You can be a “car guy” and not like car dependency. You can be a “car guy” and get that too many cars in cities is bad for everyone, including drivers. You can be a “car guy” and be tired of lies & manipulations like “the war on cars.” You can be a “car guy” and know more choice means more freedom.

When they say cars are freedom, they certainly don't mean financial freedom.

Why your next car should be an electric cargo bike

Wyle Cop, #Shrewsbury. Locally known as "the Cop". This beautiful historic street full of independent shops is the main excuse people give for not cycling anywhere in our town at all - "how are we going to cycle up the Cop?" Forget what you think you know, #E-bikes are the future. #ActiveTravel

One of several reasons why the answer can't just be replacing internal combustion engine cars one-for-one with electric cars. The problem with cars isn't limited to emissions.

again, e-bikes and 'dirt bikes' conflated, 'flying over bridges' and terrifying dogs and people. I know this area, the problem is illegal motorbikes, electric or otherwise, if the GT actually did some journalism they would know that. www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/scottis...

Hitler continually tested the boundaries, seeing what he could get away with in terms of rhetoric, power grabs and assaults on other people. As Establishment resistance folded, he found he could get away with more and more. Trump is on the same path. 3/4

A quick street view reveals the flooding in Penketh isn’t because “the drains don’t work”. It’s because residents paved over their front gardens to park cars. Those gardens used to soak up about 70% of rainfall. They removed the sponge. Now the water’s on their doorstep.

#GoodNews: In Paris sind inzwischen mehr mit den Fahrrad unterwegs als mit dem Auto. 🚲💚 #Verkehrswende #StädteFürMenschen

Seems appropriate.

Homes with 3-4 cars parked outside them when there is only room for 1-2 cars is not a sign that we need to provide more room for parking; it’s a sign that the adult children can’t afford to move out despite being able to afford cars. That’s the real issue; housing supply and affordability.

The government is: ❌ Failing to provide good quality active transport infrastructure ❌ Failing to introduce a 30 km/h default urban speed limit ❌ Failing to protect people Make no mistake, the rise in people being killed is not an accident — it’s the result of political choices.

Complaining about a cyclists/pedestrians dark clothes that you saw them wearing is poetry.

2 years of default urban/village 20mph in Wales has resulted in over 1,000 fewer killed or injured. The data shows a 25% reduction in casualties on the 20/30mph roads. Drivers gain with damage risk, crashes and premiums down. Well done Wales. bit.ly/4ppl030

The LTN ghouls are all animated about Andrew Ellson’s latest hatepiece. I’d like LTNs to cut car use but that has always been ancillary to the well-proven benefits for safety, active travel, noise, pollution, communities and child freedom. Isn’t that enough?

Does this look familiar? Every week we'll share the worst pavement parking pics we get from supporters. Add your photos to our interactive map and help us find pavement parking hotspots in England 📍 act.livingstreets.org.uk/page/176767/...

It's been a while, but there's a quick new post on the blog regarding the budget for Warwickshire County Council and prioritising active travel.

Great but I wish we’d stop seeing school streets as a solution. They are a bare-minimum intervention for the immediate vicinity of a school. They push the SUVs 50m further away & do very little for wider active travel. They have become cover for inaction airqualitynews.com/technology/e...

If we’re going to have government censorship in the US, a Democratic administration should take Fox News off the air.

What we call things reveals a lot about our priorities and biases. Graphic via @reenamahajan.bsky.social

Whenever I see someone posting on social media "that road is too dangerous for cyclists", I wonder if they've ever thought about what it is that makes the road dangerous?

Paper here. (Bonus: wearing a wig is even better than no helmet for encouraging passing space...) Drivers overtaking bicyclists: Objective data on the effects of riding position, helmet use, vehicle type and apparent gender Auntie: Ian Walker

One of the best urban sights is a bar/nightclub with a full bike rack. One of the scariest is a bar/nightclub with a full parking lot. #StealThisIdea

Bloody drivers, ignoring clear traffic orders and dumping their cars wherever they like.

🚲✨ Our London cargo bike fleet is growing fast and looking more colourful than ever! Even more bikes are arriving today as we continue to expand our rider team. 💙And @HelloFresh perhaps it’s time to explore getting back to zero-emission deliveries in London together?

Based pub. More businesses, especially ones where you spend time there, should offer this. Just a pity none are sold secure gold, which would prevent someone's insurance from paying out if the bike was stolen, but a good start.

America, land of the free and bastion of free speech? Dead in the water. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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

Four people were arrested for an “unauthorised projection”. This is apparently what counts as a crime now www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Morning rush hour. Stockholm.

The far right protests would be a fascinating case study of the false consensus effect if it wasn’t for the fact that many of them genuinely believe asylum seekers are coming here to assault women & children as that’s how far too many of them think and they assume everyone else thinks the same way.

@transportenvironment.org say UK car tax hasn't kept up with the changing profile of cars sold, so heavier and more polluting cars are escaping adequate taxation. They propose a weight-based tax kicks in at 1,600kg, 2,000kg for EVs. - Seems like a good plan. www.theguardian.com/money/2025/s....

If ever you wondered what you would have behaved like in 1930s Germany, what you behave like today will tell you. Choose to oppose Nazis. Choose to oppose hate. There's no middle ground here.

Charlie Kirk's death has truly laid bare just how fascist the USA has become, and by extension, the Empire. The sycophantic ass kissing, the immediate deference to cops, the pivoting to whatever issue people want to push over the corpse of a fascist. Hook, line, and sinker, fascism is mainstream.

You know you can rent these things, right? Lol, I can't believe some non-rural folks buy these as commuter vehicles. I prefer building my savings every month over handing more cash to the auto industry.

Intro says ebike, and then clarifies it was an illegal electric motorbike. If it's an illegal electric motorbike, by definition – both legally and literally – it's not an ebike then, is it?

This is how you protect your democracy. The US is a demonstration of what happens when you don't. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

It's been five years since the government opened a consultation on how to tackle pavement parking - and we are STILL waiting for the results. Let us know if pavement parking is an issue in your area 📍 act.livingstreets.org.uk/page/176767/...

On street parking for the family SUV? This is the type that I support. #paris #15minutecity #urbanism #cargobike #bike #parking #welgo

Yesterday at pick up, the child asked why we don't drive to School. Very glad of the opportunity to clearly and actively put that question to bed before we've really even started. We're walking, and that's that.

Charlie “I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment” Kirk has died after being shot.

Charlie Kirk, in addition to saying gun deaths are worth it, said society values driving more than the 50k annual US auto deaths, and it too is worth it. But I think folks are finally waking up to this blindspot. Cars kill and we can fix this too. #fuckcars

They even killed her dog and nobody cared.

If you never see people biking in your city, it's not because people don't want to, it's because they don't feel safe doing so. Build the protected, connected infrastructure and watch your city streets come alive with all ages and abilities.

In cities that put street parking directly in front of shops, it should be mandatory to convert at least one car parking space to bike parking, if for no other reason than helping to daylight the storefront, which should support buy-in by business owners. The bike traffic patronage will follow.

Good, but it really should take weight and size into account even more than emissions.

Good thing I didn't bring my bike up this way today. Side access is rightly blocked as the path is falling away, but the gate hasn't been left unlocked. Anyone without a radar key will be stuck or forced to lift a bike over. National Cycle Network route too. @walkwheelcyclet.bsky.social

🤔 Tube strike forcing you to rethink the commute? 🚴 Don't put yourself through the painfully slow bus or the painfully overpacked train - make the most of the September sun and ride into work! You never know, you might actually enjoy it... 👀

Just want to re-up this article to ask, can we admit that just talking about bike lanes and “active transportation” is an utter failure yet? We’ve moved on to be “anti-sidewalk” now. The story frame is broken related to infrastructure for people outside of cars #ottawa www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...