Driving is a privilege, earned through assessment and retained via acceptable standards. Why should such people ever be allowed to lawfully drive again and share the road with victims? We would never return a firearms licence to someone who unlawfully used a gun to kill. Why is driving different?

Nice to see hire bike parking outside Tufnell Park Playing fields, but bat needs to be much bigger !

Cycle racks wrapped for Christmas but which year? Huntley Street outside UCLH Grafton Street wing

“We can continue to provide tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires or indeed subsidise jet fuel and aviation for millions of pounds. “Or we can put money into our local communities and into young people." www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/politic...

When we said NATO wasn't working we were derided. When we said a nuclear weapons system relying on the US is dangerous we were called stupid. The truth is the establishment are more interested in kissing US feet than keeping the UK safe. It's time for a rethink.

Wish we could cycle up to the Holloway Road recycling centre - but no. Car needed. Even to drop off a broken small electrical device. - daft or what

There are going to be limits to what you can make other countries do by threatening to tax your own citizen's purchases of their products. I believe handing over entire territories falls well beyond those limits. 🤷‍♂️

End of a Zipcar era, thanks to Avis pulling out. 550,000 members in London - the presence of a car club for occasional use underpinning exceptionally low levels of car ownership - just 30% in some inner boroughs. Will this mean more private cars, parking and congestion? TfL what’s the plan?

And London's safer speeds will always be 24/7. 46% of road fatalities between 2017-25 happened in the dark. People travelling and working at night have exactly the same right to safe journeys as everyone else.

More of London's roads will have safer speed limits because there's irrefutable evidence it save lives: 📉 25% fewer main road collisions 📉 34% fewer people killed or serious injured on local roads 📉75% fall in children killed on local roads @itvnews.bsky.social itv.com/news/london/...

Views of the works area for the upcoming C3-C6 cycling link (from the newly opened Bazalgette Embankment.) Hopefully will be open in early February. @edmondchuihw.bsky.social

A driver doing 50mph in a 20mph limit killed 27 year old Harry Webb two years ago in Kenworthy Rd in Hackney. Communities rightly remember people killed on roads, treated as race tracks, by people speeding through. We all need to be clear that speeding is harmful and a risk never worth taking.

One man's homemade map of safe cycling routes in London has racked up more than one million views online road.cc/content/news...

New cycle hangers in Camden - England's Lane & Eton Road. @camdencyclists.bsky.social

Hats off to whoever did this (and the beautiful model).

3. Poor risk perception People misjudge how risky different transport options are. eg: A person avoids cycling because it feels dangerous. They overestimate the risk of cycling They underestimate the risks of driving Even if stats show cycling on protected lanes is relatively safe, fear > facts.

Thousands left without water in the middle of winter in the UK. And those same people are now facing a massive bill hike. Privatised water is a scam. I've written to the Prime Minister asking why he won't end this rip off and bring failing South East Water into public hands.

I think the lesson we have all learned is that the government puts Israeli PR above the health and safety of UK citizens and the police.

via Allan Sharpe

28 vehicles stopped. - 17 vehicles had offences identified - 60%. Damn near 2 in 3. - 3 drivers arrested - 11%. Over 1 in 10. Meanwhile ... - 11 vehicles found to be all in order. 39%. *JUST* 1 in 3. And that was only the "commercial vehicles" that TVP stopped. But e-bikes ... 😜.

"Wes Streeting tells West Midlands police chief to quit today" > #Israel Lobby is desperate to defend football hooligans from Tel Aviv, and attack a Police Commissioner who made a perfectly reasonable decision to ban hoolies to prevent anticipated violence. #CraigGuildford should NOT resign

Not long until our yearly social / fundraising céilidh! www.tickettailor.com/events/hackn... Dinner and dancing, perfect to chase away the January blues.

To improve road safety, Utrecht will lower the speed limit from 50 to 30 km/h on approximately 240 streets where cyclists and motorists share the road. This will be done overnight later this year, so that the change takes effect simultaneously on all streets. www.duic.nl/algemeen/alg...

Today's the deadline for primary school applications in England. We hope you've not found it too difficult to choose a school, and that you were able to factor in #ActiveTravel in your final choice. The #SchoolRun amounts to 2,700+ journeys over 7 years! #AirPollution

👏Big shout-out to our brilliant Women's Network volunteers for spotlighting the safest of the proposed alternative routes in @citywestminster.bsky.social that don't feature the socially unsafe Regent's canal... Check out the full thread for all the details... 👇

The ability to create sexual images still exists in locations where it's legal. Surely all you'd need is a VPN and the knowledge of a country where it's not blocked to continue? And this just says to generate images - can images still show up in feeds and replies? Not good enough X, try again.

Things you can do and get bail: kill a man while driving without a license. Things you can do and be denied bail: spray paint on a fighter jet to raise awareness of an ongoing genocide.

Cycleway1 needs a top-to-bottom review. It could be radically improved with simple cheap measures - a couple of new filters, some upgraded crossings, some surface improvement & maintenance. This shouldn’t be so hard to get right!

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is trying to fire the West Midlands Chief Constable who kept Maccabi thugs out of the UK. It is she who should be fired, she does not care about law and order or protecting UK citizens, just doing whatever her minders tell her to do.

Cheer up these grey days by getting a ticket for @hackneylcc.bsky.social - great fun, good food and fab band @londoncycling.bsky.social @citylcc.bsky.social @camdencyclists.bsky.social

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Israel just fired on Spanish UN Peacekeepers, if they were Russian or Iranian there would be instant condemnation. Because they are Israeli there won't be a sound.

Good morning. A regular reminder: a tiny few hoard staggering wealth and own much of the media, while millions struggle to survive. That’s not an accident. It’s a choice made by those in power. Tax wealth. Fund public services. Build an economy for everyone - not the 1%.

DfT doesn't publicly consult on guidance (before you ask), but even through professional networks, this type of timescale is bananas. The best I will be able to do is to review the thing when it comes out, and even then I expect it to be a hefty lump.

The RoadPeace has now been updated with a statement on the closure and a list of alternative sources of support. www.roadpeace.org

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Not just safer public places; safer cycling routes too. Need to look through the female lens. Not done nearly enough. lcc.org.uk/wp-content/u... and lcc.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Even his own constituents hate Starmer's blood drenched collusion in zionist genocide. #StarmerMustGo

“Martin angrily challenges Sir Keir Starmer to clear up social media scam adverts cess pit” Courtesy of @thismorningitv.bsky.social

In the spirit of brotherly love, could I gently enquire why the almighty **** are government departments, government ministers and Labour MPs *STILL* using X?

The second anyone in my street installs one of those gutters across the pavement for car charger cables, I'm going to apply for planning permission to install a Sheffield stand at the front of my house.

Charged with criminal damage. Not terrorism, though they are being treated as terrorists. No trial yet, & should legally be presumed innocent until proven guilty. Legally the longest they can be imprisoned w/o trial is 6 months. It's been over a year now for all of them, and no trial date till June.

Judge who said cyclists a “nightmare” pleaded guilty to failing to take breathalyser test A Dublin-based Circuit Court judge who said that "Cyclists have become a nightmare in Dublin" pleaded guilty in 2012 to failing to comply with a request by a garda to use a breathalyser in Connemara.…

Save the date! 24th January. 1130 for Midday We'll be joining others who love walking and cycling on Hammersmith Bridge to come along and show that we love it!

I’m so saddened to hear of the closure of RoadPeace for financial reasons. The charity did so much good — supporting crash victims, standing with bereaved families at their darkest moments, & tirelessly campaigning for safer roads. I hope one day it can be re-established & continue its vital work.

"Technology Secretary Liz Kendall told MPs that creating non-consensual intimate images will become a criminal offence from this week." Ah yes, making illegal what is already a crime. Second best to doing something.

Technically there is but we've lost the parks police (cuts), and the Royal Parks won't install cameras for heritage reasons, so the motor traffic is totally lawless at the moment. Also, now the police have gone, there is no parking enforcement before contractors come on duty.

What about the cars?

Morning drivers, as you head to work this week, please use your speed limiter. It improves your safety and has a calming effect on surrounding traffic, reducing the impact of the irresponsible. In UK, over 15 people a week die in speed-related crashes. Guidance attached: youtube.com/shorts/NwmD4...