I've been looking at a pedestrian crossing this afternoon and specifically crossing times. While lots of people worry about the length of time the green man shows (which is important to some extent), the key think is the "blackout period" when someone sets foot on the crossing just as the green 1/4

For taxpayers, every piece of cycling infrastructure is a gift that keeps on giving. An asset that returns annual savings in congestion, pollution, maintenance, safety and healthcare over its lifetime. Stop asking whether your city can afford to invest in cycling. Ask whether it can afford not to.

Leading medical publication the British Medical Journal recognises SUVs as a danger to public health in a new editorial co-authored by T&E’s James Nix: bit.ly/4hVDlBC Large SUVs are a danger to pedestrians, cyclists & other drivers. It's time to take action to reduce their presence in urban areas.

It’s not just about what you remove (cars, noise, dirty air). It’s about what you add (people walking, a lot of bike parking, trees, outdoor dining, and room for kids to play safely). Amsterdam: 1986 and today. Streets for people. HT @hackneycyclist.bsky.social for the great before-and-after

Active Travel England: Critical safety issues for walking, wheeling and cycling www.gov.uk/government/p...

The freeze on fuel duty is estimated to have cost £133 billion in lost revenue since 2011. At a time of difficult fiscal choices, we're joining @bettertransport.bsky.social in calling to end the fuel duty cut and charge a simple per-mile charge for electric vehicles 🚗 https://bit.ly/49bYnts

If you’re media covering bike-lanes, watch this news story. If you’re a downtown business association discussing bike-lanes, watch this news story. If you’re anyone hearing the LIE that bike-lanes are bad for business, watch this story. And please SHARE THIS STORY so others can watch it too.

Protected cycle tracks are not just for cyclists, they allow more freedom for those with mobility issues

www.gov.uk/government/p... Active Travel England’s route check tool identifies 16 critical safety issues for walking, wheeling and cycling - with illustrations. It provides links to relevant guidance and key evidence. There is also a route check tool to identify and remove these risks.

Critical Safety Issues for 🚲👩‍🦼🚶 👍 Superb new Guidance from #govuk @ategov.bsky.social --> www.gov.uk/government/p... @edi.bike @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social @drscottarthurmp.bsky.social @sw20.info @alastairdalton.bsky.social @keithirving.bsky.social @edinpl.bsky.social @harryjwilliams.bsky.social

@bmj.com, a renowned health journal, slams car bloat: "Cars are becoming steadily larger, [and] with this comes potential harms to health...Action is needed locally, nationally, and internationally to curb sales of new SUVs and to reduce their presence in urban areas." www.bmj.com/content/391/...

My unpopular opinion: those of us advocating for non-car travel need to stop apologetically saying "I know not everybody can cycle!" Obviously not everyone can cycle, but that's also true of driving. I fear we're just giving our opponents' attack lines legitimacy by shouting them out for free

It was no surprise that the award winning Welsh 20mph default urban/village limit was heavily featured in the RSGB national conference today. A 25% reduction in casualties, £45 reduction in insurance all make it a great example of how 20mph limits make better places to be.

A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, and most of the energy that does, moves the car, not the people. Sound efficient? HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social

“In May 2025, Scotland’s largest city [Glasgow] reached a milestone that would make any transportation planner in Portland or Montreal do a double take: during the morning rush hour, there were more bicycles than cars traveling along Victoria Road, a major artery…” Via @momentummag.bsky.social

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This. Every word. Active travel is not a competitor against public transport. Unless we make it so by failing to integrate the two. We also need secure cycle storage including e-bike charging at key and rural bus stops.

Bus has to wait FOUR TIMES to keep to the timetable due to lack of congestion after Oxford's Congestion Charge went in. ⬇️ I remember hearing the same thing on here after the NY congestion charge went live.

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com

The most insanely frustrating thing about the #ClimateCrisis is how the breakthrough we so clearly need isn’t technological. It’s just a collective willingness, a determination even, to change in ways that would clearly be SO MUCH BETTER than the clear and obvious consequences of NOT changing.

"Mention women or gender and many men have the false assumption that they are not welcome. Let me be very clear for those men who are in doubt of their place in discussions about women and gender in urbanism: This is as much your issue as it is ours!" New post: modacitycreative.com/2025/10/31/n...

Parking is a money loser. If it was public transport it would be said to be unfair to the taxpayer. Parish and district councils have few economic levers and think subsidising parking creates better places. The opposite is true.

Many of Britain’s 6,116 villages and small communities have an A-Road running through them. Fast roads like these are slicing British villages in two, creating Highway Halves. So, how do we fix it?

“Recent studies show that between 80% — 89% of the world’s population wants to see climate action. Many would even contribute 1% of their income to make that happen, even tho people vastly underestimate their peers’ desire for change. Members of this “silent majority” come from all walks of life…”’

This chart is popular, but it’s misleading. Many, many more children walk on Halloween compared to other dates. In fact, a child walking on Oct 31 is likely *safer* than they would be doing so on any other day.

Yes, it's scary for children on our roads. But putting a 20mph limit outside a school does NOT fix the problem. Children need a friendly, safer 20mph limit on their whole route from home to school. It's why 20's Plenty should be community wide. bit.ly/4o4jwdA

"But everyone knows what I mean when I say "bike"! While that may be true, when we talk about 'bikes' it's easy for many people to forget about those who need to use non-standard cycles such as trikes, recumbents and tandems.

There have been recent examples of reporting that confuses safe and legal e-bikes with illegally modified bikes - with images of electric motorbikes even being captioned misleadingly as "e-bikes". Our recent blog explains the distinctions and the importance of getting the language on e-bikes right.

It’s just a week to go before Isabelle presents her talk, “Ensuring that Freedom to Cycle is Accessible to All,” as part of a Europe-wide series of online discussions on cycling and active mobility, with a focus on making cycling accessible for everyone.

Did you know...? In the 1980s, Disabled people chained themselves to buses with one simple message: "We will ride!" Those protests lead to the first accessible buses in the 90s and changed the way we all move. Learn more on the archive: https://bit.ly/4h8NHOe #ThrowbackThursday

"Sometimes, a shop owner claims his business was ruined because the city removed 4 parking spaces. With surveys, our mayor can say: ‘6,000 more people pass your shop a day thanks to a new bike lane. Are you sure you’re a good businessman?’” — Jan Gehl of #Copenhagen, quoted in #Straphanger.

New report analyses post implementation public support for 20mph limits in Scottish Borders Council. Not a "silver bullet", but majority of interviewees did not wish to see a return to 30mph speed limits. bit.ly/4o6W3bE

Great to visit the car dealership stunt at Parliament today by @transenvuk.bsky.social and @olord.bsky.social showing clearly just how huge and heavy cars have become making the case for fair tax by vehicle weight.

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

I’m in Paris right now and have noticed “school street” mentioned as a desirable feature in real estate ads. No cars = higher property value, it seems

Well done to our #RightToGlow riders who managed to get round part of the Green Ring and back to town before the deluge! Thanks to South Herts @cyclinguk.bsky.social for organising.

New study from Uni of Birmingham shows the ULEZ reduced #AirPollution across London, but more needs to be done to reduce pollution further - especially from PM2.5. "As a result, we need to see a modal shift to more active travel and public transport to reduce the number of vehicles on the road".

Which will significantly increase population health and lower healthcare costs. Noise is the second highest contributor to CVD before air pollution. It's just more common sense.

Cars deliver the dependency that car ads promise.

Tomorrow we light up the streets for our #RightToGlow Share your glow-ups & rides with #MyRideOurRight + #RightToGlow — tag us so we can see your shine! 🗺️ Find a ride: cyclinguk.org/glow-ride-map 🧡 Donate: cyclinguk.org/glowride-donate 🔦 Glow up comp to win KNOG lights: cyclinguk.org/glow-up

Ahead of tomorrow's @cyclinguk.bsky.social "glow rides" calling for safer streets for women, we look at the role the bicycle has played in liberating women. www.norwichcyclingcampaign.org/fear-freedom...

Stupid-sized cars need stupid-sized taxation www.uknip.co.uk/news/uk/uk-n...

This is indeed excellent, especially in the light of complaints about ‘unsightly’ new cycle stands by the clock tower - located there because the ones on the other side keep getting hit by motor vehicles, heritage-compliant motor vehicles presumably.

No, backlash has not undercut the success of 30km/hour speed limits. They have incontrovertibly reduced death and injuries wherever they’ve been introduced. The backlash is just noise, it doesn’t change the facts.

It's a goal of mine to help make this the most famous, well-known and UNDERSTOOD quote about cities in history. Please share it as much as you can.

bike it! road.cc/content/news...

Come on folks - read & watch and drool! 😀 nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/10/17/f...

Absolutely correct. Lots of incoherent howling in spite of the fact that default 20mph in built up areas works better for driving too.

Every time a driver crashes is treated as an aberration - the innocent victim of ill fate or an unrepresentatively careless or violent individual. Meanwhile every crash involving a cyclist - whether culpable or not - is treated as a damning indictment of cyclists collectively & cycling in principle.

London is proud to host Japan's Grand Sumo Tournament this week - it's fantastic to see the the teams using our cycling infrastructure to get around.