Max Sullivan

For many years I have been posting little observations online. What you may not know is that for many years, artists have been illustrating them - for no reason other than they wanted to respond. Below is a thread of some of these beautiful drawings because they should be seen 🧵

I wasn't aware of this dimension when I wrote about the Waymo who hit and injured a school girl in Santa Monica. But it certainly tracks with a company making every attempt to justify their existence and approach. open.substack.com/pub/movepeop...

Waymo robotaxi hits child who was previously hidden behind an oversized SUV. Waymo praises its own technology for reacting faster than a human driver. So we need SUV robotaxis. Everything's fine in carbrain countries.

Wow & double Wow 🙏👍👏👏👏

Well Done Westminster City Council for becoming

“Flagship borough of sanctuary” in London for “asylum seekers & Refugees”.

After horrid days of listening to fascists & anti migrant racist Reform & far right morons it’s a welcome news for the long suffering asylum seekers.🙏

Plan to improve rundown street where traders 'no longer feel safe' Harrow Road in North Paddington had 33 vacant shop units last year, according to analysis by Westminster City Council

Harrow Road in North Paddington is looking a bit rough around the edges these days. Adrian Zorzut went down to chat to businesses as Westminster City Council looks to force long-vacant units back into use, to improve the area's fortunes
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I've just checked our consultation response and the clumsy phrasing was contained within so not @linusrees.bsky.social's fault - it was reported accurately. We do need TfL to more actively fund and help to execute alternative E-W routes but we are leading on the planning and design of those routes.

You said, we did See the results of the consultation here

What's written in the screenshot/report is untrue - multiple E-W alternative cycle routes are in the works led by WCC. North of Oxford St, have a read: marylebonewestend.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos.... And another through Mayfair at an earlier stage.

Westminster's Bayswater Rd scheme would deliver a safer continuous cycling connection linking Cycleways 3 and 27, as well as providing a direct east–west route along the north side of Hyde Park.

Last chance to have your say:
cmsbayswaterroad.commonplace.is

@citywestminster.bsky.social

Train and tube tracks too - always empty. Rip them out.

I’m proud to have played a small part in making the massive undertaking of Thames Tideway a success over the last 10 years. A major UK infrastructure project (almost) on time & budget (bar covid). Bazalgette Embankment is a great public realm legacy & well worth a visit.

Me with a lot of car brained people from Putney listening to fleur Anderson and Simon Hogg repeat baseless claims about delays to emergency services etc

I’m down at Hammersmith Bridge to hear SW London politicians wang on about how hundreds of millions should be spent to bring cars back over here. They’ve gathered down by the river for their “reopen the bridge” rally to avoid embarrassing context of huge numbers of pedestrians & cyclists crossing it

Big Ben photographed by me from a double-decker bus.

Side road zebra crossing photographed by me.

You, a normal person: [visits Westminster to see Big Ben]

Me, a nerd: [visits Westminster to see one of the only side road zebra crossings in the UK]

Side road zebras - an opportunity for Wales Ruth Billingham, our Head of Campaigns & Public Affairs, dives into the detail of what this means for walking.

Wales could give local authorities the power to install side road zebra crossings at junctions. This would be a first for the UK – giving pedestrians more priority at side streets.

But what is a side road zebra? And how would it work? 🦓

Find out more: https://bitly.livingstreets.org.uk/3MJM5PI

Cycle Movement Strategy Phase 3: Bayswater Road The Bayswater Road Cycle Movement Strategy Phase 3 scheme looks to enhance cycling and pedestrian facilities in both directions along Bayswater Road, from Palace Court to Lancaster Terrace.

Last opportunity to comment on proposals for improving cycling on Bayswater Road cmsbayswaterroad.commonplace.is/en-GB/

Split “then and now” photo of Eerste Sweelinckstraat in Amsterdam. Top: black-and-white 1986 view with parked cars lining a narrow street. Bottom: present-day scene with trees, bike parking, people, and children playing, showing a shift from car-dominated to people-friendly street design.

Eerste Sweelinckstraat, Amsterdam in 1986 and today. From a car park to a street with seating, bike parking, trees, and space for kids to play. Same street, different priorities. Proof that cities can change and that when politicians choose people over cars, streets become communities.

Cycle Movement Strategy Phase 3: Bayswater Road The Bayswater Road Cycle Movement Strategy Phase 3 scheme looks to enhance cycling and pedestrian facilities in both directions along Bayswater Road, from Palace Court to Lancaster Terrace.

And please respond to the consultation here before it closes:
cmsbayswaterroad.commonplace.is

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Comments from Felicity Buchan's Facebook post. See link to read them.

Comments from Felicity Buchan's Facebook post . See link to read them

The comments are an absolute treat.

See here to read for yourself:

www.facebook.com/share/r/1Jus...

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Screenshot of Felicity Buchan's Facebook Reel where she claims she's still an MP and opposes plans for safer cycling and walking on Bayswater Road. She is pictured staring at the road.

Why is Conservative Felicity Buchan pretending to still be a Member of Parliament? She lost her seat in 2024.

She's been pretty quiet on social media lately but has lately sprung into action to oppose...

Another cycle lane!

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Cycle Movement Strategy Phase 3: Bayswater Road The Bayswater Road Cycle Movement Strategy Phase 3 scheme looks to enhance cycling and pedestrian facilities in both directions along Bayswater Road, from Palace Court to Lancaster Terrace.

Bayswater Road Consultation on a segregated route looks very good. Support it here, ends 28th January!!!! Please share

cmsbayswaterroad.commonplace.is/en-GB/

East London residents win sensational victory in fight to save low-traffic schemes London-wide implications for LTNs as Court of Appeal rules that Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman acted unlawfully in trying to ignore Sadiq Khan’s transport masterplan

After 2+ years of legal battles, the Court of Appeal has ruled in our favour.
Tower Hamlets cannot lawfully remove our safer streets. A huge precedent for London.

www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

What3words is an opaque techy non-solution that seeks to lock people into a proprietary system that replaces a better system that was working perfectly fine. They're almost the last company I'd want to see influencing how government thinks

They don't have a big office - pretty sure that's the ground floor shared space of the building they have a floor on - Great Western Studios. And it's a great location in my humble opinion but not central London as most people think about it.

Thank you, fair. Ice trike?

Hey Toronto urbanism, walking, biking, transit nerds - I’m visiting your city soon for work. Where can I go for nice pootles using my feet or two wheels?

violence of course excepted. TO CYCLISTS, ETC. MILES May be covered without fatigue by the use of BARRY'S BEEF & COCA LOZENGES, Which are composed of the Finest Extract of English Beef, combined with the Concentrated Preparation of the RITHOXYLON COCA, used from time immemorial by the South American Indians, to ward off fatigue. Weston and other Athletes ascribe Wonderful Powers to this Plant. There is also a small dose of Phosphate of Iron in each Lozenge, the whole forming an admirable and unique preparation which may be conveniently carried in the Pocket. The effect is really surprising, and everyone should use them. Sold in Boxes at 1/17 and 2/9, or sent Post Free for 14 or 33 Stamps, by FREDERICK BARRY, Chemist, SHAFTESBURY.

Advert, Cyclists’ Touring Club Gazette, May 1882: “Cyclists ride 100 miles ... without fatigue by the use of
BARRY'S BEEF & COCA LOZENGES,
Which are composed of the Finest Extract of English Beef, combined with the Concentrated Preparation of [cocaine].”

The reason I go on about self-driving cars is that it's like watching somebody spend 20 minutes using a thimble to fill a kettle and them saying "I can't wait for the glorious day when I'll have a robot to carry this thimble for me"

Jenrick saying he's "put aside personal ambition" too join Reform is the single most shameless statement I've ever heard.

If he "put aside personal ambition" he'd disappear. That's all there is.

Dr. Tony Holohan (ex-CMO): "There is also an asymmetry of risk that should be recognised. Poor behaviour by cyclists mainly endangers cyclists themselves.

Poor behaviour by drivers places cyclists and pedestrians at serious risk of serious injury or death. This reality
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Two photos of the same main road in Hoogeveen. The earlier image shows a wide, car-dominated street with no separate cycling space. The later image shows the road narrowed for cars, with a wide red bidirectional cycle track where several teenage boys cycle together, separated from traffic by trees and parking.

Two photos of the same street in Hoogeveen. The earlier image shows a wide roadway focused on motor traffic, with no protected cycling facilities. The later image shows a redesigned street with a red bidirectional cycle track, greenery and calmer traffic, where three teenage girls ride side by side.

Many streets in the Netherlands once looked like those in the UK today. What matters is what happened next. Hoogeveen shows this clearly: a car-dominated main road in 2019, upgraded by 2024 with cycle tracks. Dutch roads are continuously improved to make cycling safer & neighbourhoods more pleasant

Screenshot from BBC news reading "Giant eggs to be hidden around London for hunt" dated 10th March 2025

Oh and look, also, a city wide egg hunt earlier this year including locations a stone's throw from Laila Cunningham's Bayswater home.