My son Seamus died 15 years ago today. He was killed by a careless driver in a crosswalk. He walked at 9 months, almost as if he knew he wouldn’t have much time. His favorite thing to do was throw rocks into water. He loved the moon. He called butterflies “buddy buddies.” I miss him every day.

The Westbourne Terrace cycleway introduced during Covid on a temporary basis is set to become a permanent segregated scheme. www.mylondon.news/news/transpo...

1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution. The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵

Gotta love Private Eye. Always cuts through the crap.

Clocks changing for winter is sometimes thought to be better for children having light to go to school in the mornings. Perhaps it would be more valuable to keep better light in evenings. Children don’t just go straight to and from school. They play and get injured by traffic after school.

Important to see the GLA's ongoing commitment to delivering transformation on the east side of Oxford Street inline with the approach developed by Westminster Council, business and residents to deliver great public realm improvement whilst retaining bus travel www.london.gov.uk/city-hall-ap...

this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free

Fantastic news!! Westminster Council is starting construction on the much needed east / west cycle lane and improved pedestrian crossings on George Street. 👏👏 @adamhug.bsky.social @maxsullivan.bsky.social & team westminsterlabour.org.uk/issues/2025/...

A superb post about on-street parking and the baclkash against cycle parking here, from @maxsullivan.bsky.social movepeople.substack.com/p/bread-bin-...

No, backlash has not undercut the success of 30km/hour speed limits. They have incontrovertibly reduced death and injuries wherever they’ve been introduced. The backlash is just noise, it doesn’t change the facts.

Going to be speaking about Side Road Zebras at this @livingstreets.bsky.social event at Uni Westminster with @maxsullivan.bsky.social and NRP. Riveting stuff. No, really! www.ticketsource.co.uk/active-trave... www.westminsterlabour.org.uk/issues/2024/...

Good on Maskell, though I'm struggling to imagine any acceptable 'explanation' for this. Would it all be fine if it was Prince Andrew's 'own money'? What does that even mean in the context of a royal? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Good news: Work on new Central London cycleway set to progress despite concerns and 'misinformation' 👏👏 @maxsullivan.bsky.social @adamhug.bsky.social & Westminister Council team www.mylondon.news/news/zone-1-...

Great to see work underway on Cycleway 43 which forms a key part of the emerging new cycle network in @citywestminster.bsky.social - connecting C51, C55 & C27 around Hyde Park, Paddington, St Johns Wood & beyond. Well done @maxsullivan.bsky.social @adamhug.bsky.social & TfL & teams

And here's SCAFFOLDERS using a fully electric vehicle in Camden - nice to see HSS helping to #ElectrifyLondon 👏 @adamdkharrison.bsky.social @maxsullivan.bsky.social @metecoban92.bsky.social @zakbond.bsky.social

WHO is putting these BREAD BIN BIKE BUNKERS on every street? 👇🏻

"Bringing the DART to Dingle", "Bringing the Olympics to Termonfeckin"

"The solution to pedestrian deaths isn't "defensive walking," as NPR says, but investment in public transit. Don't give us advice on how best to play Frogger on roads full of texting drivers, give us buses that give those drivers a safer place to text." Read More: www.jalopnik.com/1979666/defe...

NEW STARTER PACK! This time I’m hoping to encourage and support global urbanists from OUTSIDE North America here on Bluesky, so hopefully this will help! Who’ve I missed? Just joined? Let me know! I’ll keep updating, so please keep checking & sharing this pack! And let’s try using #GlobalUrbanists.

There’s an even bigger conspiracy and it goes even deeper. It turns out that well over half of Parliament and thousands of councillors around the country are all members of a leftist organisation called “The Labour Party”.

Road Casualties data for 2024 in Great Britain published this week: www.gov.uk/government/s... Thanks to @pactsuk.bsky.social, there is an important new chart on the vehicles involved in fatal crashes:

Very exciting to see big vehicles going electric. I hope it's got top Direct Vision Standard rating too so the drivers of it are less likely to maim and kill other people.

So I hear there's something happening down on Oxford St... But good to see Heath St in Hampstead part of #CarFreeDay. Attended by mayor & deputy mayor of Camden Eddie and Tricia & mayoral charity I Can Dance; assisted by the Everyman who showed an Attenborough film; & organised by local cllr Linda 🌿

Wheely good news for this part of central London. The decision to implement Cycleway 43 has been published. This administration is delivering safer, more pleasant walking and cycling that will give more transport freedom and choice to people including families of all abilities 1/

"This [Labour] council was elected on a platform of making walking and cycling safer and more pleasant. We value the feedback of Westminster residents, the majority of whom supported this scheme in consultation. www.mylondon.news/news/transpo... 1/

Our city is far stronger than those who seek to divide it. Our tolerance, diversity & energy unsettles some but we’re not going to bow & scrape to appease those who don’t understand true patriotism-pride in our place, community & country that is so much more than they imagine

Ed Milliband on Elon Musk on LBC, "Just because you're a billionaire doesn't give you the right to tell us how to run our country" "This guy is a publicity seeking narcissist, who is inciting violence on our streets" "As the Americans would say: butt out of our politics"

This is very worrying. Also, a red cross on a green cycle hangar is closer to the flag of Nottinghamshire than of England.

Why empty cycle lanes are a symbol of efficiency.

Fresh paving from a London Labour council? Maybe the capital isn't the hellscape some would have you believe!

"Approximately 20% of drivers were engaged in distracting or impatient driving, with one in ten drivers being engaged in unlawful behaviours involving the use of handheld devices while driving. Drivers of larger vehicles also exhibited more dangerous driving." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Channing Tatum, welcome to The War on Cars.

Seriously, @microsoft.com, seriously? The world’s richest man needs protecting from a transport consultant? LinkedIn have taken down my post calling on people to quit X for BlueSky.

Cities need better mobility solutions. And sometimes, the most effective ones have been in front of us (and indeed, behind us) for decades. This one is affordable, usually has two wheels… but it’s not a bicycle. 🧵

Out today in Nature is the most exciting dinosaur paper I've ever been involved in - led by @tweetisaurus.bsky.social we describe a partial skeleton of the UTTERLY BIZARRE Spicomellus from the Middle Jurassic of Morocco, the oldest known ankylosaur. (1/x) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"We did a review of all of the studies globally, which included half a million road traffic injuries, and that found that if you are hit by an SUV compared to being hit by a passenger car you are 44% more likely to be killed. Among kids it's higher - it's 82%” www.bbc.com/news/article...

My response to local Tory scaremongering about asylum seekers www.westminsterlabour.org.uk/issues/commu...

As of 11am on Friday, al fresco dining has come to St Martin's Lane in the West End, with Rupert Street market arriving in Soho later that day. It's a huge step towards making our city more people-friendly. This street is now free of general motor traffic 11am-11pm daily until end of October 1/

🇺🇸 National Guard soldier speaks out: “I swore an oath to defend our constitution… seeking refuge is not an act of violence. Locking people up for it is.”

As Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo put it: "A city where you can get let go of your child's hand"

Start somewhere. Gloucester Tce residents told me drivers speed like they're already on the A40. Design contributed. The street had been surrendered to highway infrastructure Then v now 🌲Tree pruned 🚧No more temp traffic management kit 🛣️Signs have been raised 🦓4 zebra crossings connect all corners

Leveraging London's streets as one of its most valuable assets, Strand Aldwych transforms one of Westminster's busiest and most polluted corridors into a vibrant and verdant destination. By filtering out through traffic, 7000 m² of roadway is reclaimed into an accessible and welcoming public space.🧵

A devastating crash in Astoria has left three people dead. I'm heartbroken for the victims and their loved ones. We can't normalize this. It's time to commit to streets that are safe for everyone.

7:30 AM, Soho, London. If there was ever any question about the fastest way to get from A to B in the middle of a vast city, these incredible men and women demonstrate the answer. ❤️ London Ambulance

How did this happen? Two cycle hire docking stations installed in 2023/24 As Lime & Forest use was growing fast These stations are at the edge of the network Yet with 50+ trips/day they are more popular than 1/3 of Westminster stations many of which have been in place 15 years & are more central

We’re putting more officers where Londoners need them most. With record City Hall funding, the West End will see a 50% rise in Met officers and 90 more officers in town centres to tackle antisocial behaviour, robbery and shoplifting.

Until recently, parking a bike in a hangar (📷Left) for a year was £72 more expensive than parking a 4L petrol/electric hybrid SUV (📷Right) Now the bike is £83 cheaper to park than the hybrid SUV And £331 cheaper than the most polluting diesel vehicles How are your local politicians doing on this?

↕️ Go with (+ against) the flow We're adding contra-flow cycling to 15 more one-way streets Caroline Tait studied 500+ such streets over 22+ years. Better for cycling. No rise in the rate of crashes: www.leeds.ac.uk/news-environ...

Its really impressive how casualties have dropped (26%) since Wales implemented its award-winning default 20mph limit for urban/village areas. We publish an updated report on the first 12 months.

Have Lime bikes killed Sadiq's cycles just as they turn 15?🧁💩 Well... No, it's growing, with over 850K trips in June. And my hunch is Dockless bikes are helping because they help to create new cyclists. Why? Well... 1/