Green Party London Assembly Member Caroline Russell told the report launch that City Hall and TfL could still be doing more to tackle the "elephant in the room" - traffic congestion. "The urgency to reduce the number of cars in London couldn't be clearer". www.mylondon.news/news/transpo...

In which Wandsworth Tories declare war on pedestrians and cyclists. www.wandsworth.gov.uk/news/news-ju...

Good grief. Wandsworth Council’s plans to “tackle the gridlock” & “get Puntey’s roads mvping again” all involve stealing space & time from pedestrians in a self-defeating effort to increase traffic throughput 🤦‍♂️ Really bleak, horribly misguided stuff

Interesting move from Wandsworth Council. 👀 Maximising green time for vehicles, removing cycle wands and moving a pedestrian crossing is likely to make walking, wheeling and cycling less attractive and unlikely to deter extra car trips or fix the congestion. www.wandsworth.gov.uk/news/news-ju...

This Putney Bridge north side for the past 12+ months. Dozens of near misses everyday courtesy of the Environment Agency and @hfcouncil.bsky.social as people cycling try to turn right across six lanes of moving traffic @peterwalker99.bsky.social @lastnotlost.bsky.social @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social

Ah, the politicians are finally catching up with the experts. It's only taken years. We need to plan for a low traffic future and use our assets for better places, not traffic sewers. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

For those interested in the future of Hammersmith Bridge, I am delighted to say that the Barnes Hammersmith Electric Light Transit community interest company website has launched today! I can’t take too much of the credit but I’m very pleased to be supporting! www.bhelt.org.uk

A Woolwich resident explaining the lack of a reliable #ActiveTravel link.Yet a 2.2bn #SilvertownTunnel & NO access for cyclists. How does this fit in with @london.gov.uk Transport Policies? Both foot tunnels are CRUCIAL cross-river links & we urge TfL to take over management c.org/Z6K5V5jYkb

I’m issuing a high air pollution alert for London on Monday 22 June. Hot, sunny weather and pollution from continental Europe are expected to raise ozone levels. Please help protect yourself and others, especially vulnerable people, by reducing car journeys and avoiding engine idling.

Roads south of London are busy with cyclists. Good luck to everyone cycling today’s London to Brighton 👏

It is extremely important that Labour understands that the movement of voters between Lab and Ref was not the crucial factor, it was consolidation of the anti-Ref vote and Lab voters turning out in droves. Otherwise Burnham will make the same mistakes as Starmer in targeting only one set of voters.

🗺️ Lost Lanes South, the best-selling cycling guidebook, is free with every LCC Gift Membership this father's day! 👨‍💻 Head our website to order yours: lcc.org.uk/gift-members...

Emergency hospital admissions fell after introduction of London’s T-charge and Ulez, study suggests

This is a worthy cause - support @saveoursaferstreets.org if you can. They’ve £8500 to go to their full target. #LowTrafficNeighbourhoods

I stopped this morning to pay my respects at the ghost bike that’s now been set up to mark where a truck killed a woman in her 20s on April 29 at the Oval. It’s such a tragedy when people pay with their lives for deciding to cycle to work.

Has @carintobuilding.bsky.social included this one? "Passengers stunned after car smashes through wall at Streatham [railway] station" #CarIntoBuilding #CarIntoBuildingUK www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

The @cityoflondon is planning to transform Fleet Street. One of their options includes widening the pavement by up to 2m, more seating, planting trees & gardens and restricting eastbound through traffic (except buses, cycles & taxis). Have your say: cityoflondon.gov.uk/services/str...

Tooting desperately lacks shade and shelter. Neither TfL nor Wandsworth Council have addressed this, so far. #HealthyStreets #ClimateChange #LiveableCities

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... River Wandle and waste water pollution - BBC News

If you have not responded yet, please do it now!! The consultation aims to draw out people's experience of using Bank junction - information which cannot be simply derived from traffic movement surveys. Your views and number of responses have an effect! Just one week to go! bank-taxi.commonplace.is

Beautiful #cycle ride thru woods yesterday in #NL, all sealed paths, accessible for all unlike the #UK where ‘environmentalists’ object to such surfaces. And not one barrier @appgcw.bsky.social need to take Parkiamentarians to rural NL not just cities. @lauralaker.bsky.social

There's so much unused public land around Wandsworth. Imagine if we could use it to grow free, healthy food for our communities, instead of paying for it to do nothing! 🍅🥬 I've backed the call for a Right to Grow in Wandsworth. Add your name if you agree: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/su...

🗳️ Now that the dust has almost started to settle on last weeks dramatic local elections, we gave our campaigns team the unenviable job of making sense of it all for cycling... Check out the full blog on our website:

🗳️1/3🧵For the first time since 1964, Wandsworth Council has no overall control. Conservatives 29 seats, Labour 28, with independent Malcolm Grimston now holding the balance of power. Despite losing control, Labour still won the largest borough-wide vote share. Analysis 👇 www.cjag.org/2026/05/12/w...

The Supreme Court has granted Tower Hamlets Council permission to appeal the ruling that removing Bethnal Green's LTNs was unlawful. We are disappointed, but undeterred. We won at the Court of Appeal and we'll fight this too, but we need your support. www.crowdjustice.com/case/defendi...

Just been appointed chair of Transport Committee! I’ve been a transport campaigner since the early 1990s and have spent ten years on the Assembly scrutinising the Mayor’s transport policies. This role feels like a natural continuation of work I care so much about and I’m excited to get started 💚

Most the chat has been on the impact of last Thursday's results on national govt, but they do also (obviously!) really matter locally - this is a great explainer on how the results are likely to impact cycle/active travel policy across London - youtu.be/zzrFrsiR3Fg?...

This is the best cycling advert ever, especially because I’m in it. It beautifully shows that cycling is for everyone, no matter who you are or where you come from. Bikes bring people together and remind us that cycling is one of the best ways to improve our health and wellbeing.

🤔 In need of a refresher on safe road cycling? 🎬 Check out the latest video from cycle instructor The Eager Cyclist, on just what you need to remember when our riding in traffic...

He could have had a veto over every Wandsworth Council decision. He understood it in full. Chose not to take it. Why: https://putney.news/2026/05/09/the-man-wandsworth-cant-ignore-any-more/ #Wandsworth #UKNews #London

Zack Polanski, "The Labour party are not a left wing party" "Keir Starmer echoed the words of Enoch Powell" "We've seen in Shabana Mahmood anti-migrant rhetoric" "I think a left wing government would look at how much communities are suffering right now and would work to end rip off Britain"

Unless we change the voting system, we will see this at the next general election as well. With votes split across five or more parties, power can be won on as little as 25% of the vote. This needs to be a wake-up call.

This man used to lead Kingston Council ahahahahhahaha

On a personal note, very pleased to see @zoegarbett.bsky.social elected mayor of Hackney. In a tiny way, that's payback for me giving a professional view on the horrorshow that is Pembury Circus and where the Labour group were quite dismissive of what I said.

My local council gives a good example of how multimember plurality can mean that the largest party by votes is not the largest party by seats.

Here's my piece about Grimston, now holding balance of power in Wandsworth, from 2022: www.onlondon.co.uk/borough-elec...

No one expected Keir Starmer to solve our pressing problems overnight. But what we did expect – and had every right to expect – was that he would lay out a clear vision and roadmap for doing so. Instead, we’ve had drift, appeasement and a startling absence of ideas, values and ambition. 🧵1/6

Wandsworth now NOC; 29 Tories, 28 Labour and 1 independent who I guess holds the balance of power. At least on sustainable mobility, Labour squandered it's mandate. #London

I fear Labour people risk falling into an ecological fallacy visible from space when reacting to these results. Here is what is very clear in results so far: Labour are losing *seats* to Reform, but... Labour are losing *votes* to the Greens Greens split the vote, Ref comes thru middle

Westminster back with the Tories. That's sustainable transport screwed again. #London

🔔 Wandsworth Council May 2026 Local Election FULL RESULT:

🗳️ Still yet to head out and cast your vote? 🤔 If you want to see just which candidates standing in your borough have committed to cycle network expansion, visit our pledges page: buff.ly/4eA0MO9

My thoughts on the best and worst performing councils since the last local elections in 2022 safecycleldn.com/2026/05/07/l... #healthystreets #cycling #localelections

Exactly 10 years ago today on May 6 2016, the East–West and North–South Cycle Superhighways opened, creating a safe route across the heart of the city

🚲 Streets for Cycling Pledge 🚲 Name: Andrew Macmillan Party: Wandle Independent Group @wandleward.bsky.social Pledge: "if elected, I will support the development of a safer cycling network in our neighbourhood of Wandle Ward” Read all pledges: lcc.org.uk/candidate-st...

The Greens' Wandsworth manifesto held up better than the Conservatives' or Labour's. 24 claims tested. 11 accurate. One misleading. None false. The strongest financial claim in any of the three manifestos is on page 13: #Wandsworth #Election2026 #UKpolitics

#Croydon's #Conservative Mayor Jason Perry has tweeted out a video celebrating this decision to remove wand-protected cycle lanes in the borough, ahead of his candidacy to be re-elected on 7 May. If you or your loved ones are KSI'd on a bicycle in Croydon, remember who is in part liable.

Cycleways help the police get to their destination quicker

🥁 Local election week has arrived, and if you haven’t already, you don’t have long to email our council leadership candidates, to call on them to pledge to support cycle network expansion, if elected… 📨 Send an email via: lcc.org.uk/streets