Filmed by Edurne Bargueno for the Environmental Transport Association. The ETA offers very competitive cycle insurance cover.

Another chance to send a strong signal is missed: NY’s Transportation Alternatives reports that “in May CNN anchorman Jack Cafferty struck and injured bicyclist Billy Maldonado and dragged his bike under his car for at least two blocks in Manhattan. A traffic officer and pedestrians ran after Cafferty’s car to stop him, but he drove through at least two red lights and around other vehicles without stopping. When cops found Cafferty a day later, he claimed he didn’t know he had hit the bicyclist. He [...]

Jeffrey Sachs, in his first Reiths Lecture cites John F Kennedy: Our problems are man-made, therefore they can be solved by man, and man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. Man’s reason and spirit have often solved the seemingly unsolvable, and we believe they can do it again. I am not referring to the absolute infinite concept of universal peace and goodwill of which some fantasies and fanatics dream. I do not deny the value [...]