‘People feel scared about walking’: the cost of car culture in Birmingham

After pedestrian deaths and assaults on traffic wardens, a city designed for motorists is fighting for change

Stockholm to ban petrol and diesel cars from centre from 2025

Scheme goes further than most, as Swedish city tries to reduce pollution and noise

Car tax mix-up led to us being stranded at the roadside

Our rescue service refused to help us with a flat tyre after it discovered that our vehicle excise duty had expired

Fox news: Why the cunning beasts are causing chaos for car owners

Drivers in suburban towns like Sidcup have been forced to take action against a growing menace - the un-fantastic foxes who are chewing their brake cables

Avis refuses to refund me for excess car hire insurance I said no to

Hiring a car in Europe is still something of a leap of faith, despite big improvements in recent years

‘This is political expediency’: how the Tories turned on 15-minute cities

Party appears to have embraced conspiracy theory that the greener, healthier, more sustainable way of life is a ‘sinister’ attack on freedom

‘Our strike is working’: UAW announces progress in talks with car giants

Shawn Fain says General Motors has made key concession on battery manufacture and does not announce additional strikes

Through a Ulez camera, I spy the vandal who chopped down Laurence Fox’s career. It looks a lot like him

Following Lozza’s arrest for anti-camera vigilantism, we need to ask: doesn’t anyone recognise a martyr when they see one, asks Marina Hyde

Anthology of poems by van drivers celebrates life on the road

Nikki and Russell Eatly’s poem The Work Wife wins competition in Poetry in Motion collection

The Tories say 15-minute cities are sinister. That’s nonsense – here’s the truth

Labour shows little sign of wanting to counter Rishi Sunak’s rhetoric about a divide between motorists and ‘woke’ spoilsports, say academic Kate Soper and writer Martin Ryle

Hundreds of potentially toxic road runoff outfalls polluting England’s rivers

Exclusive: No regulator is monitoring scale of impact of dangerous chemicals on wildlife or public health

Motorway services near Bradford voted worst in Britain … again

Welcome Break’s Hartshead Moor on the eastbound M62 comes last out of 120 rest stops for second year running

Global heat is now ‘gobsmackingly bananas’, but there’s hope humanity can limit the climate damage

It’s hard to overstate just how exceptionally high global temperatures are now, but we have the technology to avert disaster

Man ‘forced to drive electric car into police van’ in Scotland after brakes fail

Brian Morrison says six-month-old car malfunctioned and would not go slower than 15mph on drive home from work

UK cost of diesel soars as RAC says petrol is ‘overpriced by about 7p a litre’

Diesel up by more than 8p to 163p in September and petrol by 4.5p to 152p amid global oil production cuts