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Tim Burns

Head of policy at Sustrans

tim.burns@sustrans.org.uk

Tim has over 15 years of experience working in the charity sector in travel, sustainable food, resource management and conservation. Tim currently provides policy advice and support to Sustrans and is passionate about social innovation.

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A van shown parked over a pavement on a street on a misty day ahead a person with a trolley is walking along the pavement

Three more years of people parking on the pavement

Two people with bikes standing at a train station as a train approaches the platform from the distance.

Why ticket offices are good for walking, wheeling and cycling

Two women smiling and chatting as they cycle together along a new temporary cycle lane through the high street.

Backlash over new street changes is inevitable, but it can be managed

A group of people walking down the street together chatting and laughing

Equity: All talk, but where is the action?

People cycling along a segregated cycling lane next to double-decker buses in a UK city

Life after lockdown

Transport in the UK will never be the same, it must be better

Looking for positives inside and outside a lockdown

The UK’s largest assessment of urban cycling

Heavily congested traffic

Is the car still King?

A woman rides a bike on a traffic-free path with an adapted bicycle following in the background

Everyone should have the right to feel welcome and comfortable on our streets

Heavily congested traffic

Government policy is driving car dependency

Man on bicycle on protected cycle lane, passing a bus stop

Bike Life: Protected bike lanes will transform our cities

Three women walk through a car park in an industrial setting

Our city centre parking problem

people on bikes near new housing development

Space for cycling in new developments