Author name: Matthew Montagu-Pollock

Improving walking routes from St Michael’s Hill

Matthew Montagu-Pollock / 3rd October 2017 / Opinions

St Michael’s Hill has been a major artery into Bristol since at least the 14th century, when it was mapped as ‘the road from Bristol to Hembury’ passing by the Norman church of St Michael on the Mount Without (i.e., outside the city walls). The suburban expansion on St Michael’s Hill had begun by the […]

Walkable countries

Matthew Montagu-Pollock / 23rd August 2017 / News

In a recent study (paper in PDF format) by researchers at Stanford University, Indonesia, the world’s fourth-most-populous nation, came in last among 46 countries and territories for the number of walking steps its citizens take, averaging only 3,513 a day. By comparison, Hong Kong was first with 6,880, and China second with 6,189. Ukraine, Japan and