"How was your day" just hits different by bike

“By not opting for a tarmacked driveway or replanting the existing one, households can help cool their streets, protect vulnerable neighbours and reclaim a piece of Britain’s vanishing green heritage.”

Cycling home from football at Queen's Park and... I simply don't remember ever seeing this many people cycling on the streets before. On a midweek evening. The #SouthCityWay and other infra's definitely unlocked something, in the southside at least. It's really noticeable how even away from... 1/

The liberty of car owning adults has come at the expense of the freedom of younger (and older) people in our society. Not the only explanatory factor here, but an important one.

Nothing is beneath this man. This is yet another egregious breach of Fifa's Code of Ethics by Infantino, which, if Fifa's Ethics Committee still had a modicum of independence, would immediately trigger an investigation.

Good to see the Glasgow Central concourse look a bit more like itself today, with the removal of the steel barriers that had cordoned off the areas around the Gordon and Union St entrances since the fire in March. Both entrances and streets will fully reopen this Friday #Glasgow

Consultations: July 2026 Major masterplans for the Clyde and a riverside Glasgow neighbourhood. Waterfront development in Argyll & Bute and road/path surveys for most of Strathclyde. Plus a few strategies for East Renfrewshire (one survey ends soon)… www.gobike.org/consultation... #cycling

I guess this was too upbeat/poppy for what's a fairly moody album (hence why it was a b-side), but what a tune!

“It’s Alexander Sorloth time” - Alexander Sorloth on a 2v1 with Erling Haaland open

This isn’t about preferences, or ideologies. This is literally life or death. #VisionZero

I cycled to work the longer way today. At 5.5 miles, that's further than most UK car trips - yet it took me just 22 minutes We urgently need to unblock and enable the millions of short active trips that are being blocked every day because of our collective car dependency. Our health depends on it

'Spokes & Me' In 2027 Spokes will be 50! For our 2026 #SpokesComp tell us any way that Spokes being around has been good for you Could be as simple as using a #SpokesMap to make a great outing or commute route --> www.spokes.org.uk/2026/07/spok... @edi.bike @edfoc.bsky.social @chdot.bsky.social

Fantastic to see this article by Laura Laker in Cycling Electric highlighting the harm that police seizure and destruction of legal e-cycles is causing - and some of the solutions we need. www.cyclingelectric.com/news/police-...

With the traffic and buses removed (which I'm definitely not advocating as a permanent measure!) it does sort of make the street seem like a blank canvas. And easier to imagine how it could work differently. A few street trees and maybe reclaiming a bit of road space could work wonders.

A handsome gushet tenement photographed in 1960 on one of Glasgow's great lost urban spaces. This is Bothwell Circus, a huge viaduct that spanned Bishop St, and connected Bothwell and St Vincent Streets. 📷 HES #Glasgow

Home time

Utrecht becoming the world’s best cycling city isn’t an accident of geography or nationality. It’s a product of vision and investment. Therefore the blueprint isn’t just Dutch. It can be applied anywhere. Culture doesn't create infrastructure. Infrastructure creates culture. youtu.be/MHFUBzE_EjQ

Oldham Council's response to a barrage of racist comments on its FB page should be standard practice for all public sector pages (and local newspapers for that matter). Rather than ignoring it, which most pages seem to do, it needs to be removed and called out forcefully. You don't see this enough.

Sprawl car dependent development. Not building (on/with) places. Not thinking about how people (want to) live at all. The antithesis of town and place. BBC News - Where's our doctor, dentist, new school? The sprawling Glasgow suburb lacking basic amenities - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Not a terribly exciting photo! But the cycle to the shops was made a bit easier today with this usually nasty junction closed (for resurfacing). A teaser of how it'll be in ~12 months' time after #ConnectingBattlefield works, that'll turn it permanently into a traffic free plaza.

Just checked our Instagram (I am bad at Instagram) and this drawing has 360+ comments underneath it and every single one is just people arguing furiously in Spanish, it’s terrifying. I stand above it on a rickety gantry gazing down in horror, like that guy looking into the exposed core in Chernobyl

With the Mancunian Way closed for its annual inspection last weekend, I took the opportunity to go for a short ride along this iconic structure. Join me as I cover the history of this urban motorway and enjoy some lesser-seen views of Manchester from it. domcycling.com/2026/07/04/r...

Groningen's Grote Markt used to be a traffic gyratory.

🚲🩺 For the last three years, Kirsty, an NHS health visitor in Glasgow, has cycled to work and appointments, helped by new cycling infrastructure. "Seeing all the people cycling on the cycle lane is amazing. I feel so much safer where I know that area is for people on bikes and there are no cars."

The noise I made

Architects O'DonnellBrown have been commissioned to come up with temporary structures to bring the site ravaged by fire in Union Street back into use while we wait for a permanent solution to be developed. I think this is great and means we won't have a gap site. www.urbanrealm.com/news/2026/07...

Pretty big move for the Culture Secretary to leave X, saying her department will too.

Evolution of cycle traffic in Paris 👀

What a mad mad game

“This story is much bigger than cycling alone” - this shows the transformation and regeneration of a city with livability in mind in less than two decades. Lessons for #Edinburgh from @bicycledutch.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0jS...

I was raised on these streets

I was raised on these streets

Breaking News! Code: y-axis alert! The November Niño 3.4 sea-surface temperature anomaly is now forecast by CFSv2 to be 4.01°C above the 1991-2020 baseline, breaking through the 4°C barrier for the first time. Source: www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/CFS...

Just one possible outcome... but the GFS weather forecast model is suggesting 40-41°C is possible in the UK around 7th July. This is a long-range forecast with significant uncertainty, but the fact that we are even seeing such values fairly regularly in the forecasts is extraordinary.

Underappreciated reason to like Govan: the Old Parish Church has a totally unique collection of dozens of elaborately carved, 1100-year-old Brittonic and Viking age ceremonial stones, unearthed from the graveyard... and you can just like, walk in and see them.

I'm diving back in

The Netherlands Railways (NS) have rolled out a €49 monthly ticket for unlimited train travel nationwide. Good transport policy is not about one mode winning over another. It is about building a system where walking, cycling, public transport and shared mobility work together.

Fine

This is remarkable.

Courtney Barnett's new album is so so good.

Letter in today's Times by climate scientist Sir Brian Hoskins: "The discourse around net-zero is increasingly decoupled from…science and our changing weather. "Net-zero is not an arbitrary slogan, rather it is dictated by the laws of physics."

Cycled to Lochwinnoch last weekend. Newly renovated sections of NCN75 looking great and a breeze to cycle on. Section we felt most vulnerable on (just as when I cycled there age 14-15) was the main road in Elderslie... which thankfully has fantastic cycle lane plans in the works. Worth a look!

The Netherlands has introduced a €49 monthly ticket for unlimited nationwide train travel—a bold political response to soaring energy costs. When prices at the pump rise, you can either double down on car dependency, or give people attractive alternatives. The Dutch are (again) choosing the latter.

"Seeing the road from a cyclist’s perspective was eye opening and has already changed the way I approach everyday driving." Hear more about the positive impact of Road User Awareness Training, from fleet drivers of infrastructure services provider, M Group: buff.ly/Yx3uvLg

It's 37c out there, feels like 38, and streets given over entirely to cars, without trees, are unbearably hot. We need a rethink

Rarely hear any talk about the South Wales Metro project in Glasgow, despite it being a good analogue for the proposed #ClydeMetro. Wonder if we could end up seeing tram-trains like these on the Cathcart Circle or the Argyle Line in the years to come.

The facade of Alexander "Greek" Thomson's Egyptian Halls has finally started emerging from behind the scaffolding after nearly 20 years. Follower Robert Leckie shared this cracking image, taken from the ScotRail bothy across the street. 📷 Robert Leckie #Glasgow

Happy birthday to the heatwave of 1976 which began today 50 years ago, peaking at 35.9°C. If a comparable heatwave happened in the current climate it would be 3-4°C hotter, peaking at 38-39°C. And the actual forecast is for temperatures of 38-39°C in the next few days with a red heatwave warning.

🦊 They're back!

🚲⬇️🚶‍♀️⬆️ Swish new underground cycle parking on Nieuwe Markt, a recently opened public square in Groningen. 1,250 secure spaces for bikes, easily accessible and smack bang in the centre of town. Convenient for residents/visitors. Pretty good for all the businesses nearby too.