Compare and contrast the Government language. £3,750 EV grant on a £35k car: ‘helping families’. Cycle to Work: ‘subsidising leisure’. And yet cycling delivers TEN TIMES the impact of electric cars for reaching net zero. It’s almost like narrative, not data, is driving policy.

Wheels for Wellbeing are concerned by reports that the Chancellor is considering putting a maximum price for cycles allowed through the Cycle to Work scheme. We are calling for the scheme to be reformed rather than capped. Read our full statement. wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk/wheels-for-w...

We are concerned about recent talk about cuts to the Cycle to Work Scheme. Though the scheme has some limits, where other forms of transport present barriers to Disabled people, cycling can for some be a method of independent travel that is supported through the Cycle To Work Scheme.

Zag Daily's list of 100 Mobility Changemakers has been published. There are loads of great people on the list but it's a real shame none of the Disabled people leading accessible transport campaigns or the Disabled People's Organisations delivering change in the UK have been included. bit.ly/4pjqcor

I think it’s a lot easier to live without cooking appliances than without mobility. Yes, I’ve done both. As a carer, too. And people should have the right to homes where they can cook (or be provided with hot meals that they choose if they can’t cook) as well as the right to mobility!

We're hearing more and more cases where Disabled people are being denied the right to use safe powered mobility aids for essential mobility in their homes, workplaces, education, healthcare and transport settings. Mobility isn't nice-to-have: it's essential.

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If you like it, you could loan one of your own for a month, for FREE, delivered to your door through #Wheels4Me London! Visit wheels4me.co.uk to learn more. Wheels4Me London is delivered in partnership with @sustrans.bsky.social, @peddlemywheels.bsky.social & funded by the Motability Foundation.

Susie never got an opportunity to learn to cycle as a child, but took to it like a duck to water and was soon volunteering to share her new passion with others.

Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system 1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK 2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc 3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today

Someone just shared this with me: 1967, 3,000 publicans marching against introducing breath tests for drivers. Barbara Castle MP got this introduced and speed limits and seatbelts as mInister for transport, and faced the standard opposition.

Unreasonable fear of battery fires stoked by dangerous e-(motor)bike imports from online platforms is now stopping #Disabled people from using conventional mobility aids. AFAIK Powerchairs and mobility scooters are the same for highway law & product safety regulations. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Susie is amazing - I’m psyching myself up to match her in journey-making adventurousness. Genuine inspiration - as in “oooh, maybe I could manage that one day, too”, none of the patronising stuff!

Sustainable drainage feature nearly finished! It’s only taken 2 years… “If we do this, the drive won’t end up as a lake when it rains & you won’t have to cycle through mud all winter” was a great excuse to motivate teens & husband to dig, but honestly I just wanted to grow pretty wet-ground flowers…

#disability, #accessibility & #ActiveTravel Bluesky: I’m looking for the source of the UK Highway Code & govt advice that powerchair & mobility scooter users should be able to read a number plate from 12.3m/20ft. It’s not law- just advice given threateningly with prosecution warnings!

Disabled people don’t just exist off-peak. Our freedom to travel shouldn’t either. Have you written to your MP to let them know why they need to #UnlockTransportAccess for everyone? Take a couple of minutes to speak out now: https://bit.ly/3VIx95C

Why has this become socially acceptable?

Figs (outside) and grapes (unheated greenhouse) still ripening. In the midlands. Climate change? What climate change?!? Aargh! (I am enjoying the fruit, but…)

"The single most important behaviour, design or regulation for creating streets conducive to walking and cycling, was physical separation between the modes" We've got a new study out, learning from a broad mixture of street users, planners and designers www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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.

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

British.

Turns out figs can ripen in October, in the midlands. This has not happened to us before! Good thing that having this fig tree has trained me to like figs… or something…

"I moved to an area where my kids can bike to school, because as an advocate for livable cities, I wanted my kids to experience what it feels like to be free. And I wanted to be able to sleep in." -Cyprine Odada, founder of Women Shaping Cities, Nairobi

OK, took me a bit longer than expected to get this finished - but here’s my new-from-old pannier - complete with buttons from my grandma’s button jar! All reinforced and ready to hold my lock, mending kit & folding crutches. #cycling #disabled

Bike recommendations please! Looking for a step through unpowered bike, small adult size, reasonable gear range, rack & mudguard mounting points essential, dynamo lights nice. Would like an Islabike but… For Little Miss, for Xmas (shhhh!)- she has cracked 2-wheel riding! Current bike is a bit small…

Rumour has it I’m talking about my favourite infrastructure tomorrow. What am I going to choose?!? It’s all interesting! Sign up to the launch tomorrow or find the guide online now (shh!): #Accessibility #ActiveTravel #Disability wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk/our-campaign...

CYCLE SPOTLIGHT: Van Raam Maxi Comfort Our Inclusive Cycling Advisor, Katie, recently popped down to our @peddlemywheels.bsky.social partners and took the time to explain a little bit about what makes each of our cycles unique.

When not championing policy, our C&P lead, @kayinckle.bsky.social, is a talented fiction author, releasing her debut sci-fi novel today! We think its the first to be authored by AND include a wheelchair using, handcycling protagonist! srlpublishing.co.uk/product/over... #RepresentationMatters

Good deed of the day: Cutting overhanging branches obstructing a busy path. Turns out a backful of steroids is all I need to be able to use light tools! Told off by 1 person, thanked by 2. #ActiveTravel #Maintenance #Access

We were delighted to be mentioned in this powerful Guardian article by George Monbiot about the state of British journalism. “You cannot speak truth to power if power controls your words… but perhaps the ground is shifting.” #wearealltheclarion www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Fantastic to see what sounds like a sensible, positive proposal. Here’s hoping this becomes reality in the not-too-distant future

Anyone out in Bath today. If you spot this bike and tell me where it is I will pay you fuckin handsomely. Pop a lock on it I’ll literally give you £500.

I’m a bit overexcited about this: Our council have new bin lorries- and they’ve got low cabs! Wooo! Big win for road safety. Going to be much nicer walking/wheeling & cycling around these. Thanks Derby! #ActiveTravel #disability

We're thrilled that Dame Sarah Storey, Paralympian, and Phil Jones (PJA) will be joining us to speak about the Guide, along with our very own Kate Ball from the Campaigns and Policy Team. @phil-pja.bsky.social @tandemkate.bsky.social

Today, I have succeeded in raising the ghost of my 25-year-old, very loved pannier. New fabric, old hardware should last some more years. Tomorrow- full reanimation out of traditional ghostly Old Sheet - it’s going to be Pink! Really enjoying puzzling out how to end up with what I want for this!

How to tell if your bus driver in Manchester is definitely from before the Bee Network: 1. Doesn't lower bus to let you get pram on easily 2. Moves off before you've had a chance to park pram and put on brake 3. Does not brake for speed bumps 4. Close passes cyclists

Needed to go to big Asda. Baby too small for the trike still so we got the bus. Awful driver. Then we get off the bus and are greeted by this massive junction without signalled pedestrian crossings. No wonder people drive ten minute journeys.

Disappointment is… Hearing the bongs of Big Ben in real life for the first time… & finding out they’re much clearer & louder on the radio than on the street just by the tower. Little miss says Big Ben has got “too old” & needs replacing with a louder, younger bell. She brooks no argument on this.

“A landmark book”. John Harris in The Guardian

Hello; 1982? One of your junction designs has escaped again. What's that? Oh yes, guardrail all round the skinny staggered crossing islands. Say again? No, don't worry about mobility scooters because it's 1982. Why is TfL standing for this @willnorman.co.uk? #Havering

“Close Encounters of the Kerb Kind”? Symptom - mysterious regular bumping from rear wheel with worrying increasing size. Fortunately curable with a new tyre. Not really sure how this happened though - We’re not regular kerb-hoppers or vigorous riders. Wonder if it was a manufacturing defect.

Since July 2022, over 375,000 new homes have been built without meeting accessible or adaptable standards. For disabled and older people with changing mobility, this isn't just about housing — it's about basic rights, health and independence.

Even for an old hand there’s a first time for everything - quaxing my old-meets-new prosthesis home from the limb centre.

This is so incredibly ridiculously exciting - Mobility aid laws are going to be reviewed and made fit for purpose! Woo! (& yes, I do think this is *that* exciting!) #disability #ActiveTravel #MyCycleMyMobilityAid

Once again for those in the back: People who can’t drive because of: health conditions, age (too young!), finances (can’t afford a car), space (nowhere to park), environmental concerns, etc …. very often can cycle & need to cycle to make basic utility journeys! #MyCycleMyMobilityAid #disability

"My grandchildren will be learning in school about who did what in the worst crime of the 21st century.”

#disability stuff nobody tells you: If you live with someone who is physically affectionate with lots of people for lots more years than most people are… lovely as this can be, you will probably also all get headlice more times than is in any way reasonable. Thank goodness for Nitty Gritty combs!

🚨 RIGHT NOW opposite Labour Party HQ in London. We’ve turned their street into Jabaliya camp in Gaza. A genocide is happening, but the Labour government is supplying weapons, intelligence and diplomatic cover to the perpetrator. Protesting this is not terrorism.