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Hello! It’s our first Bluesky post; a platform that feels better aligned with our values than the similar one we are leaving soon. When known as Twitter, it was groundbreaking in connecting us with many fantastic and inspiring people and organisations. Thank you for reading and #LetThemRoam

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

We’ve had a record breaking 64 children participating in ROAM sessions in just over 24 hours over yesterday and today. Four different types of sessions on 2 sites. #LetThemRoam !

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I don’t usually get political in the pure sense, but this is a time when I really believe we can vote with our feet by boycotting products from the USA to oppose recent policies coming from Trump. Please consider signing and sharing this message to friends local and global! chng.it/sZNJ69h4NK

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Very impressed with @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social on #bbcqt tonight. Really enlightened politician across the breadth of issues discussed. Particularly pleased she recognised the importance of children’s active travel and play. #LetThemRoam

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Just catchingup on @thegnshow.bsky.social having missed the last few weeks. And got the say I am loving the 14/2 episode particularly bc of Pamela Anderson. How brilliant that she is rebelling against the celeb expectation (for women) that you get surgery. Especially that she’s doing this.#Legend

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Brilliant- patron saint of active travel? Never knew much about St Chad who we know as Brum’s Catholic Cathedral’s saint. ‘St Chad always travelled on foot, until Archbishop Theodore insisted that he rode a horse.’

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

SO depressing that the transport minister we thought was progressive thinks that ‘enjoying flying’ is a reason to disregard the environmental catastrophe that air travel contributes to… and then, suggest her concern is for the next generation www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Birmingham citizens’ basic need of feeling safe is not being met- with frequent and unacceptable killings with knives and road violence. We should not be scared off our streets due to either, further increasing car dependency, and disadvantaging young people and others who don’t drive.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Extremely powerful to see these messages placed by community to counter the mainstream narrative and normalized violence on our streets. This was in Atlanta at the site of a crash where a driver hit a baby in a stroller - the mom and child were both OK as noted in the OP 📸 Eric Phillips

submitted 72 days ago • 6 comments

Ppl commit violent atrocities with guns and we demand gun control, ppl commit atrocities with knives, more knife control. Ppl use vehicles daily to kill people intentionally or with total negligence of responsibility yet there’s NEVER a conversation about stricter regulation over vehicle licenses

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

#Birmingham uk should seriously consider getting some Brum-specific bollards like this instead of the wands/ small bollards that get ripped out. Brutal Bulls? Rotunda replicas? Time for a design competition maybe?

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

This is amazing: it’s incredibly windy in the UK right now, so only about 10% of the National Grid is currently being powered by fossil fuels.

submitted 78 days ago • 36 comments

Great article by @journo-jess.bsky.social in @theguardian.com From certain elevated viewpoints in south #Birmingham, the city looks like a forest in the summer, but in contrast, other areas are grey and bleak. Love the idea that every child should be able to see a tree from their bedroom window.

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.

submitted 90 days ago • 16 comments

You could learn so much from your colleagues in London cc @richardparkerwm.bsky.social. Investing more in our infrastructure would pay dividends in public health and productivity.

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

Caught up with a client this week who’s been doing some engagement with children all over #Birmingham and found that their common issue was that there’s nowhere in the city centre for them. Is Europe’s most youthful city the least child-friendly? #play #playfulcities #publicspace

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Attention Street Design Nerds! One of the most intriguing cities in recent years at reconsidering streets for people instead of just for cars, Oslo Norway, has translated their great Street Design Manual into English and put it on-line. Worth digging into. #Oslo www.oslo.kommune.no/getfile.php/...

submitted 98 days ago • 39 comments

South Birmingham folks, it’s Stirchley Community Market tomorrow (Saturday 7 Dec) from 10am-3pm at Stirchley Baths. 40+ independent small businesses and charitable organisations - a local singing group and potentially even a Santa. Run by volunteers (& me as Chair)

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

New cars in Europe are getting 1 cm wider every two years. T&E says the trend will continue due to the rising sales of SUVs unless lawmakers take action. 50 % of new cars sold are already too wide for the minimum on-street parking space in many countries. www.greencarcongress.com/2024/01/2024...

submitted 105 days ago • 24 comments

Cycling along a main road tonight and the motorist behind me considerately overtakes, leaving 2m, sticking to the speed limit. Driver behind impatiently slams the horn then dangerously ‘double’ overtakes the first driver who swerves back in, in fright. Scary. Road safety so low in #Brum right now.

submitted 108 days ago • 2 comments

No surprise at all to those of us who have seen this for years. And yet, decision-makers in #Birmingham, UK are proposing banning cycling in key city centre streets and have spend years denying local communities safe pedestrian crossings whilst focussing sparse money on highway ‘flow’ schemes.

submitted 111 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: The City of Paris Climate Plan promises to drop speed limits, repurpose traffic lanes, and replace 60,000 parking spots with trees & urban “oases” created to combat extreme heat. There’s nothing about Paris that makes this easy or obvious. Just leadership. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 121 days ago • 7 comments

Absolutely this! The paradox is that this kind of infra can feel safe for women once there’s a critical mass of other people using it- yet that critical mass won’t be reached when too many are too scared till that happens. And that will only happen when we have a comprehensive, connected network

submitted 122 days ago • 0 comments

We All Make Sacrifices.

submitted 124 days ago • 6 comments

Goddammit kids! Get off your screens and go outside! Just kidding, but thanks so much for giving up your independence and outdoor/public life and any sort of meaningful joy outside for our car-first at all costs world we've built. ♥️🙏 HT @thetransitguy.bsky.social www.cp24.com/local/peel/2...

submitted 124 days ago • 13 comments

As the nights quickly close in, here’s a timely reminder from the Highway Code: ‘the hierarchy of road users ensures that those who can do the greatest harm have the greatest responsibility to reduce the danger they may pose to others’ 1/2

submitted 125 days ago • 1 comment