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Brian Deegan, Active Travel England Director of Inspections addresses the 2025 Cycling Scotland Conference in Dundee.

Climate researcher and environmental campaigner Laura Young chairs the 2025 Cycling Scotland Conference in Dundee.

Chair Laura Young and Brian Deegan, Director of Inspections at Active Travel England bring the #CyclingScotlandConf to a close, with a Q&A focusing on the unique benefits that cycling can bring to transport planning and the success stories already being seen across Scotland.

Brian Deegan, Active Travel England Director of Inspections, is announced as a keynote speaker at this year's national Cycling Scotland Conference, taking place in Dundee on 10th September 2025.

📣 Keynote speaker announcement! #CyclingScotlandConf

Brian Deegan (@bricycle.bsky.social) is @ategov.bsky.social Director of Inspections and one of the UK’s leading experts in active travel design.

📍 Dundee
📅 10 September 2025
🎟️ Full agenda & tickets: buff.ly/cdQp0px

How many countries have you been to this week? I like the guidance tactile on the island.

Quick 24hours in London doing what I like best, riding around in my suit in the sun whilst cracking deals, going for long meandering walks with experts and popping up to do optimistic speeches.

🇦🇹 4 the win.

Just when you thought London couldn't feel any more glorious, up pops this fantastic bit of cycling infrastructure - TULIP WANDS 🌷🚴‍♂️🌷🚴‍♂️! They’re being installed on Sussex Gardens and are an absolute joy to behold and causing all sorts of delight, as we discovered…

I was honoured to hear @robinlovelace.bsky.social inaugural lecture as Professor. The man is a brilliant-idea generating machine. Transport professionals should check out his work on github.

Commission Highlights Cycling’s Role in Tackling Transport Poverty – Now Member States Must Act Commission Highlights Cycling’s Role in Tackling Transport Poverty – Now Member States Must Act

Even though we don't benefit anymore, it's interesting to see what other countries are building and the framing around tackling transport poverty. Bang on IMO . www.ecf.com/en/news/euro...

PLANNING PERSPECTIVES 'The freedom of the place during daylight hours': urban renewal and the fight over play streets in Newcastle upon Tyne, c.1955-1980 Sally Watson School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK ABSTRACT Newcastle upon Tyne's 1960s planning policy included play streets as a short-term measure in neighbourhoods intended for long term urban renewal. The sia as on treate a tess for shiere of lay in are as that a ked ten environmental turn of the 1970s, this article examines the circumstances surrounding the implementation and adaptation of this policy, abandonment in 1974 and continuing resident activism following this. Based on municipal and government archives and local newspapers, it critically examines the moral landscape of play streets and the planning and traffic engineering policies and practices underpinning their governance. It shows that the demise of play streets was not due to a decrease in demand for them. Instead, a dominant 'car logic' contributed to constituting the child as out-of-place in the street. Factors including the transfer of play streets from planning to engineering, reductions in traffic management budgets following the 1973 oil crisis and a lack of national and regional government support would ultimately limit the possibilities they afforded. The article argues that ideas about the child and street play in this period cannot be divorced from evolving postwar planning and engineering policies and practices.

Am pleased to say that my article on Newcastle’s postwar play streets has been published www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It draws attention to how traffic engineers framed streets as too dangerous for children’s play but not dangerous enough to warrant infrastructural changes.

Honour to be mentioned in such illustrious company. Well done on the article.

YouTube video by Active Travel England Betty, aged seven, wants more walking, wheeling and cycling

Seven-year-old Betty from Manchester wrote a letter to the Prime Minister about more safe spaces for walking, wheeling and cycling 🚶👩‍🦽🚲

@chrisboardman.bsky.social met her to talk about how it will make us all happier, healthier and greener: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUWu... 🌲🌍

I wrote this several years ago but it never got published. I would probably change a lot now, but if you are interested in protected junctions for cycling, you may find it interesting: drive.google.com/file/d/1BRFs...

Friday's thinly veiled analogy: I hate dogs when I am riding, and my daughter is terrified of them, but I don't want them banned because they promote activity and increase people's health and well-being. I accept that society is not about meeting my needs but addressing everyone's needs inclusively.

🚨 Exciting #SustainableTravel #ActiveTravel event in #Shrewsbury! 🚌🚶‍♀️👩‍🦽🚲

The focus of this conference is on towns.

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I reckon there are loads of decent LCN routes out there that people should know about. Main thing missing is decent crossings. Loads of signs still up. Still a live network.

" I have detailed files"

Gentle is 1 in 20 taper on the merge but be super careful on the re-merge as if it's gentle you might risk encouraging a shunt or collision from alongside. Design to maintain link position between nodes. It is often safer to maintain a primary and ignore bypasses unless they lead to protected infra.

Brilliant I thought I couldn't have been the only person to spot that. Your paper helps make the case for car free days to break the spell. We should have more in the UK.

Cover sheet of a journal article: "Why do cars get a free ride? The social-ecological roots of motonormativity" by Ian Walker and Marco te Brömmelstroet

HOT RESEARCH NEWS!

Motonormativity ("car brain") is a bias that stops people making rational judgements about driving en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motonor...

Our new study shows where this bias comes from AND how it makes people think they're odd for supporting changes to the transport system 🧵

It's really interesting (especially the policy cakeism point-owch), and great to see you two join forces. I also reckon there is what I call Residual car effect, where people walk with less care and greater aggression for a good five mins after leaving a car they have been driving.

If you have never read this but are in to road safety, it is well worth it. publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/... every idea is a winner.

That's my point about it being enabled.

Really inspiring work.

Being enabled to walk, ride a bike or use public transport to get to work or school is a human right and not a nice to have. I wish we could all start from a position of enshrining this first and foremost then factor in more convenient and damaging options.

YouTube video by Active Travel England ATE Engagement Webinar: Spotlight on Social Inclusion

Social Inclusion Work in Leicester ! Active Travel England Webinar with Jan Hudson - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vezo... - 30mins ... @activetravelcaf.bsky.social @leicsactivetravel.bsky.social @batbrighton.bsky.social @bricycle.bsky.social @leicestercyclingcg.bsky.social @jonorcutt.bsky.social

More info here www.eta.co.uk/news/informa...

Flow chart Lucaa 2012 on transport poverty

If having no car puts you at a transport disadvantage then cycling is the cheapest fix to stop transport poverty. Bike infrastructure is a social justice solution. Seasons greetings one and all. I love this chart.

Seeking a conference organiser for Shrewsbury Moves Shrewsbury BID, on behalf of the Big Town Plan Partnership, is seeking a conference organiser to arrange an engaging series of talks...

@shrewsburybid.bsky.social, on behalf of the Big Town Plan Partnership, is seeking an organiser to deliver a conference on the topic of movement and the future of town centres.

Shrewsbury has just adopted a 10-year movement and public space plan.

#ActiveTravel

shrewsburybid.co.uk/invitation-t...

Always weirds me out when I see cars parked in junction mouths in Spain, but they know man...they know.

I am living the pedestrian pound life at the moment by walking to Aldi at least once a day and always getting a bonus item.