Modeshift Convention - It's not too late
If you haven't yet booked for this year's Convention on the 9th and 10th November in Sheffield, 'The Future of Sustainable Travel', places are going quickly so please book today while you still can.
If you haven't yet booked for this year's Convention on the 9th and 10th November in Sheffield, 'The Future of Sustainable Travel', places are going quickly so please book today while you still can.
We wanted to remind you that voting closes for this year's awards today at 6pm
You’ve probably had the thought yourself while standing in the supermarket – do you buy that UK honey or go for the “blended” variation for half the price? Or, if not honey, then maybe your salad? Did it come from down the road or 2000 miles away?
Commuting long distances to get to work is fast becoming the new normal. Over 3.7 million workers in the UK are now travelling for more than two hours or longer every weekday in order to get to work. This vast amount of people comes from the fact that more and more of us are choosing to live outside of the big cities such as London, or Manchester and travel in for work. Many people who choose to make the commute decide against taking their car, and decide to take the train instead. And though this is the best option for both the environment and public health, they still need to get to the station in the first place.
Love to Ride would like to thank everyone who got on a bike to make this year’s Cycle September such a huge success! It’s the third national workplace cycling competition we’ve run and it was the biggest and best so far.
If you haven't yet booked for this year's Convention on the 9th and 10th November in Sheffield, 'The Future of Sustainable Travel', places are going quickly so please book today while you still can.
This week Modeshift Chair, Ross Butcher, was happy to write a guest blog for Brightkidz, one of our partners. The blog was all about who we are, what we do and how we can support local authorities, organisations and businesses to help their staff, members, customers, and community to travel more sustainably.
Headline findings from a recent study on commuting and wellbeing showed that:
European Mobility Week is running this week up to 22nd September with the theme centring around shared forms of transport: "Sharing gets you further".
With advances in smartphones and tablets, we are now able to access mapping anywhere, at anytime. So you might think ‘Is there only one option’? However, both printed and digital maps have their place, and sometimes, the choice can simply be made by answering the following questions: