Your Comeback Guide to all the Anti-Cycling Arguments You’ll Hear This Year. momentummag.com/your-comebac...

You can’t take away parking spaces in Liverpool city centre, it’ll destroy the local economy they say… Would you bring the cars back to Bold Street? 🚙🚙🚙🚙

8 a.m. this morning on a very chilly but beautiful day, a month since the counter was fixed, 339,000+ journeys by bicycle in one month. Imagine if they were car journeys; cycle lanes benefit everyone. @cs3cs6count.bsky.social

Well that was a blast! 💥🚲🪩💕

MCC backs Liverpool’s new parking strategy - our letter to the Echo. This is not a “war on cars” — it is a war on congestion, toxic air and streets where people feel they have no alternative but to drive. www.merseycycle.org.uk/mcc-backs-li... @lpoolcouncil.bsky.social @liverpoolecho.co.uk

Bloody brilliant 👇

About 5 years #carfree for us. Well north of £10k saved. I’m used to it now but ‘free’ is the right term. It honestly felt like having a weight lifted. No stressing about insurance, huge unexpected bills & money wasted at petrol pumps. Journeys are now fun. 🚆 🚊 🚃 🚌 🚲 🚶‍♀️

Remembering John Lennon on what would have been his 85th birthday 🕊️ “As a kid, I had a dream – I wanted to own my own bicycle. When I got the bike I must have been the happiest boy in Liverpool, maybe the world. I lived for that bike.”

@petergeoghegan.bsky.social talks about the financial powers behind the UK's right wing politics. #ukpolitics #farage #podcast

Today in life under competitive authoritarianism

In 2013, when faced with Miami-area gridlock, tennis champion Serena Williams made headlines by riding a bicycle to her match. "It was probably one of my best memories I think ever, riding a bike to a match" she said. #BicycleBirthday Serena Williams September 26, 1981

In other news, I’ve discovered that I don’t mind sitting facing backwards on trains after all.

Between this & zero traffic deaths in Helsinki last year.... The simple truth that's somehow utterly unintelligible to capitalism & those in its thrall is that doing the right thing by the vulnerable (be they houseless, pedestrians, or anything else) makes the world BETTER FOR EVERYONE.

🚨🚨 Sound up loud for our brand new video! 📽️📽️ People riding to the song of the moment - turn it up and enjoy! 🎶 Last Saturday, Haringey Cycling organised a marshalled family ride around local animal murals. We got an amazing turnout, because People Love Cycling. … /1

Get your headphones on and go for walk with @walkridegm.org.uk's excellent podcast Moving Up North, to learn more about what effective #ActiveTravel campaigning looks like🚲🚶🏾‍♀️🧑‍🦽 🛴 www.walkridegm.org.uk/2024/11/01/m...

After the rivers of blood speech, precisely no one in the major parties patted themselves on the back and declared free speech to be alive and well. They declared Powell a pariah, and he was only able to re-emerge in public life as the incongruous unionist MP for South Down.

You can spend your time arguing with their bot accounts. You can dismiss them as an extreme minority we should ignore. It won’t shift the dial. To reclaim our future use your voice to build and strengthen the communities they attack and show firsthand how hope beats hate.

Things are incredibly grim, but there are small, tentative signs of improvement. Maybe. iandunt.substack.com/p/three-reas...

There’s a HUGE Elon Musk shaped hole in the Government’s new plans to improve our elections: shady billionaires like Musk can still donate massive amounts of money with no cap: effectively buying our democracy. Add your name to call for a cap on donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

Breaking: Jair Bolsonaro has been sentenced to 27 years in prison after being found guilty of plotting a military coup. This is the appropriate consequence and punishment for attempting to overthrow your own nation's democracy.

Notre ville change ! Nos rues sont peu à peu rendues aux habitants, de nouveaux arbres sont plantés et les promenades facilitées et sécurisées. C'est le cas de la rue Chaptal dans le 9e ou celle du Docteur-Lecène dans le 13e !

Where would I start? Discouraging short car trips for those who can walk, obvs, and taking steps like banning pavement parking and fixing pelican crossings to make walking easier and quicker. Getting house builders to stop building car-dependent transport deserts could also be a lasting impact

It's disappointing that the government's plan to get people moving is focused around "Go for a jog" rather than, as the evidence suggests, building environments that encourage everyday incidental exercise: the ability to walk to amenities liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/388...

Labour's cowardice in the face of extremism iandunt.substack.com/p/labours-co...

People on bikes fear that without protected bike lanes, people in cars will “completely kill” them.

Latest report from me below, and here's the Guardian's coverage (thanks to the environment team for covering it). Current policy won't deliver the emissions reductions from transport needed by 2030 and risks widening inequality. Prioritising fairness is the key to unlocking faster climate action.

So, (very) belatedly, my @theobserveruk.bsky.social column on immigration, culture, the Judeo-Christian tradition and echoes across a century: observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

"All this is not overtly “blood and soil,” but the underlying logic – that your ethnicity and ancestry is your primary and most important identity is essentially the same" @jdportes.bsky.social getting to the root of populist racism - from Goodhart to Goodwin. bylinetimes.com/2025/08/19/r...

Letter of the day (in the Times)

It’s not just eyesight but also reaction times and risk judgement- we risk testing what is easy to test and missing important factors. Improved public transport and safe walking (e.g. even pavements and well segregated pedestrian and cycle infrastructure) would help reduce need for car dependency.

Father in law driving, passes a cyclist. ME: that was a bit close HIM: ME: imagine it's me next time HIM: okay ME: thank you

Road traffic deaths are not inevitable!

"Challenging car dominance is never simply a technical decision about street layouts or emissions levels. It is a challenge to a deeply embedded status quo" - Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo.

London's Strand Aldwych is more than a facelift; it’s an ambitious metamorphosis of an inhospitable traffic sewer into a vibrant civic stage for culture, learning, play, and human connection. This is city-making refined for the 21st century: turning underutilised asphalt into spaces of possibility.🔚

1 in 3 doctors were born overseas. 1 in 2 builders were born overseas. 1 in 6 nurses were born overseas. 1 in 4 transport workers were born overseas. 1 in 7 UK business founders were born overseas. 1 in 5 university academics were born overseas. The UK would be screwed without them.

Not a single person died on Helsinki’s roads in the last year. An impressive achievement which shows cities across the world that road traffic deaths are not inevitable. www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finl... Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year - Helsinki Times

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability & quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

This is great to see. Ending the acceptance of road death is such a well-framed, worthwhile and important ambition, and one that we should roll out across the country.

Loving the walking and cycling culture in Ghent, which has one of the largest car-free zones in Europe (there are a few cars in the centre but they are ‘guests’ and have to give way to everyone else)🚶🏼‍♀️🚲💕🇧🇪 #ActiveTravel

Essential holiday reading in the cycling nirvana that is Ghent 🇧🇪🚲☕️💕 @modacitylife.com

In Paris, “school streets” are now calm, lovely, car-free spaces. The visionary policy championed by @annehidalgo.bsky.social has had a profound effect. We can learn from this. Rue Charles Baudelaire, 12e

‘Motornormativity’ - where society fails to address the massive harm caused by motor vehicles, leading to a higher acceptance of death and injury on our roads. In the case of the West Midlands, a shocking 2,373 people last year. @ianwalker.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2023/j...

Too often, anything other than car infrastructure is treated as an afterthought or an add-on. To give everyone real freedom of choice in transportation, cities must be designed with equity and intent. The money and space always exist. It’s the courage to challenge car dominance that doesn’t.

Really enjoyed this conversation, with examples of how our behaviours are so often shaped not by what we know or believe but are shaped by the environment and options around us. We DO things (which are made easy for us by our environment) and THEN we believe they are worth doing.

I’ve listened to this podcast twice, and want to listen again to take notes - so many fascinating insights from @ianwalker.bsky.social and @edwardlamb.bsky.social about the strange psychology of car driving and #motornormativity open.spotify.com/episode/2Yxn... @lowtrafficfuture.bsky.social

Children have as much right to their streets as drivers. There is no legal basis for them being shoed off streets. And I have no doubt that cars - moving and parked - cause a nuisance for children. This is extraordinarily depressing from Manchester City Council. @playingout.bsky.social

Clever new study shows a powerful ‘status quo bias’ prevails re new transport policy. Looks at levels of public fear about this, finds exact inverse of the Goodwin Curve of public support: the “Hill of Hysteria”! Sad to see so many choose to die on that hill www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...