Thanks Pete! This is great.

Looking at today's Active Travel England (@ategov.bsky.social) updated funding allocations, here is the funding per person per year. I think it makes good sense to fund places that put money to best uses, I made this chart shows how that policy play out in practice. www.gov.uk/government/p...

Photo of nicely spread chocolate chunk cookies fresh from an oven, still on greaseproof paper

Cookiespreading not carspreading - do we have a movement @mumsforlungs.bsky.social @solveschoolrun.bsky.social @londoncycling.bsky.social @livingstreets.bsky.social ?

Terrible. This isn’t the victorian ages - seeing our kids die is much more avoidable.

Measles: A Dangerous Illness - Wikipedia

Roald Dahl lost his daughter Olivia to measles. It happened very quickly. Worth reading his short piece about it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measles...

It becomes interesting when you realise that what they mean is ‘I’d rather have a dead kid than an autistic one (for example, though there’s no link!). I think it is weird to prefer anything to the kid you have, honestly! they just need you to love them more than anything in the world. not hard!

Yeah, I hear it is bloated. But I also hear that the French automotive cos are responding to weight-based charging with less bloat and that both Ftench and Italian cos have faced up to the reality of tiny old Mediterranean cities on car size too, which interests me!

Family holidays when I was a kid: Renault 4 plus small trailer for some of the camping gear. we took the trailer off when we didn’t need it, the rest of the year. Using an SUV is like wearing wellies all summer because you potentially have a muddy walk in February

'Carspreading' is on the rise - and not everyone is happy about it

But many owners say they are reliant on big cars. Matt Mansell, a father of three based in Guildford, runs a technology company, as well as a property development business, and says he needs his Land Rover Defender 110 for ferrying around clients and children. "I need to have enough space to put children in, with all of their kit - also, you can fit a door or a three-metre length of pipe in it," he says. "It's very much a utility vehicle, but it's presentable."

Lucia Barbato, from West Sussex, says her second-hand Lexus RX450 SUV - a hybrid model - is vital for transporting her large family in an area with limited public transport. She runs a marketing agency from home and drives her three sons to the bus stop each day, so they can go to school. "On a Monday morning with three boys, three school bags, three sports kits, and a trumpet thrown in the boot there isn't even room in the car for the dog!"

While this BBC article on ever-bigger SUVs is perfectly good, it's absurd the way there has to be quotes from people who insist they could not get around without a vehicle the size of a Sherman tank. It's just bollocks. I'm one of three kids and we were all ferried around in a Vauxhall Astra estate.

i walked with my kids with stage props for a week one summer. Amazing how a long hard rubber sword made a difference - but utterly infuriating

Lovely #Regency car park here. #Hove is known for its stunning car parks that extend monotonously for street after street, abounding with superb heritage features such as blocked sightlines and authentic grey kerbsides prividing the most limited interest for people moving around the area sustainably

Imagine if all non-driving/non-car owning households realised how much they were propping up a whole load of other people and decided to take action? Hmmm

@theguardian.com great article on ferritin deficiency but I wish you’d found space to cover ADHD. It’s very typical to have low ferritin with this condition - double whammy for the concentration. People really should get automatic ferritin tests on ADHD diagnosis.

@lrb.co.uk Jackson Lears on The Righteous Community seems to resonate completely with the broken faith-based communities of Hawthorne. A nation of fear and superstition whose sociological transition into the modern world has been cynically stunted by its leaders? Discuss… (sorry so far behind!)

Questions and answers, @lcefuk.bsky.social , questions and answers. Your party is failing on decarbonising a sector that is mired in public health and environmental calamity and inequality, and you just stack failure upon failure, failure in aerospace upon failure in surface transport.

@lcefuk.bsky.social summit looks more than slightly hollow with airport expansion going through. Vision, determination, needed - instead we have a flock of sheep wandering aimlessly towards a climate cliff. Irresponsible and inappropriate and nowhere near governing standard, honestly.

Does it mention the magic wand she’s presumably still searching for to fix traffic problems without noticeably changing anything about the status quo??? what a muppet. Though again what a reflection on the steadfast, determined approach from Sadiq Khan, who’s looking ever more heroic here

not impressed at all.

disabled cycle users can’t be put in that position so I call discrimination on those plans. By all means permit cycling but it is not 24/7 4- season usable and you know women & disabled people do have work and events and education and many other trips to make after 5.30 pm in the winter.

Please please see @londoncycling.bsky.social ’s Women’s freedom after dark report. this looks and smells to me like a council that just doesn’t want to reallocate road space and thereby shows they actually don’t care about safety after all, ie fob off alert

Weird. everyone knows his real name is Mandy? this Is looking murkier than Michael Green.

Can we get that stat for overlap with domestic violence convictions just once again please?

And TfL needs to focus on safety quality and less on delaying cos buses. ‘we have to model it again’ long grass game going on in places where councils are trying to catch up.

Naivety and optimism* are responsible for how many KSIs ever year? See also Paint is nor protection. *I’m being very generous. it’s really abject failure to fix evident road danger. Drivers swing into this gap round other drivers waiting to turn right.

Picture of two wheeled cycle on bridge over river Aire

only a quarter of cycled miles in the UK are cycled by women! I need to get out more

Did she really say cycling wasn’t for serious trips?? first, try telling VisitLondon tourism doesn’t count but second, what is the cycling rush hour about every day if not work-related??? all cycle trips matter, not none.

Wishing @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social programmers didn’t assume that people can’t possibly meant to listen to marvellously violent classical music at bedtime! come on - Scythian suite is for any occasion

As suspected.

YouTube video by Global Cycling Network We Visited Britain’s Most Dangerous Junction

A few weeks ago, I wandered down to Clapham in South London for a chat with Conor of Global Cycling Network to help peel back the layers of a junction dubbed as one of Britain's most dangerous for cycling.

With @psimonk.bsky.social and @ianwalker.bsky.social

youtu.be/d1BhyZSrZU8?...

Can we extent collision reporting improvements to rail incidents? A vehicle didn’t just hit a bridge. A person driving hit the bridge with their vehicle. Drivers matter, right @thameslink.bsky.social ?