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30 Green Miles for Walk to Work week
Environment Officer, David Dowson has pledged to run his usual 30 mile journey to work – instead of drive, in an effort to raise the awareness of a Green Travel Plan for Worcestershire.
David who works for NHS Worcestershire and Worcestershire’s [...]
Win some vouchers by taking part in the ‘Ideas in Transit’ research project
Walkit.com is very excited to be getting involved with the research project Ideas in Transit, being run by the University of the West of England, Bristol. The project is looking at how you, our user-base, use our site and what [...]
Boris Johnson drops plan to establish 2011 as ‘the year of walking’
You can read the full story here.
Our Director Jamie Wallace will be on BBC London Drivetime at 5.40 today (18/02/2011) to give his reaction.
OK! magazine says walkit.com is ‘website of the moment’!
We're pleased to announce that walkit.com has been endorsed by a celebrity*!!!
*Well, not an actual celebrity person, but the celebrity magazine OK! – that's nearly the same right?
We feature in this week's magazine, (issue 763) on page 117 in the [...]
Heart Research UK – Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge
Although here at walkit.com, our primary focus is to help you find your way around town, we're also big fans of getting out and about in the countryside for a big challenge, and such a challenge has recently come to [...]
Do the Green Thing video: Born to Walk
International creative environmental group Do the Green Thing have created this inspirational video to get people walking more and driving less in 2011.
Here's what they had to say about the inspiration behind the video:
“Walking is as innate as breathing and [...]
Avoiding Victoria Station
Victoria Tube Station is to undergo a £700 million refurbishment to upgrade three escalators before the 2012 Olympics, which is expected to increase demand for the already congested station.
Commuters have been advised to avoid the station during rush hour for [...]
Back pain relief from walking
Guest post from Steve at PureKit.com
It’s funny, that whilst most people are aware of the amount of time they spend on the feet or walking around, few consider how much time is spent in a less active position, such as [...]
Boris Johnson, Guy Watson and behaviour change
There was a professor talking on the radio this morning about 'nudge' theory. It put me in mind of two things I've read recently.
Here's Guy Watson, of Riverford Organic Vegetables Limited, talking about what might make him behave differently:
“Every time [...]
Twenty’s Plenty
There is a growing body of evidence supporting the implementation of a 20 mph speed limit in residential areas, including this recent report by the NHS, examining road traffic collisions and casualties in the North West of England, which currently [...]
Walking on water
The London River Park; a mile-long floating walkway along the North back of the Thames, has won the Mayor's award for Planning Excellence at the 2010 London Planning Awards.
The concept comes from global architects and planners Gensler, who have designed [...]
walkit.com shortlisted for London Transport Awards
We're very excited to announce that walkit.com have been shortlisted in the “Excellence in Travel Information & Marketing” category for the London Transport Awards, run by the Transport Times.
The London Transport Awards are about recognising excellence in
transport, rewarding innovation and [...]
walkit.com can help with ‘Creating Growth, Cutting Carbon’
The Government has today released a white paper entitled “Creating Growth, Cutting Carbon – Making Local Sustainable Transport Happen”. This outlines details of the Local Sustainable Transport Fund (for England): a £560 million funding stream for local authorities to develop [...]
Getting teenagers walking
We're pleased to announce that Plings have started using walkit.com to provide their users with directions to the locations of many of their activities.
If you've never heard of it, Plings is the first national source of information about brilliant, inspiring [...]
walkit.com receives over 1 million absolute unique visitors in 2010
We're very pleased to report that we broke through the 1 million 'absolute unique visitors' mark last year – hitting 1,018,504 (up from 581,060 in 2009).
According to Google Analytics (the traffic tracking software we use), absolute unique visitors represent “the [...]












