News / Never too hot to trot

While that's good news for lizards and Big Brother contestants, there's quite a few of us that are facing the terrible conundrum: how are we going to get about without collapsing in frustration and heat rash? Driving is clearly out. With air con off and the windows open, all that happens is you get stuck in dreary summer traffic, slowly basting like a duck in sweaty sauce. Switch the air con on? Why bother having summer at all? Are you mad? What you need is smart transport. Something that lets you get from A to B without the sea of misery that summer jams can induce. You should try out urban walking route planner walkit.com. Covering 14 UK cities and towns - with more in the pipeline - you punch in your start and end point and they do the rest. You end up with an accurate distance, predicted duration of the journey, plus a handy calorie count that tells you how much lunch you've walked off if you're going slow, fast or middling. You even get to choose between 'direct' and 'less busy' routes, so you can tailor your stroll according to preference. They also tell you just how much carbon you're saving by going by foot. If you're planning to save on shoe leather, why not try out the Journey Planner app on our site? We'll cook you up a bitching new route to work, to the pub, to the four corners of the country - and they're all made with tender cuts of tasty public transport. You get to enjoy the summer and look out of the window at the flowers, cows and hayfever sufferers on nature rambles. We all leave our cars at home. And hopefully when we're all doing that we'll give the emissions a bit of a rest for the season - even they deserve a holiday, don't they? Do it in public with the Journey Planner here

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