“Traffic Got Evicted!” Is one of the best branding campaigns ever. Thank you Hudson Square on Little 6th! New Manhattan pedestrian square has one of the best street murals ever. I took a 4mph #bikenyc ride thru so you can experience the flow.
Max Sullivan
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Former: Labour Councillor, Westminster Council Cabinet Member for Streets Still: Liveable cities, walking, cycling, public transport, density 🇮🇪 in 🇬🇧
A former neo-Nazi activist with convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP has been selected as a Conservative candidate for a local election in Somerset www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election
Joshua Bonehill-Paine, creator of satirical Crewkerne Gazette, has convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP
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Business idea: Facebook Marketplace, but when you message the person who allegedly wants to sell a thing, they reply
The Mayo bus has accidentally driven under a ladder and smashed through the Swinford mirror factory on its way home. This is the one thing we didn’t want to happen.
Flip the script so that what's extreme is requiring people to buy a $50,000, dinosaur-juice-burning, 6000-lb machine to take the kids to school or get a gallon of milk... ...while riding a $5,000, 70-lb bike powered by a combo of a trickle of electricity and your own two legs is just normal.
The Boston LOL 💜 🚲 ⚡@thebostonlol.bsky.social · 2w agoThe clownery for clicks. Or maybe starting a new moral panic 😮💨 @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social
Make America Great Again: Ride your Dutch bike 3 blocks to pick up Thai food.
🔊THE RESULTS ARE IN: 5 narratives to win support for human-scale cycling cities. Russell King and I crowd-sourced the most effective arguments to move past bikelash and toward outcomes our cities need. We got 200+ responses. 5 narratives emerged as most compelling. Which one resonates with you?
You've got to wonder whether the person who put this together was aware they were comping a photo of a door over the face of a dead man who had been recreated with the help of his family and CGI artists in tribute to him.
s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · 2w agoI’m sorry but this was posted by Kier Starmer’s actual verified account and I am DECEASED my brother in Christ I just…was his social media person just like grip it and rip it or what
So today I learned there are little doors in the gates to the Colosseum in Rome because the city cats go there at night to sleep. cc @darthbluesky.bsky.social
While Burnham tries to convince the Civil Service to Hit the North, it's time to consider the big questions. Such as: how will you cycle from Piccadilly to No. 10 North?
Can you imagine the uproar if someone's legal car was seized and immediately crushed because some woodentop made a mistake? And the Police don't even apologise or accept they made a mistake. It's good to see this go mainstream. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Birmingham man's legal e-bike seized and destroyed by police in error
The BBC finds the bike was legal and supplied as part of a scheme to reduce pollution in the city.
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An Instagram post apparently shared by a Westminster Conservative member is being investigated by the party due to it featuring an ableist slur. www.mylondon.news/news/zone-1-...
Westminster Tory member investigated over ableist Instagram post
As well as Deputy Chair of the local group, Natalia Awasty was a candidate in the Church Street ward at Westminster City Council's May elections
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This is such an extraordinary story. Hopefully this court case will give the police pause. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Birmingham man's legal e-bike seized and destroyed by police in error
The BBC finds the bike was legal and supplied as part of a scheme to reduce pollution in the city.
bbc.co.uk
“He commands respect in international institutions and among the world's most influential governments, but equally among developing countries, workers, scientists and business and civil society leaders," @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu @fionaharvey.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Why has Labour briefed against Ed Miliband – is it his success and popularity?
Tories, Reform, fossil fuel industry and some in his party lined up against net zero agenda as energy secretary
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South Dublin County Council is seeking an Active Travel Officer South Dublin County Council is seeking to hire an Active Travel Officer via rolling recruitment, which means once there's a sufficient number of applications received, the competition will be closed....
South Dublin County Council is seeking an Active Travel Officer
South Dublin County Council is seeking to hire an Active Travel Officer via rolling recruitment, which means once there's a sufficient number of applications received, the competition will be closed. Unlike some other councils that have a role with a similar title, focused on promoting active travel, South Dublin County Council's Active Travel Officer role is more project and planning focused, with a candidate needing a minimum of a level eight university degree in: engineering, town planning, architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, quantity…
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Pavement widening and an incoming zebra crossing at the junction of Paddington St (C27) and Chiltern St. @maxsullivan.bsky.social
Economically illiterate economist Tim Leunig, author of such pieces as BEEP BEEP VROOM VROOM and MOAR ROADS gets a peerage from the Lib Dems.
Yuan Yi Zhu@yuanyiz.bsky.social · 3w agoSir Keir Starmer announces his retirement peerages, a list of 26: Sir Sadiq Khan, June Sarpong, and the fired Sir Chris Wormald. www.gov.uk/government/n...
DRUMROLL - we've got our first side-road zebra crossings! Well done Manchester & Westminster for piloting. And Oxfordshire for rolling it out.
Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 3w agoOxfordshire has its first two “side-road zebra crossings”, installed without Belisha beacons or zig-zags, on St Margaret’s Rd where it meets Banbury Rd in north Oxford, and on Cornwallis Rd where it meets Henley Ave in east Oxford. Such crossings are standard in mainland Europe but rare in the UK.
Some guy made a custom camping box for his Bullitt and I’m having trouble sitting still now www.facebook.com/share/p/1E6X...?
Very pleased to say the Rural Design Guide is published, we were the principal authors, working alongside WSP. Not all is strictly rural - some content is effectively an update to LTN 1/20, like the inclusion of Cyclops and more detailed guidance on transitions. Enjoy! www.gov.uk/government/p...
Designing accessible rural active travel
Guidance on planning and designing walking, wheeling and cycling routes and facilities in rural areas.
gov.uk
Your friendly neighborhood bench builders were back at it this weekend 🥳
Sure you've got your Count Binface, but when it comes to eccentric British candidates, retired Royal Navy officer Bill Boaks was a force to contend with. By all accounts Boaks was a terrible campaigner, but his single-minded dedication to the cause of road safety was a force to be reckoned with. 🧵
Good grief. Wandsworth Council’s plans to “tackle the gridlock” & “get Puntey’s roads mvping again” all involve stealing space & time from pedestrians in a self-defeating effort to increase traffic throughput 🤦♂️ Really bleak, horribly misguided stuff
‘It’s time to tackle the gridlock’: Council’s new plan to get Putney roads moving again - Wandsworth Borough Council
wandsworth.gov.uk
E-bikes - with pedal assist with speed & power limited by law - are legal and a great way to travel around London. Illegal electric motorbikes - with much more power, speed & weight and with an auto throttle - are a dangerous menace. Good to see the police taking action.
London’s newest cycle lane: Shaftesbury Avenue. We’re busy expanding our network of Cycleways across the capital to make it safer for people to travel by bike. And cycling has soared, now there are an average 1.5m bike journeys every day. 🚲📈🚲📈🚲📈🚲📈🚲📈🚲📈
