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The whole world needs to start taking reducing road danger seriously and not accept 1.2 million deaths annually as a normal thing to happen. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Want more trains from London to continental Europe? ✅🤔 St Pancras terminal capacity being worked on, should be ok ✅ St Pancras platform capacity ✅ HS1 capacity ✅ Channel Tunnel capacity BUT ⁉️ HS1 access costs high ⁉️ Tunnel access costs high ❌ No one has any trains to expand services!

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

I'm currently reading this after hearing about it on @podstreetsahead.bsky.social As a designer it's giving me some insight into rider behaviour insofar as it's people in precarious (self) employment who are racing the clock to earn. We just don't hear about this stuff elsewhere.

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

And there you have it. Labour hate pedestrians, they hate cyclists, they hate the visually impaired and the disabled. If you drive everywhere, Labour are the party for you. www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/uk-news...

submitted 15 days ago • 15 comments

Another Labour minister takes a kick at those on benefits while leaving the 50 UK families who, together, are worth HALF A TRILLION £, untouched Disgusting and despicable Wealth tax now www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 16 days ago • 6 comments

So the MD of M&S Food never understood & still does not understand what UK (Brexit) asked for? On "is still painfully slow" ("higher cost & reduced choice") this is price of trading across regulatory & customs borders between DIFFERENT legally regulated & customs territories 1/6

submitted 17 days ago • 25 comments

Excited to hear this morning from a Cllr friend in another part of England that they are going to use our motion on weight and emissions based parking charges in their own area. Excellent news. We will get there.

submitted 18 days ago • 8 comments

Lucy Manzano, head of the Dover Port Health Authority: "Defra have continually stated that there are robust controls in place. There are not. They don't exist." The previous Tory government had 4 years to sort this out. The system they set up is shoddy at best. #Brexit www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 18 days ago • 12 comments

[NEW] 24% of Transport for London cycle network unsafe after dark 🔦🔦 Unlit canals, locked parks, assaults & more on official TfL Cycleways, with 11 Cycleways over 70% unsafe after dark. Full report by LCC Women's Network, supported by Forest e-bikes & Madison UK: lcc.org.uk/news/womens-...

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

A fascinating piece by @BBCCountryfile, really bringing home the absurdity of post-Brexit red tape. The truth is that Brexit bureaucracy is suffocating the aspirations of our entrepreneurs; from our SMEs to our farmers. A thread 🧵👇

submitted 20 days ago • 25 comments

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submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

This is the act of an enemy. A villain. A fascist. An invader. Make no mistake. It’s an attack.

submitted 21 days ago • 17 comments

What's being described here is akin to a coup

submitted 21 days ago • 61 comments

It’s all beginning to feel a bit 1984. We’re in a battle against autocrats and oligarchs who are using money and misinformation to dismantle democracies. That’s why we’re looking for 1,984 new monthly supporters to make our biggest and boldest plans a reality (see link in bio)

submitted 24 days ago • 59 comments

"Brexiteers promised freedom, prosperity, and sovereignty. Instead, we’ve been left with economic decline, political isolation, and a diminished future. On this painful anniversary, we must confront the harsh reality: Brexit has failed. The numbers don’t lie." ~AA bylinetimes.com/2025/01/31/b...

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

🚨New episode! Ned, Laura and Adam meet to talk about delivery riders in the gig economy. Laura finds a happy rider, and we interview author and academic Callum Cant about the reality for riders, and the creep of AI in our lives Delivery Riders: who wins? shows.acast.com/streets-ahea...

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

Good 20mph stats - first full year: 10 fewer deaths 26% fewer crashes 28% lower casualties This represents a £58 Million saving to society in the first year alone - which more than pays for the £32m one-off cost of the signs! www.gov.wales/police-recor...

submitted 24 days ago • 16 comments

“The cycle lane is always empty.” No. The cycle lane is efficiently vacated.

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Who benefits from airport expansion? Shareholders.

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submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

What would really work: Massive investments in wind power, solar farms, cycleways, electric buses and faster trains. What won’t work: expanded airports.

submitted 25 days ago • 8 comments

Rachel Reeves is talking about growth but wants to go ahead with the Lower Thames Crossing 🤔 It would make a poor investment and deliver little economic growth compared to its huge cost.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Labour trying to out-Tory the Tories there, meanwhile people are killed daily due to dangerous driving, with the drivers receiving minimal sentences, if any. What again is the point of this so-called Labour government?

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

Public spaces are like hair products. When you force mixing peds/bikes and cars you get the same effect as 2 in 1 shampoo & conditioner: it just never works as good as when they are separated.

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

Local rat run past a primary school has today become a temporary school street due to water works! So much safer, quieter. (Big queue of rat runners having to rejoin the main road.)

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Better vibes, higher capacity and no traffic lights inside. That's the real future of transport!

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Be Safe.Be Unseen.

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

This “no one uses the cycle lanes” comment that goes unchecked is exactly why we installed detailed monitoring systems on schemes. A quick glance at the open data shows that 2,197 trips were made on Binley cycleway last week, in the middle of winter. www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/news-op...

submitted 30 days ago • 9 comments

Three airport expansions and Lower Thames Crossing motorway. That's a government that has given up on climate goals.

submitted 33 days ago • 5 comments

Thank you to Greater Manchester Police for helping keep vulnerable road users safe from this. There's a reason Tesla Cybertrucks are not legal in the UK and Europe; Cybertrucks present acute dangers to pedestrians and don’t meet European safety standards. The vehicle has been seized.

submitted 37 days ago • 275 comments

Decongestion charging uses the price mechanism to help drivers decide if they need a car for their journey, who then often conclude public transport, cycling, or walking is better. This leads to clearer streets, cleaner air, better public transport, and improved health. It’s boring and it works.

submitted 42 days ago • 3 comments

Last night's BBC #Panorama was the latest in a long road of poor examples of the press 'educating' the public about electric bikes, conflating them with e-motorbikes. This, shops tell me, is driving real economic harm & job losses. My deconstruction here: www.cyclingelectric.com/in-depth/dec...

submitted 47 days ago • 5 comments

Cycle parking at a hospital in the Netherlands. Dedicated spaces for staff, as well as patients coming for medical appointments by bike

submitted 57 days ago • 3 comments

A reminder that despite those headlines saying 'Brexit hit trade less than forecasters predicted!' THIS is how the LSE researchers wrote up their own project. THIS is the real story. Research: https://buff.ly/4fx5g7T

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

Dismayed by High Court ruling on Tower Hamlets LTN case. Ripping out measures installed to make streets safer and better for the community living, studying and working in Bethnal Green makes no sense, and alongside the cost of the judicial review, is a shocking waste of public money. 🧵

submitted 68 days ago • 3 comments

Having been built a few years ago the shared path through the New Lubbesthorpe development near Leicester has now had barriers added to it... How very Leicestershire. (You can, of course, just go round them on the grass.)

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

It’s fine and right that farmers can take their protest to the powers-that-be and, as here, block roads. Ditto climate protestors, of course. It’s wrong that only climate protestors get jailed.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Sheffield’s first ‘Dutch-style’ roundabout has opened. Compared to installing traffic signals, the design is safer for pedestrians and cyclists, causes less delay to people driving, and creates more green space. www.facebook.com/share/v/18e3...

submitted 74 days ago • 6 comments

Genuinely shocking thing for a POLICE AND CRIME COMMISSIONER to say 🤯 [On terrible cycling infrastructure] "I know it’s not great but it would never be a political priority for me to give cyclists better infrastructure, particularly when they don’t contribute in vehicle taxes."

submitted 79 days ago • 10 comments

1/ Yesterday I spoke at UCL about the transformational benefits of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods. This is what LTNs do: * Halve road injuries. * Eliminate rat-running. * Reduce pollution, even at boundaries. * Reduce street crime. And here's the evidence...👇 www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pla...

submitted 79 days ago • 6 comments

And now we all learn about the terrible financing of this thing. www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...

submitted 79 days ago • 3 comments

STOP CALLING THEM "Mind-boggling Brexit rules" IT'S SIMPLY "not being in the Single Market" It's like having cancelled your gym subscription for good, then 4 years on being surprised at the "mind-boggling rules" which mean you can't work out for free on the apparatus ! 🤡

submitted 81 days ago • 10 comments

Your irregular reminder of the scale of disparity between trunk/major roads and cycle funding in England. This is the five years 2018/19-2024/25 Trunk roads: £23,100,000,000 (£23.1bn) Cycling: £732,885,226 (£733m) (of which National Cycle Network/Sustrans: £98,207,062 [£98m])

submitted 83 days ago • 4 comments

Excitingly, my school street ANPR cameras finally went in today (see LH pic) so it’s now official with no need for volunteers. RH pic is me and @davidho.bsky.social manning the street back in June. Long journey (started 3 yrs ago when I was a governor) but finally here. Woo hoo.

submitted 83 days ago • 8 comments