Questions to the First Minister today around pavement parking elicited a 'lets see what happens in England and go from there' response. Another chance to remind ourselves that banning pavement parking was a 2021 manifesto commitment with a further commitment in-government to banning by 2023.

I’m sure @southwalespolice.bsky.social issued clear advice to drivers about looking out for children cycling. Right?

Prisoners at HMP Berwyn refurbish bikes to raise funds for Wrexham hospice

This is what happens when you have all carrott and no stick.

BBC Shropshire manages to prove that cycling beats driving but still ends up with a car brained ‘race across town’. www.instagram.com/reel/DNfaAzZ...

Latest from my occasional series of fly-parked bikes in Wrexham. This is what happens when there’s no convenient parking.

(Not about cycling but…) Apart from the cringy bits about Welsh-only constituency names, this discussion on the election is one of the best bits of reporting so far. Have UK Labour really written off Wales? Are the MPs and MSs really still in the same party? www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

From the other place but @transportforwales.bsky.social are rubbing free bike marking at Shotton Station today - 9am-1pm for anyone local.

We’re heading to #Eisteddfod2025 Join us for an interesting #MyRideOurRight conversation on breaking down the barriers to cycling & creating streets where women feel they belong! 🗓️ 5 August 🕑 2 pm 📍Transport for Wale stand, National Eisteddfod, Wrexham

Yn Wrecsam dydd Mawrth am @eisteddfod.cymru neu eisiau rhywbeth gwych i neud am y dydd? Mae @cyclinguk.bsky.social yn rhedeg trafodaeth ‘panel’ “Fy Nhaith, Ein Hawl” ar stondin @transport-wales.bsky.social - 2yp, 5 Awst! Croeso cynnes i bawb!

If you read one thing about Wales today, read @willhaycardiff.bsky.social’s newsletter on the 20mph changes. willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/turns-out-...

Fory yw @eisteddfod.cymru yn Wrecsam - lleoliad digon agos i’r beicio, llawr o raciau beic. Dim esgusodion - wela di ar y maes, ar dy beic!

This (and free school meals) will be the real triumphs of the current Welsh Government. The change seems to have stuck. (Despite media stirring up noise, despite some councils using it as a chance to take a pop at WG, and despite the police publicly saying they won’t bother to enforce.)

Was it @ianwalker.bsky.social who was looking for motonormativity examples in policies? I mean what other situation would mean your local council allocating additional public space for you to store your private property because you’d run of space at home?

From a pure active travel perspective the SFS has totally missed the opportunity to engage farmers in providing 'behind the hedge' routes which would give huge environmental benefits by encouraging modal shift for just a small loss of land Instead, just an optional around improving (walking) access

Gwych clywed @prifweinidog.gov.wales yn annog bobl i seiclo i'r @eisteddfod.cymru ymru yn Wrexham mis nesaf, yn hytrach na gyrru! Great to hear @prifweinidog.gov.wales encouraging people to cycle to the @eisteddfod.cymru in Wrexham next month, rather than drive! @cyclinguk.bsky.social

Irregular reminder that this was a manifesto and programme for government commitment for Wales. And wasn’t delivered in 4+ years. No reason as to why?

Public and active transport are mutually beneficial. You won't get better buses by throwing cyclists under them.

This will be amazing but I'm still of the view that TfW should be running a (procured, externally operated) scheme which can be extended across Wales and includes integration at stations. This would really help micromobility extend in to smaller towns etc

I’ve got a simple solution… (From the report): “76% of pupils transported less than three miles to mainstream secondary schools using school transport and 52% of primary school children transported less than two miles do so because their routes to school are deemed too hazardous to walk.”

Brilliant. 🤣

We’ve launched a new national Discord server under the banner People Powered Streets - building on the success of Walk Ride GM’s server, which brought together 400+ advocates and boosted our impact. Join us and help spread the word to fellow campaigners! discord.gg/ayXhswNetb

Storing one type of property on the road - no problem. Storing other types of property on the road? “An offence”

No one likes wheelbenders. I would suggest that if you design, commission, fund, or install anything but a Sheffield stand you are a bad person and should feel bad.

great summary of the bike and its role in the women’s suffrage movement “woman is riding to suffrage on the bicycle” youtu.be/LPLJgkVsXpE?...

Puts Wrexham’s weird delight in pushing though their review as quickly and dubiously run as they did in to sharp contrast.

Brilliant paper. Interventions can break habitual routines, like taking the car, and open new opportunities and benefits. We need more behaviour change approaches to encourage people to go car-free (or rather car-ownership free)

The Daily Post says the decision not to speed up the roads “divided opinion”. 16 on one side of the divide, 71,500 on the other. Counties a bit closer to me could learn a lot from councillors and MSs in Ceredigion’s decision not to politicise road safety.

@garethdennis.bsky.social any plans for a page flip though the May North Wales metro document (Network North Wales)? Your views could be interesting! tfw.wales/sites/defaul...

For how many more decades do we have to wait for a ban ? This Leave the Pavement for Pedestrians Public Service film is from 1982! youtu.be/9Zjo7B5T0CU

Decent infrastructure helps keep vulnerable users safe.

And that £2bn is capital build, never mind the drain on prosperity that long term maintenance and induced demand will cause. But the briefing to the BBC spins the waste as a positive thing because it reflects the flip flop on building new roads for roads sake.

Hmm. Reflecting on this thread, am I on some sort of radicalisation journey which starts with cycling to the shops, heads through cycle campaigning, and ends with becoming a @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social style highways obsessive?

Catching up on @activetravelcaf.bsky.social and there’s a really interesting talk on wayfinding. I’m a huge believer in the power of positive wayfinding in growing cycling and awareness. Too often it’s not clear where cyclists CAN or should be. Here’s a thread of my least and most favourite signs!

This is a really interesting study, with learnings for all involved in cycle advocacy. Although the most effective highways campaign I have seen in NE Wales was this though. Maybe only cyclists need to be positive to be heard? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A school street! In Wrexham! 💚

Spotted yn Wrecsam!

I’d much rather the robots did the stuff I don’t want to so I can do the bike riding part…

Lovely to be in Wrexham for the food festival today and a chance to grab a few more pics for my occasional collection of fly-parked bikes because there still no city centre cycle parking.

“Labour’s current transport policy seems to consist of undoing whatever its former transport minister Lee Waters advocated.” Goes @llyrgruffydd.bsky.social’s piece in @wrexham.com Ouch - but it definitely feels that way with no real reasoning why.

Oce @tfw-rail.bsky.social be yn y byd ydyw’n gallu ffeindio yr graffeg hon? Wir eisisu Mr Urdd gyda beic ar Crys-T!

Benefits of rail* investment (like the planned extra trains on the Borderlands line) are multiplied by combining with multi-modal infra as cheap as cycle racks. This map shows 15mins by bike from stations on the line. If you live & travel along this multicoloured chain you can do this right now

Although you won't find it in the text (for some reason) there are really important multi-modal opportunities in the proposed (or renewed) improvements to North East Wales's transport system announced today. Maybe even some decent secure cycle parking in Wrexham hidden in plans?🤞for rapid delivery!

Great to see schools across Wrexham taking part in the @sustranscymru.bsky.social big walk & wheel.

Not sure what is more shameful, the blatant ignoring of clear data of the safety improvements 20 has made or the frothing excitement of those ‘returning’ roads as if 30 is some sort of innate speed endowed from the heavens.

My world RN

I know people imbue motor vehicles with sentience in order to absolve drivers of responsibility but this is the. Est I’ve seen so far

Powerful stuff. When you’re on the right path you don’t stop going, you carry on making the world even better, and saving even more lives.

@cyclinguk.bsky.social reflect on the benefits of the 20mph policy, but call for further policy interventions to ensure safer transport and better environments for people. Read on #thewelshagenda 👉 ow.ly/lbQ950VKpZn

I personally can’t think of any road building schemes which have given places to play and add joy to the journey. (Well maybe the US parkways)