This insanely out-of-touch government advice for kids on how to cross the road safely would be laughable if it weren't for the 443 children injured on London's roads each year.

NEW ANALYSIS: London requires up to 28% FEWER electric vehicle charge points than predicted if we get smarter at utilisation and achieving a modest reduction in car ownership. 🙏 1/4

📣 NEW LCEF REPORT + POLLING LAUNCH📣 Our new report, Breathe Easy, shows how Labour can build a strong political offer on clean air, based on polling commissioned from @goodgrowthfdn.bsky.social.

My Guardian piece today on how cars are growing faster than teenagers www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Britain’s cars and SUVs are growing bigger – but there is a way to stop this deadly ‘carspreading’ | Christian Wolmar

Larger vehicles crowd our roads and are far more dangerous to pedestrians. Let’s curb them before they do even more damage, says says transport commentator Christian Wolmar

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I know which one I'd rather take my chances with 😬 #carspreading LEFT BMW iX3 2026 (SUV) RIGHT Volkswagen Golf 2025 Stills taken from www.euroncap.com

Estimated 2,700 people died early in the UK in the May and June heatwaves. Research led by Clair Barnes @imperial.ac.uk Piece by @dpcarrington.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

June heatwave killed up to 440 people a day in England and Wales, data suggests

Extreme temperatures in May and June led to about 2,700 lost lives in total with climate crisis adding 3C to 4C

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Great to see another *mega* month of EV sales, making up 30% of all new cars in June & 1/4 for H1 2026. According to @newautomotive.org, this means that the car industry is now ahead of the minimum sales share needed to hit this year's ZEV mandate target. www.thetimes.com/business/com...

UK electric vehicle sales hit record levels

Dealers say the milestone was reached thanks to the soaring cost of petrol, the increasing breadth of models and competition on price

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Show me another Mayor who’s spent more than a decade fronting their city’s pride parade 👏 🙏 Allyship in action ✊🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @london.gov.uk @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social Also shoutout to @prideride.co.uk for this opportunity to march today!

Similar policy needed to phase out toxic diesel fumes in London 🚚💨😷 Currently no end in sight despite decades of health impacts, what’s the plan @london.gov.uk?

Dan HIll@cityofsound.bsky.social · last mo.

"India’s capital will now issue new licence plates only to electric small trucks and three-wheelers, known as e-rickshaws, from 2027, and to e-scooters and electric motorbikes from 2028" (Amazing. As long as the vehicles stay small through this transition) www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Completely agree with Will Norman on this. This is a terrible example being set by the LTA putting more dangerous vehicles on the road, especially insensitive considering the incident at The Study school in Wimbledon where the destructive power of these vehicles was shown to be so deadly.

Will Norman@willnorman.co.uk · last mo.

As cars get bigger & bigger they take up more space on streets & in car parks and pose an increasing safety risk to road users. 👏LTDA for raising this issue with Wimbledon & their fleet of 170+ SUVs for tennis players🎾 Wouldn't smaller safer vehicles be better? www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...

Day two is now live www.youtube.com/live/A7aPRgi...

Clean Cities Campaign Day 2

YouTube video by CoinStreet MNStreaming

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Oliver Lord@olord.bsky.social · last mo.

Our brand new conference #curiouscities has begun! If we create healthier streets for children, we create healthier streets for everyone. We’re uniting a movement 💚 Here is today’s livestream link to watch and ask questions: youtube.com/live/KhegCuC...

Our brand new conference #curiouscities has begun! If we create healthier streets for children, we create healthier streets for everyone. We’re uniting a movement 💚 Here is today’s livestream link to watch and ask questions: youtube.com/live/KhegCuC...

Despite London’s great progress, there's still much to do. We're seeing a much slower electrification of vans in the UK compared with our European neighbours. Just 10% of UK van sales are electric, compared with 78% of new vans in the Netherlands.

I was delighted to open @cleancitiescampaign.org’s Future of Urban Freight Conference #LCAW2026 Working with business, London is making good progress in making freight & servicing operations cleaner, safer & more sustainable. I talked about EV charging, DVS, cargo bike growth & clean air.

I’m issuing a high air pollution alert for London on Monday 22 June. Hot, sunny weather and pollution from continental Europe are expected to raise ozone levels. Please help protect yourself and others, especially vulnerable people, by reducing car journeys and avoiding engine idling.

More of this please 🙏 The UK is at a crossroads - more polluting & dangerous SUVs or more affordable city sized electric cars… it’s our future to determine and there is a lot that city leaders must do @london.gov.uk @willnorman.co.uk www.theguardian.com/environment/...

How Europe’s EV makers shrank their product to challenge the bloated SUVs

Smaller, cheaper cars built for narrow city streets are becoming more stylish – but require careful design decisions

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Good news! Ministers have finally given green light to new #NaturalHistory GCSE. We’ve campaigned so long for this! Big hats off to tireless advocate Mary Colwell 🙌 Now our young people will have a chance to get to know & love the natural world, to feel awe & wonder, & gain skills to protect it 🌷🌳🦡

Natural history GCSE to teach teenagers to plant wildflower-friendly gardens

Long-awaited course to examine human effects on natural world and explore everyday ways to aid biodiversity

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So much change in London and yet so much more needed until it is a truly healthy city for everyone 🙏 yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/06/what...

What Americans can learn from London’s war on cars » Yale Climate Connections

The UK capital has taken major steps to cut auto dependency, but critics say it’s still falling short.

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Greet your child with a SMILE 🙂. Not a MOBILE 🚫 I was amazed to see this sign on a school gate whilst walking in London the other week.  It speaks to the crisis we are facing - social connections and interactions lost to smart phone addiction 👀 1/5

We’re disappointed to see that average bus speeds have fallen again and are now at their slowest since modern records began TfL has a programme of measures to improve speeds safely. We need to see these making a difference for the millions of Londoners who depend on buses #Bus

London’s bridges are literally falling down, flyovers, tunnels too. I’m reminded of @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social blog on potential to save & reimagine Rotherhithe 🙏. Especially now a new tunnel purpose built for motor vehicles is open. We need a strategic approach cityinfinity.co.uk/2024/08/05/r...

Reimagine Rotherhithe

Although we need to earn a living, there are sometimes opportunities that arise that will either help exercise our brains or they’ll be a bit of fun, but which aren’t about raising an i…

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If TfL can put huge rapid chargers on the carriageway of London’s busiest roads, there’s no excuse for other authorities not to do same. As we rightly gear up for an EV revolution, we should be resolute that charge points don’t belong on pavements. @livingstreets.bsky.social @londonls.bsky.social

Who’d have thought that reallocating a bit of car parking & road space would help a local pub thrive 🤓. This is the sort of quick & scalable intervention newly elected councillors can do to support the local economy and make neighbourhoods more people friendly 🙏 Kudos @islington-council.bsky.social

The time to act is now. #carspreading @london.gov.uk @willnorman.co.uk

Clean Cities@cleancitiescampaign.org · 3mo ago

London has committed to eliminating all road deaths and serious injuries by 2041 - but #carspreading is putting that at risk 🚗 ⬆️ Around a third of cars on London’s roads are now larger SUVs, making streets more dangerous, especially for children.

Cargo bike use in London has doubled. With petrol getting more and more expensive, is it time to think about getting one? Yes, says TV's Dr Chris Van Tulleken, it can save thousands. And it's good for our health & environment. Read all about it: cleancitiescampaign.org/want-to-save...

Want to save £4k during the fuel crisis? “Get on your cargo bike” says TV’s Dr Chris

Families can save thousands of pounds a year by ditching their car for an electric cargo bike - but many households cannot make the switch.

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Perhaps it’s time to speed up plans to get more trains running through the Channel Tunnel? I can’t believe it still runs at around half of capacity 😬 European Airlines Face Fuel Shortages Within Weeks www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/b...

European Airlines Face Fuel Shortages Within Weeks

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Here's hoping London's rules on dangerous SUVs mandates every one of them to dress for military service 24/7, just like they were intended. Not built for the school run that's for sure... #carspreading 🚸 @solveschoolrun.bsky.social @willnorman.co.uk

Pedestrians now have less time to wait for the green man at stand‑alone push‑button pedestrian crossings

Shorter waiting times for green man at Bristol crossings

"Reducing waiting times at crossings is a simple but important change that helps everyone feel more confident when crossing the road"

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Carspreading as highlighted by @cleancitiescampaign.org is a massive problem in London and I'm glad we and the Mayor are on the same page about encouraging the use of smaller less dangerous vehicles.

Max Sullivan@maxsullivan.bsky.social · 4mo ago

15) Continue to evolve parking charges to better reflect the cost and benefits of different transport modes, making it cheaper to park the most space efficient vehicles, and look at ways to ensure bigger and heavier vehicles like large SUVs pay commensurately more.

Nice to see Camden's dedicated on street e-bike parking keeping pavements clear @adamdkharrison.bsky.social 🙌