Merry Christmas, bicycle friends!

Merry Christmas from York, where the beer tastes like ginger cake 🎄🧑‍🎄🍻

#Dundee #Criticalmass #Christmas Merry Christmas!

Free Christmas parking is an outdated concept. Most modern cities don’t subsidize parking but support transit instead. As Donald Shoup said: ‘free parking has to be paid by somebody, and that somebody is everybody including people that are too poor to own a car.’ youtu.be/cy1CKltrA2Y?...

A new World Bank report calls on governments to create dedicated Livable Streets Investment Programs, steadily scaling funding to 10% of road budgets by 2035. Why? Because livable streets deliver some of the highest returns in transport investment—up to €16 per €1 spent: investinlivablestreets.info

POV: Everybody's asking where the star is and you're confused because *you* are the star 🌟 📷 John Lindsey

The car industry doesn't want you to cycle because you cease to be a customer The fossil fuel industry doesn't want you to cycle because you cease to be a customer The NHS would LIKE you to cycle because you cease to be a customer

Bicycles travel at the speed of, “oh that’s a cute coffee shop. I should drop in”

Never forget, if you design a city for cars, it fails for everyone, including drivers. If you design a multi-modal city that makes walking, biking & public transit attractive options, it works better for everyone, including drivers. INCLUDING DRIVERS. The “war on cars” has always been a lie.

One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.

“We can’t all be expected to bike.” Fair. But that’s not the point. “Not everyone can or wants to bike. But some people can & do—and they deserve a safe, efficient, affordable way to move through the city. It’s about freedom of choice.” This & other useful comebacks, in @momentummag.bsky.social.

“If you want to build great cities, you build them for women. We are the ones out there taking more transit, hauling our kids and groceries around, making lots of the buying decisions, and deciding if our kids can walk or bike to school.” -Alice Tibbetts Latest Aunties article is out. It's great!

The best part is seeing what happens when you give children a joyful way to start their day. They show up energized, confident, and connected. This is what happens when streets feel welcoming and movement is part of the morning routine. #BikeBus

This explains something that has always mystified me about drivers who rail against bike lanes and transit. Why WOULDN'T you want people to have options not to drive? It would make your own driving better! But they don't just want good traffic, they want to reinforce the NORM of driving

this is mesmerizing

Want a future? Then wildly expand bicycle investments. Easy.

It says it all

Mayors play a crucial role in addressing the climate crisis. By reclaiming public space from the private property of cars, mayors can cut pollution, revive civic interaction, enhance public safety, and expand green space. But only if they're willing to take on entrenched interests.

Just preaching my message of "wanting to do less more often" we all have our reasons.

"Why should our experience at 10 kilometers an hour constrain the laws of nature at 300,000 kilometers a second?" -Carl Sagan, astronomer, planetary scientist, and science communicator Happy #BicycleBirthday, Carl Sagan! November 9 (1934-1996)

If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”

Today we rode to demand safer streets for women cycling in winter. Cycling is joyous but many women feel left out of our movement. It's time that changed.

No women, no safety Women on bikes are the indicator species of a city’s cycling health. If you don’t see many of us, it’s not about lack of interest — it’s about safety. Day 13 of the #carfreechallenge2025 #yegbike @bikeology.bsky.social

The WRGM Discord has been so successful that campaigners nationwide have launched a new forum - People Powered Streets. Tired of how negative social media has become? Join us to connect, share, and learn with others driving change. discord.com/invite/ayXhs...

If you want to push back against tech's encroachment into every corner of our lives, you have to read books. They're eager to create a future in which most people are illiterate and hooked on slop, a world without imagination or knowledge. Reading is resistance.

“Since the bicycle makes little demand on material or energy resources, contributes little to pollution, makes a positive contribution to health and causes little death or injury, it can be regarded as the most benevolent of machines.” Here’s the article by @carltonreid.com HT @sciam.bsky.social

“We assume that car use is an incompressible liquid that must be routed somewhere. But it’s more more like a gas that fills whatever space it is given.” —Ian Lockwood, Harvard Loeb Fellow, transport planner.

Dundee folks - light up your bikes and join us for a spooky Halloween #GlowRide #MyRideOurRight on Friday 31 October, followed by our monthly #CriticalMassRide @cyclingukscotland.bsky.social

"There's no machine known that is more efficient than a human on a bicycle. Bowl of oatmeal, 30 miles - you can't come close to that." -Bill Nye, science communicator Happy #BicycleBirthday, Bill! #BornOnThisDay November 27, 1955

Car-free cities are: ✅ thriving cities ✅ healthy cities ✅ care free cities ✅ fun cities ✅ active cities ✅ inclusive cities ✅ free cities #WorldCarFreeDay

In this Starter Kit, I'm sharing with you 50 people who are passionate about sustainable urban planning and quality of life go.bsky.app/CZhovb2

"This is a call to arms to prevent ill health. Cycling is part of prevention: we need ambitious vision, and walking and cycling to be the norm". Jillian Evans of NHS Grampian, highlights the public health issues prevalent in Scotland and the essential role of active travel in tackling this.

"Six times more people are killed on the roads in the UK each year than through knife crime. If this was any other area of our lives, we would never tolerate this level of harm." Rebecca Morris’ impassioned speech calls for more immediate action for safer streets. #CyclingScotlandConf

All set up and ready for #CyclingScotlandConf 2025 in a slightly soggy Dundee @dundeecycling.co.uk #DundeeDragons

EXCLUSIVE: Leaked footage of radical anti-car cyclists at a training camp.

Lifesaving, life-improving: transformed quality of life along a key route that used to be too dangerous for most folks to consider cycling, and horrible for walk/wheel as well. We love the skills, vision, and determination here. World class Camden!

We joined Scottish Borders Council on Tuesday to celebrate the new Hawick #ActiveTravel Network 🎉 Through 7km of widened shared-use paths, accessible ramps and footbridges, the network opens up opportunities for walking, wheeling and cycling. More 👉 buff.ly/NqpEgeF

This Friday 17.30 City Square join us to help make cycling an attractive, inclusive and accessible everyday transport option in Dundee!

Ghent implemented a circulation plan, in part, BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T HAVE MONEY FOR INFRASTRUCTURE. But the results were rapid: car traffic evaporated and cycling increased by 60%.

“No other invention combines the useful with the pleasant as closely as the bicycle.” - Adam Opel (1837-1895), founder of Adam Opel AG, which originally produced sewing machines and bicycles, and later automobiles

I’ve mulled over posting this for months now. But yesterday it came to a head. And I’m aware that the people who need to see it will either not be here, or will suggest that I’m lying. I live near an asylum hotel. The reason I didn’t post earlier is that I didn’t want to raise undue attention

"The plan for the National Walking, Wheeling and Cycling Network, is the work of a consortium of urban mayors and government officials and announced July 2, bringing together the construction or improvement of 3,500 miles of routes..." @lauralaker.bsky.social 👇 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

On fascism: a hard-wired problem with our information environment is that headlines (attention grabbing; black & white simplification) are inherently reactionary, while body text (takes longer to absorb; contains nuance; reveals complexity) is progressive. 75% of people don't read past the headline.

People will be like "I would do anything for my kids!!!" right up until you suggest dropping the speed limit to 20mph.

One of the best benefits of Congestion Pricing was how much quieter the streets have gotten. Everyone hates car noise

This campaign was organised by our members on Discord Want to get involved? Join the WRGM Discord here: discord.com/invite/scjf9... Join the People Powered Streets National Discord here: discord.com/invite/ayXhs...

Proving once again that nobody builds bridges because people swim across a river. They cross the river because you built the bridge.

Interesting study from Germany on e-bikes and the modes they replace: "43.1% of electric bicycle trips and 63.2% of electric bicycle mileage would have been undertaken using a car if no e-bike had been available, highlighting their substantial potential to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions"

Even Stuttgart, with the German car industry all around, is looking to develop new sustainable forms of urban living based around proximity. Yet in the UK we're largely just asking how we can continue to drive everywhere

The A66 dualling project that my MP is so keen on will return 48p for every £1 spent, 92p if dubious wider benefits are included. Whereas for every €1 the Dutch invest in cycling for transport, they recoup €32 in public health savings. Someone's spending public money wisely, and it's not us.