Interesting research on attitudes towards & use of e-cargo bikes in the UK. Particularly noteworthy for demonstrating the level of interest in e-cargo bikes nationally and the extent to which they replace car journeys. In a trial in suburban areas over 50% of the distance travelled replaced car use

If your not willing to give up car lanes for bus lanes your equity is performative

As of 11am on Friday, al fresco dining has come to St Martin's Lane in the West End, with Rupert Street market arriving in Soho later that day. It's a huge step towards making our city more people-friendly. This street is now free of general motor traffic 11am-11pm daily until end of October 1/

This latest 'secret war on motorists' is.... the govt confirming it won't go ahead with Rishi Sunak's 2023 'Plan for Drivers', a half-baked and panicked series of measures to make it harder for councils to introduce LTNs and 20mph zones which not even the Conservatives ever really believed in.

Great to see my old friend @johnjohnstewart.bsky.social making the case for Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) to support local active travel journeys in yesterday’s Times www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

“The efficacy of the measure can no longer be credibly questioned, so it’s time we started implementing them across London and at pace. With so many lives at stake we cannot afford not to.” #LTNsAreGoodActually Chapter 847

New drawing: Hire bike Notes on this cartoon: open.substack.com/pub/diagramc...

All politicians implementing new transport schemes should pay very close attention to these words: “Therefore, politicians, policymakers, and practitioners should anticipate a bias towards the status quo when introducing controversial transport policies.” Expect pushback and get through it.

Councils need to stop pandering to vexatious complainants. This is the wrong letter. The right letter would have been to all residents explaining why an active lifestyle and freedom to play are important to children’s development and setting expectations for tolerance.

Clever new study shows a powerful ‘status quo bias’ prevails re new transport policy. Looks at levels of public fear about this, finds exact inverse of the Goodwin Curve of public support: the “Hill of Hysteria”! Sad to see so many choose to die on that hill www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Today it was revealed that Cambridgeshire County Council has successfully defended the latest legal challenge against the Mill Road bus gate. Now all local authorities must work together with local stakeholders to urgently progress the improvements to the streetscape that will benefit all users.

"People who depend on cars to get around are more likely to feel lonely and disconnected than those who have access to good public transport, a UK study has found" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I also think that *some* of those campaigning for Disabled people have have behaved questionably and have distracted us for far wider problems with how our streets and roads are designed and managed - effectively arguing for a terrible status quo, because despite being so bad, 10/n

Ok, an update on the Bus Services (No.2) Bill, which some people and organisations were trying to use to ban the use of floating bus stops which would have ended the ability to build cycle tracks in England in many circumstances. The committee stage has finished and in this specific area, 1/n

Bus stop bypasses being discussed again. To be clear: you *cannot* build protected space for cycling without bus stop bypasses. No country has a better design than the UK LTN 1/20 guidance. “Boarders” are suboptimal but where space is tight they are unavoidable. Thread:

This is shocking. A London Labour MP and Doctor (!) trying to hijack a bill designed to improve bus services outside of London into a bill that eliminates protected cycle lanes in London. @drrosena.bsky.social www.theyworkforyou.com/pbc/2024-25/Bus_Services_No._2_Bill/05-0_2025-07-01a.153.7

Right I'm so pissed off that we've got London MPs trying to hijack the Local Buses Bill (which is supposed to be about STUFF OUTSIDE LONDON for a change) to try to ban London / all floating bus stops (utter nonsense), that I've stayed up late writing evidence for the committee. Join me! Link ⬇️

⚠️ Looks like cycleway #C3 #CS3 gets diverted 5+6 July into the Castle Baynard road tunnel, as CB Street will be closed each day 7am-8pm 📸 x.com/a1_bloke/sta...

@marshadecordova.bsky.social Hi Marsha, I have reviewed with interest your proposed amendments to the Bus Services bill which are targeting Floating Bus Stops. Have you considered that banning FBSs as you propose will have severe consequences for inclusiveness in Active Travel?

Want greener, cooler cities that are a “breath of fresh air?“ Just in case you thought Paris wasn’t ambitious enough this weekend, on top of our new exhibition, they opened the new “Urban Forest” in the square at City Hall! Part of @annehidalgo.bsky.social & team’s brilliant urban greening strategy.

Danger from older drivers is a massive problem. Driving is not a human right. There should be basic mandatory re-tests at age 76 & every year from age 80. If this disqualified many people from driving that might help concentrate minds on the need for alternatives. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

BUT MY CAR

Refreshing from a car journalist: basically “don’t buy this SUV cos it kills kids and the climate, go and buy the estate instead.” www.irishtimes.com/motors/revie...

Seen this @peterwalker99.bsky.social? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Senior @theguardian.com Editor pulls every Telegraph anti LTN bingo trope going. A long rant strong on Harker's opinions stated as if fact but very short on actual evidence. It's shameful Strawman rubbish frankly.

Hundreds of people, including small children, rode through the streets of Oxford today to demand ‘Safe Streets’ in Kidical Mass- a family friendly, marshalled ride. Four feeder rides converged on Gloucester Green for a ride around the city.

Sadly breaking car dominance in cities will require political leaders to take angry drivers to court and win legal battles to make good things happen. But the results are always more than worth it.

It’s spectacular.

February minutes of the City of London's Streets & Walkways sub committee. NFBUK refuses to discuss better designs, their position is simply to ban them. This position will hurt people and help keep the streets objectively dangerous for their members. democracy.cityoflondon.gov.uk/documents/s2...

@bettertransport.bsky.social Saw this on X when I woke up this morning. Honestly it is shocking that this individual, with his aggressive hostility to safe cycling infrastructure, remains a trustee at the Campaign for Better Transport.

I’ve not seen the comments but I’ve spent a lot of time speaking with groups representing disabled people and everyone I’ve spoken with could see the value of floating bus stops - they say consistent design needs sorting and RNIB are involved in trials to help blind people feel confident crossing.

I posted this 🧵 on bus stop bypasses aka floating bus stops 31/10/24 in the other place. It was in response to news that the Mayor would not halt the roll out of bus stop bypasses reported in the Evening Standard.

Here's the actual reality of a bus stop bypass, at any given time, on any given day. No interactions, no danger to pedestrians, VI or otherwise... but my wife, sister-in-law and daughter can independently and safely access local amenities without fear or risk of being crushed to death.

BIG: PARIS citizens voted in a referendum to pedestrianize 500 MORE of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to ongoing efforts by city leaders to create more people-places, curb car usage, and improve air quality. 66% of the Parisian vote supported the measure, official results showed. #Paris

Bedford is home. Council consults on extending £75 fines for town centre #cycling. Please respond NOW even if not local: visitors and #Disabled ppl often fined. #MyCycleMyMobilityAid www.bedford.gov.uk/your-council/have-your-say/consultations/town-centre-public-spaces-protection-order-consultation

"Emissions from cycling can be more than 30x lower for each trip than driving a fossil fuel car, and about 10x lower than driving an electric one."

Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal, Amsterdam in 1982 and today. Cars have been removed altogether here, replaced by a cycleway

congestion pricing is working so well that even the tabloid papers are supporting it

It’s REALLY important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against downtown bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of the evidence that they are better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced. Bike-lanes mean business.

Fantastic feedback from early beneficiaries of the partly installed first Liveable Neighbourhood in Bristol. Great that the Council is determined to implement the full LTN and that the clock will start on the trial only when all measures are fully across the area. Nosity minority will not win.

LTN opponents have quite successfully spun this IMO. A conventional understanding of injustice would be a particular group suffering disproportionate effects but data shows the opposite so they have redefined injustice as *anyone* suffering a disbenefit so making any/every change an injustice

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath Some costs aren’t costs.

A Citizens’ Assembly of Oxfordshire residents has called for “making the city centre car-free”, turning other existing roads over to buses, cyclists and Blue Badge holders, and housing developments with major facilities in walking distance—each topping 85% support. oxfordclarion.uk/citizens-ass...

Oxfordshire CC just ran a Citizen’s Assembly on traffic. Key conclusions: 88% support for "Make the city centre car free" 82% support for "Introduce a graduated Work Place Parking Levy" 74% for "Implement a congestion charge in addition to the Zero Emission Zone."

Streets are for cars, right? It's OK to leave your car for hours on end taking up space in the road, isn't it? If you think this, even sometimes, you may be suffering from car brain. We can help. Come to learn more in a relaxed atmosphere. Tues Mar 25 Free tickets tinyurl.com/carbraincyclox

If you're called something that is diametrically opposite to your position then you are being childish and disingenuous and your arguments should be treated as such See Social & Environmental Justice Gobal Warming Policy Foundation Tax Players Alliance

If you have to keep telling people that you are not anti-cycling then you are definitely anti-cycling.

“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.” #Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.

Told you the noisy minority wouldn’t win 👍

Hammersmith Bridge hasn't made traffic worse. Nearby bridges all showing less traffic since 2018, in new TfL data. www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/hamm...

"Perhaps congestion pricing is the first big domino to fall in New York’s next bicycling evolution."