NHS staff and teachers are to get free bus travel and Park & Ride parking in Oxford, funded by the city congestion charge. The plans were agreed at today’s Oxfordshire County Council cabinet meeting, which heard that schools and hospitals accounted for 42% of workplace parking within the ring road.

Some campaigners say 'floating' bus stops where cycle tracks go past are "dangerous... devastating... inaccessible" for Visually Impaired bus users. New government guidance shows opposite. 👏 Good to see the City of London delivering inclusive cycle tracks with proper bus stop treatments...

Want to support the travelling public? OK, but *has* to be equitable. So, where are the plans to reduce bus and train fares? Why not also provide bungs to pedestrians, and pay cyclists? Why just motorists?

Good to see 20mph limits recognised as beneficial for fuel resilience. www.google.com/amp/s/www.pl...

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

This is bad economic policy, because it will cost the government billions in lost tax income.. ..bad progressive policy, because the richest 10% of households will benefit three times as much from the freeze as the poorest 10%.. ..and terrible climate policy: www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-fue...

“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath 50 reasons for more walkable streets.

So much about this has me screaming into my motonormativity cushion. Why further subsidise all the wealthy people who drive? Why NOT subsidise the poorer people who don't drive?

The Dutch landscape hides an engineering marvel in plain sight: thousands of miles of smooth, signed, scenic cycling paths connecting every remote corner of the country. The payoff? A cycle tourism economy worth €2 billion each year. Proof that when you build for bikes, people (and places) prosper.

Riding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public & personal cost difference, the air & noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etc…Via @theconversation.bsky.social

Road Safety Experts Confident Asking Kids To Be Perfect So Adult Drivers Can Be Dangerous Is The Right Approach

Same applies to Aotearoa: 97% had experience cycling. However, half those surveyed said unsafe roads were a barrier to cycling. "Women observed how urban sprawl and car-based land-use planning has left many with little practical option but to travel by car.” Article link below.

Bookmark this and read and re-read. Clear and thorough exposition of utility cycling whether disabled or not, and the added burdens and obstacles disabled people face.

Would you like to work for Living Streets? We’re looking for a Public Affairs and Policy Manager to help expand our influence and shape the future of transport, health and planning policy across the UK. Closing date: 31 May 2026 Find out more here: https://bitly.livingstreets.org.uk/4uIEiCy

Smart cities know that, as hot as they already are, they’re just going to keep getting hotter. Greening the city not only cools it down, it cleans the air, quiets the noise, improves mental health & happiness, saves public money, and more. Strand Aldwych, London. 2021 vs 2025. Via @modacitylife.com

Research in Ireland, you’ll get the same experiences here though.

We don't view motor violence like all the other violence, Exhibit 746 www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Paris urban biking investment helps cut pollution in half: “Between 2005 & 2024, levels of nitrogen dioxide & fine particulate matter — 2 of the most harmful pollutants to health — have been slashed by 50% & 55%, respectively.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social Bike-lanes make better cities. #UrbanTruth

Mobility **choices**...

Streets for children

Ahead of #NationalWalkingMonth, we asked people what stops them walking more. Safe walking routes, public toilets, places to rest, street lighting and safe crossings.... Join the #WalkOut and let our feet do the talking. https://act.livingstreets.org.uk/page/190556/petition/1?ea.tracking.id=bsky

Ditto Hertfordshire / St Albans. National ban needed.

Do you know the five benefits of walking? 🥰 It boosts your mood ❤️ It’s great for heart health 🧠 It clears your mind 👋 Connects you with new friends 🧑‍🦽‍➡️ It’s inclusive no matter your abilities Join us this walking month, visit 👉 www.hertfordshire.gov.uk/HealthWalks

1. All cities in car comercials (taken from a Volvo EX90 advert) 2. Many cities in real life…

‘Quiet Road’ pilot planned between two villages aims to show adding rural mobility “doesn’t always require major infrastructure projects” 30km/h limits backed by traffic calming, enhanced visibility treatments, and shared road markings and speed-activated signage are among the design features…

"Over an 18 year period, someone who cycles to work has nearly 50% less chance of dying from *anything* than someone who drives"... including being knocked off by a motorist (based on UK census data). Passive travel is bad for your life expectancy and pollution inside the car is worse than outside.

In the May edition of Highways magazine I hit the anecdotes about car parking and how there should be more honesty around what "free" actually means. Digital edition free as ever. www.highwaysmagazine.co.uk/latest-issues #HighwaysMagazine

Mothers invented traffic calming.

STUDY: “Motonormativity is a shared bias whereby people judge motorised mobility differently to other comparable topics. This works against societies addressing climate and public health crises effectively.” Via @ianwalker.bsky.social. #UrbanTruth www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I'll say it again. All public car parking over a small number of spots should attract a mandatory minimum charge. This would level up between town centres and out of town retail. We charge for plastic bags because of the environment, we should do it for the car parking too?

This is the best cycling advert ever, especially because I’m in it. It beautifully shows that cycling is for everyone, no matter who you are or where you come from. Bikes bring people together and remind us that cycling is one of the best ways to improve our health and wellbeing.

Remember, car dependency can’t be freedom. True mobility freedom comes from mobility choices. #UrbanTruth

“If I can bicycle, I bicycle.” Sir David Attenborough. Happy 100th birthday to a legend. He has never passed a driving test and doesn’t own a car.

An inconvenient truth from @giuliomattioli.bsky.social: “To make car use reliable & convenient, we made the use of other modes less reliable & convenient, for example by giving cars priority over the use of street space. Moving in the other direction would require taking some of that space away.”

“They’re too young to ride" Nope. They’re ready to ride, it’s our cities that aren’t ready.

I joined NY’s Cutest on the Bergen Bike Bus that they ride to school every Wednesday, rain or shine. We’re adding bike boulevards and more pedestrian space on Bergen and Dean Street, from Court Street to East New York Ave. It was a wonderful kind of day.

Another banger from @urbantruth.bsky.social

FOI request by @thetimes shows huge uptick in red light running by motorists. 137,585 drivers were caught driving through on red last year, compared with 85,410 in 2022, an increase of 61%. www.thetimes.com/article/d8f0...

“They cut speed limits, changed street design, removed space for cars… Now it appears that work is paying off. #Oslo & #Helsinki are reaping the rewards of committed action on making their roads safer, reducing pedestrian fatalities to zero last year.” What if your city actually MEANT #VisionZero?

”Paris's school streets are effectively sculpting out instant parks in the locations where they'll provide immense public health benefits to the city's most vulnerable populations. But it's true, they really stand for something else entirely: a city brave enough to prioritize children.”

speed via @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

Fascinating to read that catering & fireworks were the main sources of #AirPollution at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. Pleased to see that transport pollution was minimal, due to free public transport and cycle hire, and park and ride schemes. Event organisers - take note! #ActiveTravel

"I cannot marry a man who will not buy me a bicycle." www.instagram.com/reel/DXEHpk1...

This is a key point: when “green” vehicles are perceived as better for the climate emergency, this positive effect is being more than cancelled out by the trend to bigger vehicles and them being driving more.

This is one of my all time favourite pieces of public realm. It works on every level. It's a beautiful space that is well used and activated. Cities need to think big - this is what you can achieve if your bold

“It’s not a huge conspiracy, I just don’t want to go far for stuff” - @tomflood.bsky.social in response to the ridiculous conspiracy myths about cities with more things nearby. But some really rich people and corporations want you to have to go far for stuff, and only by car. More profit for them.

Amazing. In Paris, school streets "with the full treatment — trees, gardens, light-colored pavement — were on average, an astonishing 9 degrees (Fahrenheit) cooler than nearby non-school streets."

It's good to see how 30km/h limits are so heavily recommended in the PIN report on Cycling in Europe from European Transport Safety Council etsc.eu/wp-content/u...