In January 2020, Richard Corbett was ready to take a break from e-scooters.
After two years of working at e-scooter startup Bird, Corbett decided to take a sabbatical with his wife and two-year-old son.
He had time. Unlike the rest of Europe, scooters were banned from both roads and pavements in the UK. And although Corbett had been pushing the government to change the law, legislation moves slowly and e-scooters were not high up the priorities list of a country looking down the barrel of Brexit. Richard Corbett. General Manager at Voi UK. Voi
Corbett didn t see any chance of any legislative change happening until 2021 at the very earliest, so he figured he d take his chance to travel the world while his son was still pre-school age. Both Corbett and his wife quit their jobs in January, the plan being to renovate and rent out the house before setting off for adventure in April.
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Fewer accidents in capital since 20mph limit
The number of road traffic collisions (RTCs) in Edinburgh has decreased since a 20mph speed limit was introduced in 2016, according to new research led by the University of St Andrews.
Dr Valentin Popov of the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of St Andrews with collaborators from the universities of Edinburgh, East Anglia and Cambridge introduced a cutting-edge methodology to identify shifts in the trend of RTCs and associate them with possible causes.
The research team investigated the effect of the policy on a city-wide scale, implicitly including spill-over effects.
| UPDATED: 11:41, Sun, Jan 17, 2021
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