Yesterday's glorious visit to The Newt in Somerset including my first visit to the Four Seasons garden - stunning 😎🌳🍁🦎 #Somerset #autumn #TheNewt

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... Love this, pavement etiquette really annoys me too. As does the sheer volume of space given over to vehicles in our cities. Pedestrians need more space in so many places.

Lovely morning cycling in the Olympic park, we love cycling as a family 🚲🚲🚲💚 7yo is now very excited (and I am slightly terrified!) that the min. age for the orbit is 8yo 😬😯 #cycling #Olympicpark #Stratford

Excellent meal at the German Gymnasium last night, so great to be back! Es was sehr lekker! Nüremberger rostbratwürsten und apfelstrudel 😋 #GermanGymnasium #KingsCross #London

Truth bomb 👇: Traffic lights exist for cars, not for people walking or cycling. Before cars, we didn’t need them. Only when intersections became controlled and no communication was necessary could high speeds exist without chaos. We traded human interaction for convenience for motorists and danger.

Great to be back in Coal Drops Yard yesterday evening, I love it there 😊 such a great area of public realm #CoalDropsYard #London

Great morning yesterday cycling around the Olympic park - love being able to cycle around with my 7yo on so many traffic free routes #cycling #Stratford #Olympicpark

Fantastic day at the London 3 Day this afternoon 🚲💚😊 #london3day #trackcycling saw one of my cycling heroines win as well (Katie Archibald) - my 7 year olds first time in the velodrome and he loved it 🥰

Frank Blackburn designed a system that pumps water from San Francisco Bay and sends it through portable high pressure hydrants, which saved the Marina District after the 1989 Loma Prieta quake.

The most insanely frustrating thing about the #ClimateCrisis is how the breakthrough we so clearly need isn’t technological. It’s just a collective willingness, a determination even, to change in ways that would clearly be SO MUCH BETTER than the clear and obvious consequences of NOT changing.

Wow. We fight for better public/active travel in Oxford and it's not enough but Doug Ford is on another level 😭

I made an infographic map. Oxford's Congestion Charge scheme (from 29th Oct) is not like most congestion charge schemes, because you can get to most streets in the city without being charged. My impression is a lot of people haven't realised this.

12 years married 👩‍❤️‍👨💒 celebrated by going to mass at the church we got married in followed by a delicious lunch at The Ivy 🥰 Stunning morning cycling into town #Oxford #anniversary

Us too, we love train travel! Europe is so well connected by train now, we're exploring further afield and really enjoying it! #carfree #flightfree #trains

Can't easily stop and take a selfie with trail-side Halloween decorations when you're in a car.

My new front rack crate was perfect for carrying home this (very swaddled) pumpkin on my #TernHSD e-bike.

Being car free means then even on days like today when it would have been easy to revert to the car in the past, we still cycled to Rectory Farm pumpkin patch 🎃🚲👻 yes we did get soaked but we had fun and still brought home 3 pumpkins, 5kg of potatoes and a bag of goodies from the farm shop #carfree

It's a goal of mine to help make this the most famous, well-known and UNDERSTOOD quote about cities in history. Please share it as much as you can.

bike it! road.cc/content/news...

Fun weekend back in Somerset - Wookey Hole caves followed by dinner at Ask in Wells 🧙 👻🎃😊 #spooky #Halloween #Somerset

RIP Jilly Cooper 💔🏇🐕🐴🐱🌳📚

I would be interested in seeing a decent engineering drawing, details of how the motoring network has been unravelled and a forecast of expected cycle and motor flows. Based on the image? Not a cycle street with parking bays sticking out like that. 1/5 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ffs can’t we just have a railway line instead 🙄

I don't need the flying taxi because the fact they're using government funds for this bullshit instead of active and public transport is enough to send me into orbit.

I have today sent the attached open letter to Anneliese Dodds MP

People act like getting kids places without a car is Herculean. I biked three (one not mine) to the Kingfield Farmers Market, 95% on bikeways. No car seats, no stress, just laughs. The challenge isn’t moving kids, it’s redesigning cities to work for people instead of cars. #StreetsForPeople

The last cake of the epic birthday week - Delia Smith's rich fruit cake for my husband's 40th yesterday (iced before we went to Lille!). I love this recipe, it's my go to for Christmas cakes, birthday cakes which need to be made in advance and our wedding cake! 🎂😊

Fantastic weekend away in Lille. It's amazing to be able to get there for the weekend from Oxford - the #Eurostar makes everything seem so close! Beautiful city, stunning sunshine and a great way to celebrate my husband's birthday 🇨🇵 🥳🍻🚄🚇😎❤️

In 2014 I met Australian traffic researcher Ian Johnston at a conference in Edmonton. I think often about something he said, and this week shared his words with a colleague: "If your plan is not for zero deaths, then your plan is for some deaths to happen"

Super trip to Koers in Roeselare today - amazing collection of cycle memorabilia 🚲🚲🚲💚

Designs for the $40 million proposal were approved, potentially bringing illuminated milky white globes and cafés to the forlorn stretch of street connecting to the cable car turnaround.

It turns out that if you cycle with a giant balloon flapping from your handlebars then you encounter fewer near misses. Anyone would think the motorists see the balloon as dangerous...nothing like the metal box they're driving around in 😆 #Oxford

Another joyful, safe #kidicalmass on Sunday

My mother in law rode my ebike to our youngest’s birthday party today. It was her first time on a bike in 25 years! The last time she was on a bike she had a really bad crash. I’m very proud of her. @nissamitchell.com was so great at supporting her through the scary moments.

A doctor-organized bike ride in Québec city this Saturday morning. We were about 100 in a chilly but sunny weather. They want citizens to move more to increase their health and ask the city to build more bike lanes to support that.

Baked and wrapped up ready for the party tomorrow courtesy of my husband - this Josey Baker loaf is known affectionately in our house as the "birthday loaf" as it's been made for so many parties 🎉🍞

All ready for tomorrow... Explore. Rescue. Protect. #Octonauts 🌍🐧🐙🐬🐟🛟🤿

The U.K. isn’t using its tax regime to disincentivise SUV purchases. A UK driver pays just £3200 acquisition tax on an £85k car, compared to *£66k* in France!! As a result, 4x as many are sold here in the U.K. than France. @transenvuk.bsky.social

I'm walking 30 miles this September to raise money for Cancer Research. Cancer has touched most of us in one way or another so any money raised is going to a great cause. Please donate if you can, thank you 🩷🚶‍♀️🙏 fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/lauras-...

Practice run for Octonauts themed birthday party in 2 weeks! 🥳 Really pleased with how they turned out, I've never done anything like this before! Credit to my 6yo who was determined to crack a perfect Prof. Inkling 🐙 #baking #Octonauts

This car is parked on "hazard warning" tactile paving. Here, it is supposed to alert visually impared pedestrians of the Marston cycle route that emerges from the left and spits cyclists out onto the shared path. But of course, this is a popular parking and loading space. Bollards urgently needed.

I recently submitted a Letter to the Editor to my city’s newspaper, making the case for supporting active infrastructure within their 300-word limit. My hope was simple. If just one person sees this topic in a new way, it’s worth it. And I’d encourage other advocates to do the same where they live.

Super 4 days camping at Blackmore near Malvern - visited Croome, climbed Worcestershire Beacon and had an amazing pub lunch on the way home at The Fleece Inn, Bretforton 🏕️😎😋💚

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Sadly we had to come home yesterday after a brilliant week away 🇳🇱🚲🧀💚 The direct Eurostar to Rotterdam is a game changer, amazing not having to change (other than to catch the local train to Gouda and bus to the site) - would definitely do this again! 😎🚄💚

Cycling out past Bodegraven to Zwammerdam this morning through more beautiful Dutch countryside 🐄🐑🐴🚲💚 sad to be going home tomorrow, it's been a super holiday 🇳🇱😎

We’ve just bought our first e-cargo bike! It’s an ex-Zedify trike. Our glamorous director, Jill, is showing it off. We think it’s the first ever community-owned cargo bike in #Eastbourne. We’ll use it to move donated surplus food to community larders. We’re buying another cargo bike next week!

We rented an electric sloop today and took it down the canal and out onto the lakes - great kind of EV! Very quiet and a beautiful place 🇳🇱🔋🚤⚡😎💚