It isn’t true to imply that London is safer by bike. The Mayor’s own data shows the risk per journey trending up since 2015.

@sebdance.bsky.social Hey Seb, Did you see TfL published its finalised road safety data for 2024. Have you any comment for an article I am writing about the risk index you have? Risk looks to be flat lining or rising.

What do we want? To walk ten metres without bumping into a Lime Bike, stray wheelie bin, or cafe A-board in the middle of the pavement. When do we want it? Whenever you’ve got a sec to pop out and move them.

I wrote to @LonTravelWatch pointing out @greateranglia’s misunderstanding of boundary zone extension tickets. Their knowledgeable casework team sorted it out within days. Well done LTW.

This past 12 months, we have spoken up for the travelling public in many ways; through our research and campaigns, holding service providers to account, and helping passengers with their appeals. Find out more in our annual review. www.londontravelwatch.org.uk/london-trave...

Clearly City Hall doesn’t understand how planning policy and decision making works. The 50% does trip a viability assessment, but viability is material and so if 50% in unviable a lesser figure can be policy compliant and thereby approved. Well done Wandsworth.

My final piece in Local Transport Today, Let’s put more and safer cycling in the mix with better buses and great streets for walking too : tapas.network/72/stops.php

Cloughie

This seems extraordinarily brave journalism. Thank you Steve.

I asked Vladimir Putin: “25 years ago Yeltsin handed you power & told you 'Take care of Russia.’ Do you think you have? In light of significant losses in Ukraine, Ukrainian troops in Kursk region, sanctions, inflation…” Here’s his reply. Producer @lizashuvalova.bsky.social @bentavener.bsky.social

This is the best series we have as @willnorman changed the longstanding measure of trips to boost the numbers. To also remind serious cycle casualties rose between 2019 and 23 by 20% on all that safe infra!

In which Deputy Mayor for Transport, @SebDance tells the London Assembly of a 25% increase in cycling delivered by safe cycle infrastructure, but not that serious cyclist injuries rose by more than 20% on that safe infrastructure in the same time frame! webcasts.london.gov.uk/Assembly/Eve...

A development plan is fundamental to planning. The Tories allowed local authorities to avoid having them.

I went to Bexleyheath to interview Daniel Francis, a GE winner I dismally failed to predict. I think he's a bit special. And his insights into what his constituents want from #Labour are instructive: www.onlondon.co.uk/interview-da.... @danfrancis02.bsky.social @deborahmattinson.bsky.social

Ten years ago Royal College Street won @London_Cycling’s ‘Best Space for Cycling’ award. Last month it came 8th on their list of London’s most dangerous junctions. What a hoot!

Today is the UN day for People with Disabilities. I’ll be in Parliament with the National Federation of the Blind, @NFBUK asking for Article 9 to be enforced: the right to access bus services. A right being lost to blind people in London.

We’re also calling for a system to report incidents, accessible to people with sight loss, monitored by operators and the Department for Transport. We’re working with the Department for Transport, local authorities, and e-scooter and dockless bike companies, pressing for urgent action. 4/4

Look at Will Norman’s latest chart. They recalculated how they measured cycling journeys in 2023 and it’s up from 1% in 2000, on the same trend as when Ken was Mayor! No change since the spent a billion £.

Good that finally the @mayoroflondon.bsky.social is to act against the dockless e-bike companies and what an irony. They will be using the same legislation to clear up dumped e-bikes as to clean up ‘dung’. I give you Highways Act 1980, S148!

These guys spent years worrying about bus stops where no one gets injured and ignored junctions where most get injured, indeed many junctions will now be worse because of the lanes they demanded.

Four of the most dangerous junctions, including the top one, are associated with ‘protected’ cycle tracks. One has 14 of 19 collisions between two cycles on cycle tracks through Hyde Park. Go figure that out!

The most dangerous cycle lane in London with 19 collisions. 14 of them cycle on cycle!

.@London_cycling identifies the 6th most dangerous cycle junction in latest campaign. It’s South Carriageway bike lane at Albert Gate. 14 of 19 reported involving TWO CYCLES between 2019 and 2023. Also with thanks to @TfL collision mapping.

My memory of John Prescott will always be when I rode new bus route 31 to Bridport from Weymouth. a rural area that benefited from bus grant. The kids at a stop were ecstatic when I told them that they could travel after 3:15 in the afternoon to and from Weymouth on a Saturday!

Welcome to Hackney, where more residents cycle than any other London borough!

Anyone on here think the @mayorofldn.bsky.social policy of keeping the bus lane on Waterloo bridge for cycles only such that 12 bus services including his express service, Superloop, are delayed?

London Cycling and its associates have demanded London government spend over a billion pounds building bike lanes when there was no chance of any improvement in cycle safety. They now moan at London government because so little has been achieved.

One of the frauds the cycle lobby perpetrates is that 70% of people don’t cycle because of fear of motors. That’s because they ask multiple choice questions with more than one answer counted. If you do as the DfT do & ask for the main reason, the answer is entirely different. 1/2

This is good, but keep in mind that the bus service across #London is currently the slowest it has been for ten years, which is not something to aspire to: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hear from ex-president of the National Federation of the Blind UK supporting @hackneycouncil.bsky.social ‘s design for Pembury junction; and my critique of the @hackney_Cycling counter proposal. At 35 mins: youtu.be/KRh64Sa9Z7I?...

Its great that cycling parliamentarians are trying to understand the social justice issues around ‘active travel’. Lesson 1. It’s not just about cycling! x.com/appgcw/statu...

I took some convincing over the loss of symmetry of the Portico building in Hackney, but the planning benefits outweighed. x.com/hackneycounc...

NEW. More than 20 of Westminster's formidable residents' organisations have weighed in against Sadiq Khan's Oxford Street pedestrianisation plan, as have local Tories: www.onlondon.co.uk/oxford-stree... #London #sadiqkhan #oxfordstreet

Maybe tell us where there is proper evidence that bike tracks make for safer cycling in London.

Do you ever get the feeling the world’s gone crazy? With this in mind, I play the Flintstones theme in the style of the Russian classics.

After getting rid of the mega-advert at 600 Kingsland Road a new one is planned next door. Nothing much can be done to control this. The law is an ass!