"The findings reveal that...traffic crashes are often framed as isolated, inevitable events, downplaying systemic issues such as infrastructure and policy" - new study of German-speaking media produces interesting results www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

This reduction was consistent across: ✔️ travel modes ✔️ junctions with/without traffic lights Filtering side streets hasn't just made internal LTN roads safer - it has made boundary-LTN junctions safer too. No negative impacts on other boundary road junctions. findingspress.org/article/1434... 3/

LTNs were associated with a 35% reduction in all injuries, rising to 37% for deaths and serious injuries www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... #VisionZero

“Being more active” is “one of the most impressive things you can do to preserve health of all forms, physical and mental”…”the best way for people to do this was to build it into their everyday life, for example by walking, cycling or wheeling for transport” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Here’s the “elephant in the room” with the outstanding (and FAST) growth in urban biking here in Paris — the tension between 2 NATURAL ALLIES, people on bikes and people walking, needs work, lest it become a political wedge issue. City Hall reminds everyone that pedestrians have priority EVERYWHERE.

On Saturday 21 June, Southwark Council is bringing everyone together to celebrate our High Streets. On Bellenden Road from 11am there will be with children’s games, face-painting, live music, food from local businesses, cycling activities and much more. www.southwark.gov.uk/news/2025/so...

PARIS CITY HALL EXHIBITION TO OPEN JUNE 21st! I’m proud to join Paris Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social, iconic artist Shepard Fairey @obeygiant.bsky.social & local leaders next week to open this conversation-changing EXHIBITION on city leadership in climate action! www.paris.fr/evenements/d...

The rollout of driverless vehicles must not be an excuse to further diminish the role of the pedestrian in urban life. The streets of the 20th century were reshaped to suit cars, often at enormous social cost…People stopped walking…Road deaths..became normalised. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

@cleancitiescampaign.org backs the SUV Alliance manifesto and is calling on the govt to introduce stricter regs on vehicle design to reverse the trend towards larger bodies and higher bonnets on cars. We want urgent action in the new Road Safety Strategy. 7/8 www.suv-alliance.org.uk/blog/letter-...

Fantastic to be out in Southwark yesterday meeting with council & local community for our Big Community Transport Tour. Inspiring to see real progress being made - from creating safer, greener streets to freeing up space for walking, cycling & public transport.

Rue Chaptal - it just finished

Good to see a new zebra crossing and wider pavements have been installed on Grove Vale. This was always difficult and dangerous to cross, now much safer. @jamesmcash.bsky.social @cleanairdulwich.bsky.social @southwarkls.bsky.social

Come and join us to celebrate our high streets. Saturday 21 June - Bellenden Road, Peckham, from 11am to 4pm We’re bringing residents, families, communities and businesses together with children’s games, music, cycling activities and much more. www.southwark.gov.uk/southwark-pr...

Last year more people were killed on the roads than were murdered in London. Speed is a factor in about half of all fatalities. @TfL research shows we can prevent these tragedies - we're rolling out more safer speed zones to will save more lives. www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...

New research provides conclusive proof that 20mph in London is saving lives 🚶🚲🚌🚗 14 yrs of analysis at 150+ sites - reviewed by experts - shows: ❤️40% fewer deaths (vs 7% drop on roads where no changes were made) ❤️75% fewer children killed & 50% fewer kids hurt.

Just ignore all the myths about low-traffic neighbourhoods: they’re popular, effective and here to stay www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#VisionZero #RoadSafety #Carspreading uk.news.yahoo.com/suvs-more-da...

Happy #NationalWalkingMonth! Join us as we celebrate the #MagicOfWalking and wheeling this May – and isn't today THE perfect weather to get out and about?☀️ Find out how you can get involved: www.livingstreets.org.uk/nwm

Hammersmith bridge reopens to people walking and cycling 👏 www.bbc.com/news/article...

The OBR forecast now assumes fuel duty will rise by 5p in March 2026 and uprated by RPI in every year from April 2026. Yet the reversal of the 5p cut has been delayed three times and fuel duty has not been uprated with RPI since 2011! obr.uk/docs/dlm_upl...

Vous avez été 66% à vous prononcer “pour” végétaliser et rendre piétonnes 500 nouvelles rues réparties dans tous les quartiers. Dans les prochaines semaines, une concertation sera ouverte pour définir la liste des rues et débuter la transformation de la Ville !

Find out more about our #carspreading campaign and how you can get involved at the link below, including our new tool to contact your local council 🙏 3/3 cleancitiescampaign.org/carspreading/

NEW: Paris residents are voting in a referendum today on whether an extra 500 of the city's streets should be pedestrianised & greened. "For the past 25 yrs we've gradually been reclaiming public space for pedestrians & gentle traffic, & with 'garden streets' to create lungs within neighbourhoods.”

Breathtaking #BurgessPark in the spring sunshine with its swathes of cherry plum blossom @lb-southwark.bsky.social

Friday's your last chance to comment on TfL's proposals for the Bakerloop BL1 bus from Waterloo to Lewisham via the Elephant & Castle and the Old Kent Road Read more ➡️ www.se1.news/bl1-bakerloo...

Eerste Jacob van Campenstraat, Amsterdam in 1988 and today

When all you could do was walk, we walked. Now you can do whatever the hell you want again, we keep walking and walking. #LoveLondon.

For the first time, the Norwegian government has calculated the value to society of the health benefits of increased walking and cycling. 🚲 ~€2.8 for each additional km of cycling 🚶‍♀️ ~€4.2 for each additional km of walking

Remember this picture, & others like it, every time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam." This was #Amsterdam in the 1970s. Many of the cities we admire made better choices regarding cars in the past. and are still making better choices today. Better choices instead of excuses.

The iconic Cox’s Walk footbridge has reopened after restoration funded by @lb-southwark.bsky.social ark.bsky.social to halt its decline 🎉 This much-loved landmark can now be enjoyed by all, as part of a popular circular walk in Dulwich & Sydenham Hill Woods. www.wildlondon.org.uk/news/coxs-wa...

Never forget, if you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan cities for people and places, you get people and places. Plan for the city you want. HT Fred Kent

Historic Cox's Walk footbridge has been officially reopened after extensive restoration. The bridge in Sydenham Woods, Dulwich, has been designed in a way that protects trees and the woodland habitat. Thank you to all the local volunteers who helped make this happen. #StreetsForPeople

Been speaking with Aaron Paul on BBC London about parking enforcement fines going up for first time in 13 years. 🚶🏽‍♀️‍➡️ 👨🏽‍🦯‍➡️ 👩‍🦽‍➡️Parking rules exist to keep our streets safe and to let people use dropped kerbs and cross the road safely. 👮🏼‍♀️ Fines need to cover the cost of enforcement and deter bad parking.

👀 Once you see #Carspreading, you see it everywhere. It's taking over our streets, one oversized SUV at a time. Share your #Carspreading photos so we can show the world how bad it's getting. https://buff.ly/3X99Lzf

The head at Thomas Buxton Primary School in has asked for an LTN scheme to keep children safe, one was planned, but like the one in this article it was never implemented. #MoreLTNsNeeded People living in Tower Hamlets deserve better than this #trafficsewer www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...

The entire argument summed up in just one simple exchange.

Are you disabled and live in York or Cardiff? Do you have issues with access control barriers on traffic-free routes when walking, wheeling, or cycling? We are recruiting disabled participants for in person interviews to discuss their experiences. DM, comment, email if interested. 1/

A very clear response from London Fire Commissioner, Andy Rowe to a question at Fire Plenary last week from Emma Best AM about the impact of LTNs on fire brigade attendance times. "We genuinely couldn't find any evidence of LTNs doing anything to our overall attendance times".

HOT RESEARCH NEWS! Motonormativity ("car brain") is a bias that stops people making rational judgements about driving en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motonor... Our new study shows where this bias comes from AND how it makes people think they're odd for supporting changes to the transport system 🧵

This new data is incredibly shocking. 30mph limits are most common in areas where we live, work and where children go to school. We all deserve to be safe on our streets, but this selfish behaviour of a few means we’re not. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🚗💨 How do SUVs impact our cities? Join our webinar to explore SUV trends, their effects on safety & space, and how parking reforms are pushing back! 📅 19 Feb ⏰ 14:30 CET 🔗 Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/suvs-in... @eurocities.bsky.social @polisnetwork.eu @transenv.bsky.social

Demand more police enforcement on London's roads. MOPAC is consulting on a draft police & crime plan for London (2025 to 2029). Ask for the plan to contain far more about crime on London's roads. Please respond by 12th Feb - suggestions in our briefing: actionvisionzero.org/2025/02/10/m...

Provisional @transportforlondon.bsky.social data shows that 61 (55%) of the 110 people killed on London's roads in 2024 were pedestrians - a rise of almost a quarter vs 2023 (49 pedestrian fatalities). In October 13 pedestrians were killed on London's roads. www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...

The moon glimpsed through the catkins of Alnus x spaethii (Spaeth's Alder) on Spa Road #Bermondsey @thestreettree.bsky.social

Congestion pricing seems to have triggered a surge in Manhattan pedestrian activity: “Nearly 36M people last month were in areas south of 60th Street in Manhattan, a 4.6% boost from January 2024.” (The increase was 1.6% outside the zone.) Suggests retail sales are growing within the zone, too.

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IMPORTANT: A recent study found what we’ve been saying for a LONG time — autonomous vehicles would significantly increase car trips, with huge consequences to everything from congestion to emissions. And it’s true even if the AVs are shared, not privately owned. www.caee.utexas.edu/prof/bhat/AB...

Remember that brief period during Covid in 2020 when Soho pedestrianised a whole load of streets for outdoor dining and, for a brief few months, it wasn't an unpleasant place dominated by rat running motor traffic. Why on earth didn't it stay like that, think of all that extra trade!

Charing Cross Road, pedestrianised today. Glorious. Because whenever you take cars away, cities get better.

20mph speed limits in London has cut fatal & serious collisions by 25%. 🚲👨‍🦽‍➡️🚶❤️ And now car insurance companies are saying that it’s helping reduce the cost premiums because of fewer claims. 💷💷💷