Three surprising things about Birmingham s Clean Air Zone scheme you probably didn t know
Surprises at Clean Air Zone launch include no charge for two weeks, a month s grace with fines after that - and a pledge to get rid of CAZ when pollution has fallen to a sustainable lower level
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Birmingham s Clean Air Zone came into effect at midnight today - but nine hours later the city council was announcing that plans to charge motorists for non-compliance would not come into immediate effect.
This is what you have been writing to us about this week. Riding privately owned e-scooters on public roads, pavements or cycle lanes in England is rightly illegal for reasons too obvious to state. They are classified legally as ‘personal light electric vehicles’. Why then does Bucks Council think offering such a vehicle for public rental is a good idea? I would love to know the answer (without the usual ‘red herring’ replies that it’s ‘environmentally friendly’ or a ‘way to ease the burden on public transport’.
D Nelson, Totteridge, High Wycombe Who among our councillors backed the barmy and dangerous scheme to allow e-scooters across our district?
Correspondence between councillors in Northampton, disclosed under Freedom of Information legislation, reveals that the rental vehicles were used to hold scooter discos .
Safety concerns as Boris Bikes arrive in Brum - with docking station on pedestrian refuge
The West Midlands Cycle Hire scheme has been officially launched in Birmingham today - but a safety campaigner says organisers need to think harder about public safety
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