Author: Sally

We warmly welcome this announcement yesterday from the minister, setting up a £10 million ‘Spaces for People’ fund for temporary infrastructure for active travel – giving local authorities 100% funding to set up temporary schemes such as widened pavements and

If we’ve learned anything in the last couple of months, it’s that something can start apparently very small and isolated and far away – but spread with lightning speed around the globe. As with viruses, so with ideas. And the

Last week, we asked the Scottish government to make it easier for local authorities to temporarily reclaim road space for pedestrians and cyclists – what we’re calling ‘Space for Distancing’.  Now we need you to put your support behind our

These are unprecedented times.  With lockdown extended for another three weeks, it’s becoming clear that even when it lifts we won’t be returning to anything like normal life. With no vaccine, limited testing, and little information about immunity, physical distancing

Like everyone else, things are strange for the PoP organising team right now – normally we’d be flat out busy in the run up to PoP, instead we find ourselves in limbo. In this guest post, one of the founding

Things are moving rapidly with the Covid-19 crisis and we have taken the very difficult decision to ask our pop-up organisers to cancel or postpone any planned events which involve gatherings of people, in any form. It now looks as

In a world where Joaquin Phoenix can help to save the planet by re-wearing a tuxedo, we felt that here at PoP central we too should do our bit (although actually we rather think we’re helping to save the planet

As our last guest post from Spokes Porty made clear, a key part of making any popup PoP a success is following up your action on the day by keeping up the pressure on local politicians and officials. For this,

The work doesn’t stop when you’ve run your pop-up Pop – in fact that’s when it begins! In this guest post, Spokes Porty explain how they followed up from their successful pop-up event and what impact that has had. We

Ben Raw of On Bikes organised a human bike lane pop-up PoP last year. In this guest post, he makes a powerful case for why it’s as much about inequality as it is about cycling.   As Frederick Douglass said,