Cllr Ed Lamb

Car finance scandal: Payouts of £700 per driver under compensation plans Lenders could pay out £8.2bn in compensation for car finance mis-selling, the FCA says.

Pay out should be in e-bike credits 🫡

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YouTube video by Petrol Ped *EXCLUSIVE* Dacia Hipster - A car with no rivals !

Really hope we see a lot more micro-EVs in the UK in the years ahead. Smaller, slower, lighter, cheaper...

'With power comes responsibility' - Hector Bellerin wins BBC Green Sports Award Former Arsenal defender Hector Bellerin talks about his attempts to live a more sustainable life as he wins the BBC Green Sports Award.

"With sustainability comes empathy and compassion. These are all traits that you get when you decide to take care of the place that gives you life..."

"We need greener cities, with fewer cars."

Dame Patricia Routledge receives Honorary Freedom of the Borough DAME Patricia Routledge has received Wirral’s highest honour.

How on earth do you know about Keeping Up Appearances??!!

Side note: Patricia was born just down the road from where I live, and in January councillors honoured her with the 'Freedom of the Borough' www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/2486883...

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🚨 Event incoming!
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Stuck in the Slow Lane: Tackling Car Dependency 🚗↘️

Join us and Izzy from @wearepossible.bsky.social where we explore the art of communicating the case for reducing car dependence

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A series of junctions disappear into infinity. Lots of entrances on a UK road with seemingly endless dropped kerbs for pedestrians

infinite dropped kerbs ♾️
you can almost smell the accessibility 🙄

Wirral Labour have (until quite recently) hammered Wirral Greens. We've gone from 1 councillor to 14 in that time 🤷‍♂️

🚨 BREAKING | Greens now have 80,000 members.

This is an increase of 10,000 since @zackpolanski.bsky.social won the leadership in a landslide victory (85-15).

(Source: @greenparty.org.uk)

1) Willaston, near the village 'square'
4) Neston?

Banned driver given another ban. Genius

Bike resting near a bridge in Port Sunlight, Wirral. Blue skies. Trees to either side. Old building in background

it's one of those days when you take a detour through Port Sunlight

(Said with a degree of sadness from me, as my local council were no where to be seen with #CarFreeDay efforts, despite frequent requests from @wirralgreenparty.bsky.social councillors)

Good for business. Good for people.

Sir, your pickup truck *almost taking off* when you hit a speed hump at 35mph is nature's way of telling you to *slow down*

The inefficiency of fossil fuels is a feature, not a bug

This is Utrecht's reinvented Amsterdamsestraatweg.

The municipality faced a unique challenge: How to transform one of the busiest car routes into a greener, more liveable space?

FInd out how they did it: buff.ly/p06KxAA

Sorry if I've ruined your day, Dave 😂

On the plus side, he's well and truly lost the argument... as have those who campaigned against our 20mph work on Wirral!

motion for live world class track & field athletics to be a broadcast live 24/7

Nearly 900 fewer people injured since 20mph introduction in Wales Figures show a 25% reduction in the number of injuries on Wales' roads in the past 18 months.

"I've never seen the roads so dangerous in my 39-year career," said the man who has no idea how ridiculous he sounds.

Almost 900 fewer people have been injured.

Day by day my Instagram feed becomes more dominated by cute little Maltese puppy videos

How do we fix this mess?

The Post The Liverpool Post

We have The Post, up in Liverpool (covering all of Merseyside)

www.livpost.co.uk

Folks, the "I bought this before Elon went crazy" bumper stickers ain't gonna cut it. You gotta get rid of your Tesla. Anything less is a tacit endorsement of this man and his dangerous ideology.

Great advice. Have started with River Man by Nick Drake

Thank you for saving me the job of searching through Dutch news websites 😂

YouTube video by Global Cycling Network What Happens When Real People Try e-Cargo Bikes?

Cargo bikes. They're not for everyone, but for a lot of people they can and do replace a lot of car trips. Good news for people that want less traffic.

Must watch video on cargo bike research 😎

On road cycle lane in Haarlem, Netherlands. Bus to the right. Houses and trees. Sunny day

Here's some crap cycling infrastructure! I'm sure it will be improved by the time I next visit

Photo of the rear of an F1 car at Zandvoort in 2025. People sitting on the sand dunes in the background. Sunny day

'Just go and live there, Ed. You hate cars!'

Well if I hate cars, why did I travel there to watch them race round around in circles HMMMMMM

Photo looking back across Amsterdam Centraal station with a large collection of cyclists in the foreground. Sunny afternoon in summer

I've been to the Netherlands and almost forgot to tell you all! They've got 99 problems but incredible transport options ain't one