A new Bath group ‘Bath Clean Air Champions’ has been formed to help reduce air pollution in Bath by persuading drivers to turn their engines off when they are parked. They are looking for volunteers to help educate both motorists and pedestrians about engine idling and the health impacts of air pollution. If you are […]
Transition Bath has been awarded a £3,400 grant from the BWCE Community Fund for a feasibility study for an electric bike project. The new project aims to encourage commuters in Bath to switch to cycling to work in preference to commuting short distances by car. The focus of this initiative is electric bikes (ebikes) in […]
BaNES Communities, Transport, and Environment Scrutiny panel have set up a Task and Finish group to investigate Adam Reynolds’ Day Parking Zone proposal. This proposes setting up Resident Friendly Day Parking Zones across the WHOLE of the city to tackle air pollution and congestion, generating much needed revenue for the council, enabling investment in public […]
There is a lot of activity in terms of transport policy in Bath currently. Transport seems to be one of the council’s main policy priorities; with separate parking, coach parking and air pollution consultations taking place, the release of a ‘prospectus’ which forms the economic justification for an A36-A46 link road, ANPR monitoring of traffic […]
Could Bath and North East Somerset replicate Waltham Forest‘s electric tricycle service and reduce the pollution from local deliveries both to businesses in the city centre and to local residents? Similar services already run in Cambridge, Glasgow and Norwich by a company called Outspoken, and could be replicated in Bath. Deliveroo has already extremely successfully […]
Bath and North East Somerset Council have this week launched the “South of England North-South Connectivity Prospectus” which sets out an economic case for better regional north-south connectivity. The prospectus lacks detail, but sets out a plan to get government approval over the next 2 years for investment in road infrastructure to improve north-south links. […]
For the next 2 weeks, 32 ANPR number plate reading cameras are being used to track traffic around Bath to better understand where people drive their cars from and to, and at what time of day. This is part of B&NES council’s project to try to reduce air pollution caused by road traffic. The data […]
This is a summary of the ‘Making Census of Bath’s Transport Problems’ presentation Adam Reynolds, chair of CycleBath made on Saturday as part of the ‘Bath Digital Festival’. His presentation is self-explanatory and doesn’t take too long to read, however we thought it might be useful to extract a brief summary. The presentation analyses 2011 […]
Domestic buildings energy strategy The government announced its future clean energy strategy today. It is of interest to Transition Bath as we have long campaigned to make our homes more efficient and to reduce their carbon emissions. Takeaways from the 165 document include: “Support around £3.6 billion of investment to upgrade around a million homes […]
Transition Larkhall and the University of Bath have been conducting a research for the last year to understand the transport movements to the east of Bath and what residents think. The research included sampling traffic flows both in and outside school holidays, and a survey of residents. They presented an update on the results of […]