It is mad that we have, somehow, allowed net zero - a policy common to all major parties under 5 years ago and supported by a majority of the public - to become a synoym for mad radicalism. It is doubly mad that we've allowed this to happen during the hottest summer on record.

Jo Michell@jomichell.bsky.social · 4w ago

I’m sorry, but what is ‘radical’ about the policies pursued by Miliband?

@pedalme.bsky.social with their bike's distinctive name plate getting pap'd by TfL's cycleway C4 traffic camera at the junction of Tooley Street and Boss Street (south of Tower Bridge) (10 secs traffic cam vid as folk on their bikes and cargo bikes cross the cycleway junction)

With you all the way on this one Jim!

Jim Waterson@jim.londoncentric.media · last mo.

This is basically every story that I write about London now, you don't have to want to live with Germany bureaucracy to want someone to do very basic checks. And the 'ease of setting up a business' is great (I've done it myself! It was so easy!) but unfortunately it's created scam central nation.

I'm amused by the effort to try and track a single black taxi across zone 1 ... ... however, I've just spotted what looks like a @pedalme.bsky.social bike on the Sky feed

Lily the Pinks?

One of the @pedalme.bsky.social cargo-bikes being pap'd by the TfL traffic camera on London's Blackfriars #C6 #CS6 cycleway.

“Petal Me”? “Flower power”? “Flowers to the people”? What ya got Bluesky?

knowlesy83.bsky.social@knowlesy83.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Help us name our Freddies Flowers competitor service: flowers delivered to your door fresh from @columbiaroadmarket.bsky.social @columbiaroad.bsky.social every Sunday. sendithome.co.uk/name-us/

More details, including a chance to win 5-weeks of free flowers delivered to your door on two wheels: sendithome.co.uk/name-us/

On the ground at Columbia Road Market? Come see our stand about deliveries home for your plants so you can buy bigger! And: we’re starting a weekly flower delivery service; what should the service be called? Tell us and win free weekly flower deliveries! mailchi.mp/pedalme/100-...

Strategic Cities@strategic-cities.com · 2mo ago

Love this! At London’s famous Columbia Rd flower market, cargo bike delivery service @pedalme.bsky.social just made their 100th delivery of plants by bike, including banana plants, olive trees, bamboo, and fab florals customers couldn't carry home. 🪴

Love this! At London’s famous Columbia Rd flower market, cargo bike delivery service @pedalme.bsky.social just made their 100th delivery of plants by bike, including banana plants, olive trees, bamboo, and fab florals customers couldn't carry home. 🪴

What I'm wearing on my bike today: Jeans, colourful bomber jacket type thing and my @pedalme.bsky.social cap under my helmet 😋

Home deliveries from Columbia Road flower market by @pedalme.bsky.social cargo bike. On this Sunday!

Pedal Me@pedalme.bsky.social · 5mo ago

£5 Home Deliveries from @columbiaroadmarket.bsky.social today - and ongoing on Sundays for spring planting season! @zeroemissions.bsky.social @towerhamletsnow.bsky.social

£5 Home Deliveries from @columbiaroadmarket.bsky.social today - and ongoing on Sundays for spring planting season! @zeroemissions.bsky.social @towerhamletsnow.bsky.social

Looking for more on the Vision Zero Action Plan? 🧑‍💻 Check out the blog on our website. which sets out just how achievable we think each point is, and what impact it could have on London in the next few years: lcc.org.uk/news/vision-...

Vision Zero Action Plan 2 launches - London Cycling Campaign

lcc.org.uk

The final thing you need to know about VZAP 2 is what TfL aren't saying out-loud, the need to cut motor traffic 🚘 To meet their target for "80 per cent of trips to be made by walking, cycling and public transport by 2041”, the private motor vehicle mode share needs to be half what it is now...

Work related road risk is another big issue that TfL are looking to solve in VZAP 2, with the plan setting out a new commitment to get boroughs to sign-up to the latest lorry safety standards 🚛 A great idea, and one we've been campaigning for for years: lcc.org.uk/campaigns/en...

Next up, VZAP 2 is also going big on 'zones', so LTNs and School Streets 🏫 In fact, the plan goes so far as to commit to 200 more School Streets, bringing the total to 1,000 (and now including secondary schools) - a big ✅ from us on that one...

🧵📢 NEWS: TfL and @london.gov.uk publish Vision Zero Action Plan 2, setting out plans for zero road casualties in London... 🤔 Our take on it? Broadly, we're in favour, and TfL are making some bold promises - the first of those being a doubling of the cycle network by 2035 🚲

A far larger cargobike then I'm used to, but it was lots of fun being the passanger for a change. Now I know what my kid feels like

I suggest you check out @pedalme.bsky.social

Papped!

Tim Morton@timmorton2.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Sound Up Lamb’s Conduit Street 4:00pm Bikes and congestion charge Silence is golden

And as for trying to get stuff home by bike, I’d suggest you check out @pedalme.bsky.social. It might change your thinking.

Just got a sofa on Freecycle so obviously had to get someone on a @pedalme.bsky.social cargo bike to deliver it (ty @leuconeura.bsky.social for the help taking it down two flights of stairs)

On Day 3 of ZEN's #WinterWarmers get £100 worth of cargo bike deliveries for your business or organisation. Carried out by @pedalme.bsky.social or Zhero Logistics. Fill in the form zeroemissionsnetwork.com/courier

❄️10 days of winter warmers from ZEN❄️ Day 1: Let us help bring your chosen Christmas tree home from Columbia Road flower market. Catch a lift with @pedalme.bsky.social cargo bike courier for you and your tree. Available 30 Nov, 7 Dec and 14 Dec from 8am to 2pm from @columbiaroadmarket.bsky.social

Have you considered using a #CargoBike for the school run? @pedalme.bsky.social offers this service with riders who have an Enhanced DBS check, ensuring safety for unaccompanied children 😊🚲 #BackToSchool #ActiveSchoolRunNW3 #AirQuality

It's not just that work under these platforms is often done illegally (illegal vehicles; uninsured; breaking road traffic laws; modern slavery infiltrated labour). But even if you solve those problems; the employment model is exploitative to try and hide the fact that these are, in fact, employees.

Adam Tranter@adamtranter.bsky.social · 9mo ago

We are living in a real-life episode of Black Mirror: an app dispatches workers, monitors their every move, while riders - some using rented identities - risk abuse, exhaustion and invisibility. “We are a very modern kind of slave.” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Subsidy per mile is definitely the way to go here: incentivise the switch to legit, safe, e-bikes.

Eccentrist Dad@slothlydad.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Cities need legally employed delivery riders on legally purchased, well-maintained e-bikes whose batteries won't catch fire and burn down their overcrowded accommodation. (Direct subsidy to fleet operators meeting the highest standards *waves @pedalme.bsky.social* is probably the way to go there)

London is proud to host Japan's Grand Sumo Tournament this week - it's fantastic to see the the teams using our cycling infrastructure to get around.

A lot of mobility innovation focuses on making existing options even more comfortable for the most privileged, at the expense of children, the elderly, people with low incomes or disabilities. If we’re not designing for them, we're designing ourselves out of the system: fair-mobility.eu/the-library/