Or can he? @barneyfarmer.bsky.social

Google translate is *not* your friend 😀

Every flag left flying and every case quietly dropped tells extremists they’re winning. The authorities’ fear has become the far right’s fuel – and it’s ordinary people who pay the price. Read Peter Thurlow's analysis ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk @peterthurlow.bsky.social

On Mon 3 Nov, Sarah Coombes MP hosts a “Meet the West Midlands Road Safety & Active Travel Commissioners” event at Westminster, followed by a screening of City of Cars, an award winning Birmingham documentary by Sarah Chaundler. 📍2.15pm, Portcullis House. All MPs invited - email yours to attend!

I think its now got to be the case that respectable people should just refuse to appear on panels with Goodwin, even if that means cancelling on the BBC at short notice.

"Children are basically living very captive and kind of contained lives, and that's just not healthy." @timrgill.bsky.social on this @thewaroncars.bsky.social podcast. podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id14... More info on Tim rethinkingchildhood.com/about/ #PlayStreetsBETA

Stop National Highways' toxic water pollution! "Every time it rains, a toxic brew of oil, particulate matter, and microplastics from tyre and brake wear is washed off the roads..." actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...

German news agency DW interviews Brendan O’Leary, Professor of political science, about Irish Unity post brexit. In english, for a German audience, O'Leary outlines in very clear & simple terms the potential models for reunification and dispels the myths of how expensive reunification will be. 1/5

Dyma beth mae gwleidyddiaeth Reform yn ei olygu: codi ofn ar bobl fel Alison a Cole yn ei milltir sgwâr. Dydd Iau yma, mae gan bobl Caerffili’r cyfle i sefyll fyny iddyn nhw. Pleidleisiwch Blaid Cymru am bencampwr lleol, ac i atal Reform. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Absolutely right Phil. The argument seems to go: Car brained conspiracy theorists and the media that enables them didn't like a thing, so we should never do it again. Spoiler alert: they'll hate whatever less effective measures you pivot too, as well.

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.

Do you know what? It IS working. It hasn't caused tailbacks, quite the opposite actually. More importantly it's saved the lives of at least a dozen kids. Reform are actually campaigning for the return of more deaths and injuries. Absolutely bonkers.

I foresee a perma-ring of poor high-viz-clad security trying to hold back the inevitable tide, and cheap crowd control barriers creating some kind of crappy entranceway which only serves to limit the available width for pedestrians

Some of these folk are almost old enough to have been Antifa members between 1941 and 1945.

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/...

He said a stupid thing If he had gone to a town which only had white faces he wouldn't have said it was a failure to integrate Besides the fact everytime I've been to Handsworth I've seen white faces What he said was nothing to do with integration and everything to do with stirring up racism

🚲 Big win for Abingdon! £1.5m secured to fix the missing NCN5 link + boost walking & cycling Plans include a new two-way contraflow on East St Helen St, Dutch entrance kerbs, continuous footways + better crossings Have your say by 28 Oct – letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk/east-st-hele...

New towns locations, design proposals and planning recommendations - all published today www.gov.uk/government/p.... Together with a positive government response

I have today sent the attached open letter to Anneliese Dodds MP

The insurance industry is recognising that on their data, 20mph limits are a huge benefit to both drivers and insurers. Based on 42m vehicles in England at £45 less pa its worth over £2bn pa with much of that a saving for businesses as well as drivers.

Casualty rates down by 46% 900 fewer injured. 14 fewer fatalities. Lower insurance costs. It's a win win. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.

Ireland, Slovenia, Iceland, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium and Portugal are now all considering boycotting Eurovision unless Israel are removed. Like if they should. RT if Israel should be kicked out

The Embankment cycleway (CS3) in London was purposefully built to be wider than was usual in order to future proof it. Some said it would hardly be used. Now there’s a decent case for widening it further. Induced demand is real.

First meeting of @activetraveleng.bsky.social’s Technical Oversight and Advisory Group today. Really pleased to be part of such a talented and diverse group. Hopefully we can help ATE to be even more effective.

We’re delighted to announce the official launch of the 5th Edition of the Wheels for Wellbeing Guide to Inclusive Cycling! Date: Thursday 25th September Time: 12:30–1:30pm Location: Zoom

Quince chez Jones

Few technologies have been met with such a barrage of misinformation as heat pumps have. @carbonbrief.org just dropped a brand-new version of my heat pump myths factcheck. Have a look here 👇 interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/he...

Walk anywhere in Amsterdam and you’ll sense a calm coherence: bricks, curbs, fixtures, benches, bollards and drains that look related. This isn’t accidental. It’s a product of the Puccini Method, the city’s standards—part design language, part technical playbook—for shaping every street and square.🧵

In time people do get used to driving at 20 mph. But Government could speed up the process if they rediscovered the public information film. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_Aa...

Two-and-a-half-year-old Roa Mashi has died inside her family’s tent in Khan Younis of malnutrition. Starmer's Labour Party is complicit in this just as much as the other Tory Party. Screw them both

The Will Hayward article that dives deep into the data around the 20mph default in Wales. It busts the myths and celebrates the success for Welsh communities. bit.ly/3U7r5mv

Great to see Phil quoted here even if the framing overly focuses on the negative.

“What is an acceptable death toll that justifies getting to work two minutes faster?” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

But it will take a very long time and very many more people will be killed and injured. #uncommonsense

All the latest data from Transport for Wales is here (updated mid July). The reduction in casualties is being achieved with minor increases in vehicle journey times (mostly under 2 mins) & greater journey time reliability. As Drakeford rightly said in 2023: “… it doesn't seem an unfair bargain”

Also see👇 “On roads previously subject to 20 or 30 mph limits—those now covered by the new default—casualties decreased by 26.2%.”

Great piece on the Welsh government’s 20mph policy by @willhaycardiff.bsky.social “What is great about evidence based policy is that it has a wonderful habit of working” Inspiration for England as DfT work on the promised road safety strategy.

Solicitors Leigh Day have now written to the government seeking the formal written evidence upon which the Minister for the Future of Roads made her decision. This will inform a judgement as to whether there are grounds to seek a full Judicial Review. www.change.org/p/securing-a...

Data published this year shows 20mph on London borough road resulted in: 📉40% drop in fatal collisions 📉75% fall in kids being killed 📉34% fall in people being killed or seriously injured. Great to see Enfield making their streets safer with 20mph 👍👍 #VisionZeroLDN

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.

Helsinki (pop 657,000) has not had a single traffic death during the last twelve months. poliisi.fi/-/helsingin-...

A moving morning about moving people and things in London with less death and injury. Excellent contributions from victims, families of those killed on London streets, campaigners, transport professionals, bus drivers. And a good report from @carolinerussell.bsky.social 1/

Great to be at @carolinerussell.bsky.social's round table on ideas for London's Vision Zero Action Plan 2 - see report here: www.london.gov.uk/sites/defaul... @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org - lots of great ideas in here and in the room.

Reform UK can't just go around writing unhinged letters threatening investors with reprisals for growing our green economy and creating good, well-paid jobs. Here's my response and the questions they need to answer - signed by 58 Labour MPs.

Both Ways is good, right?