What was that Joe Biden line? “Don't tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value”

One copper with a helmet cam, riding a bike a few hours a day, with a reporting system for red light jumping and mobile phone using motorists, could net hundreds of thousands of pounds of fines and probably find three more coppers every year. But they won't do it. They just won't.

crimes you do with a car aren’t really crimes and fines assessed for them exist solely to raise revenue

Just took 93yr Mum to vote, she's registered blind. In a very loud voice she said, "Which box for boob hypnosis?" A cheer went up from waiting voters

Huge numbers of drivers caught breaking the law and illegally driving through the bus gate on Cambridge's Mill Rd. Let's hope there are lessons learned and that the money can be used for something useful. www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-n...

Update - the provisional April rainfall figure for the NIAB weather station near Cambridge itself is 1.6 mm.

FOI request by @thetimes shows huge uptick in red light running by motorists. 137,585 drivers were caught driving through on red last year, compared with 85,410 in 2022, an increase of 61%. www.thetimes.com/article/d8f0...

Wild how people will just go on the internet and tell everyone that they're not able to competently pilot a motor vehicle #a2council

“…disabled people are actually less likely to drive than nondisabled people and more likely to get around by walking and rolling and taking transit. Car-heavy cities are also disproportionately dangerous for disabled folks…”— @nondriver.bsky.social Don’t use accessibility “as a political football.”

One of the greatest headlines ever made

No. I very much doubt it was that. You were just being an obnoxious prat.

I shocked, shocked, that the UK govt. should underestimate the carbon cost of the latest IT fad du jour that has tantalised them ... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Politico: "Badenoch will speak to media around 10.a.m...to unveil her party’s new 'Plan for Drivers.' It includes the eye-catching plans to abolish 24-hour bus lanes to ease traffic congestion" Ludicrous policy. Buses are used by millions of people every day. This will make all their lives harder.

"Waymo has told advocates that expecting it to respect bike lanes is 'too high a bar' because customers expect to be dropped off in them." To be crystal clear, it's illegal for a car to be in a bike lane. It doesn't matter what Waymo's customers expect; the company shouldn't be doing it.

Outstanding journalism from the BBC here. www.bbc.co.uk/articles/cm2...

In the middle of another energy crisis, our Mayor thinks it is sensible policy to subsidise free car parking. This is about saving High Streets of course not client politics. cambridgeshirepeterborough-ca.gov.uk/news/mayors-...

Spot the difference 👀 The barriers are finally gone 🎉 Thank you to everyone who supported this campaign with your time, money, efforts and personal stories. Which exclusionary barrier should we tackle next?

So terrified are Labour ministers of being thought of as “anti-car” that their belated acknowledgement that sharing transport is a good idea was buried in a blink-and-you-miss-it “strategy” document. 🧵1/3

So it turns out heavier vehicles damage roads more. Science is amazing aye. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Perhaps I've missed it, but have any of those calling for temporary fuel duty reductions for "those with no options" also said they now realise the problems of car dependency...?

Whatever happened to the Chisholm Trail plans?

Exciting news from Waterbeach where the new active travel bridge over the A10 is now open for use! 🎉 Take the new path from Landbeach over the bridge and turn north to the new town or south to Waterbeach village. More new links coming soon…

Never talk to me again about how expensive cycling infrastructure is. £61 million per mile for this road.

It’s the people that spend money. Not the cars. #UrbanTruth

By our calculations, motoring in Britain has rarely been so cheap www.economist.com/britain/2026... From The Economist

When it comes to spineless opportunistic politicians Oxford can give Cambridge a good run for its money it seems

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

Personally I don't think we should put solar farms near these people in Lincolnshire... We should put wind turbines so when these moaning blighters are underwater in 30 years we'll still be getting electricity from an offshore onshore wind farm.

Ride. A. Bicycle.

Every window and shop front boarded up. Residents cower in their cellars and Protect and Survive-style shelters under the dining room table. Pray for Cambridge.

Too right! In Cambridge the city centre multi-storey was demolished and replaced with (checks notes) another one www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambrid...

Opponents of proposed car-free streets frequently cite the harm they will cause people with disabilities. But when you talk to people with expertise in this area, as this writer did, a more nuanced picture emerges. www.motherjones.com/environment/...

“…disabled people are actually less likely to drive than nondisabled people and more likely to get around by walking and rolling and taking transit. Car-heavy cities are also disproportionately dangerous for disabled folks…”— @nondriver.bsky.social Don’t use accessibility “as a political football.”

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

The world would be a better place if journalists and lawmakers can distinguish an ebike from an electric motorcycle.

Looks like Paul Bristow, Cambs' preposterous mayor, is basing his transport policies on motonormative culture-war vibes rather than evidence. Quelle surprise. (See also: Mill Road Cambridge, with which he seems strangely obsessed).

More than half our car's speedometer is dedicated to speeds that it is never legal to reach on UK roads

"Cars are the most absurd means of transport in a city. They are parked 95 per cent of the time. It takes two tonnes to move someone who weighs 70 kilogrammes. And the denser the city, the more absurd it is."

Wood burning stoves: toxic doi.org/10.1136/bmj....

Agenda for next week's City Council meeting to debate the proposed Cambridge Development Corporation. This would last for 25 years, cover the whole of Cambridge and South Cambs, and be completely under central government control. democracy.cambridge.gov.uk/ieListDocume...

For every pound spent on net zero, the benefits would outweigh the cost by between 2.2 and 4.1 times says @thecccuk.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/d163...

The Guardian on our new study, which shows that global heating is significantly gathering speed. Our efforts to overcome our fossil fuel addiction should do the same. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Every time a politician or campaigner tells you that not everyone can cycle or that we need to bring everyone with us or that we need to balance modes and priorities ask yourself what have they done about all the cars... (Answer: probably hardly anything useful)

One of the best of all time. “You’re not stuck in traffic. You ARE traffic.” Wish we had come up with that one. #UrbanTruth

As I was made to wait 2.5 minutes to cross a road this morning, let's again do the maths simple.ghost.io/lets-do-the-...

It's exactly like talking to committed old smokers back in the day, isn't it? They defend smoking as something they like, that they need, that they want, that they have a valid choice to do. While ultimately it's killing them and all of the people around them who they profess to love.

Also: 1 megawatt you say? www.livescience.com/technology/e...

So this idea that these days (unlike the good old days) if you work hard you can't afford a foreign holiday – what are the actual figures? And do we want more people taking foreign holidays (= more aviation)?

New study of media collision reporting from @patrickrerat.bsky.social "Cyclists are placed at the center of the narrative, while motorists are either omitted or reduced to their vehicles... Making these biases visible is essential for challenging motonormativity" findingspress.org/article/1575...

New meta-analysis of 26 published studies concludes that AVs will lead people to use cars a lot more — which would thicken congestion and worsen pollution (even if AVs are electric). "AV deployment is anticipated to lead to an overall increase in Vehicle Miles Traveled." doi.org/10.1016/j.tb...