ECF welcomes the European Commission initiative to improve the EU regulatory framework for road infrastructure safety management, especially actions targeted to protect cyclists and pedestrians. During the public consultation, ECF proposed several...

CHIPS project partner, the Dutch province of Gelderland can be an example on how to minimise the number of stops and interruptions on a cycle highway. Cycling 18 km on the RijnWaalpad between Arnhem and Nijmegen train stations, you only have to...

NICE, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, through its most recent publication for guidance on ‘Air Pollution: Outdoor Air Quality and Health’ [1], strongly supports urban speed reduction for better air quality. Speed limits of...

A coalition of industry, NGOs, consumer groups, and cities are calling on the European Commission to urgently bring forward new minimum safety standards for new cars, vans and trucks, after years of delays. The European Commission is expected to...

    The week of March 8th to 14th all around the world, communities organised events around the theme for UN Global Road Safety Week -  ‘Save Lives #SlowDown.’ Here in Ireland, already in 2017, 54 people have been killed on our roads...

Portugal’s controversial 2020 National Road Safety Strategy program (PENSE2020) has dropped studying mandatory helmet laws for cyclists, after strong public opposition.  Shortly after being launched for public consultation, in the midst of the...

Bernhard Ensink, ECF Secretary General, spoke at a Hi-level transport ministers meeting In Malta on Wednesday 29th March, here’s the press release. It followed a road safety conference the day before and it was an eventful couple of days. The road...

European Transport Ministers launched the “Valetta Declaration on Improving Road Safety” at a Ministerial Conference on Road Safety in Valletta (Malta) today undertaking to put in place many measures to improve road safety across the EU[1]. They...

As part of our work to help cycling and the bike industry into the world of smart, connected and shared mobility we are working with visionaries and leaders who are setting the tone in this new mobility. We are going to be inviting some of them...

This week The European Commission announced at the Motor Vehicle Working Group that it is delaying the proposal on Vehicle Safety Regulations until at least March 2018! Meanwhile, vehicle technologies have been moving at an incredible pace over the...

Bosnian cyclists have managed to repeal their cumbersome and unfair law on the mandatory use of bicycle helmets. ECF members the Centre for Environment have been in negotiations with the Bosnian authorities for some time now in an attempt to grow...

The prominent researchers Buehler & Pucher found that far fewer people have died walking and cycling over the years since the early 90s. Reviewing data they obtained from OECD, they report that pedestrian and cyclist mortality rates...