Families sought for new trial of electric cars

The government are seeking 100 families who live in cities who are prepared to swap their petrol/diesel car for an elelctric one. Could this be you? Read here for the full article!

Fancy a PT?

It goes 24 miles on one charge. Is faster than walking with a maximum at 12.5 mph maximum. Its fun and it is low in emissions. Want one? Not in the UK you can’t. They are not yet legal here!

PS PT is personal transporter – the next thing after a mobile maybe?

Air Traffic over Britain – Britain From Above – BBC

Yet another scarey one!

A better way to move?

More and more commercial companies are transferring transport from road to the waterways. The picture is of imported wine being moved by Tesco down the Manchester ship canal to its bottling plant at Irlam. This keeps 50 lorries a week off the roads. But British Waterways, who runs the canals, is not helping by selling off wharves for development – without places to load and unload, many routes can not be used. See the full aticle here.