We’re teaming up with food delivery couriers to campaign for cleaner vehicles likes e-bikes and safer cycle infrastructure in UK cities.
Popular services like Just Eat, Deliveroo, and Uber Eats rely on their riders to use their own, personal motorbikes and scooters to deliver food. The work is often unsafe (facing the full brunt of road danger and air pollution) and insecure (with some people earning as little as £2 an hour).
But the voices of these key workers aren’t being heard in the debates around how we share the roads and manage traffic in London, and what should be done to make their workplace safer.
Funded by Impact on Urban Health, and in partnership with IWGB, Green Gumption and the Road Danger Reduction Forum, Possible is working with London-based on-demand food delivery riders to explore the effects on-demand food deliveries have on London’s air and roads and what needs to change to reduce the negative effects this rapidly growing industry has on health.
We want to support riders to act as champions for safer cycleways and less-polluting modes of transport, like e-bikes. Amplifying the voices of gig economy workers will help us to inform policymakers and food delivery companies about how and why to transition to safer and cleaner alternative modes of transport.
This is a live programme running until September 2024. This page will be updated with more information as the project continues.