jonathan-bray.bsky.social
@jonathan-bray.bsky.social
Making progressive change happen on transport at www.jonathan-bray.com
How can transport create stronger, more connected communities where we live? 🚶🚲🚌 @jonathan-bray.bsky.social explores practical ideas for better suburbs and better everyday journeys. #Transport #UrbanPlanning #home On Spotify: tinyurl.com/4vvbe4ru Music: Dr Yes Yari Bensound GetAroundCaboolture.au
As an ambivalent member of the PMC I really enjoyed this diatribe against the class that doesn’t think it‘s a class and acts accordingly. American in flavour though relevant to the UK. It revels in the ‘pleasure of hating’ as Hazlitt said of a good polemic. lareviewofbooks.org/article/cour...
Courtiers and Sycophants: Catherine Liu’s Case Against the Professional Managerial Class | Los Angeles Review of Books
An excoriation of the professional managerial class that strips attention from the people it purports to help.
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The kids are alright. Many mainland European railways have specific family zones. In Switzerland some trains even have a mini-playground (with a slide)! With some exceptions (eg LNER family lounges) a family focus on trains/stations is one for our nationalised railway to play catch up on.
Viva the #fietsstraat where cars can’t overtake cyclists. They add a whole new, subtle and less absolutist dimension to what you can do with streets in urban centres and suburbs. They are mainstream in transport thinking in places like Flanders and should be here too. www.bbc.com/news/article...
'England's first cycle street' opens in Cambridge
The £2.4m project includes the road being painted red and footpaths being widened.
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The latest podcast from @freewheeling.info on which we policy riff about the future of the #suburbs. Featuring cool stuff from mainland Europe - but more importantly the culture, the thinking and the 'civic imperative' that got them there. www.freewheeling.info/the-freewhee...
Suburbs with Jonathan Bray — Freewheeling
Jonathan Bray was Director of the Urban Transport Group and has spent the last year visiting suburbs all round Europe. He’s just published his findings, and it makes for a fascinating discussion. He’...
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Cute marketing campaign from Finnish Railways Put the remote down and head for the remote...
Binge Finland
Time to get hooked on Finland
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Tech billionaires should not be able to tilt British democracy from Silicon Valley boardrooms. Here’s how we could legislate to stop social media platforms amplifying the Far Right for profit or political influence. 🧵
Amy Borrett@amyborrett.ft.com · 2mo ago🚨Elon Musk has boosted the public profile of Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe on X, pulling Britain’s political discourse towards extreme content and amplifying his influence ahead of a knife-edge election in Makerfield More @FT: as.ft.com/r/80f4639f-0...
Conspiracy fantasies are participative and immersive - they are a form of enchantment in a dead end world. The cosmic right loves them. The left / centre double down on truth and reason. It used to be the left that brought the magic - can it loosen up and rediscover its inner ‘Luther Blissett’?
ACFM Microdose: Fantasy and Conspiracy With Wu Ming 1
Podcast Episode · ACFM · 6 October 2022 · 1hr
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A quote to live your public and professional life by. From the most dynamic Transport Minister the UK has ever had. #barbaracastle
'Classic semi-detached #suburbs are turning from green to grey as gardens are paved over to make way for more and bigger cars. At the same time the volume builders continue to kill off bus services by churning out new suburbs predicated on car dependency.' My latest for @passtrans.bsky.social...
This is the sound of the suburbs - Jonathan Bray
Suburbs. Most people live in them – most transport policy isn’t about them. Meanwhile, classic semi-detached suburbs are turning from green to grey as gardens are paved over to make way for more and ...
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If you want to really understand #Manchesterism then you need to read this excellent, well researched and well argued long view… themeteor.org/2024/04/07/b...
Book Review: The Rentier City by Isaac Rose - The Meteor
The Rentier City takes a geographical approach to arguing against the latest form of neoliberal conquest sweeping Manchester. Hinged on the concept of rentierism, something which writer Isaac Rose arg...
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Perhaps we should just talk to people? Nobody came to the city transport plan meeting so they went out on the streets in a low-fi way inc people writing their views on boards on their backs. They were semi-mobbed #ljubljana #renewdemocracy #doingconsultationdifferently
It looks cool and it is cool 🚊 ✅ 🚲 ✅ 🚶🏾♀️ ✅ 🚘 ❌ One for the #Helsinki geekcation ‘to do’ list Still haven’t got over the Copenhagen ‘snake’ bridge! zagdaily.com/urban/helsin...
Helsinki opens one of the world’s longest car-free bridges
One of the world’s longest pedestrian bridges has opened in Helsinki, marking a major step in the Finnish capital’s push towards active travel and lower-emission transport.
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Being bold on #bus cuts through. It worked for Ken Livingstone and it worked for Andy Burnham. It's universal, visible, quick and relatively cheap, it addresses wider unease about the decline of the civic, and it's a mandate- building proof of intent. So why don't more pols do it? Too vulgar?
The clamour for a more strategic approach from UK gov to #lightrail is growing. Burnham owes a big chunk of his rep to action on pubic transport. If he gets to be PM will DfT be told to be more proactive on getting more light rail done quicker and cheaper? www.keolis.co.uk/2026/why-we-...
Why we need Great British Light Rail - Keolis
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It's the cost of living stupid! One factor in the current Westminster administration's unpopularity is that the early focus on 'growth' missed the point as far as the voters were concerned. Biden made a similar mistake. But Starmer copied it anyway. www.ippr.org/articles/its...
It's the cost of living, stupid: Why progressives lose and win | IPPR
The sense that the public both in the UK and abroad are losing out from the current economic model is one of the driving reasons for this, and global insta
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Corporate mission statements Frank Pick style CEO of the London Passenger Transport Board (1933 - 1940)
Going beyond scattergun emergency responses to fuel crises - France is trying ‘social leasing’ to reduce the cost of expensive green kit for lower income households.
Euractiv@euractiv.com · 4mo agoEurope needs EVs more than ever; France shows social leasing is the way forward
The @iea.org says we are looking at the biggest oil supply disruption in history. Recovery could take as long as two years. Here’s five ways this will change transport in the UK. jonathan-bray.com/energy-crisi...
Energy crisis 2026 - what it means for UK transport - Jonathan Bray
Whilst the crisis is still unfolding here’s some early thoughts on implications for UK transport on the knock on impacts of inflation (possibly stagflation) and another big spike in living costs. Over...
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(1/3) Demand responsive bus services have become marmite. Some say they are the future - others argue they cost a fortune and usually flop. My new #suburbs report makes the case for Skilful Demand Responsive Transport which takes as read the pros/cons and then looks for any skilful applications.
Decarbonising suburban transport - ways of thinking and acting - Jonathan Bray
My new report for the Foundation for Integrated Transport Most people live in suburbs but most transport policy isn’t about suburbs. Therefore if there is no planning and thinking about the suburbs –...
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It’s the 🌏 first public transport day today so here’s the 🌏 first transport report with a playlist 🎵🎧 (probably)! Launched yesterday it‘s the soundtrack for my new report on ways of thinking and acting on decarbonising suburban transport. Report: jonathan-bray.com/decarbonisin... Playlist 👇
The sound of the suburbs by Jonathan Bray on Apple Music
Playlist · 37 Songs
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Suburbs. Most people live in them. Most transport policy isn’t about them. Strange isn’t it? I spent a year exploring (from Berlin to Barking) reading and thinking about suburban transport The report is out today - with thinking frames and examples of how 'next level cities' do suburbs #suburbs
Decarbonising suburban transport - ways of thinking and acting - Jonathan Bray
My new report for the Foundation for Integrated Transport Most people live in suburbs but most transport policy isn’t about suburbs. Therefore if there is no planning and thinking about the suburbs –...
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