Because what London really needs is lots more cars and especially empty ones cruising the streets. I don't remember Londoners being consulted on being used as guinea pigs. #motonormitivity

Torsten Bell@torstenbell.bsky.social · 8h ago

This is a big moment for one of the UK’s most promising start-ups

“3/4ths of disabled people don’t drive. Stop using us as an excuse for car dependency.” — @nondriver.bsky.social in collaboration with @urbantruth.bsky.social. #UrbanTruth Worth repeating. #UrbanTruth

Excellent post from @lowtraffichackney.bsky.social www.lowtraffichackney.org/latest-news/... 'Traffic is not like water in a pipe ... It is the result of thousands of individual decisions as to when, how and whether to make a journey'

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Climate science denial in physical form. The Land Rover Defender X (yup - they've gone full Musk). Price: £103,460, plus a few kids' lives. 🧵

Brighton is leading the way in ending automatic entitlement to public space to store cars and using CPZ permit caps to manage space. Hackney should be doing this! The potential to reduce local car use is huge.

Angry People in Local Newspapers@apiln.bsky.social · 2d ago

In today’s episode of People Trying To Park A Car In Brighton And Hove, man forgets to renew his parking permit for the vehicle his partner uses for work and the school run, and now he’s in the doghouse.

Brighton is leading the way in ending automatic entitlement to public space to store cars and using CPZ permit caps to manage space. Hackney should be doing this! The potential to reduce local car use is huge.

Angry People in Local Newspapers@apiln.bsky.social · 2d ago

In today’s episode of People Trying To Park A Car In Brighton And Hove, man forgets to renew his parking permit for the vehicle his partner uses for work and the school run, and now he’s in the doghouse.

Yes. There is a clear case for borrowing to fund schemes like Bakerloo line extension or even Crossrail2. Many regional schemes too (Leeds trams?). These will reliably pay for themselves and much more in economic gains! Borrowing is a no-brainer.

Ruth Cadbury MP@ruthcadbury.bsky.social · 5d ago

On top of this one area I will keep pushing on is around looking at alternative ways of financing new transport & infrastructure projects. We saw with the Elizabeth line how this can work and we must look at how other countries like France manage to finance new infrastructure.

On top of this one area I will keep pushing on is around looking at alternative ways of financing new transport & infrastructure projects. We saw with the Elizabeth line how this can work and we must look at how other countries like France manage to finance new infrastructure.

These were the stats that radicalised me. I didn’t believe them when I first heard them so I did my own research. www.rospa.com/siteassets/p...

For the 5th consecutive year child casualties have flat-lined at around 13,000 road casualties of age 16 and under. In what other area of life would the death or injury of 13,000 children be "acceptable"? The government has a Road Safety Strategy that aims to reduce child KSIs by 70%.

💯 This 👇. So angry reading this. If schools saw 13,000 annual casualties it’d be a national outrage. This is totally unacceptable & an emergency & needs to be treated as such.

20's Plenty for Us@20splenty.bsky.social · 6d ago

For the 5th consecutive year child casualties have flat-lined at around 13,000 road casualties of age 16 and under. In what other area of life would the death or injury of 13,000 children be "acceptable"? The government has a Road Safety Strategy that aims to reduce child KSIs by 70%.

We should really just make citizen reporting of this sort of thing far easier? I get resourcing wardens etc is hard but if there was a easy way to upload people parking illegally etc. Then it'd be huge boon for councils and wider society

Aidan Skinner@aidan.skinner.me.uk · 6d ago

Just now this guy got out of his car which was parked in a bus lane when I asked him to move and took a photo. Told me he was going to take my phone and shove it down my throat. I told him he wasn't and he got back in and drove off after I stood there for a couple of minutes.

Fair. I feel optimistic about Andy Burnham but question his resolve. He bottled the Manchester ULEZ when drivers complained. Now he’s got some horribly tough decisions to make & more fudging just won’t cut it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Burnham the crowd-pleaser knows how to make friends, but he’ll be defined by how he makes enemies | Andy Beckett

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Cargo Bikes Can Replace Cars for Many Families, New Study Finds. momentummag.com/cargo-bikes-...

Day one complete. So hot, and I’m not as young or as fit as I’d like to be! 😅 Digger joined me right at the end, doing her best to look like she’d run the whole way 😊. Huge thanks to everyone who’s sponsored so far — really appreciate it, and I know it makes a difference to Brake!

Andy Cox@andy-cox.bsky.social · last wk.

I’m running 200km over 7 days to demand safer roads. On average, 30 people are killed every week on UK roads — deaths that are preventable. I’m raising funds for the charity Brake, who support bereaved families & crash victims. Please donate if you can. Thank you! www.justgiving.com/page/andy-co...

Ensuring all London buses have effective air conditioning should be a key aim. If TfL buses & London Travelwatch spent more time on this & less time whining about necessary cycling infrastructure, maybe it would’ve happened. (Travelwatch don’t even mention A/C in their ‘Making buses better’ report!)

Steve Chambers@planningtransport.co.uk · last wk.

Now on the third well air-conditioned train, still recovering from the ten minutes on a bus. There is a model of bus that has really good air cooling and I do not want to ride on any other model in this heat.

Beijing’s bicycle comeback might be one of the world's most significant urban cycling revivals. After decades of decline, its mode share has climbed back to almost 30%, supported by over 3,200 kilometres of infrastructure, extensive bike-sharing systems, and an ambitious program of street redesign.🧵

A 0.48% annual property value tax would certainly be fairer nationally but have massive consequences for affordability in London. There are an awful lot of pretty middle-income people in London who bought houses years ago for relatively modest sums who’d now pay eye-watering annual value tax.

Sorry to post from the hellsite but someone sent me this & it’s worth sharing. Well done @paulkohlersw19.bsky.social. There are real issues with some floating bus stop designs but NFBUK have a completely unrealistic position that would kill cyclists & make safe cycling infrastructure impossible.

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Kidical Mass London@kidicalmasslond.bsky.social · 2w ago

Calling all wild ones! Come with us on Sep 20th to cycle on a Kidical Mass across central London as part of the Cycling Festival. Dress up if you’d like to, bring your friends! @ibikelondon.bsky.social www.ticketsource.com/ibikelondon/... #KidicalMass #KidicalMassLond #CarFreeDay #StreetsforKids

Calling all wild ones! Come with us on Sep 20th to cycle on a Kidical Mass across central London as part of the Cycling Festival. Dress up if you’d like to, bring your friends! @ibikelondon.bsky.social www.ticketsource.com/ibikelondon/... #KidicalMass #KidicalMassLond #CarFreeDay #StreetsforKids

The median newspaper columnist writing about bike infrastructure is like, "I once had to park 150 feet away from the coffee shop so I talked to 2 other drivers, a failing restaurant owner, and a person who once saw a cyclist run a stop sign about how bike lanes ruined our lives."

This disingenuous commentary doesn’t help anyone. Frauds start unravelling pretty quickly. That you apparently cannot afford to put your oven or treat yourself is quickly undermined by the question “so why are you spending £50 per week on petrol?” Then, it turns out, she has an agent and /1

Ash@queerash.bsky.social · 2w ago

Elaine in this article "can't remember the last time she used her oven" but also spends £200 a month on petrol (so driving probably ~50 miles a day?) (she's also a professional old person; she was on Good Morning Britain last year, and then also at the Nov budget, and the year before lmao)

We talk about Hackney’s Healthy Streets Scorecard verdict in our latest blogpost here: www.lowtraffichackney.org/latest-news/...

Healthy Streets Scorecard - How is Hackney doing? - Low Traffic Hackney

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But yeah, for too long class has been used as a surrogate scale for where someone comes from and how they vote, and it’s completely fucking stupid. Making class ONLY about culture renders it meaningless.

This same theme comes up time and time again, usually with a concern-troll grievance narrative. There is a PhD thesis to be done on perception of transport usage of different social classes.

Pete Fraser@petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ok, talking about class in vox pops is now banned until it starts making any sense.

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Probably fewer people than a small London overground station. What a staggering waste of land & resources to create a harmful unpleasant & antisocial environment.

Gareth Dennis@garethdennis.uk · 2w ago

It is remarkable how few people are actually moving through this whole intersection. The most inefficient mode of land transport by a long way.

Half time show, I want to see Trump try and hit it in from halfway, win a tumble dryer if he does

I must’ve cycled C27 on Sidmouth Street hundreds of times but I’d never previously noticed the little gate leading to a lovely cemetery-park (St George’s Gardens). London is full of surprises.