‘Cycleway 1’ Whitmore Road in Hackney. This amount of motor traffic just can’t safely mix with this amount of cycle traffic so it isn’t safe for kids to cycle to school. It is inexplicable the planned Hoxton LTN won’t address this.

Today I had to cross Commercial St with my kids with no pedestrian crossing. Presumably this is impossible for a blind person. Can someone point me to where Vincent Stops and NFBUK have staged a video of the struggle here? Or given any indication they care at all when it’s nothing to do with bikes?

Great and sobering thread.

Thread about yesterday's counter protest. Writing it mostly to collect my thoughts and ideas. I don't have much knowledge about the organizations organizing yesterday, these are just my thoughts. 1. Yesterday we lost. We came out defiant, chanting, but we lost that day.

All avoidable injuries are bad, but context is essential. Alongside this story, it's surely essential to say that there were 133,000 car-related injuries in 2024 in the UK, including 1624 fatalities & 28k "serious" injuries. E-bikes aren't the major problem. Data: www.chas.co.uk/blog/uk-car-...

“The odds of fatal injury increased by 44% for people of all ages struck by an SUV, compared with those hit by a passenger car. Among children the odds of fatal injury increased by 82%, and among children under the age of 10 it increased by 130%.” www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

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Remember the first thing Corbyn said he'd do if elected? End homelessness. Simple choice to make, eminently doable, as proved (short term) during the pandemic and longer term in places like Finland. So grateful the dangerous extremist never got anywhere near power and the grown ups are in charge.

The idea that cyclists are to pedestrians as drivers are to cyclists is nonsense. The relative risk posed by and to each party is worlds apart. In 2022 in the EU, the ratio of deaths in collisions between pedestrians and cyclists was 3.5 to 1. Between cyclists and drivers, it was 165 to 1.

Every word Of Brent's thread 💯

Always express it in these terms - people are blind to road violence. How many deaths should we accept as simply an unavoidable byproduct of our wish to get to work or the shops as fast as car companies and 1970s road design tell us we can?

“What is an acceptable death toll that justifies getting to work two minutes faster?” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

SHOCKING NEWS: Business owner wants to park right out in front all day and is SAD and angry that he can't

The only way is road pricing, and giving away free E-bikes!

FACT: Electric cars will make your city more congested and worse to live in. If policy makers don't prioritise buses, trams and bikes over and above the EV transition, we're sunk.

Whenever I hear Gvt ministers talk about "deregulation" I think of these guys (and Loach's "riff-raff"). Shall we go back to the 70s, when gangmasters could throw up shitty buildings however they liked, and workers routinely fell to their deaths? Or do we try to prevent that through H&S regulation?

Imagine introducing on the market a product that is several times more fatal for children. That wouldn't work in most sectors, but it barely raises an eyebrow in the car market. And soon most cars on European roads will be SUVs.

100% agreed

This is something that the Netherlands has had sown up for decades. Development comes in locations with public and/or access travel links, or they must improve or build new links, or the development doesn't get built. The spatial planning in the UK is pathetic.

There are two types of people, those who plant trees for future generations. And those who leave pollution. The latter shouldn't be allowed anywhere near government or power.

We need politicians to positively reinforce this message. The narrative that "LTNs displace traffic onto boundary roads" has so comprehensively been shown to be untrue, and yet is still the very widely held belief among the general public (assuming they know what an LTN is!)

100%. E-bikes are the miracle pill, and the miracle policy intervention for people, cities and the planet.

Great thread right here. If your goal is vision zero then it's simply inarguable that separating bicycles from vehicles is essential, and doing so does not impose anything like the same risk burden onto pedestrians.

Recently listened to a podcast in which an Israeli journalist was worried about this being a "PR failure" for the Israeli government. Jaw-dropping in its callounsness; these are humans, being intentionally starved by a nation-state.

This had passed me by. Fantastic to see stupid pickup trucks no longer enjoying the tax loophole that had seen them increasing in number dramatically over the past few years

"Pilcher said...nurseries were asking if they could turn away unvaccinated children: “They can’t,... because it is a parental choice at the end of the day, and we have to respect that.” errrr I'm not sure we do have to "respect that" when it's literally putting other babies' lives at risk, do we??

Striking chart in new Economist. Just look at lung cancer's mortality rate rise then fall Corresponds almost exactly with the lobbying efforts by Big Tobacco to undermine efforts to limit their product's deadly impact - followed by when their influence waned. Now need same for fossil fuels

Seriously though, there are literally tens of thousands of car-damaged bits of our public realm out there, and it's cash-strapped local authorities who have to clean up the mess. We all pay for this and insodoing provide a massive subsidy to drivers. Raise motoring taxes!!

Bloody cyclists on the pavement again

These things,THESE THINGS are the future, not your flippin two tonne child-crushing road-smashing space-hogging electric SUV

Can't wait for all the precious little hand-written signs that politely say "GET YOUR CAR OFF MY BIT OF ROAD THIS IS MY BIT OF ROAD YOU BASTARDS"

Bang on. Parking is such an underused control on car use & really affects conditions for buses and cycling. Every Council should have a published kerbside strategy and make clear who they are prioritising to be gifted use of precious kerbside space.

Any serious conversation on this at a national level feels completely absent. Every day Alexander and Reeves waste on this will only make it more painful

Another one for @sarahwoodberrydown.bsky.social and @hackneycouncil.bsky.social as they prepare to bake in another 5 (or is it 10?!) years of Transport Strategy for Hackney. Will it include clear, ambitious targets or empty rhetoric? We're counting on you!🙏

Anyone who's been paying attention knows that (real) e-bikes are transforming mobility across mainland Europe right now thanks to Govt subsidy. In Germany they're shifting millions per year. Why are we so backward and in love with private cars?

IMPORTANT: Study finds electrifying SUVs/pick-ups could actually INCREASE emissions by using up scarce battery material that could otherwise be used to electrify a lot MORE smaller cars (and e-bikes). Via @sciencedirect.bsky.social SUVs are too big. #CarBloat www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Paging @andrewhunterm.bsky.social- who seemed to completely miss the fact that privatising the kerbside was a terrible idea in a recent page94 podcast.

...and this. 👏

We absolutely must avoid forever baking in the storage of massive cars on our streets. Ever wondered why pictures of old streets has them looking so wide? It's cos they're not lined bumper to bumper with 2-ton SUVs. spitalfieldslife.com/wp-content/u...

Abso-fuckingly-lutely not. This will forever lock in car storage on roads and streets and prevent installation of mobility or bus lanes. If you need an electric car; buy a house with a driveway. If you can't afford a house with a driveway, you can't afford an electric car. END. OF. STORY.

"urged to install EV gullies..." By who? The company that makes them?! This reheated press release is crap from @theguardian.com, the kerbside is for everyone and urgently needs rebalancing away from private car storage - not giving away for free to car owners. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The deafening silence of those Times and Telegraph journalists bleating about their longer drives to Argos following the publication of this study forcibly proves this point. There is no credible argument against these life-saving, people first, progressive interventions.

Sadly not even a slight exaggeration.

With X and Grok now actively promoting Nazism and the Holocaust, now is a great time to ask individuals and institutions why they're still supporting that platform.

Beautifully put

Hi @sarahwoodberrydown.bsky.social this is a great tool and would be a great addition for making the case new for the Hackney transport strategy... bsky.app/profile/sfro... Can you do a kerbside strategy and do better than Lambeth?! They're making all the other London boroughs look bad!😉

Read that again. 100 people are still alive. 100 families have not been wrecked by a traumatic and sudden death. And what is the downside? A few drivers may spend a few minutes more in their cars as they navigate around. Compare the two sides of this coin, and tell me you want to get rid of LTNs.

Hi @meghillier.bsky.social if it's a choice between the very real risk of seeing my family crushed by a bus, while believing Vincent Stops in his tireless anti-cycling crusade, or these vital pieces of safety infrastructure, which is it?Please watch the clip. bsky.app/profile/rob0...

"I wish these enemies of beauty nothing but misery"... I agree with Neil. m.youtube.com/watch?v=fiMn...