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I got this ebike less than a year ago. It's never left Swansea, so this is all commuting and errands. Imagine if I'd done all that in a car. Imagine all the people who ARE doing all that in their cars

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

February minutes of the City of London's Streets & Walkways sub committee. NFBUK refuses to discuss better designs, their position is simply to ban them. This position will hurt people and help keep the streets objectively dangerous for their members. democracy.cityoflondon.gov.uk/documents/s2...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

absolutely grim othering going on here

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Blair’s advice is literally the opposite of what the scientists are saying. CCS isn’t viable in necessary timescales and science doesn’t give a toss that Tony thinks people don’t like net zero. Why not put his talents to persuasion?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Argh Guardian…what a put-off. No you don’t need to spend £700+ on gear to run a marathon! www.theguardian.com/thefilter/20...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The #GoodbyeLegsRide is here. Join us at 10am on Piazza Terracina, #ExeterQuay for the shortest flattest slowest and most friendly ride to Double Locks and back, before coffee/cake. Details/donations: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

ATTENDANCE: Clapton Community v Forest Hill Park - 1,432 http://fwp.co/P3ZBzP

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

What an amazing ride last nice with the Critical Mass. We rode our bikes through the new Slivertown Tunnel. What a lovely experience.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

This is a massive improvement thank you! @hackneycouncil.bsky.social @sarahwoodberrydown.bsky.social (would be great to also sort out the surface of this route the other side at Regents Row - it is difficult & uncomfortable to cycle on cobbles)

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

The cover photo on the IOA Transport Plan shows a one-way system and an ultra-narrow cycle lane removed in 2011 due to "vehicle dominance and speed", "accessibility for pedestrians and cyclists" and "road safety". ** Exactly the dangers we warn their one-way 'racetrack' rat-runs would have.**

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Pretty shocked to see this picture of a meeting of Camden Dartmouth Park residents opposing an LTN so I thought I’d google some more LTN meetings/protests and do a thread of them… (representative median age for Dartmouth Park Area: 40, Camden: 34) 🧵

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Personally I’m fairly pragmatic about this - it’s not good government but it’s political signalling with minimal practical effect. What actually matters is the level of investment & commitment to active travel & the Jury is still out on that (although the signs are very mixed)

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Absolutely shocking that Manchester’s air quality is getting worse and a damning indictment of Andy Burnham’s capitulation to the motor lobby & cowardly failure to implement a ULEZ airqualitynews.com/local-govern...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

“The couple thought living rurally would mean they could run & cycle easily but Jasmin found they had to “drive everywhere” & she was “scared of getting hit”…They rarely sat in their garden due to noise from a nearby dual carriageway, &…had no local amenities” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Galway deserves a chance to breathe, but emotive arguments cannot brush away the fact a second ring road will suffocate the city in traffic irishcycle.com/2025/04/24/g...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Ok I know technically even a stopped clock is right twice a day but please do consider the Venn diagram of ‘ULEZ social justice concern-trolls’ and ‘LTN social justice concern-trolls’ is practically a circle. In summary: They’re just not part of ‘the reality based community’

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Well well well well well

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

Last week I went Interrailing with my older 2 children to Italy. We stayed in Rome and did a day trip to Herculaneum. It took 2 days to get there and 2 to get back. The train travel was lovely and relaxing, the views through the Alps were so stunning, photos can’t capture it. I highly recommend!

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Have a look at this report & then for comparison a browse of @hackneycyclist.bsky.social feed of neighbourhoods in Netherlands. We can do so much better! We are trapping & socially culturally & financially impoverishing people with car dependence

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Low traffic neighbourhoods are good for people with mobility issues and good for local businesses

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Easter Sunday #GoodbyeLegsRide Update: 1 week away! Donations @ £7540 (incl external). Over 75% of the way to our 10k target. Thank you. Every single donation and share is appreciated. When we get to 10k I'll shut up and you can have your feeds back. Promise. www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

The problem with this is the ‘side’ bit. If it said ‘Labour is helping drivers’ or some such I could live with it but ‘on the side of’ means against someone else. Who? Pedestrians? Cyclists? Children? Stop stoking this culture-war rubbish.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments