As grotesque as this screed of victim-blaming is… it’s also a virtually standard outlook from any authority with responsibility for lethally dangerous roads. I hope I’m wrong - where are highway authorities clearly owning their responsibilities?

"But what can we do more?" ask UK pundits Despite the various rhetorical dramas, the UK continues to maintain almost entirely normal relations with Netanyahu's government. Real measures are long overdue. For some ideas, see below www.gov.uk/government/p...

Dangerous designers are a bigger threat to pedestrian safety than dangerous drivers.

Every time we say “we’ll have to wait until someone is killed before this changes” we show we are more humane than the wretched road system. Almost always, when someone is killed, nothing is changed. No one is held accountable for making it a deadly space. We could try: emergencystreets.org

I visited Dudley and crossed this large junction, designed as hostile to human life (30mph, no crossings, many lanes, barriers), I felt very unsafe. Later I learned that in 2023 a “woman in her 70s” (no other public reporting) was killed crossing here. It’s still just the same. Who’s next?

More detail and updates to 2025 are here: ourworldindata.org/grapher/date...

Interesting. Cultural importance underpins observation & data. In Japan, people have been documenting cherry blossoms for centuries. So now we have data going back 1,200 years to show how recent blossoms are occurring sooner in the year, hinting at climate change www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

I’m plotting a spoof road safety kids song. But I just looked up some real ones and they already used my lines. Hard to satirise this

HUGE HUGE NEWS FROM EGYPT!! Egyptian President Sisi has issued a presidential pardon for activist and blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah.

Yesterday some friends took down far-right flags from my local high street, in the face of screaming abuse. Today I walked in a road (as pavement was blocked by parked cars) and got driven at by men in a van shouting I shouldn’t be there, that the road was theirs. Very similar vibes, lads.

The cars that dominate so much of our public space are indeed a local expression of global hierarchies of power. But as @samwake.bsky.social points out: "If there is any glimmer of hope in this bleak picture it could be that these interconnections may also run the other way."

I wrote about the place of our streets in conflict and making peace. World day of peace is 21 Sept. sam.wakeling.me/posts/peace-...

I wrote about the place of our streets in conflict and making peace. World day of peace is 21 Sept. sam.wakeling.me/posts/peace-...

Me in Local Transport Today talking about engaging secondary schools 👇🏼

Put those photos in your collection to good use 📷

“one of them even raised the question of whether there was any humor left in Germany today.”

Never seen canal boats rouse such strong feelings. Possibly from “Brian”…

Accepting “net zero” as an end goal (so aiming to keep global temp wherever it lands when net zero is reached) ignores that the task of this century and beyond is healing and repair. 🌱❤️‍🩹 We need to stop the harm both fast and well because otherwise it makes healing harder and longer.

Let me elaborate my disagreement with @zackpolanski.bsky.social in a 🧵. The scenes on our streets are not "the consequences of decades of austerity" but of centuries of racism propagated by the British ruling classes to rationalise the social order they have constructed at home and abroad.

It's been a thoroughly grim week, and its a thoroughly grim time generally. So here's a thoroughly wholesome picture of two absolute legends to help rekindle your faith in the universe.

“To an economic or IAM modeller, Judas simply got the price wrong, he should’ve asked for 300 or 3,000 pieces of silver. But to most of us, selling a friend, a child, or a lover isn’t a pricing error, it’s an ethical violation.”

When #climate activists who engage in non-violent civil disobedience are allowed to fully explain the reasons for their actions, they are often acquitted by juries 👇

I love this approach of using tactical speed reduction measures following any fatal crash. Not just getting back to normal when normal just killed someone. Glad to see being developed (not yet used) in the US. Anyone know of any work like this in the UK? www.emergencystreets.org

Too many strategies are little more than wish lists. “Stop promising what you’ll deliver, start promising what you’ll discover”

I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/

Congratulations to Lena Freimuth and Timo Hirschmann for breaking both the women’s and men’s unicycle 24 hour distance records. Lena did 424km and Timo 526.8km! As a former holder of the men’s, I’m delighted it has gone over 500km at last. unicyclist.com/t/new-24hr-u...

"My school saves thousands of pounds every year from those solar panels." The TUC directly takes on Reform, a party funded by the fossil fuel Industry. Posted on IG by tradesunioncongress

“You’re in our country” You. Our. So this is all about defining who is and isn’t “us”.

The same Oxford Labour leader who “forced” the LD/Green admin to create a citizens assembly on transport. They wanted to give “residents more say”. That assembly of residents strongly backed a congestion charge (74%).

Arctic sea ice has halved since the 1990s. This is not slow motion.

Did Britain fight WW2 because fascism is bad, or to stop foreigners coming over here? (“Or you’d be speaking German now…”) If the latter then there is a bit less dissonance with many things since.

What if… there was no punishment for bad driving? So, no police action etc. How would that change how we make the roads safe, and are there ways it could be more effective than enforcement?

As Labour councils and mayor meet today to pour more public money into this pit, here’s a reminder of how shameful it is. When we need decent local services, this instead props up profits of violent businesses like Boeing, while sacrificing our climate. nowthenmagazine.com/articles/irr...

Looking forward to this!

Enjoyed chatting to @theipaper.com about Oliver Coppard's risky and irresponsible decision to gamble public money reopening a failed airport during a climate emergency (£) 🛬 inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Road crashes cost lives and money. Official figures calculate crashes in Sheffield cost £127m a year. That’s £2.5m every week. £350k, day in, day out. It’s not expensive to fix this. It’s expensive not to.

Keynote at #Tyndall25UEA conference by @goneri76.bsky.social He links zero CO2 by 2050 with Paris 1.5°C commitment without overshoot, etc. I really can’t see how this can be possible. Latest 50% 1.5°C carbon budget is ~90GtCO2 from start 2026; just over 2 yrs of current global CO2. #CriticalDecade

“Compared to their parents’ generation, the amount of time today’s children play outside has declined by 50%. But this downward trend doesn’t have to be inevitable. Thoughtful planning, which listens to the voices of children and young people, can produce… environments where children can develop”

The Government will be testing the emergency alert system this Sunday at 3pm. Compatible mobile phones and tablets will make a loud siren-like sound and vibrate. If you have a device hidden from an abuser, this alert could reveal it. You can opt out using the advice below. www.gov.uk/alerts/optin...

He invites me to lift up one end to feel the weight of it. “Imagine if that hit you – or a child – at 30, 40mph.” Ok. Not good news. Now try lifting the smallest car you can find. Imagine that?

“Unthinkable danger” “What will stop the rise of these souped-up and potentially fatal vehicles?” The panic in this reporting sounds like they have yet to notice a certain other kind of vehicle. One more persistently than “potentially” fatal. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Paris, South Africa. What are streets for? People! www.instagram.com/reel/DNwORK3...

Successive Conservative and Labour UK Governments have sat on a pavement parking consultation since 2020 without giving any official response. There's a parliamentary debate TODAY at 4.30pm on pavement parking. I think we're able to watch using this link... whatson.parliament.uk/event/cal52864

Behold!

How can someone who has won 84.6% of the party vote possibly hope to “bring the party with him”? 🔍 A mystery for the Guardian

New National Travel Survey data shows more than twice the proportion of cycle trips (31%) are for commuting than car trips (13%). Many people who are cycling are relying on it to get to work. www.gov.uk/government/s...

How children get to school in England has been virtually constant for 22 years. Primary age about 51% walk. Small change in secondary from private bus to car since start of covid. New 2024 data: www.gov.uk/government/s...

Congestion charging in London caused an average of 7% drop in car ownership in affected areas (outer London near the charging boundary). If we want fewer cars in our streets, and all the benefits that brings, this is one of the tools that we know works. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Some street planting in Crookes, Sheffield 🌱

Infographic showing food insecurity among 2 million people living in the Gaza Strip, according to an Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis on August 22, 2025