And if you tolerate this, then your cheese forks will be next

Just going through Worcester on the train. I've always hated the road bridge leading to New Road Nothing says English culture like putting a four lane dual carriageway on Georgian Bridge!

Marjane Satrapi, the French-Iranian graphic novelist, artist and film director whose landmark animated feature Persepolis earned a Cannes Jury Prize and an Oscar nomination and made her one of the most distinctive voices in world cinema, has died. She was 56.

Shout out to man wrapped in a Union Flag throwing a Nazi salute. That's really patriotic.

Yeah…it’s been a minute since I took Torts but I’m going to say this isn’t going to work in the US.

💯“The future of transport should not only be electric. It should be lighter, healthier, more affordable and less car dependent.”

A bit like declaring a Road Safety Emergency and then betraying #MayarYahiaSquare.

“Council calls off climate emergency” is a remarkable headline. A bit like voting to declare the Earth flat. Whether politicians acknowledge a problem and whether that problem continues to exist are, unfortunately, two entirely different things. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I’m proud of Trump for celebrating Pride Month! 🌈🌈🌈

“The most effective approach is to build a network and to build it as quickly as possible. But it’s worth emphasizing bike lanes alone do not make a network. In the Netherlands up to two thirds of the network is in mixed, low-traffic conditions, where the bike is the dominant mode.” bit.ly/4fskIGm

London’s bus network is one of the safest in the world, but we must go further and faster to eliminate all deaths and serious injuries. Our new, world-leading Bus Safety Standard is the next major step toward getting that number down to zero.

So If Nigel Farage did go on Desert Island Discs, he’d choose: 1. Some music that’d remind him of his mum in a short skirt.🤔 2. The contemporary record ‘I’m too sexy for my shirt’ by Right Wing Said Fred because when he stripped off to it he got a good reaction. Erm… Really? 😳

Everyone is rightly laughing at this, but the Post is on to something here in that creating cycling-friendly cities challenges the car culture that drives demand for the resources that the West gives Israel carte blanche to help secure. Making cities car free can be a step toward a free Palestine.

The Bicycle.

A reminder of what Nigel Farage said following the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving police officer.

I'd cry tears of joy if Birmingham achieved the 'Before' image!

Do you guys have that “but the CYCLISTS!!111” thing too? “According to the Insurers' Accident Research), a division of the German Insurance Association, 711 people were seriously injured in Germany in 2022 in accidents involving cyclists and pedestrians,” . . out of a total of 360,000 injuries.

Good morning almost everyone

Now build infrastructure that's safe for us to use bikes on www.gov.uk/government/s...

Now build infrastructure that's safe for us to use bikes on www.gov.uk/government/s...

NEWS: The Grade II listed Coventry Central Baths (1962-66), once described as ‘one of the finest swimming pools in the world’, is to be demolished by Coventry City Council after the Secretary of State, Steve Reed MP, formally approved the bulldozing the building. ➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/secreta...

I'm fairly reluctant for AI to take over very much in the world. But I'm wholly in favour of AI speed cameras on all roads. Is this a thing? Should be fairly cheap I'd have thought? Complete coverage. Should be able to ID driver from reg and send a fine straight away.

"Make eye contact with drivers so you know that they see you."

Oh Birmingham, come on and hurry up 😢

June is World Risk Poll 2026 Month Join me and an awesome panel on 23rd June where we share the latest data drop and analysis. A charity’s mission is for the benefit of the community and these data tell us the daily experience people have of what harms them, Including our changing climate.

The West Midlands is aching for a Mayor to be as outspoken at Sadiq on road safety.

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

For every on street charger option approved a council should also give permission for on street cycle storage.

"Sylvester was simply on his way to work. An ordinary hard-working man. He should have returned home to me safely that day. Because of your actions he never did. You left Sylv to die alone. You did not show him even a shred of compassion or humanity” www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

@richardparkerwm.bsky.social are you able to reiterate your commitment to reducing KSI in WM by 50% by 2030? I think it's impossible for you to achieve this. You must know better though

Horrific and a devastating human tragedy. Why has there not been wider mainstream coverage and debate about this case? Some crimes rightly dominate headlines for weeks. Yet road crimes even of this magnitude do not. Increased awareness can help create safer travel. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just saw a pedestrian nearly get hit on a crossing at the junction of Small Heath Highway and Coventry Road. They look really shook up, I felt it just watching. That anyone thinks we should be increasing the speed limit on these roads has a clear disregard for anyone outside a car.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... @heidialexander.bsky.social please can we stop pretending our roads are anything but unregulated publicly funded race tracks.

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Does anyone know of any local or combined authority in the UK that's done a 'Paris' - plot a big network on paper (guess an LCWIP is the equivalent of Plan Vélo 1) and consult on that, then just get on with delivering incrementally?

Apparently, the West Midlands has a cycle network? I've seen several piecemeal paths and ad-hoc structures, but struggling to find the network open.substack.com/pub/mayorric...

🗓️ 🗪 Did you know we have a public meeting called #6to8? It takes place on the first Monday of every month, between 6pm and 8pm at The Warehouse on Allison Street in Digbeth. There's an open agenda. See you there?

On further reflection what is also striking is that when Blair turns to what is to be done he returns to the same vague centrist policy space of so many others. Which was fine in the 1990s / 2000s years of plenty, but is almost totally outdated given the trade-offs needed in the 2020s.

If you live in Birmingham and are fed up of opening your windows to loud exhausts, add your name to our petition: c.org/YDJHpFXwZf Heatwaves mean we have to open our windows, but we shouldn't have to stay awake listening to idiots using our roads as race tracks

"I was once so desperate to find a distraction that I said my phone had been hacked by the Russians"

I got the AI to do something useful, based on the inferences one could draw from Farage's statements below.

the cargo bike

Self-driving taxis are already on the streets and close to going into service. But are they simply an expensive gimmick? ✏️ Philip Ball

"The World Risk Poll has asked people around the world about the biggest risk to their safety on three occasions. Each time, the answer has been the same: road traffic accidents." Link www.lrfoundation.org.uk/publications...

Schrodinger’s cyclist strikes again

Let's go back to the Birmingham Elections 2026 The only hand went up to support 20mph speed limits The same hand of the party that got the greatest number of votes across Birmingham Let's stop pretending safe roads are a divisive issue. They're not. They're overwhelmingly supported

If I was trying to launch a bus franchise, I'd be pretty annoyed with Rachel Reeves dropping the proposed increase in fuel duty @richardparkerwm.bsky.social Makes no sense. A crisis is the best time to launch an alternative Labour making ridiculously small steps to changing the way we travel

@labouruk.bsky.social haemorrhaging votes to the @greenparty.org.uk and their strategic response is to... wait for it..... Subsidise fossil fuels! Yeah, that'll win them back, Rachel 😆

@birminghamdispatch.bsky.social are getting exceptional value from @labouruk.bsky.social The investigation into the now Leader of Birmingham Labour Party www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/a-shock-lett... And the current Home Secretary www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/exclusive-co...