Lack of political will in London is perhaps most starkly visible in inaction around London's most #DangerousJunctions 1. We have 3 years in a row highlighted ratrun cluster in Wandsworth as the most dangerous in London, where ratruns cross main road cycle tracks. The same Cycle Superhighway, CS7...

This. This right here is years of long hard campaigning by @londoncycling.bsky.social that saved lives. Huge kudos to ex staffer Charlie Lloyd and current staffer Tom Bogdanowicz for their work instigating and maintaining this campaign through to now and beyond. #EndLorryDanger #RoadSafetyWeek

This is an absolutely shockingly powerful simple read: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Reform's rhetoric on immigration is hateful, shameful. Seeing Labour effectively follow it almost as much so. Far too many Britons are chosing hate over hope, selfishness over collective society.

This cracking commentary by @francesryan.bsky.social nails my views on politics of hopelessness. When people feel their lives, hopes, dreams are just getting worse & worse, they turn to authoritarian, populist, fascist leaders. Reform & billionaire media owners thrive off this downward spiral...

Top 100 baby! Or, put another way, hugely honoured and humbled to be named in Zag Daily's 2nd annual Zag List as one of 100 "mobility changemakers" zagdaily.com/featured/the... Not sure how "tireless" I feel right now, but we'll keep London moving forward @londoncycling.bsky.social!

Not sure I agree these 16 'critical safety issues' for designing for active travel all as stringent as needed, particularly vehicle speed only kicking in when 85% of vehicles on road doing 30+mph But glad @ategov.bsky.social rounded these up & updated them: www.gov.uk/government/p... Very helpful.

🎉 Camden's new plans for Holborn are mind-blowingly good: bit.ly/4qOtVMg Major changes for Theobalds Rd, Southampton Row, Kingsway, High Holborn & further afield. New Oxford Street & Great Ormond Street plans look like big changes for better! Kudos Cllr @adamdkharrison.bsky.social 👏

HT to @bearlypolitics.co.uk who I've been reading for a while now via Substack & rate as absolutely excellent on political analysis for summarising this absolute dunk on X/Twitter/Musk. Also huge HT to @news.sky.com for this in-depth, data-driven investigation into X/Twitter's biased algorithm...

How did I not know this vital information?!

The far right anger of Reform folks, the bitterness of their pound shop racism, the idea what little we have needs protecting from folks like my parents, who came here as refugees & built lives here, the idea London & England has fallen rather than grown. They deserve contempt & ridicule...

Kudos again to @labourstone.bsky.social & Waltham Forest for more & more active travel in outer London. Latest: Chingford Road corridor from north circular to central Walthamstow: talk.walthamforest.gov.uk/chingford-ro... and check out the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkK7... We love to see it!

WTAF? Some enforcement and some filtering please Camden. HT @cycleoptic.bsky.social

"Paris, once the poster child for car-clogged boulevards and endless honking, is now rewriting the story of urban mobility—on two wheels." momentummag.com/paris-sets-a...

🤝 Becoming an LCC Member is the best way to support our work to make London a world class cycling city! Join today: bit.ly/3R38Pcd

Ah yes, but all roads justice resources should be directed at those evil scofflaw cyclists running down Visually Impaired people at bus stops nonstop everywhere. Or put another way, when law is updated for cycling and driving to match on causing death will killer cyclist sentences go down or up? Hmm

Saw One Battle After Another at IMAX last night. www.youtube.com/watch?v=feOQ... If you liked Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice, it has similarities. It's a spectacularly good film - warm, funny, political, sharp, complex, and incredible cinematography & acting. And I wanted to say one thing...

This is what happens when politicians act bravely and deliver progressive change. Notable from the news story where other metro mayors are still deliberating and delaying on such measures, they still have illegal air quality issues. Cough cough Manchester & Andy Burnham, Liverpool & Birmingham...

Title for this Labour conference session is quite startling. Labour has lurched rightwards in an apparent attempt to stave off Reform. That approach has unsurprisingly failed. Now they want to stop a "rising Green tide" as if it's not OK to want progressive politics or to save planet. The way...

Folks outside the USA who do urbanism, active travel etc. including me & @londoncycling.bsky.social. Starter pack of key follows from key follow & top urbanist @brenttoderian.bsky.social.

What is your town centre 'for' in this day & age? What does it offer you that the internet can't? And why can't politicians see that if everyone in your town is struggling, the centre will no matter how many giant deckchairs you put out? Town centres aren't a sodding mystery, despite most...

The far right from both sides of the pond hates London & our Mayor. Why would that be? Is it because they're racists who can't stand the way Londoners generally just get on with each other? Love, tolerance and diversity > racist, fascist hate.

Cycling really does give you wings! Watching a toddler soar up front whilst a retired tandem duo found their turbo mode was a definite ride highlight. Magical to see bikes bring out the joy in everyone, at every age, on this fun Kingston ride. @londoncycling.bsky.social @kingstoncycling.bsky.social

Ermygadddd, I’ve been on Oxford Street with my daughter today as it’s been traffic free. What a total buzz 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 All we could hear was people chatting and laughing, and not ONE engine. It was delicious. And of course people are here in huge numbers. … 1/11

I’m down at the Oxford Street car free day and I can already tell this is going to be an exceptionally joyous event. I’ll share some highlights!

Absolutely brilliant to open the Royal Docks Corridor this morning. The GLA & Newham teams have transformed this dangerous industrial road into a wonderful new public space - complete with a fab cycle lane, crossings, new lighting, beautiful planting and flood resilience.

Bumped into @willnorman.co.uk on Oxford Street today and told him pedestrianisation isn't going to go 'far enough'. What a stunning day. Huge crowds showing what is clearly overdue - the traffic needs to go and even then the street is massively crowded. Some of the cross streets had quite a few...

⏰ This weekend is your last chance to book a place on Urban Hill Climb 2025! ☀ With the forecast predicting perfect conditions for hill climbing, now is the time to get booked on: bit.ly/44R388Y

Urgent: @londoncycling.bsky.social 27/9 Urban Hill Climb places going. If you or a mate ever wanted to tackle famous Swain's Lane climb: entries.sublimetiming.com/race/35 You don't need to be fast, you just need to want to have fun. Entrants for 16-17s, women & ebike riders particularly encouraged.

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Questions: 1. Why, given Mandelson has long been a rather scandal & gaffe prone politician was he ever put in for this role in the first place? (See www.theguardian.com/politics/202...) 2. What went wrong with the 'vetting' process that presumably let him claim he wasn't best mates with Epstein?...

My instinct is strongly that the answer to this act of violence is to not call for, condone or accept any more violence. If the US right demand an 'eye for an eye', if they escalate their rhetoric, the only sane response is to point out there are already too many wounded & dead from gun violence.

What a surprise that some of the folks putting up flags all over turn to be organised and by far right knuckleheads to boot. It's little Tommy Robinson behind the curtain...

Parliament Sq yesterday during tube strike. #LondonLovesCycling but... we need more routes everywhere, more capacity on routes & more priority at lights for London to be a cycling city. Non strike days London averages 1.33 m cycle journeys, 4.5% mode share. Imagine if it was like this every day...

I recently shared 2 clips of US politician Jamie Raskin tearing Farage to pieces. Yet British politicians and our media remain oddly polite to & take seriously openly racist & fascistic Reform posturing. A top down way for our elites to avoid tackling real woes? Reads that way to me too ...

Incredible academic paper that shows clearly that Labour/Starmer shifting right helps Reform/Farage, doesn't capture right of centre votes for Labour and does alienate left of centre anti-racist ones. Starmer is currently not only playing into hard right hands but also splintering left. Idiotic...

Moskowitz: Do you think the Epstein list should come out? Farage: I have no opinion on it. Raskin: It’s been reported that he’s called for it to be released Moskowitz: I have it here. Do you agree with yourself?

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

well on the one hand it's bad for democracy and social cohesion that Keir Starmer is trying to appeal to the racists by pretending to be one of them, but on the other hand it's not actually working and the racists still don't want to vote for him

The only way this is 'OK' is if deep down you really just wish trans people would go away somewhere far from you or you don't believe all the trans people putting up with horrific invasive government probing etc actually exist. And guess what? It's not OK ever, Wes and Kier and Kemi etc.

Excellent if very grim reading. cmarmitage.substack.com/p/i-research... Basically, if you elect the far right then it's too late to stop fascists seizing control. America is already openly in the grip of a dictatorship. And Reform and Farage are aiming to go next.

A few weeks ago, I wandered down to Clapham in South London for a chat with Conor of Global Cycling Network to help peel back the layers of a junction dubbed as one of Britain's most dangerous for cycling. With @psimonk.bsky.social and @ianwalker.bsky.social youtu.be/d1BhyZSrZU8?...

👏 Big shout-out to @daraobriain.bsky.social for putting a spotlight on the many problems caused by councils chopping and changing e-bike hire licences! Our CEO Tom Fyans gave his thoughts on the issue to BBC London... 👇

Patchwork approach to dockless mobility is utter chaos, clearly. Quite what solution will be (I doubt that 'Devolution Bill' is going to be a complete answer FWIW) I don't know. But mainly I long for a day when dockless hire just 'works' across the board & all issues. We'll keep pushing for that...

Purlease, @london.gov.uk @willnorman.co.uk this is very silly. Actual report by ferry operator DFDS says for "cycling conditions" Paris comes top, London not even in top 10. That list is also rubbish, as it takes in not just km of bike lanes per capita, but web searches, flatness & wind. It's odd...

Sorrel & lemon risotto.

You've GOT to be kidding me! The Conservatives - who oversaw every single thing on this list - are trying to claim that only the Conservatives would "stop the madness" - that they created...? So incredulity aside, what about the list itself? Let's go Debunking! 1/34

Jaw-dropping stat by @londonermag.bsky.social in this morning's email: "The arrests at the Palestine Action rally is thought to be the single biggest mass arrest by the Met Police in modern British History, beating the previous record of 339 during the poll tax riots in 1990." FWIW then v now...

📆 Tomorrow is the last day to respond to the Regent Street consultation! Say YES to a move away from traffic, but make sure to voice the need for cycling not to be ignored in the plans 👉 bit.ly/4680I78

I went to check and this horrific tweet is up as of now. It's a real Republican candidate really doing fascist 'banter' about Auschwitz. I have no polite words left for these fascist ghouls. And far too many Americans don't appear to see the problem, just like Brits with Farage/Reform...

When government ministers suggest those gathering in Epping have "legitimate concerns" they are feeding a far right Reform narrative that most of the media hoovers up. Despite these tiny protests openly supported by extreme right thugs being dwarfed by 'lefty, woke' protests the media ignores...