“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability & quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

What counts as essential travel? How does this differ across people? What level of mobility can be sustained within planetary boundaries? These researchers get closer to answering those questions than most. Wish this kind of thinking was more central to climate & transport policy making in the UK.

”The large, heavy passenger vehicles were responsible for over 20% of the growth in global energy-related CO2 emissions last year” #Abundance 🫢 www.iea.org/commentaries...

This is an incredible column, to which I can only offer an addendum: There is value in using and improving the existing urban transit infrastructure to improve suburban service and generate exurban and next-city-over ridership. Commuter railroads are where these synergies are most evidence, IMO.

This is an absolutely brilliant paper that I can only recommend to all those interested in transport poverty/equity but also in sustainable transport/climate, and on how to reconcile the two. I can only hope that it will have the impact it deserve doi.org/10.1016/j.er...

We often say it takes a couple of days of bike community to turn cyclists into activists. To that end, here are 8 of our favourite cycling advocacy groups that do a lot of amazing work in urban areas. momentummag.com/here-are-7-o...

Across England, young people are being denied the play opportunities they need for healthy physical growth, mental wellbeing, and social development...

"Nine months into the program, there’s every reason to believe that congestion pricing is actually one of the best things to happen to New York City’s streets in the automobile age." - amNewYork's editorial board

In the UK, only the health cost of road accidents is estimated to be £6bn. There are also social and economic costs that push the bill a lot higher (between £30bn and £42bn). The solution is public transport, cycling and walking infrastructure. It saves lives and money.

See #OttCity, it is possible. Note also Helsinki is a winter city with a great public transit system, fantastic embrace of being a winter city with active transportation and beautiful to boot. What a combo…it is possible.

I know Texas is big, but for contrast, Texas has not had a fatality-free day on its road since Nov 7, 2000.

Amazing to see the Embankment cycleway in Central London hitting capacity on roughly a quarter of the width of wheeled traffic space. Here's what it looked like before. Cities can change and cycling is a *key* part of the transport mix.

Aiming to reverse the damage inflicted on the city by post-war traffic engineers, the Nowe Centrum Warszawy project is urban renewal for the 21st century: rebalancing public space, reducing car dominance, and making Warsaw’s centre more welcoming to pedestrians, cyclists and public transport users.🧵

Not a single river in England is in good overall health. And it is not just sewage that is the problem. Road runoff is a huge issue and needs to be prioritised by National Highways. Write to your MP today and urge them to take action on this important issue actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...

And just like that, we're back to the school run and the usual grind 🤯. How did you get to school today? Did you know that travelling actively to school improves mood, behaviour & confidence, increases attention levels & enhances performance? Here's to a new school year! (1st pic: Crispin Hughes)

"Vision Zero forced the [traffic engineering] industry to confront a difficult truth. The more we prioritized speed & volume, the more we endangered the most vulnerable users of the road: pedestrians and cyclists, w particular emphasis on children & older adults" www.planetizen.com/features/135...

Very pleased to see @heidialexander.bsky.social agreed with us that National Highways must improve the Haweswater Underpass as part of the M60 Simister Island scheme, which she approved today. The underpass is a key potential active travel route for schoolchildren www.burytimes.co.uk/news/2533193...

We need more trees and greenery and many fewer cars, not to mention much less of the asphalt that comes along with them. You can read the full open-access paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Bad news for cities. 🚨 Cars are parked 95% of the time, eating up valuable street space. Now, new research from Lisbon shows parked cars are also intensifying urban heat: by as much as +3.8°C. 🌡️ 🧵

This photo shows 58 cyclists and just two cars. MPs looking out of their window today will see a steady flow of people cycling, some for the first time in a while, given confidence to do so with quality infrastructure. Just over 10 years ago there wasn’t even a cycle lane here.

This man speaks sense! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Genuine question: which UK city beyond London do people think is doing the best job of having this conversation and acting on it?

Happy National Read A Book Day to all who observe. www.lifeaftercars.com

Price is already the main thing that puts people off train travel. A 5.8% fare rise would make things much worse. As we say in this article, with rail moving under public control, the govt should make fares more affordable and increase passenger numbers. inews.co.uk/news/great-r...

Traffic is back and the @theoxfordmail.bsky.social are making the case for the Temporary Congestion Charge for Cars... and for bus lanes.

Skeptics may ask: “Is Vision Zero worth it?” The answer is yes—when communities invest in safe street design, we see real, measurable results. Have you worked on a project in the past 5 years that saw measurable results. We’d love to hear it. Share your story here 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Lest we forget, while the right-wing furor rages on against Angela Raynor... www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

'the built environment isn’t constant. Sprawl did not exist 50 years ago, right? And now sprawl is a constant in the US. there are other ways of living & maybe there are better ways of living.' designobserver.com/dbbd-season-...

Campaigner’s legal victory highlights questions over government’s commitment to accessible rail travel www.disabilitynewsservice.com/campaigners-...

”People in Finland are widely opposing the government's plan to scrap the employer-provided bicycle benefit, with more than 50,000 signing a petition against it, Ilta-Sanomat reports.” Great work, Finns! yle.fi/a/74-20181021

And another www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

'Air pollution linked to 30,000 UK deaths in 2025 & costs the economy billions. Findings of a report @rcphysicians.bsky.social, published in June 2025, which calls for urgent government action to treat air pollution as a serious & preventable public health crisis.' www.imperial.ac.uk/news/265315/...

📣 📣 Join us at our upcoming online workshop with Hope for the Future, a week today - Monday 8th at 1pm. With tips on quality relationship building and how to deal with some of the challenges we as campaigners face, you will leave with valuable insights into meaningfully engaging with your MP. 💪 💥

"Have you thought about going for a jog to help the NHS?"

Extreme heat is a very real issue for many cities. Cities serious about climate adaptation need to start rethinking parking policies in heat-vulnerable areas, reducing the number of vehicles occupying valuable public space.

5 years ago, the Government consulted on how dangerous pavement parking could be tackled in England. The Government has yet to respond. If pavement parking is a problem in your area, fill out our form and add to our map of danger hotspots across the UK act.livingstreets.org.uk/page/176767/...

Valuing Travel Time and Reliability from Emerging Connected Vehicle Data

Catch the Bus Month is here! Buses are transport heroes - connecting communities, improving lives, reducing traffic and pollution. During #CTBM25, let's use them, celebrate them, and campaign for more of them! @bususersuk.bsky.social

This is actually why it does matter that the government is trying to make it easier to build massive estates of houses with no public transport links and no local amenities: not just because it’s terrible planning and bad for the environment but because it’s awful public health policy!

The National Cycle Network is 30! 🎂🎈 For 30 years, the National Cycle Network has transformed how people across the UK move, explore and connect. It is all thanks to the unwavering support of our incredible supporters, volunteers and partners. #NationalCycleNetwork

Good connections make public transport more useful for more people. But buses running every 30 minutes can't efficiently connect to trains running every 20 minutes. More frequent services can fix this. #MoreServicesNow

On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution. But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable

Long promised technical guidance on quantifying carbon emissions from local transport has quietly been released today by DfT. It is designed to provide ‘local authorities with an evidence-based approach to transport planning and the pursuit of local decarbonisation goals’.

A pile of research studies shows that small biz owners have no idea how their customers travel and that they consistently exaggerate the share that drives. Journalists who don’t acknowledge that reality are failing their readers.

We really should never have sold off a single mile of railway land, even if we removed all of running infrastructure. Each line a lost opportunity of greenway that could have been upgraded for mass transit as required.

They didn’t seem to accept that bigger, heavier vehicles pump out more particulates that are killing and maiming people. Nobody talks about this, and no government regulates it. The issue is studiously ignored. *Cars are killing us!* lloydalter.substack.com/p/another-ma...

@bettertransport.bsky.social is pleased with the Transport Committee report committees.parliament.uk/committee/15...