We are floating the removal of the ONLY tax break on cycles. (Yes, it’s imperfect, yes it misses out the chunk of population that don’t pay income tax). We are definitely not going to restore the fuel tax on petrol to where it should be. Remind me again why I voted for you?

Think a lot of cyclists in Oxford and Oxfordshire are delighted with this. We may now get Road Safety back on the agenda with TVP and a police force that actually listens, and cares. #cyclinglife

“Cycle to Work should be about helping ordinary commuters switch to greener travel, not giving tax breaks to high earners buying £4,000 e-bikes for weekend rides in the Surrey Hills”. To the contrary, £4k can get a young family out of a car and onto a cargo bike in a cycle lane.

Won't someone please think of the people paying £600 per night for a suite? They want their Oxford congestion charge refunding, so let's screw the bus users and chuck the whole thing in the bin. (1/2) www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2561634...

Axing the cycle-to-work scheme might seem like low-hanging fruit for a cash-strapped Treasury, but it would be a big mistake. Particularly with expensive kid-carrying cargo e-bikes, it's one of the most effective modal shift levers out there. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

From an Oxford bus driver ⬇️

Is it wrong to set up a crowd funding to buy @nathanley.com a house in #Didcot, to have half a chance of change? Appreciate David R has tried now for a long time 😊

My swim squad has started communicating on Facebook, so I’ve had to activate my account. I’ve never been so depressed by the Councillors for Didcot. Apparently we need more roads, remove the one bus gate and they voted against the congestion charge. We deserve more. #Didcot needs more.

I don't need the flying taxi because the fact they're using government funds for this bullshit instead of active and public transport is enough to send me into orbit.

Good to see that one year on: Didcot gridlocked with cars ✅ Dangerous as ever to cycle ✅ Pavement parking out of control ✅ GWR trains expensive & late ✅ But it’s okay; once Olly gets promoted we may see some change. Starting to feel it was a wasted vote & the change promised isn’t coming #didcot

There are households round here who have a massive SUV each, a car for each kid, a sporty car for fun and a £60k campervan for occasional weekends away. They don't need reduced fuel duty to make ends meet, and it's the wrong tool to help those who ARE struggling financially. Just raise their incomes

How about providing transport alternatives rather than subsidising fuel costs for people who can pay £800 a month to rent their Land Rovers?

@rickedwards1.bsky.social discussing the #inflation & cost of living. Can see the huge surge in the cost of ethical chocolate with Tony’s @sainsburys.bsky.social going through the roof - hugely worrying given Cadburys remains so cheap?

Pretty normal for a Saturday in Didcot!

Insane scenes in #didcot today with the traffic. Depressing.

Apparently we’ve just found out how to get your tax @teamlabouruk.bsky.social ?

"TD asks about making high-vis compulsory for “all pedestrians, cyclists and users of school transport” I cannot explain how rage making this is. WE ARE NOT THE PROBLEM. DRIVERS ARE. irishcycle.com/2025/07/05/t...

Let's keep growing this movement. Lower bills. Reduce rents. Fund our public services. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Hi @theguardian.com - please can you re draft this article? Maybe address the massive issue that #cycling as a sport will be invisible to everyone in the UK now unless they pay. I’m not sure why our MPs have not taken action? #cyclinglife www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...

I have raised this issue directly with the same minister in a Westminster Hall debate I led on the topic of walking and cycling to school. See link below. hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2025...

This week I met a young man with significant visual impairments, who relies on a guide dog to get around He showed me just how much more difficult his life is made by those who selfishly and lazily block pavements when parking their cars

Well done to Cheadle's Lib Dem MP Tom Morrison for calling on the government to act on pavement parking, five years after the public consultation.

@ollyglover.bsky.social 👀 #pavementparking @badlyparkedox.bsky.social

There's always a cartoon by @andy-singer.bsky.social that nails it.

Welcome to #Didcot. Where adults have such faith in the safety of our roads (on a new build estate) that they cycle on the paths. It’s beyond depressing, yet nothing changes. #cyclinglife #letsallhaveaconsultation

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Amazing to hear how much discussion there is over dangerous "e-bike" riding (usually always electric motorbikes) compared to the amount of discussion over the constant dangerous driving everyone encounters daily. It's so normalised we don't see it any more.

Anyone know where we access any minutes / record of Matthew speaking about parking enforcement… Be interested to actually understand if he discussed the needs of all of Didcot and the horrific #pavementparking that is taking over our town? @badlyparkedox.bsky.social @dandwlabour.bsky.social

Oxfordshire County Council’s cabinet has voted to go forward with a consultation on a congestion charge for Oxford. The six-week consultation will start later this month, for a Cabinet decision after the summer, and the congestion charge potentially going live in the autumn.

Huge news coming out of OCC. There is hope for #didcot & outside of #Oxford yet. So exciting, massive congrats @emilykerr36.bsky.social ! #cyclinglife

This is right, as these users use roads, pavements, cycle lanes without restriction to deliver the fast food. However we need caution, TVP and even MPs are too quick to categorise all bikes as “dangerous”. Of course cars are waving there at us, killing us everyday? #cyclinglife #activetravel

We do not need new roads; we need better transport options. Think of what could be done with £9.2bn, which is to be spent on just 14 miles of road! It could transform bus services and/or cycling and pedestrian infrastructure across Britain. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The two shades of #cycling in #Oxford. Absolute joy seeing parents & children use the plain for cycling now a lot of the cars have gone. Absolute pain further down as too many cars. The sooner we free these link roads up the better. Thank god it’s finally being discussed. #activetravel

The great thing about biking many hours per week is that you get to look in people's windows and see absolutely egregious levels of phone usage. If their windows are down, I love yelling at them, and then they look up from their phone all startled like, "Oh, am I supposed to be paying attention???"

Cyclists see this all the time.

Oxford Labour right now:

One of the despairing / frustrated bus commuters 🙋‍♂️ It’s incredible how bad the traffic is in #Didcot and the knock on effect on buses.

“West Yorkshire Police told the BBC that all submissions to its online portal for reporting driving offences, known as Operation SNAP, were reviewed by experienced officers.” Hi @ TVP 👋

Yay can I do my #CongestionCharge dance? #Oxford

Finally. Can we have Didcot next?

What are the level of #roadtraffic incidents per day in #Oxfordshire? We need a response to this Matthew. Urgently. #cyclinglife #activetravel

Keir Starmer and David Lammy must speak and condemn this interception. All humanitarian aid must be able to reach people desperately in need. The UK govt have been active participants in the genocide. The eyes of the world must be on Gaza. Release the Madleen crew.

We really need our MPs to do something about this. I started cycling again due to Sky and was inspired - children and adults won’t have access to cycling on tv from the end of this year. @ollyglover.bsky.social #cyclinglife

You can't tell just from lycra or drop bars whether someone is cycling for utility or leisure, what their views on cycle infrastructure are, or whether they ride a hybrid/cargo in street clothes at other times. If just seeing them makes you feel angry or affronted, that's a you problem.

It’s as if TVP aren’t interested in speeding or road safety unless: A) it’s a farmer’s tractor being stolen; or B) it’s the real danger on our roads of electric scooters. There needs to be change and road traffic safety taken seriously - until that happens we cannot say #activetravel is safe.

Possibly the best article I’ve read in years on a Friday 😂

The Woodstock Road improvements* have sadly not stopped drivers parking on double yellow lines in the cycle lane. There is a huge car park _just_ down the road. C'mon!!! @badlyparkedox.bsky.social *hurrah for more space for pedestrians! Boo to antisocial parking!

The real question is not how Rachel Reeves is finding £15.6bn, but how she is able to sit at a slight angle on a GWR chair without her body going into spasm

I really resent it when motor lobbyists claim to speak on behalf of "drivers". I'm a driver myself: that doesn't mean I don't support building more bike lanes, ped crossings and investing in public transport - yes, even if that's at the expense of driving space/time. There are many people like me!

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