i'm now leaving move the mobility conference in excel in london and that conference is all about
mobility in all its different forms including e-scooters bikes and even at the end there there
was vertical takeoff aerospace uh so short hop battery powered through from centre of london
to heathrow for 30 pounds but i'm gonna be using a slightly different form of cheap transport to get
to the centre of london from docklands here i'm going to be using a human forest electric bike
i'm heading to houston station to catch the midnight train to glasgow
tomorrow is transport day at cop26 and you'll not catch me flying in the uk
the last time i went to cop26 at the beginning i went on a bicycle this time
i'm going another climate friendly form of transport but this time
i'm going on a train the caledonian sleeper to glasgow i'm in rome p five and there it is oh
so what have we got in the room accommodation guide and there's the breakfast menu safety
information of course and then well sleep kit ear plugs under eye mask
sleep kit earplugs eye mask that's because it's a two-person bed of course it's
uh it's a double bed that i've got this evening what else we got here plugs
oh and some usb sockets fantastic a window light oh yes okay a window light
what else we've got to actually see the platform outside still yeah so we're still in in london
and i'm guessing here is going to be
the ablutions well there's a toilet there lovely nice but i've got my own shower on a train
this is a little table which is where i'll fill in the breakfast menu what we got here
oh porridge yes definitely scottish pokey take everything here do you think
right definitely porridge raspberry granola pot today oh there's a highland breakfast
exclusively served in a club car now why fly when you can have a double bed
okay
glasgow central 722
so off the train and now it's a wee little bit further on
and it's possible if that guy hasn't taken it
to get our next guy so let's try and grab one
so next bike now
i've arrived at cop26 again today is the transport day and today is the day there's
no bicycling there's no walking there's no trains there's no public transport
it's all pretty much electric cars there is cycling here but it's not the world leaders it's
not all the politicians it's the fringe events outside it's the green zone there's no cycling
there's no walking there's no public transport you're not even in trains in the blue zone here
this is where all the politicians are if cycling's not here cycling isn't being discussed and walking
isn't being discussed and trains aren't being discussed it's just electric cars and that's crazy
that's a little bit of aviation and there's a little bit of shipping today this morning
but then the rest of the day the actual official agenda is zev zero emission vehicles and that
does not mean bicycles that means cars electric cars so there's a sign outside
uh where the protesters were the cycling protesters and instead of greta tunberg's blah
blah blah it was car car car this is the one that you can really do your shopping on isn't it now
you can put your shopping on the back there on the back spoiler so electric cars no problem bikes
problem no bike execs at the transport day plenary session but car company bosses were there in force
we should be a part of the solution so at gm we see a world of all electric where everyone
can be part of it and everyone can enjoy the benefits of an electric vehicle just to bring
battery costs down to they may not have had a place at the top table on transport day but these
cycling walking and transit execs made their presence felt nevertheless i'm jill warren i'm
the ceo of the european cyclists federation we are the umbrella federation for cyclist organizations
from all over europe we have about 70 members in over 42 countries my name is hank suartau i am
president of the european cyclist federation and of the world cycling alliance mohammed mizgani
secretary general of uitp the international association of public transport i am robin
thornton i'm chief exec of war 21 and i represent the entire planet
because everybody walks in our cities we need more use of public transport we
need more walking more cycling as part of the move towards climate neutral cities by 2030 so
as part of this great declaration today please let's not lose sight of the bigger picture
amazingly after that plea from the eu's matthew baldwin a sentence on transit and active travel
was added to the official cop 26 transport declaration as i revealed in my new story
on forbes.com it's a small first step but sometime in the future it will be finally
recognized that we don't need newer cars we need fewer cars our planet depends on it