For #WorldBookDay my kid went as Safi from the Rooftoppers. No-one knew who she was despite the obvious giveaway of the boys' clothes, tape measure belt and red 'blood' smear on her cheek. She felt rebellious not to be an obvious book character.

Bit late to posting day 4. It's not always easy to talk about, but yesterday I had a conversation with another parent about wood burning, air pollution, asthma rates, cargo bikes, most journeys under 5km, car clubs, school streets, idling & dangerous driver behaviour... Lots to discuss & worth it!

This sounds like my coffee nightmare. Insufferable. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Day 3: I delivered these excellent flyers about the pollution emitted by home wood burning to the Milton Road library in Cambridge. It can be surprising to learn how dangerous & harmful a fire burning in a gorgeous, ornate fireplace actually is! Cough, splutter, wheeze. #CleanAirCrowd

Day 2: walking with large items... because you don't need a car to transport framed pictures. Choosing the right tool for the job. #CleanAirCrowd

If you don't know we've moved from Hackney with a slow but full programme of school street implementation to Cambridge where school streets are 'volunteer patrolled' in the few places they exist. Cambridge schools need ANPR-protected school streets so all kids can safely walk & cycle. #CleanAirCrowd

Don't blame parents, blame a health system that has multiple barriers to accessing care, resulting in low vaccination rates. An excellent thread:

Social media companies aid and abet boys/men to comment and create content that is misogynistic and derogatory towards women. It should be the moral AND LEGAL duty of SM companies to safeguard a 15yo who opens their app - ensuring she won't view such abuse. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The @hackneylcc.bsky.social HCC Burns Night is the winter event you need to get through these dark days. Dinner, recitations, cash bar & cèilidh for an extremely good price (£35 waged/£22 unwaged). I thoroughly recommend this! 24/1/26 City Academy, Homerton hackneycycling.org.uk/news/burns-n...

Without a change to decent investment (rather than current stop-start funding) and long-term planning and prioritisation, any efforts towards linking-up towns and cities with active travel routes will fail. And they need to succeed. @heidialexander.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

UN report Māori political expression in parliament was “disproportionately scrutinised & sanctioned”. Recent law changes risked “significantly curtailing statutory protections of Māori land rights”. Call for strengthening the revitalisation of the Māori language. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Just received a Kryptonite d-lock lock as a freebie with my new @londoncycling.bsky.social membership. I won't be using the frame mount, does anybody want it?

It is so tiresome and unedifying to see sitting Labour councillors continue to attack their own administration’s traffic reduction measures, when "We've seen clear evidence that LTNs are delivering real benefits, traffic is down by an average of 38% inside [the zones] and 2% on boundary roads”

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

Its London Mayor’s Questions tomorrow & I understand that Greens on the London Assembly will be asking Sadiq Khan what the delay is with ending fossil fuel advertising on the tube & buses. If you too would like to drop the Mayor a polite email on this topic, please go to www.badverts.org/fossil-ads

Is @camdencouncil.bsky.social now the council with the most #politicalWill aka cojones in all Greater London ? Perhaps with Waltham Forest as a close second ? Here in Islington we used to look up at Hackney and wish we could be more like them; now it's Camden.

Camden leads where Hackney fails. Pembury Junction redesign should have separate cycle track. @hackneylcc.bsky.social gave indicative, fully specced designs. Camden show (at York Way & Agar Grove junction) they know how to build-in safety, whereas Hackney wouldn't. @sarahwoodberrydown.bsky.social

The fact that people are allowed to store their cars in the street is really weird - after all, a car is an individual's own private property and their responsibility. I can't think of a single other item you can store in public in this way.

This exposé is also our experience at Haggerston School, Hackney. Not enough is being done to ensure secondary school students are taught well in a safe environment without draconion punishment systems and ever-changing curriculum & standards. youtu.be/NAmX8e74RJo?...

The Welsh 20mph default reduced casualties by 25% and insurance costs by £90m. If done in England expect reductions of 15,000 casualties pa and insurance by £2bn pa. Implementation cost would be approx £0.5bn. For comparison, 1st yr depreciation on new cars registered in England in 2024 was £78bn

What if you need to move a piano to a school? I’d like to see your bike do th…… 🚲🎹

One lane of vans stuck in traffic. One lane of cargo bikes flowing freely. This photo powerfully shows the potential of cargo bikes in our cities. (📷: Honor Elliott)

www.lowtraffichackney.org/latest-news/... - Join the next #KidicalMassLond too on the 20th Sep, with @ibikelondon.bsky.social ending at #CarFreeDay celebrations and a huge #PlayStreet!

Balanced article on illegal ebikes concludes perhaps it's the "industry that exploits vulnerable people while making huge profits, and online marketplaces that sell unsafe products with no liability or retribution" who need targeting rather than Deliveroo drivers. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Consultation to support: the Dalston LN scheme would substantially improve walking & cycling. But, the proposed filters would leave a route open for through-traffic from Cecilla Rd to Montague Rd, and the scheme should be adjusted to address this. consultation.hackney.gov.uk/streetscene/...

A message to Richard Tacon, CEO of Bathurst Resources, the biggest coal company in Aotearoa. 🐌 🌳 ⛰️ This land is too precious to destroy. Opening new coal mines now is nothing short of reckless. We will not stand by. We will oppose you at every step. #StopTheFastTrack #EndCoal #StopFossilFuels

Excellent new reel on Instagram from @punterspolitics.bsky.social about Adani’s attempts at getting Australian tax payers to fund his fossil fuel expansion. Brilliant touch at the end about $2bn in clean up costs also @justinmikulka.bsky.social

Recommendations for panniers! We bought two sets of Ortlieb panniers 6 years ago expecting them to last a lifetime, they claim they're "built to endure". Not so. One set has the same manufacturing fault of torn seams that Ortlieb says are "unrepairable". Let me know of better manufacturers please!

Notes from good, welcoming public realm in French towns; 1. Colour the separated cycle track surface 2. Introduce fun images (superhero cyclist) 3. Prioritise people walking/cycling at junctions & lights. Zebra crossings on side-streets. 4. Create outside third spaces -> picnic tables for 20+ people

I can't get over the amount of high-quality cycling infrastructure in towns outside Paris! We cycled in Orléans, Blois, Saumur, Tours, Caen & found separated cycle track/cycle priority, low/no motor vehicle city centres & ongoing improvements for cycling including Dutch roundabouts. Impressed with 🇫🇷

The beginning of the return trip back to London, after a great cycling adventure along the Loire.

#ANZ stop providing banking services to planet-killing fossil fuel industries like #BathurstResources! 🤝 There are many, many of us & we will not sit quietly as ANZ partners with Bathurst Resources to destroy #DennistonPlateau and our #climate. #ClimateJustice #ClimateCrisis #A22Network

More countries need to introduce RUCs: "The [NZ] government has recognised reality & is getting on with the transition. "It isn't fair to have Kiwis who drive less & who can't afford a fuel-efficient car paying more than people who can afford one & drive more often." www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

On the way from Brighton to Newhaven a few days ago we rode on what must be a historic bus stop bypass. It was far preferable than our children riding on a high-speed, busy and dangerous road. Please don't try to ban these important pieces of infrastructure @meghillier.bsky.social

On the way from Brighton to Newhaven a few days ago we rode on what must be a historic bus stop bypass. It was far preferable than our children riding on a high-speed, busy and dangerous road. Please don't try to ban these important pieces of infrastructure @meghillier.bsky.social

Let the French cycle touring begin!

That @towerhamletsnow.bsky.social removed the white ghost bike memorial for Matheus not only dishonours his memory but also adds to the grief felt by his family and friends. #VisionZero www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...

Luxon's strategy (if you can call it that) is to increase climate pollution and hope globally no-one notices, so NZ maintains the 'clean and green' reputation that @fonterranz.bsky.social etc rely on. This is not likely to work: drilled.media/news/new-zea... www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...

#Measles is preventable with two doses of vaccine. Yet in 2024, 30+ million children remained under-protected, leading to more large or disruptive outbreaks. Only 76% of children got the second dose, far below the 95% coverage needed to stop outbreaks 👉 bit.ly/4kFzSGW

On the 40th anniversary of the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, key members of the investigation team reflect on their roles in these landmark events. www.police.govt.nz/news/ten-one...

Hear from Evan Edinger on why cycling in London makes so much sense and how ebikes can make it a bit easier to get from a to b www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmf6...

Cycling through @towerhamletsnow.bsky.social is such a shitshow of close passes from MUST-GET-IN-FRONT drivers. It's so dangerous that I understand why delivery cyclists add illegal motors to their bikes. Also unbelievable is that tourist hotspot Brick Lane is sacrificed to parking & speeding cars.

We have also submitted written evidence today. We are extremely concerned about these exclusionary amendments which would make comprehensive safe cycling for children, families & many disabled people impossible.

Could you please engage with people who know about building active travel infrastructure @meghillier.bsky.social? Banning bus stop bypasses means no continuous cycle network, thus cycling only for the brave. In a climate emergency. In an obesity crisis. Children then unable to travel independently.

If you are in or near Hackney this Saturday morning, @hackneylcc.bsky.social has breakfast for you. 🤩🚲☀️

Here's the news you've been waiting for... We've rescheduled our delicious Cyclists' Breakfast for this coming Saturday, 21 June, from 9am. Tell your friends & neighbours.

There’s a TON of evidence that bigger, higher vehicles are far more likely to kill somone they hit, crushing vital organs & pushing victims under. But never forget, their weight, height & sightlines also make it far more likely that they’ll hit someone in the first place. HT @transenv.bsky.social

Where to start with this. The false assumption consultation is representative? The false idea car use is more prevalent amongst working class people (who can’t afford a bike)? The false idea cyclists are gentrifiers or LTNs ‘widen divides’? Worrying this is a PhD. thebristolcable.org/2025/05/east...

We have learned that Jamal Yahya Pratley, who was hit and later died from his injuries while cycling to work in central London on 12 April, was a resident of Hackney. A small group of HCC members attended the installation of the ghost bike for Jamal last night.