking all about mapping walking routes. Back in the Autumn, Emma Griffin from the Footways project joined Laura for a stroll around Bow in East London. Footways is a network of quiet and interesting streets for walking in London, with the aim of getting people out on the pavements and walking for transport. Their aim is to make the pedestrian network the top priority when it’s often the lowest. View Footways’ Google map layer: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=...

The New Highway Code

January 30, 2022 13:51 - 37 minutes - 30.7 MB

There's a new Highway Code! Rules for all types of road users have been updated in The Highway Code to improve the safety of people walking and cycling. Naturally, some people have taken the news very badly with strange headlines and talk radio stations going into overdrive. What do the changes mean and what difference will they make? We hope you enjoy this episode of Streets Ahead, a podcast dedicated to the world of active travel, liveable streets and people-focused urban design. We’re...

2021: Highlights and Lowlights

December 31, 2021 19:03 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MB

2021: it happened, that we can say for sure. Ned, Laura and Adam go through their highlights and lowlights of the year - and look back at some of the big stories in active travel. Plus: Adam has a new job. Ned and Laura quiz him on being the new West Midlands Cycling & Walking Commissioner. Thank you for your support this year and we look forward to bringing you new episodes in 2022! We hope you enjoy this episode of Streets Ahead, a podcast dedicated to the world of active travel, liveab...

Integrated Transport in Nottingham

December 15, 2021 12:02 - 37 minutes - 35.9 MB

In this episode, sponsored by Superpedestrian, Ned, Laura and Adam visit Nottingham, a city bustling with integrated transport. We try the city's new Link e-scooters, by Superpedestrian, visit the tram, ride bikes and hire cars. It's a true smorgasbord of sensible and sustainable transport options - delivered in part by the city's Workplace Parking Levy. We also follow in the footsteps of the Prime Minister, 18 months on from his Gear Change announcement - visiting the bike shop he launched...

Why do soft measures deserve hard cash?

November 08, 2021 11:18 - 47 minutes - 51.1 MB

We’re talking about the power of behaviour change - why, perhaps, soft measures deserve hard cash. While much of the focus in active travel is around the need for dedicated infrastructure, quietly, around the country - organisations are implementing softer measures that can have a significant impact. A few weeks ago Laura visited the Chrisp Street Community Cycles, a ‘cycle hub’ in an empty high street shop in Tower Hamlets, East London. Want to support the hub? The fundraiser is here (unti...

Active Travel in the European Commission

October 30, 2021 16:51 - 30 minutes - 41.6 MB

In this special episode, Adam chats with Matthew Baldwin, Deputy Director General at DG MOVE, part of the European Commission. Baldwin works on sustainable mobility, including how to protect vulnerable road users such as pedestrians and cyclists in the coming era of connected, automated and autonomous mobility. Ahead of COP26, it’s an interesting look to active travel’s importance on the world stage - and how we can work together as a global community to communicate best practices to reduce...

E-Scooters Revisited

October 10, 2021 20:34 - 57 minutes - 131 MB

A year ago we explored e-scooters as the UK began its official trials of rental scooters. How's it gone since? How are other countries dealing with e-scooters in cities? Are we just scared of new stuff? In this episode, sponsored by Superpedestrian, Adam heads to Lisbon to try out their Link scooters and we put some tricky questions to the company's Policy Director for the UK & Ireland, Jean Andrews. We hope you enjoy this episode of Streets Ahead, a podcast dedicated to the world of activ...

The Robo Cars Are Coming

September 03, 2021 19:02 - 1 hour - 155 MB

Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) are (probably) coming. In this episode, Laura is taken for a spin on public roads in one - going on a journey through Greenwich, London, with nothing other than a robot car for company (if you ignore the two safety drivers ready to step in at any moment). Are Driverless Cars, Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, or AVs, a solution to a problem, or are they just tech for tech’s sake? The UK is betting big on AVs. The Government wants to make the UK a hub for this tec...

Decarbonising Transport

August 11, 2021 18:34 - 31 minutes - 71 MB

July saw the publishing of the UK Government's Transport Decarbonisation plan, followed by the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report, which didn't make for pretty reading. In the UK surface transport is the single largest contributor of greenhouse gases, producing 23% of our emissions, and we’ve made no significant in-roads to cutting that contribution, in a decade. So what needs to change, and are we (and our policymakers) capable of doing it? We hope you enjoy this episode of Streets Ahead, a p...

Ned Rode A Cargo Bike

July 27, 2021 15:13 - 50 minutes - 116 MB

Ned rode a cargo bike and he liked it. Streets Ahead have a partial real-life reunion which culminates in Ned riding a cargo bike. Thanks to Raleigh for having us at the launch of their new Stride cargo bike range at the Olympic Park in London. Are we on the cusp of a cargo bike boom in the UK? What do we need to consider to take cargo bikes to the masses? For the record, Amazon are trialling cargo bike deliveries in London. We hope you enjoy this episode of Streets Ahead, a podcast dedi...

Distracted Driving

June 24, 2021 20:12 - 1 hour - 150 MB

We're talking with Dr Gemma Briggs, Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the Open University, about distracted driving. Dr Gemma Briggs’ research found mobile phone conversations, as opposed to conversations with a passenger, encourage a driver to create mental images - using the same cognitive resources we need for accurate visual perception of the driving environment. This means competition in drivers’ brains for limited resources. It’s not just the responsibility of individual drivers to ch...

Alexei Sayle

May 21, 2021 11:50 - 59 minutes - 137 MB

Alexei Sayle is an English stand-up comedian, actor, television presenter, author and former recording artist. He is also a cyclist with a surprising interest in active travel. Ned pops for a coffee with Alexei to talk about his cycling history, his return to bike riding in the capital and - of course - Low Traffic Neighbourhoods. You can listen to Alexei Sayle's new podcast here: https://audioboom.com/channels/5038428 - and his YouTube videos here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDNNsx1...

Active Travel & Elections

May 05, 2021 13:57 - 43 minutes - 100 MB

There are elections up and down the country this Thursday 6th May 2021, but how do you vote for better active travel provision? There are a plethora of political positions up for grabs - from Metro Mayors to Police & Crime Commissioners, but who does what when it comes to cycling and walking? We're not going to review the candidates' ambitions - you can get that elsewhere and should read the Manifestos of the candidates where you live - but we will explain how it all works and some of the b...

Badvertising

April 24, 2021 07:00 - 51 minutes - 70.8 MB

Advertising is everywhere and while most people think it doesn’t affect them, research shows it undoubtedly impacts the decisions we make. Tobacco advertising has been banned - will car advertising be the new smoking? This week we have Leo Murray from climate action charity Possible. Leo is one of the people behind Badvertising, a campaign to put a stop to the promotion of highly polluting Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs). We hope you enjoy this episode of Streets Ahead, a podcast dedicated ...

Access For All

April 03, 2021 11:15 - 58 minutes - 80.9 MB

The rapid changes in our towns and cities are providing new access to active travel for some people, but are they excluding some disabled people in the process? That's the topic we're discussing with Katie Pennick, Campaigns Lead at Transport For All. Why are disabled people seemingly ignored when it comes to some consultations? What needs to change? Is that status quo a better option? These are all questions you'll get the answers to in our latest episode. You can read Transport For All's...

Will Norman

March 17, 2021 08:00 - 55 minutes - 75.9 MB

For episode 23, Ned, Adam and Laura chew the fat with London's Walking & Cycling Commissioner, Will Norman, on the capital's active travel revolution. Four years ago, Laura wrote In The Guardian: "Is London's new cycling tsar too nice to face down the bike-haters?" It turns out being nice can be effective. London has built nearly 100 miles of protected cycle lanes in the last year alone with 4% of Londoners also now living within a Low Traffic Neighbourhood. But it hasn't all been plain sa...

How To Improve Accessibility in Active Travel

March 05, 2021 16:24 - 58 minutes - 80.5 MB

The pace of change in some of our towns and cities has been designed to prevent a car-based recovery from COVID-19, but it hasn't all been positive. As Councils moved quickly to make changes under national government guidance, many of them neglected the basics of engagement and impact assessments. On this subject, we talk to Isabelle Clement, director of Wheels for Wellbeing, a charity that helps everyone enjoy cycling regardless of disability, health or age. Laura's interview with Isabelle...

Build, Build, Build

February 17, 2021 08:00 - 46 minutes - 63.8 MB

It's our 21st episode! How did that happen? Ned, Laura & Adam are discussing the government's £27 billion road building plan and its recent legal challenge. What are the merits of road building? How does active travel fit in? Is it compatible with the necessities of protecting our climate (Spoiler: probably not)? We'll discuss all this and more (including a new feature, er, LTN News). We hope you enjoy this episode of Streets Ahead, a podcast dedicated to the world of active travel, liveabl...

Streets Ahead Meets The War on Cars

January 16, 2021 09:00 - 57 minutes - 79.2 MB

For Episode 20, we team up with Doug Gordon, co-host of The War on Cars podcast and one of the USA's foremost cycling advocates. Our very special virtual guest speaks to us all the way from New York City, a city adapting in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. We compare how our two nations are faring in terms of active travel. Who is better at failing, or succeeding, when it comes to cycling and walking? Is the grass always greener on the other side? We hope you enjoy this episode of Streets A...

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