Let’s seize this moment for children’s outdoor play! FREE lunchtime webinar, Weds 3 Dec 12.30-1.30pm Hear from Cllrs @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social and @edwardlamb.bsky.social on the bolder actions councils can take to restore children's outdoor play. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/restoring-...

Good that the Covid Inquiry is hearing about play, that it’s not just a nice to have, that it’s essential to childhood, for fun, that it’s how children exercise, that public play is unevenly policed, and that children’s right to play should have been upheld in lockdown. @playingout.bsky.social

Please do sign up for - and share - this webinar, on Dec 3rd, to hear about some of the amazing work going on nationally and locally to restore children's ability to play out on their doorsteps. @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social @edwardlamb.bsky.social @playingout.bsky.social @aliceferguson.bsky.social

Hoping everyone had a wonderful weekend at the Bristol International SUV Fiesta (formerly known as the Balloon Fiesta). Let's make the next one even more car-dominated by cancelling all public transport into the city!! @bristolgreenparty.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/alice-...

Yup really cool Lena Dunham / @netflix.com - way to glorify the kind of driving that kills pedestrians. #TooMuch @thewaroncars.bsky.social

I’ve exercised my right to peacefully protest in the UK a lot over my lifetime: CND/Greenham in the 70s (as a child), anti-apartheid in the 80s, stop the war in 2000s, on and on. Today is the first time I’ve felt scared of being arrested, just for showing up. #FreePalestine @stwc.bsky.social

Imagine reaching the age of 114(!) and achieving such amazing things and this is how your life ends. Horrendous. End Road Violence Now. @thewaroncars.bsky.social news.sky.com/story/man-ar....

Just make ensure they have time, space and permission to play throughout their everyday lives. Oh, and enable them to walk and cycle for everyday journeys too.

Why rising temperatures are yet another reason children need space to play out on their doorstep… @playingout.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/alice-...

Dammit kids, get off your screens and go outside!!! Just kidding, stay inside and stop bothering the neighbourhood and drivers by playing on your street

Last weekend in Bristol, children on bikes took over their city centre! They were seen and heard. They had a blast. But the aim of #KidicalMass is also serious. This is not the everyday norm. Children across the UK need #SafeStreetsNow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLtA...

We did this in Bristol last weekend and it was great. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... @kinderaufsrad.bsky.social @kidicalmasslond.bsky.social @playingout.bsky.social

So much joy in today’s #kidicalmass Bristol ride, we desperately need more space for kids to cycle safely, but we can have fun while working towards change . @aliceferguson.bsky.social @bristolcycling.bsky.social

This makes me sad every time I walk past. Local school playground - an increasingly precious safe, car-free space for children - is opened up at half-term and weekends for cars, but not for children to play. What message does this send? @playingout.bsky.social

Unbelievable. Even when a car has been deliberately used as a weapon in a horrific violent crime with tens of victims (including children) *and* the perpetrator is named, the BBC can’t break the habit of using the passive tense.

“I hope the mayor remembers that kids ride bikes, too — and that we want to be safe on the streets we all share”. Honestly, a lot of 12yr olds are this clued up and articulate and we would learn a lot if we just gave them space to speak.

Birmingham, welcome to the flock! Good luck, especially to students getting from halls and bus stop to Matthew Boulton College across the dual carriageway A47. 🤞🤞🤞

Ladies Mile is a totally unnecessary road cutting across Bristol’s biggest public greenspace - The Downs - making it unsafe for kids. It was closed to cars for the day yesterday and what a change! Let’s make this permanent. @edplowden.bsky.social @robbryher.bsky.social @bristol247.bsky.social

Isn’t this what we want all our politicians to be like? I will never understand why normal (non-billionaire) people keep voting for people who only care about billionaires.

On my way into work this morning I saw this, on a rare “home zone” in Bristol, where cars do not have priority. Imagine the time and energy this must have taken! Imagine the sense of belonging, of “my space, my street, my community”. Imagine if all children had this. @playingout.bsky.social

You won’t hear about it in the media but 400,000 people of all ages, religions and backgrounds marched together through central London yesterday, demanding an end to genocide. #FreePalestine #Nakba77 @stwc.bsky.social

Bristol folk - join us for #KidicalMass 2025! A family-friendly city-centre protest ride calling for safer streets for children and everyone. Come on bikes, scooters, skateboards or roller-skates! Castle Park bandstand from 11am, Saturday 14th June. www.facebook.com/events/10929...

Sorry not sorry to be one of those smug “look what I can carry on my bike” people - but look what I can carry on my bike! 😊

"...with the cost of inaction measured in children’s lives, politicians urgently need to wake up and act". @mumsforlungs.bsky.social @adfreecities.bsky.social @playingout.bsky.social @cleancitiescampaign.org #SUVAlliance www.suv-alliance.org.uk/blog/surging...

The casual debris of road violence

“No-one buying a car would want to put children at greater risk”. Surely. www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo... @olord.bsky.social #SUVAlliance

It’s not often you see MPs, one after another, standing up & calling for safe streets where children can 🚲🚶🏾🛴 🤸 without fear of being killed. Hats off to @ollyglover.bsky.social and all. #SafeStreetsNow @playingout.bsky.social parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...

When is the Cobra meeting? Where are the press conferences? When are products enabling the killing being recalled? @labourwalkscycles.bsky.social @teamlabouruk.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social @richardparkerwm.bsky.social #RoadSafety #SafeStreetsNow www.itv.com/news/granada...

“PEDESTRIANS GOOD LUCK”

Yes, but don’t forget to also fill the streets with traffic. @playingout.bsky.social

Ok Edinburgh, I take it back. Having wandered further afield today, it’s feeling groovy. And I caught the tail-end of #criticalmass!

Why are children not playing in the street? An FT piece analysing the - very concerning - decline in outdoor play manages to look at every possible cause: screens, spaces, school timetable changes. Apart from one. Cars. It is simply not safe for kids to play outside on streets.

‘Mahmoud Ajjour, Aged Nine’ by Samar Abu Elouf for @nytimes.com is #WPPh2025 Over 15,000 Gazan children have been killed, over 34,000 injured, and nearly 1 million repeatedly displaced and deprived of their right to basic services - @unicef.org Make it stop. Free Palestine.

Returning to #Edinburgh after a few (ahem 30) years, was expecting to see a much-improved walking/cycling environment. Instead, still huge expanses of tarmac to cross, painfully slow pedestrian lights and ne’er a cyclist in sight! What’s up with that?

“Hope is not optimism. Optimism says everything will be fine…Hope recognizes the future is made in the present, it's made by what we do and don't do”. Thank you to all who did good today. Keep going. @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social www.meditationsinanemergency.com/millions-sto...

“For about 40 years, there has been a gradual withdrawal of children from public space. One of the explanatory elements is urban planning, designed for and around the car. However, there are ways to recreate cities "at child's height", more inclusive, but also more resilient in terms of climate...”

Why don’t kids get off their phones and play in the streets like we did?

It’s still 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.

As a parent I love walkable neighbourhoods cause the kids can get places themselves. No big conspiracy, I’m just tired.

Do people realise that 75,000 children are killed on the roads *every year* whilst outside walking, cycling, playing? I have to admit, I didn’t. How can we tolerate this? @unicef.org www.unicef.org/media/167696...

So much to say about this I don’t even know where to begin. 🤦‍♀️ www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....

"The next generation has so much kindness and empathy... at some point, the world is going to be in really good hands." ❤️ www.bbc.com/news/article...

So happy about this! I remember when Park St was great (in the 80s). Now ruined by fast, heavy traffic. Far from “killing” the high street, if this is done right it will come alive again. Well done @bristolgreenparty.bsky.social

Why is there ANY debate? 🤦‍♀️ 20mph in Wales meant about 100 fewer people killed or seriously injured in a year. “There is, perhaps, a lesson here for politicians: sometimes it can be best to ignore the noisiest voices, and take the evidence-based course.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

5 years on, we need to remember how badly children were let down in the pandemic - and resolve to make it right. @playingout.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/alice-...

Israel is mass-murdering children www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

"No Ball Games. No Freedom. No Hope....Not any more". (58sec film by Saatchi & Saatchi using their advertising power for good). #MoreBallGames #RightToPlay www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exxd...

“No Ball Games” signs make children unwelcome on their own doorstep, contributing to isolation and inactivity. It’s time for them to go. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Pavement life. When shared doorstep space was children’s everyday play space. @playingout.bsky.social