At Dad’s so listening to the Jeremy Vine phone in on Radio 2. They’re debating flags. Nicola from Nottingham has just been on; she has house sized union and St George flags which they fly for international sports matches, VE Day etc. She’s not going to fly it any more…

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 ❤️❤️❤️

Bristol Cycling Campaign did a poll recently that asked what colour bike infrastructure should be to clearly delineate it from road space or general pavement. The main suggestions are: GREEN RED YELLOW (buff) BLUE Which is your personal preference and why?

Appreciating the colours of winter, all the more beautiful for their scarcity. #Bristol

Pearl Jam guitar tech Jeff Ousley pilots frontman Eddie Vedder on a beer run before one of their shows. #BicycleBirthday Eddie Vedder #BornOnThisDay December 23, 1964

This episode of Streets Ahead, covering the judicial review of the decision to remove Tower Hamlets LTNs, has a lot of interesting parallels with the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood. Definitely worth a listen; podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

Hey everyone - @wheelsforwellbeing.bsky.social is now here! An important follow for disability cycling and mobility

More East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood supporter posters have arrived! Pick up from Bike Bristol at 282 Church Road, or DM for delivery to your door

I‘m attending today’s full council meeting, which will include a debate on the East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood. You can watch it here; www.youtube.com/live/jTbSPFs...

Winter wellbeing walk up to Troopers Hill. At one point I absentmindedly stopped to stroke some moss, and got an odd look from a dog walker.

BREAKING NEWS: There will be a debate about the EBLN at Full Council meeting at 2pm on Tuesday 10th December. If you would like to support the EBLN, please submit a short statement by 12 noon Friday 6th December! www.bristol.gov.uk/publicforum

Hi @active-ata.bsky.social I'm on the lookout for a complete list of all LTNs installed since 2020, with current status (planned, trial, made permanent, removed). Do you or your followers know of such a thing?

Edinburgh Council recently published the 6-month monitoring report on the #Leith Low Traffic Neighbourhood #LTN It found: ⬇️ 76.6% avg traffic reduction on new no-through roads ⬇️ 22.9% avg reduction on other roads within the scheme ⬇️ 17.3% reduction on the boundary road monitored 🧵 1/9

The trees have arrived at the Red Flower Barrow on Church Road #Bristol #Christmas

I’m in the process of updating the supporter’s #EBLN FAQs - docs.google.com/document/d/1... Anything you think would be worth adding? @robbryher.bsky.social @caralavan.bsky.social

On average five people die every day on the road in the UK and 80 are seriously injured. 1,695 people were killed on our roads in 2023. In GB in 2023 there were 405 pedestrian deaths and 6,067 serious injuries Source: Brake’s analysis of GB & NI statistics