At the Delivering Vision Zero conference today. Richard Parker delivers the opening speech. He says: “We have made some progress but frankly not enough.” I agree. @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org
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Couldn't agree more. Absolute madness. Crazy decision from an education and health and wellbeing point of view too. My son is now out in the heat unsupervised. Closing schools whilst also warning of drowning risk is just wrong. What about teaching resilience and importance of attendance and exams? 🤔
Prof. Ian Walker@ianwalker.bsky.social · last mo.Can't help thinking that closing schools because it's hot shifts the problem from cooling one building to cooling a thousand homes
If someone chooses to live in a smaller home in the inner city in part to avoid a long commute, they generally don’t pressure society to build them a bigger house with more stuff. So if you choose a bigger stuff-filled house in the suburbs, don’t expect society to build you a fast car commute.
Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2mo agoDon’t forget what REALLY “drives” a lot of regional growth and infrastructure politics. It’s pretty much this. Great drawing via Ian Lockwood.
Popular unpopular opinion: touchscreens in cars meant to be operated by drivers are a terrible idea to the point that they should perhaps be made literally illegal
When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.
The Dutch mobility system isn't just built around cycling. It's built around bike-train intermodality: cycling solves the train's convenience problem and the train solves cycling's range problem. Together, they offer an attractive alternative to driving on a mass scale. WATCH: youtu.be/jq93DgLvmFc
💚 Nine years on, we remember the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire. We reaffirm our commitment to campaigning for safe housing for all.
Tirana has emerged in recent years as the Balkans’ most ambitious cycling city. What began as a modest effort to introduce bike infrastructure has grown into a broader vision of child-friendly urbanism; combining hardware, software, and orgware into a wholistic strategy for reclaiming public space.🧵
We need to rename all cycle parking as "Cycle Protection"! and check out those padded dividers!? ❤️ Will be recommending these for HS2...and need some for my garage!
Cool Bike Art@coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 2mo agoBicycles looked after on a Great Western Railway train at Paddington Station, London ca. 1900
Yep. Time for @brumgreens.bsky.social and Lib Dems to do a review of the Brum CAZ and if it's working (it is a bit) then enhance it. City wide resident parking permits & workplace parking levy too. Prevent disease, boost growth & productivity & protect the NHS (bonus = provides skint city £££).
John Munro@johnmunro.bsky.social · 2mo agoProtect the NHS.
Yep former Health Secretary & soon to be losing PM candidate Wes needs to listen to Prof Sir Chris Whitty & wise up. Bikes not bombs, school streets not nukes & bike lanes not tanks protect our children & our NHS. Also cash was already committed, pays itself back x10 & is peanuts in scheme of things
Peter Walker@peterwalker99.bsky.social · 2mo agoWith the full caveat that I have never managed a govt dept, as Wes Streeting knows very well having been health secretary, investment in active travel *pays for itself many times over* in better public health outcomes etc. Cutting investment is often a false economy, as the UK knows to its cost.
Children’s independence, safer streets and more playful, child-friendly cities all go hand in hand. Great to see local charity @roamkids.bsky.social pushing this conversation forward. They’re hosting an event in Brum on 3 July exploring these ideas further 👇 www.tickettailor.com/events/roam1... 
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This Banksy-style mural of artist David Hockney, a native son of Yorkshire, UK, was painted on the wall of the Cross Roads Inn in West Yorkshire in anticipation of the region's hosting of the 2014 Tour de France Grand Départ 🎨Stewy #RIPDavidHockney
Wes Streeting might want to reflect on how our dependence upon the world's oil dealers is working for our nation's defence
Peter Walker@peterwalker99.bsky.social · 2mo agoWith the full caveat that I have never managed a govt dept, as Wes Streeting knows very well having been health secretary, investment in active travel *pays for itself many times over* in better public health outcomes etc. Cutting investment is often a false economy, as the UK knows to its cost.
For reasons, I was looking up residents' parking permit costs in Amsterdam East this week. €200 for the first permit and €500 for the second. Oh, and that's for 6 months, not a year. If you are near the district centre, you can have one permit; two permits elsewhere. There is no waiting list!
Get your city some leaders that care enough about the children in your community to do this outside your local school.
EmmanuelSPV@emmanuelspv.bsky.social · 2mo agoBefore (2020) / After (2026) the school street Rue de la Parcheminerie in the 5th arrondissement of Paris. The school street was made in 2024.
With Palantir embedded with Network Rail and now with SpaceX being positioned as the primary train WiFi provider, we must ask the question: how much control is the US tech industry going to get over our railways?
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
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Spent a lot of time in East Surrey hospital recently. The main takeaway is England needs to thank our lucky stars for immigrants! The black, brown, African and Asian people in there are cleaning, feeding, caring, medicating, comforting and life saving in the most difficult circumstances. Thank you!
Interesting that the idea of another EU referendum is regularly discussed on broascast media as something that would cause division and thus a bad idea. But plans to deport literally millions of people are discussed as administrative questions.
"A video of city buses, provided by the city of Paris as humanitarian aid for the Kyiv region. The train with the buses passes through France and Germany to Poland, where the buses will be reloaded onto platforms with a gauge of 1520 mm, and then sent to Kyiv"
What a berk! How about asking drivers to slow down and not drink drive and just try looking and if can't do those things hand in their driving licence if they won't do that or can't still spot a human being. @irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social #RoadSafety #VictimBlaming www.newstalk.com/news/hi-vis-...
'The same as wearing a seat belt': Clare Council calls for mandatory hi-vis
Councillors argued that the hi-vis jackets are necessary for road safety, with motorists complaining that they struggle to see pedestrians.
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Passionate about challenging our unsustainable transport systems!? This job opportunity with Cycling UK Northern Ireland looks rewarding: www.irishcyclingcampaign.ie/northern-ire...
Northern Ireland Cycling Advocacy and Development Lead
Over the last few years, Irish Cycling Campaign has collaborated closely with Cycling UK Northern Ireland, particularly over the course of our Shared Island Civic Society funded project entitled…
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Surfers Against Sewage are about to meet with the government to discuss the sewage pollution scandal. Sign the petition to show just how many of us demand change. Over 270k have signed - now let's get this to a number Starmer can't ignore. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
End the sewage pollution scandal
Surfers Against Sewage are about to meet with the government to discuss the sewage pollution scandal in UK waters. Sign the petition to show just how many of us demand change. Over 270,000 people have...
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