"He said that it is only a “perception” that car parking fees put off people from visiting town centres and that further research from the Welsh Government had also found that this was not the case"

That was eye-opening: I just had to prove my identity to Companies House and the security questions... Well, if you have a mortgage, the government clearly have every detail of it at their fingertips

BREAKING! 🚨 📢 We’ve taken over the ad space at Southwark tube station, calling on the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, to end adverts that promote pollution. 🧵 1/8 ✍️ Use our template to write to the Mayor: actionnetwork.org/letters/time...

The little exclamation mark next to the 5G logo is the telecoms equivalent of that joke "When we've got no bananas ours are just 10p too" #phonesdontworkontrains

Big subtweet here from the @anonopin.bsky.social thread. STOP LOOKING AT FOREIGN COUNTRIES YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND AND INVENTING WEIRD FANTASIES ABOUT HOW THEIR CHAOTIC ROADS AND LACK OF PEDESTRIAN CROSSING ARE "WEIRDLY SAFER" because they aren't en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

More driverless cars

Car brand BYD's new SUV ad pokes fun at people walking and cycling, comparing them to Horse & Carts. It joins a long list of car ads that sell a false promise of convenience and aspiration while punching down at sustainable transport modes. So I made it a bit more realistic...

I'm walking up the middle of Wales for a couple of days. It's fascinating how the small remote market towns each manage to sustain one really unexpected business like a lingerie shop

Brilliant new ad campaign I just spotted at the Southwark tube station in London.

Unless there's an unbreakably valid safety reason why not, all button-operated pedestrian crossings should activate the lights in pedestrians' favour instantly when pressed.

"Public discourses of delaying climate action manifest in local debates and are referenced by citizens to criticize proposed changes to the mobility system" German study asks whether asking public (who mostly drive) about changing transport policy really works www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"PhD students should embrace plagiarism and being unpredictably wrong without warning" is quite the claim

My unpopular opinion: those of us advocating for non-car travel need to stop apologetically saying "I know not everybody can cycle!" Obviously not everyone can cycle, but that's also true of driving. I fear we're just giving our opponents' attack lines legitimacy by shouting them out for free

Ah here it is. Whenever you see a council rolling out the red carpet to car-dependency and making it really hard to walk or cycle, you can always be sure they've declared a climate emergency and patted themselves on the back for a job well done www.carmarthenshire.gov.wales/council-serv...

Get your act together, Carmarthenshire #activetravel

Someone just shared this with me: 1967, 3,000 publicans marching against introducing breath tests for drivers. Barbara Castle MP got this introduced and speed limits and seatbelts as mInister for transport, and faced the standard opposition.

"Action is needed locally, nationally, and internationally to curb sales of new SUVs and to reduce their presence in urban areas." Editorial in the @bmj.com, November 2025 www.bmj.com/content/391/... Photo: Crispin Hughes

You can also check out the Stockholm syndrome apologists for the petrostate of Norway in response to this post of mine: bsky.app/profile/ianw...

Sidewalks shouldn’t stop for side streets, pass it on

I know I should be posting more psychology and cycling and stuff, but I was just reminded of the greatest video ever, and it'll never not make me laugh www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbbq...

"Crucifixion?" "Nah, freedom for me" "Oh jolly good, off you go then"

This morning I saw the driver of a massive shiny Defender panic to a crawl because there was a puddle on the road And yes, they'd paid 5 grand extra for the Action-Man Fantasy accessory pack

To be clear, what is being proposed here is to axe the main mechanism for getting Britain’s homes insulated - which is by FAR the best way to reduce household energy bills in the long term 🤦‍♂️ …and also, just incidentally, an absolute non-negotiable requirement for meeting UK climate targets 😬🥵☠️

Oh yeah, going international on Wikipedia

😢 "Perhaps the most striking findings is that the British public vastly overestimates the cost getting to net zero by almost 14,000%, fueling scepticism & a reluctance to pay. On average, they estimate it will need 28% of GDP by 2050, compared to @thecccuk.bsky.social forecast of just 0.2%"

'personally I do all my shopping at the big super store outside the ring road, this is why I can with expertise speak to the fact that we need to support independent businesses in our city, by making a point for protecting parking at the superstore at the edge of the city.'

The leader of a ‘politically neutral’ anti-20mph lobby group has announced her ambitions to stand for Reform UK at the Senedd election next year ✍️Emily Price

The answer mentions 7993 audits of number plate suppliers leading to 3759 warning letters. Are nearly half the suppliers they audit doing something wrong?

Make walking the easy choice for local journeys www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Stock up on bike parts quickly

My new newsletter is out, in which we use basic high-school maths to complain about street design simple.ghost.io/lets-do-the-...

If you want to understand the emotional end intellectual malaise of British politics, this piece by @mjrobbins.com is a pretty good place to start. It effectively describes a country that has gone mad. open.substack.com/pub/martinro...

I can't imagine wanting to define Britishness in a way that includes Fred West but excludes Guz Khan

Lovely find in the @b3ta.com newsletter - a collection of "AI" chatbot's attempts to create a simple clock. It'll reassure you we're not yet near the opening scenes of Terminator clocks.brianmoore.com

It is not true “England cannot effectively subsidise travel costs”. Retired people get free travel. By freezing the fuel duty escalator we are subsidising car drivers, which compounds inequality. See more here: bettertransport.org.uk/media/groups... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Essential research shows that particulate pollution—generated from motor fuels exhaust, tire wear, wildfires, factories, etc—is associated with dementia. More evidence that it is in the interest of public health to reduce pollution. (Gift link)

I've had to deploy two of these moves on Eastern European dogs while riding the Transcontinental Race

Just came across the “bean soup theory” & feel resonance. Someone shared a bean soup recipe online & people commented ‘I don’t like beans’ & ‘can I substitute the beans’. It’s now become a byword for individualism & the self-centred internet. Not everything is about you. Bean soup 🥣

My new newsletter is out, in which we use basic high-school maths to complain about street design simple.ghost.io/lets-do-the-...

"Councillors estimate the cost of providing free car parks to be around £10 - £15 [per household per year]: equivalent to a ten per cent increase in council tax." - I find this story interesting mostly because it's rare that the true cost of free parking sees the light of day.

Dog: Doctor, I've tried licking my injury over and over and over and it's not getting any better Doctor (who is also a dog): frankly I'm stumped

I've been a member of Cycling UK since the 90s, back when it was the CTC. It's honestly humbling being featured in the newsletter of an organisation that's been part of my life for so long

This one's intriguing. Government won't say which manufacturers EV grants went to because of "commerce sensitivity". I can't immediately think of a good reason they'd want to keep that secret, especially as it's public funds being handed to the industry

Dog: Doctor, I've tried licking my injury over and over and over and it's not getting any better Doctor (who is also a dog): frankly I'm stumped

“It’s so endemic, it’s so pervasive, it’s so ubiquitous, that people don’t recognize just how much it is all around them” I've been talking motonormativity with @grist.org. Also features @sgoodyear.bsky.social and @brooklynspoke.bsky.social grist.org/culture/cars...

Environmental noise does contribute to hypertension and diabetes. But I'm pretty sure it's cars and planes that are the issue, not a ball on a bat. These Hampshire residents never drive anywhere, right? scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?hl=e... scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?hl=e...