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alisonstenning.bsky.social
Geographer - Professor - Mum - Playing - #playstreets - Cycling - #kidicalmass - #WarOnCars - Walking - Noticing - Green - North Tyneside - North Shields - UK
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I’m glad Labour is supporting these workers, who are at risk of losing 400 jobs. Would be nice if they were also supporting university workers, where 10,000 jobs are at risk. In the first week of February alone 1,000 job cuts were announced. Nothing from Labour at all in response.

submitted 2 hours ago • 4 comments

Honestly felt emotional reading these comments from parents on their role once the kids are aged 18-25 (mine are some way off that). Recommend reading this if you work in/around transport policy and your work addresses car dependence. Car attachment is rarely described with such care and empathy.

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... “Drivers can be super aggressive - nothing can get in their way. For some the car is an extension of their virility and if anyone touches their car … it’s taken as a personal attack.” #JeSuisPaulVarry

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

A Woonerf in the Netherlands. Through motor traffic is redirected to main roads. Greenery & street furniture (including a small playground) is strategically placed to ensure motor traffic keeps to slow speeds, with paving used & roadway raised at junctions, where collisions are most likely to occur

submitted 8 hours ago • 4 comments

Save the School of Music protest. It's a very bittersweet feeling watching these incredible musicians play. This is the talent we will be losing if Cardiff University go ahead with their shortsighted plans.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Meanwhile, Preston Road is being resurfaced - we know (unlike FB commenters) that these are different budgets, but pretty galling drivers get a smoother ride while those who cycle get nothing (except fewer potholes to dodge whilst also dodging drivers)

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

Paul Varry dreamed of a cycling revolution. Then a man intentionally drove his SUV into the separated bike lane in Paris and murdered Paul.

submitted 13 hours ago • 14 comments

“If you had to guess the leading cause of death for children and young people around the world, what would you say? Malaria perhaps? Pneumonia? Suicide? They’re all high up there, but no, it’s road accidents.”

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

🚲🌅😊

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

For years, pedestrians and cyclists would have had to fight for space on the shared path (pavement) on sunny days like this, with cyclists forced to weave round buggies, dogs on leads, & darting kids. So much better with more space for people and less for cars (but the top end is still a bit busy!)

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Morning all. Photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen Whitley Bay, From Writing in the Sand, 1980

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Imagine if the HS1 to HS2 connection hadn’t of been cancelled. We could have had direct services from Birmingham and Manchester to several European destinations, finally realising the vision from this 1992 advert.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Wearmouth Bridge in the background, I’m guessing.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

A Northumberland high school closed for 6-9 months following emergence of structural issues. A nightmare for all involved.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

A spatial fix worthy of the attention of geographers of neoliberalism, for sure: "Some colleagues were told that offering to teach in Kazakhstan might save their jobs. Apparently the university will decimate itself in Cardiff and rebuild itself in Astana."

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

#KidicalMass in #Hastings tomorrow, 10am. "A family friendly mass bike ride". Hoping the weather co-operates! Hastings Urban Bikes website: hastingsurbanbikes.org

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Very much looking forward to our new MA Global Sustainable Futures starting in September, bringing core geography concepts (social justice, sustainability, power, etc) into conversation with debates about key global challenges - more info and how to apply here: www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

The funder landscape for NGOs is under pressure internationally, not only just because of the USAID funding cuts, but developments in The Netherlands as well.

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

😍 Seaside by rail! 😍

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Great piece about @coachbalto.bsky.social and the bike bus movement, countering “the epidemic of dangerous and toxic car traffic” whilst having fun: “the best thing about the bike bus is that it’s simply a cool thing to do with friends.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

So much this. The contrast with the time & energy it takes to try to figure out a vaguely safe route up here in the NE (& doubtless elsewhere) is striking. I cycled places I didn’t know today & worked between various map views to try to find a route that felt safe enough - but encountered all this:

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

“The simple act of walking plays an indispensable part in the transport system of any town. There is nothing fanciful in this statement. Walking accounts for many medium-distance movements…” https://buff.ly/4jUwitD

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Just one van parked on Howard St this afternoon. It’s almost like if the council had enforced the legal restrictions from the start, none of the parking and driving issues would have ever arisen 🤷🏻‍♀️

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

No ordinary river. The vehicle carrier City of St Petersburg arriving in the Port of Tyne, sandwiched between Grampian Tweed (which services Dogger Bank wind farm) and the DFDS ferry to Amsterdam.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments