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Living Streets’ 80th birthday survey
The excellent Living Streets want your views on what would transform a street you use everyday into a safe, attractive and enjoyable place for everyone.
It's a dead short survey and will help guide their future strategy.
80 huh? walkit.com is a [...]
Essential evidence: the benefits of walking and cycling
Dr Adrian Davis, 'Public Health support to City Development' at Bristol City Council is putting together an interesting set of punchy one-siders that provide peer-reviewed evidence for the benefits of cycling and walking.
He adds to them on a weekly basis [...]
The new ‘UK Low Carbon Transition Plan’: what role for walking?
The Government today published its Low Carbon Transition Plan.
It plots out how the UK will meet a cut in emissions of 34% on 1990 levels by 2020.
It says that by 2020:
More than 1.2 million people will be in green jobs
More [...]
walkit.com debate: Top Gear – the Marmite of TV programming?
Do you watch Top Gear?
We hope some of you do. If there wasn't a bit in the middle of a Venn diagram where walkit.com users intersect with Top Gear viewers I think we'd have a problem on our hands.
Obviously to [...]
Annual user survey results: 32% now ‘always’ or ‘often’ walking rather than taking the car
We thought you might be interested in a summary of the results of the survey we ran on the site in May.
Here are some headlines:
Nearly 80% of respondents say that walkit.com has encouraged them (at least once) to switch [...]
