Clean Air Day 21.06.18

Clean air day 2018. Here at the Boathouse, we encourage all our staff to walk, cycle, run or get the bus to work. We have provided bike sheds and stands for many bikes to make the decision to ride to work an easy one.  When we look at the large scale residential projects we are working on, car parking is still seen as a key element on every scheme. The future is obviously still car based, despite the ambition of some of the sites to provide better cycling paths and green areas to promote clean air. Perhaps the combination of electric cars, whose popularity is growing and growing, thanks to government grants, choice of car available and charging points – meaning 155,000 plug in vehicles are now on the road. The emerging business of renting bikes for a single journey, via an app, and a code to ‘start’ the bike;  effectively negating the use of bike stands by just leaving them where the journey ends  is a really promising introduction to enable choice for the end user, having to use other transport such as trains or buses, but may use the bikes for the start or end of a journey. The OBike https://www.o.bike/uk, even lets you know how much carbon you have saved at the end of your journey. Obviously much more needs to be done to tackle such a large problem, but these two trends are promising.