Our cul-de-sac is mostly old people. A family moved in last year, and on these warm evenings I love hearing the kids whizzing up and down on their scooters. This evening the rattle of the small wheels on the tarmac is accompanied by the lad singing to himself.

Why am I only finding out about Bill Boaks now? What a legend!

Another LTN to be made permanent, and the first in Bristol @roadcc.bsky.social @peterwalker99.bsky.social @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social @ianwalker.bsky.social @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...

So so pleased that the Transport Committee has voted to make the EBLN permanent 🎉 There will be further hurdles to clear before we see perm infra replacing the temp planters, but it’s a big step forward

Low Traffic Neighbourhoods make streets more accessible.

Apart from a small decrease in lorries, motor traffic is up generally in GB 2025-6. Traffic on ‘A’ roads up 2.0% and on minor roads up 1.6%. The Government needs to switch investment and policies enabling such traffic growth #RoadTrafficReduction www.gov.uk/government/s...

What is the future of summers in England? Our choices matter. A high-emissions future will commit our children and grandchildren to live in a world where the summers of 1976 & 2025 are cold. A global net-zero emissions future means that we can stabilise the climate & those summers will be normal.

Not all Unite members work for airports, oil companies or car manufacturers, and may be more interested in a survivable future for their kids than protecting the corporate interests of major polluters. If that’s you, someone has started a petition for you to sign here: www.change.org/p/stop-unite...

Even now, the urge to take a cardi is strong

#ShowYourStripes showyourstripes.info

🚨 New research by us! 📣 Most British drivers don't know how dangerous SUVs are to other road users, but adding information to SUV marketing materials seems to do almost nothing to change people's plans to buy SUVs Here's a 🧵 on why harder action is going to be needed 1/10

Do you use a Blue Badge to park in Bristol? ♿📝 Help improve our responsiveness along with access and parking across Bristol by filling in the Blue Badge parking survey. Have your say at www.bristol.gov.uk/blue-badge-parking-survey by 21 July.

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The #EBLN has created safe routes for walking, scooting and cycling to at least THREE local primary schools, and improved the journey to several more schools in the area for hundreds of pupils. This is exactly the kind of project the government will be looking to do more of.

Looks for before photos…..

It’s so easy to forget how controversial pedestrianising PVS and Cotham Hill was at the time. The Labour administration and Green councillors followed the evidence rather than the loudest voices, and just look at these streets now! We can do it again.

You’re about 10x less likely to die as a pedestrian in Amsterdam, than as a pedestrian in Portland, OR. The Netherlands overall is one of the safest places to be a pedestrian in Europe. Cities which have replaced bike infra for cars are better for pedestrian safety. They’re simply less dangerous.

📣 Bristol City Council's Transport & Connectivity Committee is deciding the future of the #EastBristolLiveableNeighbourhood on 9th July. People who support the changes are less likely to speak up than those who don't, so if it's made a positive difference to you, please submit a statement.

This is a wonderful article extolling how good it is to walk or cycle and how it makes you much more in touch with your surroundings than in a hermetically sealed car isolated from the world. HT @ppushbike.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Mayor Mamdani could make the World's Borough the "envy of the world" with Low Traffic Neighborhoods! “Communities are eager for calmer, safer streets that bring people together. LTNs build on that momentum.” nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/05/20/m...

Today feels a good day to repost my most popular blog of last year www.freewheeling.info/blog/swiss-hs2

One of the many benefits of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods is that they make streets safer for cycling. We're working with boroughs to route bike routes through LTNs - with filters & safe crossings of main roads. Great to see the new Cycleway 37 in Hackney 🚲💚

🌱 Fun political travel fact: After the 2026 Oxford City Council elections and the election of @jamesthorniley.bsky.social in Lye Valley - every bus filter/congestion charge camera location now has an @oxfordgreenparty.bsky.social councillor.

In our latest blogpost we tackle the thorny subject of LTN evidence. Why is good evidence still disputed? And how can you tell the worthwhile from the nonsense? Read it here! www.lowtraffichackney.org/latest-news/...

I used to have colleagues who would drive across the road for lunch, because the road was a 5 lane busy intersection and it was a pain to cross on foot.

"Anti-liveable neighbourhood protesters do not represent the whole community" from @bristol247.bsky.social #EastBristolLiveableNeighbourhood #EBLN #LTN www.bristol247.com/opinion/your...

Inspired by this video youtu.be/etwt75kYYhk I thought I'd explore some of the statistics around car access and deprivation with some #datavis and analysis. Usefully, the 2021 Census in the UK asked questions around car ownership as well as many aspects of 'deprivation'. So here is 📊 🧵... [1/8]

I was interested to read this perspective on the #EastBristolLiveableNeighbourhood and it's impact on Troopers Hill Road in the @bristolpost.co.uk this morning... 1/7 www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

Lovely news: sometimes, "at the next legislative opportunity" actually means that! In January, the government announced they wanted to give councils the power to tackle cars parked on the pavement. They've now tabled an amendment to the English Devolution Bill to deliver those 👇

Ducie Road (Barton Hill) and The Avenue (St George); the proposal at both these locations is to remove the bollards and planters that were installed as part of the trial, and replace them with ANPR cameras. #EBLN

Avonvale Road/ Marsh Lane/ Mildred Street; under the proposed changes, -The Marsh Lane bus gate would be removed -Mildred Street would be closed to motor traffic to/from Avonvale, and made two-way -The bus gate on Avonvale Road would be moved to the other side of the junction, next to Hamblins #EBLN

Did you know that Bristol City Council is consulting on making changes to some of the #EBLN trial measures? I'm going to post about each change so that you can have a think if it effects you, and submit a comment if you want. First up, Victoria Avenue.

In local transport, what kills or injures whom? Here's data for Bath and North Somerset from 2019-2023. Unfortunate to see car-pedestrian as the biggest circle. Cycles get a clean sweep. Data from national stats, gratefully compiled by @robintucker1.bsky.social @cyclinguk.bsky.social Oxfordshire

That’s the fighting talk I love to hear 💪

Wow Bristol! #KidicalMass was epic! So wonderful to take the streets back with these kids

🚲 East Bristol Kidical Mass feeder ride – this Saturday! Join families riding along the Wesley Way to Castle Park to call for safer streets for kids. Then we roll on to the Festival of Nature 🌿 All welcome! Route/map: www.justgoride.co.uk/ext/routes/1... Main event: fb.me/e/5McLfV7tr

It’s been a week since the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood six month trial officially began. A long read looking on the range of opinions in the community affected. Please do read: www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

Very good, evidence-based comment piece about low-traffic neighbourhoods - and how opponents often use them as a proxy for problems which are caused instead by too many cars. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Commuting - Bristol Ferry from Netham Lock

Pleased to see at least one of the filters in the #EastBristolLivableNeighbourhood repositioned so it’s no longer blocking dropped curbs. Yes, it should never have been installed incorrectly in the first place, but the benefit of the trial is the flexibility to correct mistakes

Are we still debating LTNs? If so, this very thorough meta-study about LTNs in London by @centreforlondon.bsky.social says they are generally more popular than believed, and that there is strong evidence they work well. So there we are. www.centreforlondon.org/wp-content/u...

My cycle to work today, through low traffic EBLN and the Dings, and then traffic free Castle Park, was idyllic. It might not be Amsterdam, but it’s starting to feel a lot like it 🚲🌳🌷 #EBLN #Bristol

The usual complaint about low traffic neighbourhoods is that they're designed to make posh areas posher by pushing traffic into working class streets. But in Barton Hill, Bristol, where I live, it's that they're picking on a poorer community, creating segregation. It's almost as if they can't win!

Beautiful 🖤EBLN www.linktr.ee/supportebln

The Netham commuter ferry is back for another year ⛴️ www.bristolferry.com/waterbus/net...

Now watching: ‘Boy and Bicycle’, dir. Ridley Scott, 1965, starring Tony Scott (the director of Top Gun!) as a schoolboy who skives off school and spends the day cycling around Hartlepool. 🎥🎬

The more things change, the more they stay the same

Had to try this at Left Handed Giant taproom in Bristol @podstreetsahead.bsky.social @lauralaker.bsky.social @nedboulting.bsky.social

Lots of great examples of delivered schemes in the UK. He makes clear that network level planning means LTNs or whatever you want to call them are ESSENTIAL. You can't deliver everything via bike lanes.

The #EastBristolLiveableNeighbourhood #EBLN has tamed Beaufort Road to the point that we’ve been able to restart our #PlayStreet @playingout.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️