Please fill in this consultation to make a pretty dreadful roundabout in Buxton a bit more favourable to active travel!

In my work on side road junction designs, we came up with a model which can be simply measured. If rules H2/170 are a good thing (they are) what are the conditions we need to create where drivers are "likely" to give way to pedestrians?

Just to complicate things further, the rise of WFH has had a huge impact on our travel patterns. If you think congestion is bad now, just imagine it with nobody working from home.

Are we back?!

The Winter #Olympics continue! ⛷️ 🏂 Celebrate gaming history by revisiting 1985’s "Winter Games" from our classic software collection ❄️ 💾 #SoftwarePreservation is how we go for the Gold! 🥇 🕹️ Play it on your favorite vintage platform ⤵️ archive.org/search?query... #8bit

First of 3 new bridges getting added to our cycle infra this year finally opened its eastern ramp bsky.app/profile/kevj... (First and last primarily leisure upgrades, middle filling a much needed gap in the core network).

One week left to have your say on what is shaping up to be an excellent scheme for walking, wheeling and cycling from Salford Crescent to Media City 👇 🧵

Eugh. (Reni is from Gorton, incidentally.)

One of the fundamental problems with Stockport politics is that both residents and councillors believe that the median voter is a car.

1,800 followers! To celebrate, I'd love to hear the good news for active travel near you.

They're arguing about chicanes that were installed SEVENTEEN YEARS AGO.

@steveessex.bsky.social Hi Steve. Do you have access to your DMs here? I have a question for you.

A depressing number of responses are essentially 'We never had any in the first place'.

Now into the fourth week of incomplete data - the longest ever break for Oxford Road. I'll be contacting TfGM again today. I'd be grateful if others did too.

It would be good for GM Mayor Andy Burnham to challenge Jim Ratcliffe's false numbers and ugly language

Something tells me that the Old Trafford mayoral development corporation won't be happening.

Frustrating to see this from some of my favourite market traders. Do they really think that folk who are currently happy to pay upwards of £20 for a bottle of wine or £12 for a whole soft cheese are going to suddenly head off to Tesco cos the parking is free? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A quick Bluesky survey for UK folk. Is your local authority still creating Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs)?

I know 'leave your work vans at work' doesn't solve the problem when so much work nowadays is 'self-employed' man in van, but it would at least be a start to solving our parking problems.

🧵 Ace thread by Ranty. Free parking is like homeopathy for ailing town centres. Despite all the evidence many think it will work.

I hate this this is the past tense for me. Covid ended a lot of my in-house work, and living in Marple makes it an impractical everyday distance even if there were a viable route – which there is not. Hoping that things change soon.

Google is forcing 2FA on its Workspace accounts. I don't want to give Google my phone number. And my phone is apparently too old for the authenticator app or a passkey. What can I do?

A blackbird told me it was February (sound up for some much needed birdsong dopamine-these are my very favourite birdy notes):

I can only talk anecdotally, but having a a commute that could be walked or cycled made a huge difference to my physical and mental health. Local authorities *must* involve their public health teams when making transport decisions.

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Better places simply cannot be delivered without LTNs. The are key to network planning and their use unlocks so much. Apart from some notable exceptions, much of the UK simply has not critically reviewed its network function which means we are tinkering with a broken system.

Never go full Dorries defending your PM. It never ends well.

New consultation! Mersey Square in Stockport town centre is up for a revamp. New cycling facilities and improved public realm. Deadline 25 February. consultation.stockport.gov.uk/highways-and...

How does this ensure GM meets NO2 requirements in the fastest way possible? Only a third of taxis so far approved to be upgraded will be zero-emission. These petrol/diesel taxis will be on the road for years to come. GM's leaders are failing to protect children’s lungs. @andyburnham.bsky.social

I'm looking at how local media covers cycling (bike lanes/infra/proposals etc). I've got a few to start, and I'll do deeper dives, but I'd be grateful if you could flag links to local media articles (+ve/-ve, op-ed) covering cycling schemes that have caught your attention. Anywhere. #bikesky

NEW FOR 2026... We're going to start running online Skill Share events on a range of different topics, starting with a general intro to Walk Ride GM (and active travel campaigning) featuring our very own @harryhamishgray.bsky.social. 🎟️ Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/walkr...

It's fascinating that medics are making the effort to switch to anaesthetics with less greenhouse effect while people are driving alone in SUVs

New Swingometer! With nominations now closed, and a few surprises in candidate selection, here's my first update on the Gorton & Denton by election. Also featuring a polling spat, dodgy bar charts, and Jason Momoa swingometer.substack.com/p/gorton-and...

Some good news: the southbound counter *is* working. Now to find out why the data isn't being uploaded. (Also spotted at least one cyclist leaving the MRI site south of the counter, which is one reason why it has a lower count than northbound.)

Reminder that "jaywalking" was literally made up by american car manufacturers to shift the blame for accidents from drivers to pedestrians. "Jay" was a slang term meaning "idiot" or "rube".

Squeaky bum time for the Labour candidate.

I remain convinced that Imbolc is the name of an eldar craftworld.

Ok, let’s do this🙄 We’ll start with an explainer covering: 🕒What is a 15-minute city 🏫What on Earth is going on with Oxford 👽Where the conspiracy theories have come from And then we’ll look at the Telegraph article 🧵 1/25

The MEN certainly knows its audience.

Currently missing southbound data for most of the last two weeks, but I'll do what I can to produce a monthly summary.

Inflammatory nonsense from the MEN in one of its latest 'premium' articles.

The quality of Gorton and Denton discourse has reached 'Who would be an MP?' levels.

This is a bold choice of leaflet headline when Stockport is pushing for two major new roads through its green belt.

The MEN using a picture of Angeliki Stogia sat on the temp infra on Deansgate is certainly a choice.

"Fun" fact: a few years ago i wrote an article explaining the 15 minute city concept (a fairly benign Urban design method that has been around in other forms for donkeys). Someone writing to my Dean imploring them to sack me, and we got offered campus security for a week. And who are the nutters?

Sharon Davies was a lost cause years ago. She’s obsessed with being trapped in Bath.

Why we can't have nice things. A handful of conspiracy theorists (some of whom are in the Lords) scare people into thinking that a basic town planning intervention is somehow taking away their freedoms. And the noise generated by this minority frightens off politicians.

Does anyone know the annual cost of maintaining and running the MIDAS network on the UK motorways?

Is this an accurate map of Norwich?

Is this the first recorded instance of a Salfordian describing themselves as Mancunian?