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Campaigning for safe, attractive & enjoyable streets across the London Borough of Wandsworth
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Dr Matthew Hardy
about 2 hours ago
Sign. Drivers kill far too many animals already. Legislate to require drivers to report collisions with cats - Petitions
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Petition: Legislate to require drivers to report collisions with cats
It is legal in the UK to hit a cat when driving and not need to stop or report collisions, leaving them scared, alone, and in pain. Cats are important, loved, valued family members for many and we bel...
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/750612
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Caroline Russell
about 5 hours ago
đźš— đź’¨ Pollution alert! Walk, cycle, catch the bus, tube or overground and avoid driving if you possibly can! This will help people with asthma or other lung and heart conditions to get on with their days safely.
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Living Streets
about 5 hours ago
Meet keynote speakers Alexei Lee and Jo Bacon from
@atkinsrealis.bsky.social
They'll share insights on behaviour, design and creating streets that put pedestrians first. Don’t miss it!
https://bitly.livingstreets.org.uk/4uazMwV
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan
about 8 hours ago
Less concrete, more green. Coming soon to Oxford Street: 🌿 Lush new greenery 🪑 Accessible seating and rest areas ✨ Brighter, safer lighting and clear signs 🎉 Space for world-class events.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan
about 13 hours ago
The future of Oxford Street starts here 🗺️ By the end of summer, the heart of the West End (Orchard St to Great Portland St) becomes a traffic-free zone. No vehicles, no pedicabs, just a world-class destination for Londoners. Take a look at the first phase of the transformation:
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still last
about 11 hours ago
Joined up government?
#ActiveTravelEngland
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Living Streets
about 10 hours ago
Walk to School Week 2026 classroom packs are now live on our shop! From 18–22 May 2026, schools across the UK will take part in our five-day walking challenge – and this year’s theme is Mission Move 🔎. Join the fun and order your classroom packs today!
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Tufnell Park Cycles
about 13 hours ago
Child forced to pay for own road safety
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Girl, 12, hopes to plug funding gap for Leckhampton zebra crossing
Amalie hopes to raise the final ÂŁ7,000 needed for the crossing outside a school in Leckhampton.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cde4xl3rx6zo
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John Munro
about 15 hours ago
Local authorities who won't contract towing companies to remove private property blocking public space like this are making an announcement that they are happy to see this continue. In many cities, this car would be gone within a few minutes, and its owner could then pay to get it back.
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Fietser
1 day ago
Cities need shade and when you pave multiple lanes for cars, you open up more space to create heat islands. Allocations of finite urban space should prioritize greenery and active transportation, leaving only a tiny sliver for the personal car. Shade takes time. Think ahead.
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Will Norman
1 day ago
London's bus stops haven't been re-designed for over 20yrs. We're rolling out some new designs with features including: 🪑seating for people to stop & rest 💡improved lighting helping safety concerns ➡️signage to help wayfinding
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Urban Truth Collective
1 day ago
“Traffic models are frequently full of faulty assumptions, and rarely understand actual human behaviour in the context of change and choices. Never let a traffic model tell you what to do. Decide what you WANT to happen, and design how to get there.” —
@brenttoderian.bsky.social
#UrbanTruth
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1 day ago
It's worse than that. A two minute delay in crossing a street can cause me to just miss a bus that comes only every 30 minutes.
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CS3 CS6 Crowdsourced Count
1 day ago
One or two folk riding bikes over Blackfriars Bridge on London's cycleway
#C6
#CS6
this morning. More 'vehicles' use the narrow C6 cycle track on the left than on the motorised vehicle lanes on the right.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan
1 day ago
Coming soon: a traffic-free Oxford Street. Following strong public and business support, we’re moving at pace with plans to pedestrianise the heart of the West End. A full mile between Orchard Street and Great Portland Street is set to go traffic-free by the end of this summer.
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Update as Sadiq Khan confirms when Oxford Street will be pedestrianised
The Mayor of London hopes to use the traffic-free street for events this year
https://www.mylondon.news/news/zone-1-news/update-sadiq-khan-confirms-oxford-33524423
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Strategic Cities
4 days ago
Thinking about how the 1973 oil crisis in the Netherlands led to petrol rationing, driving bans, parties and playdates on freeways, and the opportunity to imagine an alternative future…
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'Wait time' at signalised pedestrian crossings* is a great indicator of your municipality's commitment to
#walking
*Allegedly a pedestrian _facility_
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Solve the School Run
2 days ago
➡ In our new blog post, we look at why the kerbside is so often overlooked in relation to road safety, what makes it such a dangerous place for children crossing the road, and what changes we are asking for to improve safety in this area.
#streetsforkids
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www.solvetheschoolrun.org/post/keep-cl...
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Cllr John Morris
2 days ago
Carnaby Street is a masterclass in urban design. Pedestrianisation didn't just clear the traffic, it cleared the way for the culture, fashion, and footfall that make this spot legendary. Proof that cities are for people, not just cars.
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John Munro
1 day ago
And now, everything will just get worse in this beleaguered city, and the inequalities of
#UKCarCulture
will just become more entrenched. Birmingham once again the poster child for how
#CarsRuinCities
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Transport Action Network
1 day ago
With the Labour government yet to publish any long-term transport strategies nearly two years after being elected, radical ambition is now needed to turn around what has become the biggest source of UK emissions.
transportactionnetwork.org.uk/will-transpo...
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Will transport scupper new climate ambition?
The Government is required by 30 June 2026 to set the level of climate ambition for 2038 to 2042, a process known as the seventh carbon budget. The Climate Change Committee recommended an 87% cut of G...
https://transportactionnetwork.org.uk/will-transport-scupper-new-climate-ambition/
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Forever Fishponds
2 days ago
Belated photos from our first community gardening session at Fishponds. We cleared the asphalt, tidied the shed and had some nice chats. Next session Sat 7 March 11am 🪴 🪏
#tooting
#gardening
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Simon 🪗
1 day ago
'once projects are given a chance to embed, it’s only a small percentage of people who keep ranting on about such projects. Few to no political voices advocate ripping out projects (with some exceptions to populists). The general public acceptance grows over time'
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Living Streets
2 days ago
Autonomous Vehicles are coming to UK streets this year and Waymo, a leading provider, joins us at the UK Walking Summit. Find out more about their plans by booking your ticket:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/living-streets-uk-walking-summit-2026-liverpool-tickets-1734297473429?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Jon Burke🌍
2 days ago
Fuel Duty has been frozen, and therefore cut, for 15 years in the U.K, turbocharging transport emissions and starving local councils of grant funding to repair our crumbling roads. It’s been a disaster and it’s beyond embarrassing that any mainstream party would campaign to maintain the freeze.
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Simon Brackenborough
2 days ago
58% of car and van journeys being under 5 miles is a damning indictment of this country’s public transport and active travel investment choices.
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The War on Cars
2 days ago
New BONUS episode: "What Snow Reveals About Cities (Plus More From Our Book Tour.)" All the snow we've gotten has revealed some truths about what cars do to cities, and what we can learn from it. We also give our thoughts on Miami, Pittsburgh, Toronto and Phoenix!
www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-...
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Prof. Ian Walker
2 days ago
As I was made to wait 2.5 minutes to cross a road this morning, let's again do the maths
simple.ghost.io/lets-do-the-...
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Urban Truth Collective
2 days ago
“Microplastics and nanoplastics in urban air originate mainly from tire abrasion, research reveals.”
#UrbanTruth
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Microplastics and nanoplastics in urban air originate mainly from tire abrasion, research reveals
Although plastic particles in the air are increasingly coming into focus, knowledge about their distribution and effects is still limited. Chemical analyses from Leipzig now provide details from Germa...
https://phys.org/news/2026-03-microplastics-nanoplastics-urban-air-abrasion.html
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Richard Hebditch
2 days ago
"In practice, despite successive policy commitments to raise fuel duty rates, they have not been increased since 2011-12." OBR still sounding convinced fuel duty will actually go up this year, despite many people convincing themselves it will. Even less likely with war in the Middle East.
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John Munro
3 days ago
Imagine a society in which tow trucks removed property left blocking wheelchair access and making an already dangerous pedestrian crossing even worse.
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Cargo Bike Ben
3 days ago
It is not the government’s job to provide storage space for your private property. Cars are no different. Roads exist to move people and goods, not to store private vehicles. Governments at all levels need to start calling out and enforcing that reality.
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Caroline Russell
2 days ago
This comes after I tabled a motion warning that with RoadPeace gone, Londoners are being left without crucial services and calling on him to ensure survivors of crashes and bereaved families are not abandoned.
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Caroline Russell
2 days ago
RoadPeace, the charity supporting people affected by road crashes, is no longer operating. I asked the Mayor how he will step in to make sure survivors and bereaved families can still get the peer to peer help they need, support that RoadPeace used to provide.
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Caroline Russell
2 days ago
Haringey u-turning on bringing in bus lanes so returning £10m to TfL, and buses will still be blocked by tons of cars. 🤷‍♀️ What a contrast to Oxford St where we are finally seeing the radical reprioritisation of road space needed to meet a future vision for our city.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan
2 days ago
More Londoners are choosing e-scooters than ever before. TfL’s latest trial data shows a major boost in sustainable travel, with a year-on-year surge in trips. Crucially, the vast majority of riders were parking in designated bays.
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Rich
2 days ago
Looks like a textbook example of why consultation shouldn’t ever ask questions with objective answers or listen to residents on technical matters. Are they experts? How on earth are they supposed to know what will reduce congestion? This is just daft.
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Cargo Bike Ben
3 days ago
I am noticing the inevitable behavioural creep of people laying EV chargers across footpaths to charge their cars. Councils need to act swiftly, decisively, and punitively to strongly discourage it becoming a norm similar to parking on the footpath. If they don’t, it will become all too common.
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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief
3 days ago
the cool thing about motonormativity is that if you ask any driver if it's good to have a car running in a closed garage they'll say "of course not because of the exhaust fumes", but "where do the exhaust fumes go when the car is Outside?" is not usually pondered
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Prof. Ian Walker
3 days ago
A conversation earlier today reminded me of this slide I put into a recent talk. How did we decide the tiny human-sized machine is the special case, and the massive overpowered machine full of empty furniture is the norm?
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Alex Nurse
3 days ago
Traffic speeds in London have been constant and self regulating since before we called it induced/reduced demand.
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Laura Laker
3 days ago
Asked about cycleways supposedly slowing buses. Bus speed data fished out by
@maxsullivan.bsky.social
(my graph) shows the biggest change to bus speeds was during the pandemic, when people drove their cars less. NB Camden's bike lanes didn't go away too...
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Pr Carlos Moreno - IAE Paris1 Sorbonne University
4 days ago
« I leave with peace of mind, with a sense of work accomplished, knowing that the city has taken the lead in the areas of ecology and solidarity » Huge thanks to mayor Anne Hidalgo 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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Brent Toderian
4 days ago
The most insidious thing about car dependency is what it does to us. The more dependent on cars they make us, the more WE’LL fight to defend that dependency from ANY change that would allow other CHOICES in how to get around, because we’re so dependent that we can’t picture ANYONE choosing them.
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Adam Tranter
4 days ago
This is awful news for anyone not in one of these hideous machines.
www.gbnews.com/lifestyle/ca...
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American cars set for huge UK rollout including 'favourites' GMC, Chevrolet and Cadillac
Three of the most popular vehicles in the United States are now available in the UK
https://www.gbnews.com/lifestyle/cars/american-cars-uk-launch-gmc-chevrolet-cadillac
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Pr Carlos Moreno - IAE Paris1 Sorbonne University
4 days ago
Proximity restores health. As reported in The Lancet, walking 7,000 steps a day—about one hour—reduces major risks: cancer, cardiovascular disease, dementia, depression, and diabetes. Walkable proximity turns life into prevention, compressing morbidity and extending well-being. (🙏 & HT A. Flahault)
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Rich
4 days ago
I know - not by the stop anyway I think there is one further up. It isn’t a great design yet I’ve never seen any outrage despite the prominent central London location & high pedestrian footfall.
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Rich
4 days ago
Bus stop taxi lane bypass that strangely seems to have avoided being labelled a social injustice
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John Munro
4 days ago
Imagine a media in which families of pedestrians killed by car drivers receive the same depth of coverage as car owners who don't want to pay to store their private property in public space.
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North Berwick faces 'unprecedented' hostility over parking meters
The picturesque East Lothian town has become a battleground between some residents and the local authority over parking charges.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c204p0pprvxo
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Brent Toderian
5 days ago
This post is for all of you in every time zone all around the world. I keep hearing that Bluesky is still mostly North American. But I think there’s lots of you around the world that love cities, and want them to be better. We want
@urbantruth.bsky.social
to be global. I hope you’ll check us out.
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