New research examines Waymo's California robotaxi trips btw Aug 2023 and Dec 2025. Conclusion: 46% of miles driven involved no one inside the car. That's 40 million miles of deadheading, with Waymo vehicles using road space w/o transporting a human. doi.org/10.32866/001...

Watched ‘The 12th Man’ recently. Absolutely incredible true story if you like this kind of thing en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_12t...

I’ve had a very productive day of being blocked on bluesky. I assume it was upsetting the flag botherers and not the active travel content 🤷‍♂️

Nice to see this and the replies . My view is that replacing driving the short distances by Active Travel requires measures seen as increasing inconvenience to drivers through: * increasing the cost of driving. * reducing space available (LTNs, bus lanes etc.) * law enforcement.

I understand why Chris frames it like this but I wonder if it actually helps support the right solutions. Sadly the truth is that many (most?) of those <1km journeys will already have had a viable alternative but people still chose to drive because it is cheaper easier & more convenient.

The Arsenal parade today was a joy. Everything the decline-fetishists & flag-shaggers hate. A confident successful multicultural community celebrating together.

In my view this is one of the most important things the government needs to do between now and the next election. You cannot have openly fascist social media owners paying and boosting fascist parties. You can't have social media platforms boosting hate speech for clicks. It will end badly.

Do you agree? A child-friendly kerbside, without large cars dangerously blocking sightlines and hogging space, is key to our campaign for #streetsforkids Councillors pledged, you voted, now it's time for action. Help us to hold our councils to account! Share and tag your local councillors!

If you care about privacy, ride a bike.

It was 35° in London yesterday. It was nearly unlivable. In May. But this petro funded ghoul thinks we should ditch net zero. Twat.

Every time we see hundreds of bicycles outside a high school, we no longer despair for the human race. To Dutch people, it barely registers. But this scene represents something profound: freedom and autonomy for young people—without the stress, cost or danger that comes with needing to drive a car.

A powerful and important piece from @londonplay.bsky.social on a much better way to spend the £300m being spent on cutting VAT on theme parks: londonplay.org.uk/our_news/the...

This isn’t a spoof. It is, in fact, real. Hopefully they also included a replica pedestrian crossing to park the Range Rover on. 🤢 www.rhs.org.uk/shows-events...

Charlotte is iconic. (and her bike bus ends a few meters from my flat)

Looks like Marcus Aurelius would understand how to interpret your typical LTN / active travel consultation

A thread of complaints at a public meeting about a planned bike lane in Minneapolis. The same awful bingo card of arguments that get made here. Just wait until Haringey do Green Lanes…

“Do it fast and do it early” Our assessment of Hackney Green Party’s transport in-tray; what the major challenges are & how we’d like to see them tackled www.lowtraffichackney.org/latest-news/...

"We don't think we can build a meaningful cycleway without bus stop bypasses that meets national and London standards”. Quite. www.mylondon.news/news/transpo...

In the UK we will do anything apart from tackle the cause of air pollution. Newcastle and Tyneside needs a proper ulez zone. Heavily polluting vehicles need to be stopped. But we'll get a pedestrian barrier instead. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Four-houses-Farage is such a man of the people. Really standing apart from the elite there Nige. How this corrupt racist clown has duped so many people is an absolute mystery. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

All London's bridges, flyovers and tunnels should charge a toll which should be ringfenced for maintainance and improvements. Less controversial than full pay-per-mile because the justification should now be obvious. metro.co.uk/2026/05/12/m...

Great transformation. Well done @islington-council.bsky.social.

We're making London greener, safer, cleaner & an awful lot nicer! Before & after pics really show the total transformation of St John Street in Islington 💚🚶‍♀️🚲🌳 @islington-council.bsky.social @rowchampion.bsky.social @mayoroflondon.bsky.social @TfL

Interesting new study here. It is like a manual for the tactics of John Stewart, 'SEJ' etc. activetravelstudies.org/article/id/1...

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 💚

This is what Reform are. It’s just some of them are a bit more careful what they say publicly. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Supreme Court has granted Tower Hamlets Council permission to appeal the ruling that removing Bethnal Green's LTNs was unlawful. We are disappointed, but undeterred. We won at the Court of Appeal and we'll fight this too, but we need your support. www.crowdjustice.com/case/defendi...

Bit gutted they’ve been given permission to appeal but the fight continues. Please donate!

Max was instrumental in trialling positive changes such as simpler side road zebra crossings. Hopefully, after a well earned rest, he will have other opportunities to contribute to London's public realm. bsky.app/profile/maxs...

👏 Really pleased to see this. Well done John and I hope you can continue fighting for safer lower-traffic streets.

Many congratulations to @zoegarbett.bsky.social @hackney-cable.bsky.social @hackneygreenparty.bsky.social on their groundbreaking win. We hope to see rapid progress on making Hackney’s streets safer & less polluted.

Your Party, proclaiming their support for a multi-property buy to let landlord whose main policy was promoting car use and ripping out LTNs. 🙄

So the antiLTN independent lost. The antiLTN ‘Independent Socialists’ lost. The ProLTN Greens won a Landslide. And the Labour Cabinet lead for Transport & Environment, who implemented LTNs, is one of the few Labour survivors. Stop worrying about electoral implications here & just get on with it.

Huge change for Hackney with a Green mayor and it appears likely a Green tsunami that looks like it will yield a comfortable Council majority.

Thoughts and prayers to thrice failed antiLTN candidate Clair ‘Future Councillor’ Battaglino who got resoundingly stuffed by 3 Greens in Hackney Central

They'll spend the next four years wasting money on pointless legal actions over Oxford Street.

This morning seeing the number of bikes on C1 my son asked “why is there a mini Kidical Mass of adults going to work?”! 🚲 😂

Yes to the speed limit cuts but the idea of subsidising something harmful (fossil fuel) when there is a physical shortage is just bonkers economics. Subsidise the alternatives instead. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

To end the harms of car domination it isn’t sufficient just to make good alternatives; you have to actively deprioritise driving, & make it less convenient & more expensive. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Bucket of salt required with these polls. Been talking to people campaigning on both sides in Hackney. No one seems confident. Both agree younger & private renters are flipping Green in large numbers but over 40s social housing tenants & more settled residents still seem more solidly Labour.

Any ideas who he blames for this? 1. Other drivers? 2. Police? 3. The drivers jumping the red lights? 4. Cyclists?

Tory councillors love to bathe in the blood of those injured on our streets.

We've trawled through the manifestos to see what the main parties are offering voters on sustainable transport and traffic reduction in Hackney www.lowtraffichackney.org/latest-news/...

Interesting to see this leaflet from the Bayswater Conservatives today. Blink and you could miss an important point. They say they will: “Oppose Labour’s Disruptive Bayswater Road cycle lane changes” and “fix our broken roads instead”. This is disappointing to read - 1/4

The recent Hoxton LTN consultation is a great example. Only 3% of respondents were under 24 despite u24y/o making up 30% of the local population. If we don’t even listen to what children & young people need is it any wonder our public spaces are so hostile to them?

- These people have nothing constructive to contribute - They are impervious to facts - They do not want any of the good things you know you need to do to improve quality of life for your constituents - There is no way to deliver these things without enraging them - You have to do it anyway ENDS

Five years ago, a right wing faction of the Ealing Labour Party saw their chance, and used local controversy over LTNs as a pretext to launch a successful coup against the reigning moderately soft left faction, installing a new administration on the promise of scrapping all the measures

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