Cllr Ed Lamb
@edwardlamb.bsky.social
Green Party councillor, Wirral. Co-leader of Green group of councillors. 1. Mainly chat about transport on this website. 2. You can ask me about other things! 3. Often wrong about stuff. Climate // Transport, Health, Public Realm 🚴♂️🚊🌎
Car brain does weird things to folks. If only these 'leading restaurateurs' could pour a bit of energy into making Liverpool a bit less car-dominated, improving late night public transport, etc etc
Birkenhead News@birkenheadnews.bsky.social · 5h agoLiverpool Council must be ‘held to account’ over parking says leading restaurateur www.birkenhead.news/liverpool-co...
Today I got to cycle this magnificent route! Absolutely horrendous. I'm sure there's a story there, but enabling a smooth entrance for motoring homeowners, while giving walkers, wheelers and cyclists a roller coaster is unforgivable 🤷♂️
Cllr Ed Lamb@edwardlamb.bsky.social · last wk.we are not a serious country 🫠
"We've had around 600 responses, which is about 12% of the population if you take out the children..." Not including children is a classic technique of the naysayers! Their voices should count for double IMO
ChronicleLive - The Chronicle@chroniclelive.co.uk · 2w agoA £13 million active travel route is set to connect Blyth to North Tyneside
It took me three years, but finally found some funding to get new cycle shelters installed at two of my local primary schools 😎
Why is Kemi Badenoch never asked about the hefty funding the Conservative party has taken from the oil industry and its lobby groups whenever she talks about her decision to scrap her commitment to Net Zero?
Weird policy idea that just popped into my head: set a deadline for when new drivers must learn to drive in an electric vehicle* Came from speaking to a fairly young chap recently who had only ever driven EVs 🤷♂️
Top Cat only aired for one season. HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE? In my mind those guys were hanging around by those bins for decades.
Last week, the @neweconomics.bsky.social released a report into quick transport wins to ease the cost of living for as many as possible. The headlines are around railcards and bus fare caps, but supporting them is a heap of analysis I've done that uncovers much about the state of today's railway.
🙀 Did you know that 1 in 5 Europeans experience“forced car ownership"? About half of Europeans are car-dependent. 75% never use public transit. Source: Oeko-Institut
New Rural Design Guidance aims to help councils deliver inter urban paths... but with little money for rural authorities, can it bridge the gap between hopes and reality? open.substack.com/pub/lauralak...
Rural Design Guidance aims to help deliver interurban paths
Will it help tackle landowners and National Highways?
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if you think petrol is expensive wait until you hear about TOOTHPASTE 🪥🤯 (and still I see people idling outside schools with their windows down)
"Verify your age" I had to wait till 6pm to access the internet
Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ@baoigheallain.bsky.social · 3w ago"Verify your age" I have sent telexes.
Good news- We’ve received a response from the NAO and they will be auditing the Lower Thames Crossing project! Bad news- we do not have a start date! Meanwhile public money is being thrown at this damaging road scheme. Read the exclusive in the The Guardian 👇🏽 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Fine, upstanding citizen almost kills a police officer but don't worry folks the weapon was a car so NBD www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/2626784...
WATCH: Wirral mum leaves police car in flames after running red light
Stacie Wright, of Well Lane, Rock Ferry, received an eight-month sentence, suspended for 12 months, after the incident in Birkenhead last November.
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Why are car-centric transport systems so difficult to undo? Because automobiles represent the dominance of private property over public space. In this @urbancyclinginstitute.org essay, I look to history to uncover how we got here. #StealingCars
Stealing Cars: Property, Automobility, and the Colonial Crisis of Car Culture
Long Ride | Historian John Munro delves into the past in order to understand how the primacy of private property shapes mobility hierarchies in the present
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I'll be appearing at tonight's @activetravelcaf.bsky.social, where I'll tell the story getting our 'Playing Out' motion through council, and on the work programme. Tune in! activetravelcafe.org.uk
Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them
This pavement path was recently resurfaced by National Highways across a petrol station slip road... less than 1m separates users from the busy dual carriageway. It's part of the National Cycle Network. Why wasn't it improved? You might ask open.substack.com/pub/lauralak...
I almost feel sorry for the poor thing. Its parts could have been put to much better use.
Adam Tranter@adamtranter.bsky.social · last mo.Tech companies: Our pavement robots are safe for pedestrians and don't get in their way! The robots:
idea for future LinkedIn post. what Animal Crossing has taught me about local politics and land use planning
Do petrol stations offer plunge pricing when it's windy I THINK NOT
The School Run™ Still my main political motivator. A disgrace. An embarrassment. Both hilarious and tragic in equal measure. Fix this, fix a lot of things.
The Netherlands Railways (NS) have rolled out a €49 monthly ticket for unlimited train travel nationwide. Good transport policy is not about one mode winning over another. It is about building a system where walking, cycling, public transport and shared mobility work together.
