Blowing up a ULEZ camera (causing shrapnel to fly over 100m away inc into a child’s bedroom) and possessing homemade stun guns. Accused has been on bail & now observing the trial from home. Quite different treatment to some other activists you might think of. www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/2575848...

For London-based followers. This looks interesting next week… museumofthehome.org.uk/whats-on/roa...

📣 Parents. If cars make your walk or cycle to school feel unsafe, that's not okay. We need your photos of the school run! The more people can see how awful it is out there - and how unsafe it is for our children - the more power we have. DM pix or tag us in a post. #streetsforkids #schoolrun

At the moment, the law means Disabled people who use mobility aids can't carry friends or family members on our devices. Find out more about what you can do to help give Disabled people the same journey-making choices as non-disabled people at wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk/our-campaign...

Looks across at #Wandsworth....

Great to see the positive public feedback on the fantastic Whipps Cross Corridor Scheme - connecting Lea Bridge Rd to Leytonstone. Work will start in Feb - improving safety & public realm and enabling more people to walk & cycle. More great work @labourstone.bsky.social & Waltham Forest team

To improve road safety, Utrecht will lower the speed limit from 50 to 30 km/h on approximately 240 streets where cyclists and motorists share the road. This will be done overnight later this year, so that the change takes effect simultaneously on all streets. www.duic.nl/algemeen/alg...

LTNs are, and should be treated as, a public health measure. Councils should concentrate on evidence of harm reduction & its clear communication because no amount of consultation satisfies ardent opponents.

There are some who say we don’t consult on our newest Low Traffic Neighbourhoods. If that’s the case, it’s worth taking a look at the West Ham LTN engagement report.

The reason I go on about self-driving cars is that it's like watching somebody spend 20 minutes using a thimble to fill a kettle and them saying "I can't wait for the glorious day when I'll have a robot to carry this thimble for me"

And yes, I have been wanging on about this for *checks notes* more than a decade: www.theguardian.com/sustainable-... Think how many people have died in that decade because we've not addressed car dependency

Self-driving gets pushed back yet again. We're not going to solve car dependency with robots; we need to provide more alternatives to driving - and discourage avoidable car use - especially for the enormous number of short, single-occupant trips

Built environments that support gentle active travel aren’t just nicer for everyone, they’re a basic public health necessity. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

The DfT is doing some consultation on the new Manual for Streets with professional bodies and others (I don't know the full list). As I understand it, there will be three sections and section A was released just before Xmas with a response deadline just after.

There were over 15,000 responses to the Government's consultation on pavement parking in 2020 - and now we have the data 📉 How does pavement parking affect you? https://bitly.livingstreets.org.uk/45tiHnx

There were more than 1 million larger cars - SUVs - sold in 2023. This is around 60% of sales and is projected to be 75% of sales in coming years*. 🚸 We believe children should be safe travelling to and from school. * Stats @cleancitiescampaign #carspreading #suvs #schoolrun

Ditto in #Wandsworth.

Lovely to see more tarmac and concrete being converted into new green spaces. Rain gardens not only look great, but also help mitigate the impact of intense rainfall & local flooding associated with climate change. Last year we delivered over 50,000msq of SuDs across London.

It looks like @ealingcouncil.bsky.social will just be repairing the smashed up slabs here (again) without dealing with the reason they are getting smashed up in the first place... (ahem, @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social )

And so it goes on...

In China, driverless delivery vans have become a total meme, they plow through crumbling roads, fresh concrete, motorcycles, anything. Nothing stops them. #cdnpoli

Save the date! 24th January. 1130 for Midday We'll be joining others who love walking and cycling on Hammersmith Bridge to come along and show that we love it!

Worth noting that although tellingly embraced in this article, the idea of a nation's "love affair with the car" is itself an artifact of car culture ideology. @thewaroncars.bsky.social has a good episode on it....

Irish councils start rolling out zebra crossings without expensive beacons -- Reducing costs is one of main reasons for new approach, but raised crossings can still cost €20,000–€40,000. Irish councils have started rolling out zebra crossings without expensive Belisha beacons after zebra crossings…

‘In Japan, automobile owners must obtain a shako shomei sho, or “garage certificate,” showing that they have secured a place to store the vehicle overnight at their residence or in a parking garage; leaving it streetside is not an option.’ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

7 of 10 targets set in England's Environment Act 2021 have little likelihood of being met by the legal deadline of 2030 On water, chemical exposure, waste, resource use, biosecurity and climate adaptation the prospects of hitting ambitions are well off track www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Drivers and cyclists, please don’t overtake people who have stopped for a zebra crossing. It’s often not even saving you any time to rush through…

This 👇

"If you don't allow parking on the pavement, parked cars will have to block the road!" is just shifting the externalities of the fundamental problem - that there are too many cars - onto pedestrians, and particularly onto disabled pedestrians. If there's not space to pass, there's not space to park.

Like many RoadPeace supporters / admirers, I hope that the enormously valuable support the charity provided can be continued in some way.

Very sad to read this. A charity which did very good work. Sadly, the release of the recent lukewarm government Road Safety strategy suggests there will be no immediate reduction in the need for the unique support offered by RoadPeace. 😢

V sad news.

Great to see the new sections of bike lanes, new crossings and SuDS along Romford Road - making our streets safer & more attractive for people to travel in East London. 👏👏Well done @plaistovian.bsky.social & Newham Council team

In SW18, pavement space is simply taken away to accommodate 2-way vehicles (right next to a school)

Morning drivers, as you head to work this week, please use your speed limiter. It improves your safety and has a calming effect on surrounding traffic, reducing the impact of the irresponsible. In UK, over 15 people a week die in speed-related crashes. Guidance attached: youtube.com/shorts/NwmD4...

We need a version of this illustration in which the ledges are covered in treacherous ice and snow, with piles of frozen ice at the crossing. To represent driveways, there should be occasional inclines sloped towards the ravine and crossed by icy runways formed by car-compressed snow.

BBC totally incapable of accurate reporting "A cyclist has been killed in a crash with a car on a main road in Bristol, police have said." A self-driving car killed a fellow road user. A self-driving car which fled the scene. RIP, what a terrible start to the year. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If you're seriously interested in defective carriageways (potholes) and damaged footways (pavements), as opposed to just whingeing about it, do read this from @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social .

None of these vehicles fit inside on street parking spaces and consequently they should not be being issued with residents’ parking permits. This seems very obvious to me.

Worth reupping this on today's footway parking news. This is an example of what "local leaders" end up doing: i.e. nothing.

Unwisely read the comments on an article about banning pavement parking & there's loads of people saying "I never see disabled people being impeded by pavement parking!" 1. Are you paying attention? 2. People avoid routes they know will be impeded. 3. Inaccessibility discourages mobility aid use.

Camden has a new mobility hub. What is a mobility hub? Watch the video to find out.

Let alone their future driving permissions… Why is road crime treated differently to other crime? IMO complacency and acceptance of road danger as inevitable have dulled accountability. Strategy isn’t enough — we need a fundamental root & branch cultural reset. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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New powers for councils to enforce against pavement parking don't go far enough. Officials will be allowed to define what constitutes "unnecessary obstruction" when parking on the pavement, creating a postcode lottery. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp80ll3kk9jo

This is the post to read if you want to understand why autonomous cars are not the answer to transport in London.

#Helsinki achieved zero road deaths in a year—without autonomous vehicles on its streets. They did it through road diets, car-free zones, and 30 km/h speed limits. Not by flooding the streets with robotaxis. (Waymo isn't allowed in #Finland.) To really save lives... 🧵

The acid test for pavement parking policy isn’t a government response PDF. It’s whether wheelchair users still have to go into the road. In England, they do. That’s the outcome.

DfT's "Inclusive Mobility" talks about 2m as being the minimum footway width in "normal circumstances". Too much of this is being framed as "wide enough to get through", rather than walking and wheeling as a social activity where people walk side by side, stop to chat and pass others.