Probably fewer people than a small London overground station. What a staggering waste of land & resources to create a harmful unpleasant & antisocial environment.

Half time show, I want to see Trump try and hit it in from halfway, win a tumble dryer if he does

I must’ve cycled C27 on Sidmouth Street hundreds of times but I’d never previously noticed the little gate leading to a lovely cemetery-park (St George’s Gardens). London is full of surprises.

Lot of debate on Falklands/Malvinas. This is pretty persuasive. In the shake-up of colonialism from Britain, France & Spain/Arg they ended with a settled British population. I get why Argentina hates that but unconvinced it overrides 200 yrs of self-determination www.chathamhouse.org/2026/05/who-...

Sick of FIFA and all the associated grubby corruption? Watch a live international club game right here. 👇

If you can't make today's Clapton CFC vs NY International FC game, you can watch the livestream 👇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm7t...

Having kids was the most radicalising thing for me in wanting to transform streets. You suddenly realise how wild it is that our everyday environments not only completely exclude a massive part of the population, but also casually put them at very real risk of death.

John Stewart is, somehow, still a trustee of the Campaign for Better Transport. I do not see how his position is tenable when he is now advocating for 'a full public debate on the place of cycling'. This is beyond-fringe behaviour, and is inflaming existing prejudices towards cyclists.

You have to ask what would cause someone to completely turn against all the measures he was campaigning for just a few years ago. He can't now even agree with road user charging as it might upset some drivers.

It's complicated by crossings of the Thames, but it's showing that we should be building parallel routes now. It has reached saturation now.

Traffic-everywhere group ‘SEJ’ has released an ‘LTN Briefing’ for Councillors stating the polar opposite of the actual evidence. It has 4 references: 2 Andrew Ellson clickbait press articles and 2 press releases (from INRIX & Travelwatch) that don’t even mention LTNs. They really are Charlatans.

This is a national disgrace. Fixing it isn’t complicated either, it just means following well-understood evidence of how to tackle the causes of ill health ‘upstream’. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

In my crime-ridden hellhole of North London, where residents have been trapped in a 15 minute city LTN for 50 years, the wine bar a few doors down is setting up to celebrate their fifth birthday, complete with a boules pitch I blame Sadiq Khan

Spot the radicalisation.

This ‘free’ parking policy is idiotic, will lead to more congestion, more road harms and come at the cost of cuts to other vital services. Absolute fools to prioritise this. newhamvoices.co.uk/2026/07/08/n...

According to @fleuranderson.bsky.social Putney is awash with congestion because Hammersmith Bridge closed to cars. Fleur refuses to acknowledge motor traffic is down across entire area incl Putney & all nearby bridges. I wonder what she & other Labour politicians make of stuff like this...

The A10 needs cycle tracks and the C1 needs a full-on Dutch-style cycle street approach.

Cycleway 1, Whitmore Road Hoxton, yesterday. Both a reflection of Hackney’s historic commitment to active travel & an example of a road where there is simply far too much cycle traffic to keep mixing with cars vans & HGVs. @zoegarbett.bsky.social @hackney-cable.bsky.social

Green Party London Assembly Member Caroline Russell told the report launch that City Hall and TfL could still be doing more to tackle the "elephant in the room" - traffic congestion. "The urgency to reduce the number of cars in London couldn't be clearer". www.mylondon.news/news/transpo...

Our latest blogpost about when transport planners wanted to bulldoze Dalston for a motorway, and what we can learn about how to fix our car-dominated streets. www.lowtraffichackney.org/latest-news/...

We are appalled to hear National Highways are seeking to remove measures to reduce and monitor the air pollution impact of the Lower Thames Crossing project on Epping Forest! Please object to the National Highways consultation before 28th July transportactionnetwork.org.uk/national-hig...

Hackney is 3rd in London for healthy streets - congratulations to everyone who worked so hard @hackneycouncil.bsky.social over the last few years. www.healthystreetsscorecard.london/results/your...

This is a case study in motornormativity, car-brain, sloppy journalism and numerical illiteracy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... "£100m in e-bike insurance claims push up premiums for motorists". Big scary numbers, all the fault of lawless bike riders. Let's see, shall we?

Research is good, but I still think the focus on one feature trying to mitigate a fundamentally broken roads system is misguided because it means nobody has to talk about the bigger picture; and that's a hard subject. Sadly, NFBUK aren't interested. They want cycling for transport banned.

This sounds awful & I definitely think Lime should be much more accountable… but… when are we going to get a ‘something must be done’ piece about the 42 pedestrians killed & 100+ seriously injured every year on the pavement by cars? #Motonormativity www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

My cycleway1 experience today was following a mum & 2 kids down a side street from school both kids riding in the road and then when they reached Whitmore Rd (cycleway1) she made them ride on the pavement. I wonder why? Could it be something to do with the fact it is overrun with cars & unsafe?

Closed to cars =/= closed.

Bingo. A lot of this discourse around the bridge is quite divorced from the realities around DfT business case assessment and sign off to ensure value for public money - weirdly a top priority for right wingers when it comes to everything else, but suddenly irrelevant when it’s something car related

Low Traffic Neighbourhoods make streets more accessible.

Utrecht is an amazing work in progress - always something to improve and adjust which shows that it's OK for things not to work perfectly with every project, but you need to work to a plan. Where did all the traffic go? Much of it wasn't needed.

"We need protected bike lanes. People who've lived here for 75 years say "don't take away my free parking". Well I'm going to live here for the next 75 years and I want to get around my neighbourhood safely".

Great news an a victory for common sense. www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

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

Ha 💯. Ie Hackney’s annual walking & cycling conference. I didn’t go last year out of sheer frustration at the growing disconnect between what is said every year and what Officers were actually doing (or not doing). I’m trying again this year in hope.

I only worked in the transport industry for about 12 years. But if the energy spent on creating and attending active travel conferences were spent on implementing active travel infrastructure, we'd be home and dry by now...

Stop waiting for the cavalry. You are the cavalry. @hackneycouncil.bsky.social

I hate these articles! I wonder if it could possibly be the fact senior Actuaries can earn as much as £300k a year that mean they could retire age 40, rather than the fact they’re extreme tight-arses? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If we’re serious about traffic reduction, every opportunity must be taken to embed it in policy. This small scheme shows how it often isn’t happening. Read our blogpost here. www.lowtraffichackney.org/latest-news/...

What an absolute sicko (quoted)

Nice improved cycle connection into St Peter’s LTN Islington. But honestly there is enough space here to do this down the whole street of every street in the LTN. Can we be a bit more ambitious in how liberated roadspace is used?

Retractable bollards with remote access for delivery and emergency services filter modes with absolute certainty. They close streets to private cars for far less than the cost of human enforcement, demanding 24/7 compliance through solid, smart design.

My brother studied NatSci at Cambridge & many of his peers, supposedly the finest minds of their generation, trained in theoretical physics, advanced mathematics etc ended up working in finance (ie glorified gambling). They’re rich but what a waste of human potential.

A sensible economic policy would recognise that some jobs have a high marginal private product but low (or even negative) marginal social product. The problem is that lobbying and some parts of law and accountancy are such jobs - & they have disproportionate political influence.

I get the difficulties with air conditioning 150yr old tube lines but there really is no excuse with the buses. Every London bus should have fierce A/C. Why don’t they? Public transport should be comfortable & many London buses are unbearable in the heat.

The truth is most tradespeople don’t need to drive a van for most jobs. The shrewd ones aren’t complaining about LTNs, they’re getting ahead & reducing costs using cheap agile cargo bikes.

And there it is… www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/r...

Not all Unite members work for airports, oil companies or car manufacturers, and may be more interested in a survivable future for their kids than protecting the corporate interests of major polluters. If that’s you, someone has started a petition for you to sign here: www.change.org/p/stop-unite...

Glad my union has endorsed Ed Miliband for Chancellor. Unite’s opposition is incoherent. He’s an experienced & effective candidate who will back genuine progressive change. Streeting would be a disaster. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Much truth in this but the response has to be: So why not just ignore the neoliberal hysteria & go all-in on the difficult stuff? This is where Starmer was such a disappointment. It’s last chance saloon for left-centrism to prove it can make real progressive change.

Our latest blogpost on how car-dominated neighbourhoods are making extreme heat worse, and what we can do about it. www.lowtraffichackney.org/latest-news/...