Streets Ahead is a podcast dedicated to the world of active travel, liveable streets and urban design. Hosts: @adamtranter, @laura_laker & @nedboulting.
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Joined April 2020
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🚨 NEW EPISODE! A day in the life of the @CityPolice cycling squad, as Laura shadows the team out on the streets catching illegal e-motorbikes.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or below: shows.acast.com/streets-ahea…
NEW EPISODE! 🚨 She called for cyclists to be banned. Then she gave up her car.
In 2015, @YvetteCaster used a Metro column to call for cyclists to be "banned"; but lockdown changed her perspective.
Ned & Laura find out. Listen now: shows.acast.com/streets-ahea…
NEW EPISODE! 🚨 Local Elections: Some councils have changed hands, many are in "No Overall Control".
What does this mean for active travel?
Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts 👇
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ALT A bicycle next to a polling station sign
NEW EPISODE! 🚨 London’s road danger reduction plan under the microscope. What will it take to achieve Vision Zero by 2041? Is it possible?
With @willnorman, @adamtranter and Laura Laker.
Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts:
shows.acast.com/streets-ahea…
NEW POD EPISODE! 🚨Women protesting for safer cycle routes - Laura joins a protest and the opening of a new cycle lane, and meets some people along the way shows.acast.com/streets-ahea…
NEW POD EPISODE! 🚨 2026: the Journey so far. Adam, Ned and Laura discuss local politics in the run up to the May elections, Ned's recent trip to India, and what we can learn from New York mayor Zohran Mamdani (and other mayors) shows.acast.com/streets-ahea…
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Excellent edition, on an important and broad intervention pushing DfT to make clearer the outputs for walking, wheeling and cycling. It is free-wheeling, but rich discussion, with Ned asking pertinent questions that make the debate more accessible. Big-up for Bradford. Do listen.
NEW POD EPISODE! 🚨This time we're talking Outputs, not Outcomes and England's Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy, with @_XavierBrice_ of @WalkWheelCycleT
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The Government's upcoming Cycling & Walking Investment Strategy 3 needs both investment and strategy. Seems like an obvious thing to say, but there's a risk it could lack both.
Talked about it here on @podstreetsahead 👇
NEW POD EPISODE! 🚨This time we're talking Outputs, not Outcomes and England's Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy, with @_XavierBrice_ of @WalkWheelCycleT
Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts: shows.acast.com/streets-ahea…
NEW POD EPISODE! 🚨This time we're talking Outputs, not Outcomes and England's Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy, with @_XavierBrice_ of @WalkWheelCycleT
Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts: shows.acast.com/streets-ahea…
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Worst birthday ever.
NEW POD EPISODE! 🚨 An unhappy fifth birthday. Five years and four prime ministers since the pavement parking consultation ended, and still no action.
What will it take to reclaim pavements?
Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts 👉 shows.acast.com/streets-ahea…
ALT A police officer observed a car parked illegally on the pavement in Birmingham
NEW POD EPISODE! 🚨 An unhappy fifth birthday. Five years and four prime ministers since the pavement parking consultation ended, and still no action.
What will it take to reclaim pavements?
Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts 👉 shows.acast.com/streets-ahea…
ALT A police officer observed a car parked illegally on the pavement in Birmingham
NEW EPISODE! 🚨 Lisbon’s Streets and the People Trying to Change Them
Lisbon's a beautiful city with a reputation for being safe. That's true from one lens, but look deeper and you'll discover a city with one of the worst road safety records in Europe.
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ALT Laura cycles along the river
NEW EPISODE!🚨 @laura_laker speaks to four great guests across three continents about the role of women in the world of cycling.
Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts 👇
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NEW EPISODE! 🚨 We report from The Future Design of Streets, with global insights by:
Maria Vassilakou, ex-Vice Mayor of Vienna
Demetrio Scopelliti, Milan urban planner
Agustina Martire, Reader, Queen’s University
David Sim, author of Soft City
Listen: shows.acast.com/streets-ahea…
ALT Portraits of contributors from The Future Design of Streets Conference
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NEW EPISODE! 🚨 @laura_laker speaks with Melissa Bruntlett @modacitylife about the topics in her upcoming book: "Women Changing Cities: Global Stories of Urban Transformation."
Listen here - or wherever you get your podcasts.
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NEW EPISODE! 🚨 @laura_laker speaks with Melissa Bruntlett @modacitylife about the topics in her upcoming book: "Women Changing Cities: Global Stories of Urban Transformation."
Listen here - or wherever you get your podcasts.
shows.acast.com/streets-ahea…
ALT Melissa Bruntlett
If you want to listen ad-free, you can do so here: patreon.com/posts/women-chan…
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New episode!🚨The band @adamtranter @laura_laker and @nedboulting is back together to talk spending review, Fake e-bikes & bike racing. Ned makes a prediction, Adam gets philosophical over spending and Laura went to Copenhagen
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