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The economic damage Brexit has caused is undeniable - even Brexiteers are now admitting it. https://www.thetimes.com/business/economics/article/we-brexiteers-must-acknowledge-the-costs-of-leaving-europe-p3mhqd66f

Share your views with the Department for Transport on its next 5 year strategy for walking, wheeling and cycling! This is a rare opportunity to shape future policies and funding to make things better. Deadline is 15 December actionnetwork.org/letters/help...

Introduce yourself with five concerts you have seen: James Gene Pixies Rage Against the Machine Super Furry Animals

Two weeks ago I parked my bicycle at the well-used bike stand outside BNZ (formerly Deloitte) tower in Auckland's Queen St. Today I tried the same...and the bike parking has been removed 😠 What the hell?!? Why no bike parks? @bikeauckland.bsky.social @greaterauckland.bsky.social @ccrg.bsky.social

Electric assisted handbike tricycle in Paris with a rear-mounted crutch. Comme quoi un tricycle avec une bèquiiie ça existe mais le jeu de mot n’est pas traduisible ;)

This www.transportxtra.com/publications... by The Car Expert ed made me so angry I replied: www.transportxtra.com/publications... I'm fed up of rhetoric from gov & motoring 'lobby' that we must never unfairly hurt poor drivers in pocket. That reducing "running costs for ordinary families" means...

Devastating article from @eastangliabylines.co.uk Leaving Europe was, and remains, a very bad idea. Let's hope the UK is returning to rationality. @pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social @peterthurlow.bsky.social @annadamski.bsky.social eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...

A major healthcare policy paper commissioned by @govnl.bsky.social government from Deloitte at a cost of $1.6 million, cites research papers that don’t exist, making it the second major government policy paper called into question in as many months. #nlpoli #AI theindependent.ca/news/lji/maj...

'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain' #Iran 🇮🇷

Report finds a quarter of women abused by partner “Until such time as men realise that they don't own their women, nothing's gonna change," #nzpol

To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.” www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...

Isn't it time Nigel Farage and every other Brexit promoter apologised for the poverty & unemployment caused by the decimation of the British economy and the lies they told "‘GDP reduced by 8%’ – Nine-year study reveals how Brexit decimated UK economy" www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/bre...

The London Cycling Campaign has updated its Dangerous Junctions mapping, highlighting across London and by borough the most dangerous junctions for cycling, walking and wheeling for Londoners. lcc.org.uk/news/dangero...

A bunch of great people having an insightful conversation at the NZ Government Roundtable session at the 21st @is4urbanhealth.bsky.social conference in Whanganui-a-Tara today! @richardhills.bsky.social @georgeweeks2014.bsky.social @rachelbrooking.bsky.social Celia Wade Brown and Vida Christeller

If the UK government was really serious about online safety they would have banned Twitter/X instead of implementing the Online Safety Act. That would've removed a major source of extremist hate but preserved small website communities and forums that offer safe aid and advice.

Good thread

Policies can prove unpopular at the time & be bitterly opposed. I remember being told Ken Livingstone would lose in 2004 because of the congestion charge & several people told me I would lose in 2024 because of the ULEZ- we didn't lose!

My bus driver just called out the people watching videos on speaker and I think we should make him mayor

In terms of population density, GDP/head and urbanisation rate, Finland is the nearest equivalent in Europe to New Zealand. Helsinki records zero traffic deaths in a whole year. NZ could aim for something similar if it wanted, but public policy is stymied by intense levels of #motornormativity.

Today’s episode of “there is a better way.” Helsinki went a full year without a car-related fatality. For the 90th million time, we ask-why not here? Why can’t we have the healthy, safe, secure, efficient, civilized goods others have: schools free of mass shootings, safe sidewalks, health care…

As winter flooding looms, it's worth noting that a young street tree in an asphalt surface can prevent 60% of the rain that falls on it from reaching the ground, even when not in leaf. Increasing the low levels of urban tree cover should be a strategic national priority.

Your daily reminder that the fossil fuel industry is propped up by billions of dollars in U.S. government subsidies and a multimillion dollar campaign to spread climate disinformation. 💵

200,000 signatures on the longest petition ever presented to parliament, saying to #NZGovt protect, fund & staff our free #public #health system - & pay proper living wages #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Do you want to learn more about through-running, and why it's the clear solution to improve service at Penn Station? There are few better places to start than with this short documentary from the @jointtransit.bsky.social, featuring two of ETA's own! www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0xR...

Most of the REM Metro system in Montreal is now open, and Oh The Urbanity has a fantastic video (a real step up in production value) on it, check it out here! youtu.be/4G1oeIAfxDU?...

#TrainNews: Te Huia have launched a survey on the future of Te Huia. Te Huia says this information will help to shape what Te Huia might look like in the future. MORE: yourvoicematters.waikatoregion.govt.nz/future-of-te...

Schroedinger’s apartment building: simultaneously raising and lowering property values by being full of both rich and poor people.

😮 A sobering statistic for Road Safety Week... In the UK, SUVs are three times more likely to kill a child under the age of 10 and heavier cars are more likely to be involved in fatal collisions. Source: @cleancitiescampaign #roadsafetyweek #roadsafetyweek25 #carspreading #suvs #schoolrun

The dam is breaking. The world's leading public health news organization is now reporting US driver violence as a public health crisis. "American roads have become more dangerous than violent crimes in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, and other major cities." t.co/BEcu5JJ457

#Australia: The Liberals and Nationals have both decided to dump net zero. Like NZ, Australia risks being ‘captured’ by #AtlasNetwork corporations & sycophants- including #BigOil, Mining & Tobacco Coalition plans to strip #climate from energy operator's objectives www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Schrödingers congestion charge: simultaneously not reducing private car traffic AND declining all traffic which apparently spends money in the City Centre.

But also, like actual facts that we've got so far (e.g. Telraams) do show a decline. I'm reminded of when mobile phone data showed visitors to oxford city centre increasing, and some councillors were like "yeah but that's just data, instead we should focus on this one business owner who says not"

🍃🌹🌿 #FastTrack Amendment Bill #Submission Done!! Thanks for the guidance & making it easy to make a submission -I just added my thoughts & put it in my own words, as I agreed with your points. Closes tomorrow at 2pm #nzpol www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...

Issuing bikes to people in need provides a rate of return of almost 12:1. Bikes are so efficient and effective that the numbers can seen absurd. But that's bikes for you.

Wow! Free bikes trial schemes in 3 areas showed a 12x returning investment. Reduced expected cases of disease by 16% and deaths by 6%. What a win. We should be rolling these schemes to all deprived neighbourhoods. road.cc/content/news...

If only the off road bike lane that has been proposed for 30 years had been built to the Car centric school we moved AWAY from a railway station.

I remember going to see 'The Brady Bunch Movie' in 1995 or whenever it was released in the UK. Being British & born in the 1980s, I had absolutely no idea that this was the successor to a long-running 1970s American TV programme. I enjoyed it at face value. My friend's mum thought it was dreadful😂

Car Size xkcd.com/3167/

Most dismaying is the lack of imagination. How sad to equate freedom for sitting alone in a private, movable metal cell—a.k.a. car—and then spend most time in a long row of these cells—a.k.a. traffic jam? And how many people r even truly noticing the few genuine freedoms that car can actually offer?

On reflection, my bicycle bell needs to be repaired.

From Undermining Democracy to Destabilising the Climate: A brief history of the Neo-liberal Atlas Network: #AtlasNetwork #nzpol www.alliancemagazine.org/analysis/und...

Exactly. #EVs are WAY safer than petrol, diesel or hybrid vehicles! #AtlasNetwork / #BigOil disinformation is rife #nzpol www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/tusker-... Better to worry about NZ’s air pollution, responsible for 1 in 10 deaths! newsroom.co.nz/2023/10/06/t...

Anyway, the best way to improve our living standards and not (at least immediately) raise taxes is to signal that we want to rejoin the EU. Overnight we will pay a lot less interest on our £2.8 trillion debt…

Terrible reporting here. The fire that killed the bus driver started in the cars engine & bus batteries were undamaged. Whangarei CCTV footage shows the ute’s exhaust starting the fire. Both facts the journo should know.

Driving in traffic is a dull and unpleasant chore and the only way Americans can escape having to do it all the time is by moving to one of three very expensive cities. This is bad and we should fix it.

Mind Blowingly Good Cycle Lanes planned That’s a bold statement. I like it www.timeout.com/london/news/...

This should be something that people just do. But it's good to have it explicitly listed in the conditions of carriage. Aeroplane wi-fi plus people scrolling TikTok with the sound on= 😩😫😡🤬

Robin Williams; a nice guy on a bicycle 🚲 😊

Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.