We’re encouraging everyone that can to help an action, run a ride, organise a demo, have a play street, write a letter :) this May. #safestreetsnow #playstreets #kidicalmass
Safe Streets Now
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https://safestreetsnow.co.uk
Britain once led the world in road safety. Road collisions cost the country about £40bn ($50bn, or 1.5% of GDP) each year. In 2011, the government dropped its road safety targets altogether. The new government promises a strategy, but will it be enough? www.economist.com/britain/2025...
Why Britain has fallen behind on road safety
More than 1,600 people still die each year in road collisions
economist.com
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
If road deaths were a virus, we’d call it a pandemic. Safer transport helps us all – and we need it urgently | Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Jean Todt
Deaths on the road costs countries up to 5% of GDP. Centring transport around people, not cars, can propel development
theguardian.com
Great to see the North East Combined Authority have set up a consultation survey for the Local Travel Plan designed especially for young people. Please share with the children and young people you know! shout.mindofmyown.org.uk/s/NorthEastLTP
North East Transport Plan Consultation
Please take the time to complete our survey. Your feedback is important.
shout.mindofmyown.org.uk
Is road rage getting worse? This short piece by GCN looks at why all types of road users get angry and the impact groups like #KidicalMass are having changing that. @saskiaheijltjes.bsky.social captures why these rides matter brilliantly. What’s your experience? youtu.be/wmUP8OH50E0?...
Road Rage Is Getting Worse. Here’s What To Do About It
YouTube video by Global Cycling Network
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This ⬇️ Everyone benefits from enabling safe cycling for teenagers.
Melissa & Chris Bruntlett@modacitylife.com · 2y agoWith 60% of trips by bike, teens are the age group that cycle the most in the Netherlands—over 2,000 km. per capita per year. Rather than spend these years depending on parents and waiting for a driver’s license, they experience the autonomy promised by the car without its stress, danger, and cost.
#SafeStreetsNow worldwide! Inspiring work from the people of Toronto. Do check out the thread - and great video … @safestreetsnow.bsky.social
Safe Streets Now (@safestreetsnow.bsky.social)
https://safestreetsnow.co.uk
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@hope2hope.bsky.social · 2y agoSafe Streets Save Lives! Beautiful video of the Toronto Critical Mass bike ride tonight. (Shared with permission) #biketo @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social
Does your school do #bikeability? If not ask them to do it. It’s funded so there’s literally no excuse not to help keep our kids safe. Research on the impact it has here: roadsafetygb.org.uk/news/researc... #safestreets #streetsforeveryone #activetravel
Research highlights the ‘critical’ role of Bikeability cycle training
roadsafetygb.org.uk
There’s an all parliamentry group asking for evidence on active travel and social justice. Please take the time to respond either individually or from your groups to help. appgcw.org/2024/11/12/a... #safestreets
Active Travel and Social Justice inquiry - All Party Parliamentary Group for Cycling & Walking
Call for evidence deadline is 16th December 2024
appgcw.org
Positive article from #Bath Kids need safe streets, wherever they live! 'Safer streets for young cyclists plea issued' 👉 buff.ly/3NzdPUn #KidicalMass #SafeStreetsNow #StreetsforEveryone #StreetsforKids #StreetsForAll #SchoolStreets #SafeRoutesToSchool #FamilyCycling #HealthyHabits
Safer streets for young cyclists plea issued
With thousands of speeding reports in Bath, can change finally happen
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Us 🙋♀️ Glow Ride 20 November 7pm outside Thames Lido in Reading
📖 NEW ARTICLE | More Homes, Less Motor Traffic: Can We Have Both? Roger Geffen lays out how the government can encourage building at gentle densities to discourage car use while meeting their housing goals redbrickblog.co.uk/2024/10/more...
More Homes, Less Motor Traffic: Can We Have Both? - Red Brick
Roger Geffen lays out how the government can encourage building at gentle densities to discourage car use while meeting their housing goals
redbrickblog.co.uk
Safe streets include inclusive design that women are willing to cycle in the dark. It shouldn’t be a choose between multi lane traffic and dark, isolated ride. Are you organising a #glowride or #beatthedark ride? Share below and let’s get as many people out as possible.
We want to encourage everyone to sign this petition to introduce a graduated drivers licence to help reduce deaths and serious injuries in young drivers. Almost 5,000 people are killed or seriously injured by a driver aged 25 and under every year. www.change.org/p/safer-driv...
Sign the Petition
Safer Driving Licensing for Newly Qualified 17-19 Year Olds
change.org
Hard to believe it’s a over a year since our @for-birmingham.bsky.social, @safestreetsnow.bsky.social action in Erdington. A year on, concerted campaigning has led Birmingham City Council to acknowledge we have a road safety emergency but the issues persist and the pace of change painfully slow.
The AA estimated that introducing a graduated driving licence (GDL) would save at least 58 lives and prevent 934 people being seriously injured in road crashes each year. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
AA calls for ban on new drivers under 21 carrying passengers of similar age in UK
Motoring organisation estimates introduction of graduated driving licences would save at least 58 lives a year
theguardian.com
And this is, of course, the result of decades (centuries!) of building transport infrastructure by and for men -
Melissa & Chris Bruntlett@modacitylife.com · 2y agoWork commutes represent just 16% of journeys, yet our entire transport system is designed around them. The real potential for cycling lies in the other 84%—shorter trips within our neighborhoods to local shops, cafes, restaurants, doctor’s, friend’s, transit, sports, and school.
In the debate over whether shopping strips should be directly accessible by cars, importantly, vehicular access can still occur, but priority is given to pedestrians, cyclists and public transport. Cars are given access as a guest, or subject to everyone else’s safety. #activetravel #copenhagen
The lack of any charges yet is disturbing. I know the system is to blame, that there never should have been four lanes of cars speeding right next to a sidewalk of pedestrians, cyclists and babies in strollers. But there needs to be some kind of accountability for drivers who KILL people.
Cambridge Day@cambridgeday.com · 2y ago
Shocking graphic from Cambridgeshire Sustainable Travel Alliance of child casualties on Cambridge's roads. Should be at the forefront of current debate about extending 20mph limits.
There was a stunned silence and numerous double takes when #ChrisBoardman spoke at @activetravelcaf.bsky.social yesterday evening. A wake up call for Highways Authorities and councillors everywhere. @brenttoderian.bsky.social @thewaroncars.bsky.social @safestreetsnow.bsky.social #murderstrips
We have #kidicalmass rides in Newcastle and North Tyneside next weekend, but there are (at least) 17 other rides across the UK (and hundreds across Europe too) - 1000s and 1000s of families riding for #SafeStreetsNow #StreetsForKids @safestreetsnow.bsky.social
Join the action for Safe Streets Now in Sheffield: Walkley Road, 2pm Sunday 22 Sept. Bring a sign and share the invite.
Safe Streets Now@safestreetsnow.bsky.social · 2y agoAre you fed up with ever increasing congestion on our roads? Join us on 22 September to demand #safestreetsnow. safestreetsnow.co.uk Don’t want to organise a demo? it’s #worldcarfreeday so take advantage of what your council is offering! Get your friends into a bus or bike to combat #curculture.
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Are you fed up with ever increasing congestion on our roads? Join us on 22 September to demand #safestreetsnow. safestreetsnow.co.uk Don’t want to organise a demo? it’s #worldcarfreeday so take advantage of what your council is offering! Get your friends into a bus or bike to combat #curculture.
Get Involved - Safe Streets Now
Standing up for safety is not a war on anyone.
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What do #SafeStreets mean to me? Cycling with my grandson on a sunny day meeting a bus coming the other way, he’s not fazed, neither am I and neither is the bus driver. That’s why I support @safestreetsnow.bsky.social on #WorldCarFreeDay 22/9/24 www.safestreetsnow.co.uk
Tim Morton@timmorton2.bsky.social · 2y ago