UPDATE: a wonderful friend of mine saw this and recognised the bike dumped in a bush!!! It is looking sad and minus a few key features but I will get it back. Thanks everyone for sharing.

Electric buses have helped Oxford to hit its air quality target for the first time. Only three out of 118 monitoring sites – none considered “sites of relevant public exposure” – were over the local NO₂ target level of 30 µg/m³. None of the 118 exceeded the UK limit of 40 µg/m³.

Another Oxford cargo bike theft!! Mine is customised by having a lot of stickers and nail varnish my kids did on it. Stolen on Meadow Lane at 18.30 today locked to a Sheffield stand. Please LMK if anyone sees it for sale. Probably in Cambridge. ;)

DRUMROLL - we've got our first side-road zebra crossings! Well done Manchester & Westminster for piloting. And Oxfordshire for rolling it out.

Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them

Reducing traffic reduces crime: see new study from Leeds. www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...

For those interested in the future of Hammersmith Bridge, I am delighted to say that the Barnes Hammersmith Electric Light Transit community interest company website has launched today! I can’t take too much of the credit but I’m very pleased to be supporting! www.bhelt.org.uk

One of the most wholesome things I do is water some local trees. We have a tree watering schedule for a newly planted 6 trees nearby. Haven't met the residents, but we're all on a shared tree WhatsApp. It's really hard work lugging water to keep them alive in the hot weather, but totally worth it. 🌳

For three days in a row the heat record for June has been broken in the UK. The same story right across Europe. Any attempts at this key moment to slow climate action is utterly indefensible. We need day one action to accelerate our climate ambition from Andy Burnham.

Gave a speech on our lost decade of which Brexit has played a huge part. It's time to turn the page. The Green Party is offering hope and a plan to end Rip Off Britain. 📸 - aldoshoots

Absolutely stunning victory as Greens gain another seat in Brighton & Hove. 🎉 Look at that swing! 🙌🏽👀 Huge congratulations to Nadia and the entire team! 💚

I have to say, it's making me feel a little insane hearing commentators say Ed Miliband shouldn't be chancellor because of his "ideological zeal" for Net Zero, in a week where temperatures are so extreme that my kids are being sent home early every day and it's regularly 30 degrees inside my house

“We’ve only had 114 years to do something, let our kids sort it out!”

I am absolutely delighted to see this progressing. A cheap and incredibly effective way to make walking, cycling, horse riding, rollerblading etc. Many congratulations to everyone who has helped make this happen!

looking at news out of the UK and apologies if this has ever come up before, but have they considered reviving the economy by joining a large economic and political consortium of countries nearby, say in Europe?

Incredible local angle here

This letter from Savills & the Uni suggesting that developments are financially impossible if you have a CPZ is just a complete joke. CPZs work across the UK, people are willing to pay £65 per year to store a car which costs £4k pa to own. web.archive.org/web/20260619...

Just incase anyone's interested, here are some existing filtered Quiet Lanes we already have in Oxfordshire. Including one requested by Tory Councillor Ian Corkin in 2024.

Genuinely brilliant article on Quiet Lanes from Cllr Nathan Ley - summarises the position exactly. Do share if you live in Oxfordshire.

Anyone know anyone who lives in Kennington / Radley / Abingdon and has opinions on whether Sugworth Lane should be a Quiet Lane closed to motor traffic? Tell them about this survey! radleyparish.gov.uk/sugworth-lan...

For reasons, I was looking up residents' parking permit costs in Amsterdam East this week. €200 for the first permit and €500 for the second. Oh, and that's for 6 months, not a year. If you are near the district centre, you can have one permit; two permits elsewhere. There is no waiting list!

[Cycling and walking update] Following news posted by @peterwalker99.bsky.social and @lauralaker.bsky.social yesterday, the Third Walking and Cycling Investment Strategy was posted overnight: www.gov.uk/government/p... Also...

Well this seems good news - strategy should be properly released on Monday - national walking & cycling network backed by £4.5Bn to 2030. Thanks @lauralaker.bsky.social for the news. lauralaker.substack.com/p/englands-n...

Great to see the Magdalen Rd Summer Festival in the Oxford Mail. www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2617882...

Sad to see anti-cycling campaigners Vincent Stops & John Stewart accusing us of some sort of cover up. We've been clear. Falling cycle deaths is good news, but rising numbers of serious injuries shows we've much more to do. Hence our new Vision Zero plan - inc more bike lanes.

The World Cup is about celebrating exotic host nation cultures

Reminded today of one of my favourite active travel videos, 1980s America reacting to the idea of seatbelt laws and a drink-driving limit. "They're turning us into a communist country" www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xcQ...

This was such a big deal and so many volunteers put heart and soul into a festival celebrating our local independent shops & cafes. My personal highlight was when I walked into my local bookshop and asked the very busy manager to let my small son sit there for 10 mins whilst I dropped…

Well let's just say that on FB the comments are now switched off so I can enjoy my wine in peace.... 🍷

Magdalen Road Festival in full swing despite the weather: great activities and loads of street food. Have happy kids and I have a really beautiful new plant. Record number of bikes out too. Drop by if you’re out and about in East Oxford.

More on the quiet lanes which could be summarised as “tories stoke fake outrage against non existent plan” www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2615625...

It's hard to convey just how monstrous the privatisation of children's care homes has become. Highly vulnerable children have been turned into cash machines, with devastating impacts on their wellbeing. Please sit down before reading this week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It's strange to me that Matt Goodwin seems to be on the BBC more than Hannah Spencer when he lost an election to her

This is so great to see. Traffic on rural lanes can be terrifying if you want to walk or cycle and it can be hard to even cross the road in villages severed by busy roads. Looking forward to seeing how the locally-led filtered Quiet Lanes policy works out.

Priorities 👀 £400m support for people who can afford to drive, but nothing for people who walk, ride a bike or catch the bus? “The cost of the package, including postponing the 5p rise and the discount on red diesel duty, is expected to be around £400m.”

I don't quite understand the folks responding to this by saying, "Yeah, it's not great but there are no alternatives." That's the point! Calling things out is the first step in fixing a problem. "It's bad, but what can anyone do about it?" is an example of motonormativity!

- Subsidising consumption in the face of a supply shock - reducing incentives to drive less/switch to EVs - using up limited fiscal space to help better-off drivers rather than the most vulnerable. Hard to think of a worse policy right now.

I'm absolutely delighted that Cabinet has agreed to pilot a locally-led filtered Quiet Lanes policy to improve rural active travel. It's innovative and I'm so proud of my role in it alongside others. Do share, AT policy enthusiasts (short thread) mycouncil.oxfordshire.gov.uk/%28S%2803u25...

The average person has no idea just how many “historic landfills” are about. Everywhere you think is nature is a green hat on god only knows what toxic horrible shite was dumped there.

Delighted that the Magdalen Road Village summer festival is back!! Sat 6th June, all day. Come and support our fabulous local East Oxford businesses. Excited the flea market is on and I always get great clothes from there.

Oxford University says its staff are “entitled to participate in civic and political life in a personal capacity” after the head of its Staff Immigration Team, James Baker, stood as Reform UK’s candidate in Littlemore. Around 40% of Oxford’s research and teaching staff originate from outside the UK.

All three of Oxford’s major political parties are now led by women. The city’s Liberal Democrat group last night elected Katherine Miles as its leader, joining Susan Brown (Labour) and Lois Muddiman (Green).

The new leader for the council’s Liberal Democrat group is Councillor Tim Bearder. There will be an extraordinary general meeting of the council on a date to be set to elect a new leader. In the interim, the current Deputy Leader of Oxfordshire County Council, Cllr Neil Fawcett, leads the authority.

Just been appointed chair of Transport Committee! I’ve been a transport campaigner since the early 1990s and have spent ten years on the Assembly scrutinising the Mayor’s transport policies. This role feels like a natural continuation of work I care so much about and I’m excited to get started 💚

Fascinating blog on timeline changes to walking and cycling in East Oxford. Notably, County Council switched from Tory to progressive Lib Dem / Green / Labour Coalition in May 2021. wanderingdanny.com/oxford/2023/...

I discovered that my Green candidate won by 2 votes against Reform after 2 recounts. Don’t ever think your vote doesn’t count. So glad I made the effort.

And the Greens’ Emily Kerr retains St Mary’s with the sort of majority that you weigh rather than count. 💚 Green 1154 🌹 Lab 473 🔶 LibDem 105 ➡️ Reform 86 🔵 Con 82

The final scores on Oxford City Council, combining tonight’s 24 elections with the 24 from 2024, are: 🌹 Labour 20 💚 Green 13 🔶 LibDem 9 🟪 IOA 4 ◻️ Ind 2 This gives the Greens and LibDems a chance to run the council in coalition if they choose. Here’s tonight on a map. Thanks for following along!

A please @labouruk.bsky.social, stop saying that it's up to us to stop Reform. YOU could stop a Reform government in 2029, by introducing the proportional representation so many in the country have been clamouring for. The only way Farage can win is through our crazy first-past-the-post system.