Need to set weight limits on EVs to stop these ridiculous vehicles.

Imagine if the tax from private jets helped fund cheap train tickets. The richest polluters pay more, the rest of us travel greener. That’s how you turn inequality into climate action. #ClimateCrisis
#SustainableTravel
#EcoTravel

J17 Eastbound of the M4 - we always slow right down even when our light is on green because so many people go through when their light is red. When our light turns green we always wait a few seconds before moving because there's always someone 'more important' racing to 'beat the lights' 😡

Look behind you? “Taxpayers shouldn’t be footing the bill for luxury leisure.” Says govt source. Will that apply to the £4bn a year in fuel duty freeze costs, which go to drivers on the highest incomes the most?

But she's more than happy to subsidise people who can afford to buy £40k electric cars but more than the cost of a decent bike. And through salary sacrifice schemes too. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Delivering 20 – Making 20mph work Webinar: 12.00 - 13.30 10 Dec 2025 This free, focused, one and a half hour session will unpack the behavioural and cultural factors that shape the success of 20mph implementation, drawing lessons from Wales and beyond. bit.ly/3WRvT0F

Yes. And we also need frequent re-tests and much better active travel and public transport provision.

Driving tests need a 3 strikes and you're out rule. Some people are clearly unsuited to driving. Also we should introduce practical cycling experience and bikeability tests as prerequisites to sitting even a theory test. Learn the highway code at a human speed.

Job opp! Sounds flexible.

The freeze on fuel duty is estimated to have cost £133 billion in lost revenue since 2011. At a time of difficult fiscal choices, we're joining @bettertransport.bsky.social in calling to end the fuel duty cut and charge a simple per-mile charge for electric vehicles 🚗 https://bit.ly/49bYnts

The bumper says 'rugged working man'. But the cargo bed says ‘cosplay builder with soft hands’. Time to ban these fragile-man-mobiles from our cities.

Excellent evening with @rialina.com and Daman Bamrah. Glad we weren't on the front row as I did want to admit the 10 yr age gap between me and my husband 😆 Tickets available 👇

Green Party leadership steps up support for the white poppy www.ppu.org.uk/news/green-p...

“We tend to treat the car as a closed thing, ignoring its impact on the environment, the climate, & the pedestrian,. We need to think about big cars in the same way that we think about cigarettes: Affecting not just the user, but everyone around the user.” .

The government spends £2.7 BILLION a year on TAX BREAKS for oil and gas companies Those companies pay billions to their shareholders And then lay off their workers Think that's unfair? Tell Rachel Reeves to stop propping up oil and gas companies and back workers instead…

My family are from the Isle of Man where they use swedes instead of pumpkins. Is it truly Halloween if you haven't forced your kid to try and carve a face into the breeze block of the vegetable world!

If you cannot see children trick-or-treating, maybe consider not driving tonight?

So, apparently, bus drivers between Keele and Stoke on Trent don't need to slow down for speed bumps or roundabouts. Bit like being at a budget Alton Towers.

Hopefully, sometime soon, my new phone will realise that I never want to spell 'funking' or 'aunt' 🙄

me: mentions taking the train instead of flying my friends: “but the plane’s going anyway” ok cool, guess I’ll just start eating meat again since the cow’s already dead 🙃 #FlightFree #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis flightfree.co.uk/post/tips-on...

As #InternationalWalkToSchoolMonth comes to an end, tell us what you got up to! Share your highlights by tagging us or sending us a DM 🍂 . https://www.livingstreets.org.uk/autumn

Solidarity with my colleague Mothin, who experiences frequent and appalling racist abuse. Out and out racism is alive and well in this country. And its perpetrators are emboldened every day that politicians and journalists describe immigrants as an invasion, a swarm, or a flood.

Great to visit the car dealership stunt at Parliament today by @transenvuk.bsky.social and @olord.bsky.social showing clearly just how huge and heavy cars have become making the case for fair tax by vehicle weight.

I can’t help feeling irritated that this article ends with safety tips for cyclists and pedestrians, not accountability for drivers or infrastructure. @tomflood.bsky.social www.bbc.com/news/article...

Every walk still counts. Whether it’s a quick lap around the block between meetings or a weekend stroll in the park, all movement adds up and supports your wellbeing. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0gw6p8dllo

Lets have a Referendum. Rexit.

every time.

Noise pollution causes chronic stress, mental health problems & cardiovascular disease Have your say on aircraft overflying the city! www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/bala...

So excited I passed my level I cheese course yesterday. Less of a career change, more of a return to what I was doing 10 years ago. I didn't realise I missed it until my body said enough of doing what you're doing, we need to move more and interact with people. It's time to get out of the office!

A new study models 20mph/30kph effects on cycling and traffic. A useful nuance is "negligible impact on journey times...due to lowered speed limits largely being applied on local streets instead of larger, ‘busier’ roads designed to maximise the flow of traffic" road.cc/content/news...

There’s a lot to like in these proposals so please do have your say and support the proposals to improve walking, wheeling and cycling: ✅ a more people-friendly town centre ✅ improved connections to Monton and Salford Royal ✅ improved accessibility for Eccles station ecclestowncentre.co.uk

The Kerbside Strategy consultation is open now. We want to hear from anyone who cares about the future of our streets. Your input will shape the final strategy. Because here's the thing: this space belongs to all of us. It's time we designed it that way. Share your ideas here: bit.ly/3W7fFjJ

“Paris is changing. There is a new attitude of green and sustainable ideals that are permeating the City of Light. Mayor Hidalgo has led its urgent and radical greening by introducing initiatives to reduce traffic and projects to reinvent the cityscape in a way that was undreamt of a few years ago.”

Bravo Cardiff. “It’s only fair that those driving the biggest, heaviest and most polluting vehicles pay more for the extra space and danger they bring” - Spot on from @olord.bsky.social Important: two-thirds (66%) of respondents to the related consultation agreed larger vehicles should pay more.

British.

Deep dive into the surge in US pedestrian deaths: "It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die." "[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."

A request for weather interested volunteers! Met Eireann would like to rescue millions of weather observations taken in Ireland over many decades that are still stuck on paper. #WeatherRescue Anyone can help: www.zooniverse.org/projects/met...

The clampdown by @ntcouncilteam.bsky.social on the prohibited parking in Howard St didn’t last long. 17 vehicles parked in a no-car zone, with multiple free, permitted parking spaces within a few minutes walk.

New study from Melbourne finds reducing residential speed limits from 50km/h to 30 km/h on local roads would protect cyclists from danger, make riding less stressful and get more people cycling while not causing traffic delays for cars.

'Yes, I broke the speed limit but, given that I sit in the House of Lords, surely the law doesn't apply to me?' www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

So if you're opposed to lower, safer speed limits, then who out of your family would you be happy to sacrifice so you can drive to work 30 seconds sooner?

“We assume that car use is an incompressible liquid that must be routed somewhere. But it’s more more like a gas that fills whatever space it is given.” —Ian Lockwood, Harvard Loeb Fellow, transport planner.

New research from the U.K., however, suggests simply hearing the din of traffic may be detrimental to your mental health. #MobilityIsEquity #WorldMentalHealthDay fortune.com/well/article...

How to tune in to nature sounds? Forest baths? Listen to nature recordings? How about plant trees, lobby politicians to reduce speed limits & reduce car dependence, plant trees, walk, wheel, or pedal where and when you can, plant trees?

So, 21 magpies just landed on the roof opposite ours. What does the nursery rhyme have to say about that?

I moved some errant voi scooters and a lime bike (with a terrible puncture) from blocking the pavement by Warneford Lane roundabout. People! Don't block pavements with stuff you've hired! Able-bodied people passing! Do move them if you are able. @badlyparkedox.bsky.social

The green cross code is the most disastrous public information campaign in history. It has made generations believe that pedestrians are responsible for avoiding crashes. Crashes are actually the responsibility of the operators of the massive motorised lumps of metal.

*walks into Waterstones* Where's your Motonormativity section?

So @brooklynspoke.bsky.social @sgoodyear.bsky.social Life After Cars already ordered. Just gotta figure out how to sneak the other two into the house 🤔

Three newly published books argue that cars are destroying society as well as the planet. Is the world finally ready to rein in the automobile? My essay, in @bloomberg.com (gift link below)