Can you help on 26th April? Sign up NOW to HELP forms.gle/MLqGjfv1UbqB... North Tyneside Kidical Mass..... it's back, before they set the routes need to get an idea of what help will be available. There's cake in it for you. (either marshalling on the day or helping distribute fliers and posters)

Coastal Kidical is back in case anyone missed it www.facebook.com/share/1ArnsJ...

Reminded today of the demo last year where we showed what a tiny minority the haters are in our city.

After some reminders on LinkedIn I’ve realised that it’s 10 years ago today since I last had a proper job. Self Employment all the way for the last decade. Thanks to all who helped in the early days. Never say never but no plans to change anything 🤞🏻.

Kerb nerds & local history in one post you say?

Some great news on investment for Sand Park on Marden Estate, with funding for a new accessible roundabout approved. 🎉🎉👏🏻👏🏻🎊 Here’s Julie to chat you through what’s on its way & some of the other things we’re doing locally. Got some ideas on how to improve your area? Let us know & we’ll do our best.

In this instance something happened to the driver. But in a photo nothing shows up more despite all our campaigning this section of Preston Road is a mess. The 1960s fencing (safety hazard), the yellow paint, excess speeds. The kids in the background deserve better, they’ve told us they want better

The driving ban of my grandad & namesake Tom, discovered accidentally via internet search, he was 23 it was 1939, this wasn’t mentioned to his future family. The penalty equates to about the same as someone would get today, posted without judgement or excuse.

Definitely best escooter docking solution I’ve seen in a while #Newcastle

Fletcher just quietly telling the truth about what’s going on with roadworks.

Funny the way that these retired men all come out of the woodwork to chuck rocks when a woman makes it to the top of the civil service. Shocked I am, shocked. I hear she’s excellent BTW.

Loving the the news today, Happy Birthday 🎉🫆🫆🫆🫆🫆

Over the years have heard horrible tales of traffic collisions particularly from our neighbours up the coast between Cullercoats and Whitley Bay. Can't guarantee that this is over but based on last year we are off to a great start.

This is big 👇🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

New corporate merch

My obsessive approach to perfect winter paths is let loose in Council this week, described as “Magnificent” by an opponent from across the room which is the best of all complements 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Brings back some great memories winter in NYC, the bin wagon snow ploughs storming up the avenues

No drama, no chasing headlines, and not forgetting that this is a place where the community wants children to be looked after as well as the concerns of adults.

There’s been a lot of talk the last few days, together with some sloppy journalism, about “Parking in Tynemouth” Our priorities: • Stop Dangerous Parking near our schools • Put people first in our village centre • Efficient & rational management of our streets, be it trees, parking, speeds, anything

Watched this just now, one shot through windscreen, two shots fired through the passenger window straight into this poor woman. Just don’t know what to say really, imagine a paramilitary force showing up in your town & gunning someone down like this?

Tynemouth on the front page of the new National Road Safety Strategy! Do you recognise any of the people pictured? Still reading through but there’s some great stuff in there including better guidance on reducing traffic speed & a Safe Systems Approach. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 www.gov.uk/government/p...

Smug now….

Enjoy the snow, #tynemouth. Some info below on council gritting & also what you can do yourself. It will freeze overnight, we hold a very small stock of grit ourselves locally so if in the morning you spot somewhere especially hazardous ❄️🧊⚠️ please message us & will see if we can help.

Christmas has officially started, baking on one side of kitchen, home brewed stout on the other

If someone offered you a silver bullet that would drop the traffic speed outside your house by 5mph, would you fire🔥it?

This 👇🏼

So, is your elected representative a psychopath? www.forkingpaths.co/p/how-many-p...

Feeling quite sorry for those who’ve spent their time & money going to Liverpool this week. Contrasts with the military precision with which my local branch of the Labour Party have been arranging our Xmas Party, which isn’t in a brewery this time but maybe we’ll do that next year?

Finished building up my Ice Bike for this year, so you’ve me to thank for ensuing mini heatwave

Fantastic!

It’s a stark warning to all Gen X dads out there, never, ever, get caught in the same nightclub as your Gen Z kids.

Following worrying reports of a rise in Race based Hate Crime in the Northumbria Police area we have obtained the data for North Tyneside. Thankfully following an alarming rise in offences Summer 2024, levels have come back down. tynemouth.news/index.php/20...

Nigel Never Knew Nathan, Russians, you say?” (A Cautionary Tale of Selective Memory) Old Nigel stood puffed by the Channel’s blue air, With a pint and a grin and a well-practised stare. “Now don’t point your fingers, don’t make such a fuss— I barely recall who this Nathan chap was!”

The long walk & ride home.

Tom is at Labour Conference today, so of course is taking a swim with @sascampaigns.bsky.social Against Sewage, great to chat to other coastal Cllrs & MPs about this vital issue 👏🏼👏🏼🏊‍♂️🏄‍♀️🌊

Great to see #Tynemouth residents today at Monument, out saying loud & clear that Newcastle & the North East stand united against extremism & racism.

This article from a UK Councillor on how he is engaging with school children about road safety around their schools makes for a valuable and practical engagement guide: bsky.app/profile/tyne... @tynetom.bsky.social

RIP 🎶🎶Ron Carrol #legend youtu.be/29tjEX-5Pcs?...

Me in Local Transport Today talking about engaging secondary schools 👇🏼

This is Britain? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Nigel Farage and the UK Reform Party? Really UK? REALLY? Seriously, what the hell? Have you learned nothing from the United States dumpster fire incompetent Nazi corrupt clown show? Or even just from your own Brexit disaster? You really want to look at ALL that and say “we can do even worse?

First article written with my “Councillor Tom” hat on, for @transportxtra.bsky.social . Maybe I’m being unfair in calling the DfT’s pace of regulatory change ‘Glacial’ 😉 www.transportxtra.com/publications...

Bumped into Sheila & @revchips.bsky.social out for a jaunt Saturday & then there they are on Look North this morning!

Sevilla / Seville : walkable dense city centre which comes alive at night this time of year ☀️🥵. Blends old & new with street details that just beg to be copied back home.

We think the #TynemouthTenner is definitely the way to go. www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/he...

A newspaper article about a small residential development in Jesmond. The comments 🤦🏼‍♂️😱 mostly from a small group of reform activists. www.facebook.com/share/p/1Hja...

So there’s a Reform Cllr elected & a 5g mast on fire in Whitley Bay? Some sort of celebration?

For tonight only we’ve joined the @cyclehoop.bsky.social #discobike collective - York