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• One month until ImberBus – a bus route that runs just once a year

  17-07-2024 17:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you fancy spending an exceptionally surreal day taking trips through a military firing range in some old buses, start the countdown as it’s one month to ImberBus.ImberBus is a standard London bus route that runs on just one day a year and through the sealed-off military lands at Salisbury Plain, past burnt-out tanks and military bases to an abandoned medieval church in the middle of a military training village.
  Which is pretty interesting when you think about it.
  The buses also ride all
  
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• London boroughs boosting cargo bikes for last-mile deliveries

  17-07-2024 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Five London boroughs have been awarded £180,000 by the Mayor of London’s Air Quality Fund to help more businesses switch to cargo bikes for their local deliveries.
  (c) Zero Emissions Network
  Businesses in the five London boroughs – Westminster, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Hackney and the City of London – can apply for grants towards the costs of switching from vans to cargo bikes for deliveries, work and travel.
  The Zero Emissions Network is operating the project and will also
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Natural History Museum, SW7

  17-07-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A brand new pocket park has opened in central London, and it’s unlike any you might have seen before — it has a dinosaur in the middle.The pocket park sits in front of the Natural History Museum, replacing mainly plain lawns with ferns, ponds, and lots of wildlife. The Museum’s previous Wildlife Garden around the side of the building has also been extended to double the area of native habitats within the grounds, and the pond area has been increased by 60% to better support the
  
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