Simon Key

The Media won't acknowledge this video of the farmers blocking an ambulance with its blue lights on so could you could RT it so people see it?

11.12.2024 19:47 — 👍 2451    🔁 2257    💬 138    📌 131

Brum campaigner says ‘city-wide’ 20mph limit would be 'common sense' The prospect of Birmingham having a 'city-wide' 20mph speed limit has been met with both praise and anger in recent days

Our co-chair, Mat MacDonald, told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that there are “reams of evidence” to show that a 20mph speed limit saves lives and prevents catastrophic injuries’’:

www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...

11.12.2024 21:35 — 👍 24    🔁 4    💬 3    📌 1

John O'Dowd: 'Expect congestion' if you drive into Belfast DfI says Belfast traffic chaos could be cut by walking, cycling, using public transport or working at home.

Unexpected candour:

"...there are too many cars and too limited a space, so therefore each of us have to make a decision in terms of how we deal with that. If you do travel into Belfast city centre, using a car, you should expect congestion, and that leads to congestion for other people as well."

09.12.2024 22:10 — 👍 78    🔁 23    💬 1    📌 1

City streets could be pedestrianised for 11 hours a day City Centre Active Travel Connections to Interchanges aims to improve active travel in Birmingham City Centre

‘Birmingham City Centre streets could be pedestrianised for 11 hours a day as part of a major project to improve links between rail stations’

www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...

03.12.2024 19:07 — 👍 52    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 1

As Birmingham City Council's call to DfT to be allowed to set a default 20mph signed at the city boundaries gets media attention, we are pleased to see our position being featured. "Setting 20mph as a survivable default urban/village limit and excepting up" is becoming recognised as best practice.

02.12.2024 07:00 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Not sure that I trust Richard Parker or Birmingham Council to step up sufficiently

28.11.2024 15:30 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

It’s been over 50 years since my political hero, Barbara Castle, set out her vision for integrated transport in the 1968 Transport Act. At its core was never a battle of car against train, or bus against tram – but a vision of a coherent transport network that gave people real choice. A system in local hands, run by local leaders, and which met the needs of local people. And a system that, in her words, was integral to all other planning – economy, housing, environment – you name it, transport enabled it.

Louise Haigh's speech is now online: www.gov.uk/government/s...

Very welcome to hear a secretary of state with this level of ambition to shape the transport system to work better for people. Exciting to see how this develops over the coming months.

Haigh is spot on with this bit.

28.11.2024 14:01 — 👍 49    🔁 18    💬 6    📌 4

@richardparkerwm.bsky.social needs to look at this too. He's had 6 months in the job and I've seen very little positive from him so far

24.11.2024 11:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0