Rain capes. Umbrellas (even got handlebar holders in Japan for brollies). Studded tyres, boots, maybe even a heavier jacket if it’s wintry… These are not existential barriers to solve. Here, here’s even some examples for you. bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2024/01/17/c...

At LB potential buyers get as long as they need to demo a bike and make an informed decision. It is always a process as we try and fit the cargo bike to a family and budget. Most cycle schemes accepted plus we have Pay it Monthly finance option. Not owning a car saves so much - rent one if you need.

This!

15 minute cities want to try and give us that choice. Walking a few minutes to get stuff when you need it is nothing new, it's how things were until quite recently, I'm only mid 50s and can remember it well. 21/22

Besides, ~40% of the population can't drive — because of age, physical and/or financial difficulties

Starmer refuses to rejoin anything. Burnham says he wants to rejoin the EU "in his lifetime". Streeting wants to rejoin the EU "one day". But no mention of Single Market, Customs Union or Freedom of Movement. Compare that to Sadiq Khan's clear and detailed roadmap to rejoin ... 👇 #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

It made me think about the Edinburgh council - what it could easily do to make communities strive but isn’t, including in brand NEW ones like Maybury where there is still no public transport but plenty of speeding drivers. Build it like it’s the 1990s. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🚲 edi.bike | issue 145 | 18th May '26 Greenbank to Meadows halfway permanent; Leith Walk usage surge; Help for PoP26 needed; plus events, infrastructure, route closures & more: buttondown.com/edi.bike/arc... #bikeSky #edinburgh

A message to Keir Starmer ahead of the King's Speech.

Strange how so many will shame people on bikes for not wearing helmets yet don’t have much to say about bike lanes without protection. Via @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

Once the @brumgreens.bsky.social are leading the coalition at council, a blanket 20 mph speed limit on all of Birmingham's unclassified and residential roads should be its first act. What an amazing difference this would make to the health and safety of Birmingham's citizens.

In Tampere, Finland most residential streets were lovered to 30 km/h, and the death toll has been zero after that on those streets.

Thank you to everyone who came along and supported today!

For 5 years the Greenbank to Meadows Quiet Route has been a safe route through residential streets and past several schools, but today the pro-car lobby groups might get their way to be able to rat-run through our streets again due to council errors. www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinbur...

Thank you to everyone who's told us you have written to councillors! You are amazing! Reminder: Supporters Rally, City Chambers, 12:30-2pm. Look for the banner

106 people will be killed on Birmingham's roads next council term. Along with 15 organisations, we're calling for Birmingham's future leaders to adopt 10 practical steps to prevent these deaths and many more serious injuries. Who will make Birmingham's roads safer?

Tomorrow, Edinburgh council will decide whether to tear up a quiet route for pedestrians, wheelchairs and cyclists which has been in place for five years- why? Read below www.edinburghinquirer.co.uk/p/low-traffi... @edi.bike @spokes.org.uk

We need more of this.

All together now! ... "But Nige did take five million quid, and Nige would take five million more!" 💥💥💥 #RefUKkers

This goes for the media too. You do not, in fact, have to platform far-right racists just because people voted for them. Platforming far right racism isn't balance. Broadcast media has to work within legal restrictions but nobody should be giving these arseholes anything more than they have to.

Without a doubt, this MUST come back to the Transport Committee and not just be thrown away by TRO Sub. We cannot lose miles of safe route to paperwork incompetence. The south of the city has too little else for safe cycling.

If you want kids to safely cycle on main roads with lorries, the answer isn’t “be more careful” - it’s protected cycle tracks

They can change this, if they can’t they need to go. @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social @cllrconorsavage.bsky.social

Here's the real conspiracy: Too many people are forced into car-dependent lives, with more health harms, more crashes, more noise, more air pollution, more social isolation — and less space for everything good our streets should be giving us. buff.ly/EkbQBlk

This King’s Day, we’re celebrating more than tradition, we’re celebrating leadership. When the King is seen on a bike, it sends a message: cycling isn’t just for sport, it’s a normal mode of transport. So whether you’re dressed in orange or enjoying the day, hop on your bike and join the movement.

"Kids learn how to share. Why don't drivers know how to share?" "You have to learn how to be patient when you're a kid. How come drivers aren't patient?" -biking thoughts from a 6-year-old

So much this 👇 Car dependency traps people in a promise of freedom and independence that is in reality being stuck in growing congestion while paying off huge car loans. Imagine if a fraction of spending on cars was invested in affordable, efficient and accessible public transport?

The guy on her right nodded along at the end. She is right, we need to transition away from fossil fuels much faster. The money is there and energy shocks are burning it away.

'[S]peeding, hit and runs and worse are going completely unpunished as the driver cannot be found.' Where else would we allow this level of negligence in the regulation of such a dangerous machine? #Motonormativity

"More cars means less space to walk, cycle, push a pram or use a mobility aid safely. It means the stress of navigating noisier & more congested streets. Ultimately it means less diversity in street activity." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Making it safer and easier for people to travel by bike helps to address transport poverty. Cycle lanes, like this one in Glasgow, connecting communities to the city centre, reflect the everyday journeys that people make, helping them to get from home to work, school, shops and vital services.

Petrol costs are spiralling and the tubes are on strike. Do yourself a favour, and get on a bike 🚲🚲

"Holy Fuck, the cars." Is one of the major public health crises afflicting America.

Anyone who received their postal ballot today in the South of Scotland region, please be aware that "Independent Green Voice", which appears second on the list on the peach regional ballot paper, is NOT the Scottish Green Party. This is in fact a deliberate vote spoiling attempt by right-wingers.

@edinburghcouncil.bsky.social @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social In case you need some inspiration. Also, if you could find a way to stop drivers going 40mph+ on the straight road in front of the Maybury primary school - a new school in a new development. Thanks #safeschools #safekids #schoolstreet

Faced with fuel crisis, Australia's trucking industry eyes electric options reut.rs/3Qdja8p

The Institution of Civil Engineers says heavier vehicles are a factor in pothole formation and reducing the lifespan of roads. 😮 A record £18.6bn of #taxpayermoney now funds road repairs. 💪 Our #streetsforkids campaign pushes for fairer parking tariffs to discourage #carspreading bit.ly/4vudtTK

It’s so very peaceful. I am jealous. And yes, Dutch people have to cycle in rubbish weather too and just do it, before someone mentions the weather in Scotland. Maybe they are tougher than the Scottish 🤭?

Your regular reminder that, per @goodlawproject.org, Wes Streeting has accepted £372,000 in donations from private health interests between 2015 and 2025, including £53,000 in February 2025 from OPD Group, which offers headhunting services to the NHS and private healthcare sector.

Glasgow Rd, Edinburgh. Traffic lights are tweaked not to disturb drivers. Pedestrians and cyclists have long wait in the middle watching drivers zooming over the speed limit and often going through the red light. It’s a cycle route @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social #VoiNotTheAnswerHere

Do you own/run a café or a bike shop? Did you know that 1000s of people rely on the Open Street Map to find facilities like yours? If YOUR shop isn't on www.openstreetmap.org then I GUARANTEE you're losing out on potential customers! Go add your business now! And please repost this?

If the map of deaths on railways looked like this, it'd be treated as a national emergency.

Step into the car, become a monster.

Great Presidential speeches: 1 - FDR “The only thing we have to fuckin’ fear is fuckin’ fear itself.”

I am not familiar with the Parkrun concept but I like the vibe on this clip. Well done all

Every cargo bike company should be running these sorts of adverts at the moment.

This one is for you @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social

Glasgow Rd, Edinburgh. Traffic lights are tweaked not to disturb drivers. Pedestrians and cyclists have long wait in the middle watching drivers zooming over the speed limit and often going through the red light. It’s a cycle route @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social #VoiNotTheAnswerHere