At the Delivering Vision Zero conference today. Richard Parker delivers the opening speech. He says: “We have made some progress but frankly not enough.” I agree. @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org

Couldn't agree more. Absolute madness. Crazy decision from an education and health and wellbeing point of view too. My son is now out in the heat unsupervised. Closing schools whilst also warning of drowning risk is just wrong. What about teaching resilience and importance of attendance and exams? 🤔

If someone chooses to live in a smaller home in the inner city in part to avoid a long commute, they generally don’t pressure society to build them a bigger house with more stuff. So if you choose a bigger stuff-filled house in the suburbs, don’t expect society to build you a fast car commute.

Popular unpopular opinion: touchscreens in cars meant to be operated by drivers are a terrible idea to the point that they should perhaps be made literally illegal

This should be fun ... #CycleTheScore at the Mac. macbirmingham.co.uk/events/bcmg-...

Post office parking

When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.

The Dutch mobility system isn't just built around cycling. It's built around bike-train intermodality: cycling solves the train's convenience problem and the train solves cycling's range problem. Together, they offer an attractive alternative to driving on a mass scale. WATCH: youtu.be/jq93DgLvmFc

💚 Nine years on, we remember the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire. We reaffirm our commitment to campaigning for safe housing for all.

Petition👇 38d.gs/defence-spen...

Tirana has emerged in recent years as the Balkans’ most ambitious cycling city. What began as a modest effort to introduce bike infrastructure has grown into a broader vision of child-friendly urbanism; combining hardware, software, and orgware into a wholistic strategy for reclaiming public space.🧵

We need to rename all cycle parking as "Cycle Protection"! and check out those padded dividers!? ❤️ Will be recommending these for HS2...and need some for my garage!

Yep. Time for @brumgreens.bsky.social and Lib Dems to do a review of the Brum CAZ and if it's working (it is a bit) then enhance it. City wide resident parking permits & workplace parking levy too. Prevent disease, boost growth & productivity & protect the NHS (bonus = provides skint city £££).

Nice thing to see on my way home.

Yep former Health Secretary & soon to be losing PM candidate Wes needs to listen to Prof Sir Chris Whitty & wise up. Bikes not bombs, school streets not nukes & bike lanes not tanks protect our children & our NHS. Also cash was already committed, pays itself back x10 & is peanuts in scheme of things

Children’s independence, safer streets and more playful, child-friendly cities all go hand in hand. Great to see local charity @roamkids.bsky.social pushing this conversation forward. They’re hosting an event in Brum on 3 July exploring these ideas further 👇 www.tickettailor.com/events/roam1... 

This Banksy-style mural of artist David Hockney, a native son of Yorkshire, UK, was painted on the wall of the Cross Roads Inn in West Yorkshire in anticipation of the region's hosting of the 2014 Tour de France Grand Départ 🎨Stewy #RIPDavidHockney

Wes Streeting might want to reflect on how our dependence upon the world's oil dealers is working for our nation's defence

For reasons, I was looking up residents' parking permit costs in Amsterdam East this week. €200 for the first permit and €500 for the second. Oh, and that's for 6 months, not a year. If you are near the district centre, you can have one permit; two permits elsewhere. There is no waiting list!

Get your city some leaders that care enough about the children in your community to do this outside your local school.

With Palantir embedded with Network Rail and now with SpaceX being positioned as the primary train WiFi provider, we must ask the question: how much control is the US tech industry going to get over our railways?

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”

Spent a lot of time in East Surrey hospital recently. The main takeaway is England needs to thank our lucky stars for immigrants! The black, brown, African and Asian people in there are cleaning, feeding, caring, medicating, comforting and life saving in the most difficult circumstances. Thank you!

Interesting that the idea of another EU referendum is regularly discussed on broascast media as something that would cause division and thus a bad idea. But plans to deport literally millions of people are discussed as administrative questions.

"A video of city buses, provided by the city of Paris as humanitarian aid for the Kyiv region. The train with the buses passes through France and Germany to Poland, where the buses will be reloaded onto platforms with a gauge of 1520 mm, and then sent to Kyiv"

Ready or not, here I come

What a berk! How about asking drivers to slow down and not drink drive and just try looking and if can't do those things hand in their driving licence if they won't do that or can't still spot a human being. @irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social #RoadSafety #VictimBlaming www.newstalk.com/news/hi-vis-...

Passionate about challenging our unsustainable transport systems!? This job opportunity with Cycling UK Northern Ireland looks rewarding: www.irishcyclingcampaign.ie/northern-ire...

Surfers Against Sewage are about to meet with the government to discuss the sewage pollution scandal. Sign the petition to show just how many of us demand change. Over 270k have signed - now let's get this to a number Starmer can't ignore. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

1930s similarity number 305

Here we have it, clear cut data on why people vote Reform. No hire bikes = Reform votes! If Mayor Richard Parker had widened the Lime Bikes contract so was Birmingham wide Reform would have no Birmingham Councillors! Starmer, Burnham, Polanski, Kemi, Greens and Labour can defeat Reform with 🍋‍🟩🚲🍋‍🟩🚲🍋‍🟩🚲🍋‍🟩🚲

Statement by our Stirchley and Bournville and Cotteridge councillors on "Raise the colours" birmingham.greenparty.org.uk/2026/05/15/s...

Due to various legal / press interest from across the globe the release of data on why people do or dont vote Reform is postponed, until tomorrow perhaps! (*NB: Not everything u read on't t'internet is true, I maybe have just been a bit too busy to post & have 4 hours of Giro to watch now, maybe*).

The War on Cars continues! This close to a train station and three schools. Several fatalities on this road over the years. Needs to be made 20mph, simple side road zebras, average speed cameras, existing crossings upgraded, pavements widened etc etc #Cotteridge #Birmingham @brumgreens.bsky.social

One day until data release. My systems have not been compromised and I have not been silenced...yet! #Reform #Politics

If stopping child abuse isn't a priority for our PM then it's definitely time for him to go, although that time came as soon as he gave Israel the green light to commit a genocide. Hopefully this going public will result in action asap and @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social can get on with her vital work.

Not. This sign is needed on most streets in Birmingham although it appears the drivers already know!

Hey @brumgreens.bsky.social just be a bit like Mayors Zohran Mandani and Anne Hidalgo in Paris and you will do a grand job. The Birmingham Transport Plan is fantastic, Labour's mistake was they bottled it and didn't deliver it. You got this!

Playing football on your street. Is there anything better on this planet? #MoreBallGames

Excellent news for Harborne and for Birmingham!

I've done a unique analysis and now know why in some wards in Birmingham most people voted for Reform. The data analysis I have done and the findings are so clear cut. I'll be sharing on Friday. Every other party is gonna want to see this! Can anyone guess what the cause of voting reformatory is?

Thousands of people across Birmingham voted Green yesterday! Now we want you to join us: join.greenparty.org.uk Come and get involved with the movement fighting to make life better in Birmingham. #VoteGreenInBrum #JoinGreenInBrum

The war on cars and drivers continues. Thoughts with the victims. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Time to move ahead with #MayarYahiaSquare.

HOPE LANDS IN BIRMINGHAM! Yesterday at the NIA we had a total of 19 @greenparty.org.uk councillors elected in Birmingham! Both of our existing councillors were re-elected and we gained 17 more! THANK YOU to everyone who did #VoteGreenInBrum! birmingham.greenparty.org.uk/2026/05/08/h...

“They cut speed limits, changed street design, removed space for cars… Now it appears that work is paying off. #Oslo & #Helsinki are reaping the rewards of committed action on making their roads safer, reducing pedestrian fatalities to zero last year.” What if your city actually MEANT #VisionZero?

Regarding those possible max life sentences for cyclists who kill... Driver on wrong side of major trunk road. Already banned. Over the limit for drugs. twice the speed limit. Killed his passenger when he crashed. 12 yrs 9 mts in jail. 13 year driving ban www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...

🚨🗳️ Special podcast! We get under the skin of transport pledges made ahead of next week's all-out local elections in Birmingham. 🎧 Listen on a platform of your choice: betterstreetsforbirmingham.org/ep-13-birmin... What do you make of the manifestos?