🔐 From more funding for secure parking, to greater awareness around the need for bike marking, the solutions to combat cycle theft are there... The problem is political will - sign our petition and show you want action: bit.ly/4bRyUXr

What is Emmanuel Grégoire, the new Paris mayor, planning for the city over his new term in office? —60,000 new social housing units —15 express bus routes —Completion of city's full bike network —Transformation of ring highway into a boulevard —1000 new pedestrian streets —300 new hectares of parks

If you want seamless bike-to-train travel to actually work, start with the basics: put ample bike parking right next to the platform. Convenience isn’t a bonus - it’s the whole point.

The Bourne Identity (2002) / The Hidalgo Legacy (2026)

Right in the heart of the city what would be car parking in the UK is instead space for bike parking, greenery, and outdoor dining. When you make city centres safe and welcoming with cycle routes in every direction, you don't need endless car parks. Cities thrive when places are built for people.

One of the Netherlands best daily spectacles is the school run: every weekday at around 08:00, streets in cities, towns, villages, as well as in the countryside, fill up with children cycling to school. Made possible by safe, seamless bike infrastructure and plentiful school bike parking.

If you hate the school drop-off line, then advocate to change the line itself.

Another relevant one from @tomflood.bsky.social

prevention.

Very useful site visit today to the cycling hellhole of Finsbury Park and the invisible C50. Thanks to @catherinewestmp.bsky.social and @joannemccartney.bsky.social for their support and insights. @hackneycycling.org.uk @haringeycyclists.bsky.social @londoncycling.bsky.social @willnorman.co.uk

Ever been riding with someone new to biking or from out of town and you feel it's your personal responsibility to protect them and keep them safe the entire ride? Would be really great if our cities felt like this.

Cities spend millions on plastic flex posts that get flattened in a week. Meanwhile, the cheapest, most effective design tool is a boulder. They protect people, enforce behavior, and actually survive doing their job.

So good that the Mayor’s Vision Zero Action Plan 2 is finally out – with strong recommendations on culture shift and reducing danger. What matters now is delivery. I’ll keep pushing at City Hall to make sure TfL gets on with urgency making London’s streets safer for everyone. 🧵[1/7]

I’m particularly pleased to see that many of the recommendations in my report, ‘Changing the Narrative – Ending the Acceptance of Road Death in London’, have been taken on board. You can find my report here 👉 www.london.gov.uk/caroline-rus... 🧵[4/7]

Reddit latest: someone has asked if this is a good place to live.

I know they don't post here much, but I'll be speaking at the @appgcw.bsky.social late on Monday afternoon on the subject of #FloatingBusStops Some might find a couple of my slides controversial 😬 I'll publish them on @cityinfinity.bsky.social next week.

It’s enormously concerning that, at the very moment when we need to be driving forward with deep decarbonisation and mobilising all our productive forces to deliver heavy investment in global warming adaptation, most British politicians are losing their nerve.

💫 See how we're working to get secure, suitable #cargobike storage and parking into council manifestos. 😀 We believe all families should have access to a cargo bike - it's one of our #localelection asks. What else is in our #streetsforkids campaign? 👉 www.solvetheschoolrun.org/streetsforkids

Come celebrate Spring Equinox with Haringey Cycling Campaign with a roll around Tottenham Marshes on Saturday 21 March with a ride for all the family ⏰ Time: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm 📍+ 🏁 Start + Finish: Stonebridge Lock Waterside Cafe N17 0XD Register here and come along lcc.org.uk/events/sat-2...

Don’t consider myself an advocate, urbanist, activist or part of some fringe group. Just a dad that was tired of their kids losing their childhood independence at the hands of a toxic and normalized car culture Quite sad that wanting kids to walk/bike/roll safely to school is considered radical.

"Car traffic is the problem, not... bikes". Our @psimonk.bsky.social in @transportxtra.bsky.social on the fake 'buses v cycling' culture war. www.transportxtra.com/publications... Many bus industry folks blame cycling, incl cycle tracks & LTNs for falling bus speeds. Piece left out (due to space)...

Enough. Flashback to our billboard we did with the good people at @visionzerovancouver.ca this past Fall. Was incredible to see these messages out in the world.

Traffic levels are rising & most London motor vehicle journeys could be done relatively easily other ways (says TfL analysis). So to bus industry, lobbyists & peers in the Lords, we say: the common issue is motor traffic levels & failing to dealing with that impacts buses and walking and cycling.

I love the way expensive new roads are celebrated, even if in business case terms, they only shave a few seconds of journeys. But when it is a modest scheme to help to get buses moving, that same argument is deployed against. Sorry Bub, it's not your road outside. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

London's bus stops haven't been re-designed for over 20yrs. We're rolling out some new designs with features including: 🪑seating for people to stop & rest 💡improved lighting helping safety concerns ➡️signage to help wayfinding

London needs a safe, connected cycle network! Great to see tri-borough momentum: Haringey, Islington and Hackney cabinet leads + LCC members visited the incomplete C50 route which ends dangerously at Finsbury Park bridge. Hi @willnorman.co.uk + @sebdance.bsky.social how soon can you start here?

🚨 Following cycle theft, 15% of people stop cycling altogether – thousands of Londoners robbed of the chance to ride into work, or to school with their children. 🚲 If London is to become a world class cycling city, theft must be taken seriously – sign our petition to demand action: bit.ly/4bRyUXr

Ladies and gents, this week we’ve had our very sinkhole in our neighbourhood. Peering into it from a distance became the ultimate half term activity. This is a sinkhole with a story. I live in an area of Bounds Green, and the sinkhole is on Whittington Road. It appeared … 1/10

Here’s what I’ve learnt about cycling in a city with an 8 year old. For a start, many kids prefer to cycle than other ways of travelling. It gives them freedom and autonomy. And yes, even in the rain. Recently my daughter was offered a lift when it was hammering … 1/10

Out in Finsbury Park today with our neighbours @islington-council.bsky.social @rowchampion.bsky.social and Haringey Council’s Cllr Ibrahim Ali and @londoncycling.bsky.social looking at how to work with Transport for London to extend Cycleway C50 so we can ride safely through all of our boroughs.

With thanks to all who discussed the dismal lack of progress on C50 @haringeycyclists.bsky.social @hackneylcc.bsky.social @londoncycling.bsky.social Calling @willnorman.co.uk @london.gov.uk - this was announced in 2018, would be super to complete by 2028 ? youtu.be/pYHVj9JRzGY

This LTN opportunism is widespread. In Hackney I was very disappointed to see this Green leaflet which plays up opposition to a new LTN. Really @zoegarbett.bsky.social? Not quite openly anti but a lot of people noticed how negative & equivocal this is. I thought you were promising to go further?

Camera enforcement with exemptions is a politically tempting but ultimately very bad idea! I cover this extensively in my 2024 lecture to the Transport Planning Society here bsky.app/profile/cris...

⛅ With the weather threatening to start improving, it might soon be time to get the kids bikes out again... With that in mind, here's a good refresher from The Eager Cyclist, on how to cycle safely with them 👉 youtu.be/lU0i8KIAFJg?...

🤔 Looking to make half term plans? LCC local groups across the capital are putting on rides and events, suitable for all the family 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 See what's going on near you:

📣 NEWS: LCC report into cycle theft show’s lack of action by Mayor, TfL, and Met, is resulting in 40,000 bikes stolen in London every year… BUT… our report also sets out recommendations on how to bring that number 📉 ✍️ Read the report and sign our petition: bit.ly/3Onz7I5

We had our first HCC in-person meet up of the year, last week, and we recognised everyone’s tireless work for change. Now the big question: how to get these cycle infrastructure plans – currently “sitting in a drawer in the town hall” – out onto people’s desks, and built on our streets?

And my piece is here. I was limited to 500 words so it won’t take you long to race through … 5/5 www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/2581323...

He goes on: “My understanding is that there are designs for this but that they’re sitting in a drawer in town hall”. Hmmm. It’s about time someone whipped those designs out and got building isn’t it! Jump to 5 mins in for the Haringey bit … 4/5 youtu.be/igvYHUiv5mE

One of our members, Carla Francome, has written about @mikehakata.bsky.social's departure in the Ham and High - one line of his resignation letter has piqued our interest. And it’s all about the future plans.

So, @mikehakata.bsky.social’s departure from Haringey has been rather like a spider monkey - it’s had a long tail. I’ve got an opinion piece about it in the Ham and High this week. I got a joke in, of course, which there’s a screenshot of if you’re feeling too lazy to click through to … 1/5

Interesting indeed 🧐 "Haringey recently got cash from TFL to develop its own cycle lanes on its bit of Green Lanes”.

Low Traffic Neighborhoods! Low Traffic Neighborhoods! All in one mega blog post is a huge resource containing the most popular films, photos, diagrams & links on LTN's. Bookmark. Share. Link to it. Host a screening. Advocate. @talyaschwartz.bsky.social @solomonge.bsky.social @openplans.org

#LTNsAreGoodActually 💫

Another study on why design >>> rules.

The cycling community will not be painted as thugs mowing down vulnerable pedestrians-we actually look like this ⬇️. We just want safer streets for ALL, cleaner air & the freedom to ride without fear! That said, the consultation closes tomorrow & many will have been misinformed:

😲😲😲 The extraordinary lengths the campaign against the Bayswater Road consultation has gone to, is just mind boggling 🤯 🤯 🤯. Among those fiercely opposed is ex MP Felicity Buchan, who posted this on FB. The content is bonkers - we dare you to take a look 👀 ⬇️ More…

Well now, this looks interesting @londoncycling.bsky.social @cyclinguk.bsky.social @ibikelondon.bsky.social @kidicalmasslond.bsky.social @carlafrancome.bsky.social @centreforlondon.bsky.social @carolinerussell.bsky.social