Liam Calvert

Great graphic showing cities on a triangle graph showing if they are most oriented to public transit, active mobility or cars.

Have you seen this? This recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips that are by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Norwich/Norfolk. Never planned any, never delivered any.

🧵 MPs are learning how it feels to be a Gorton & Denton resident today.

To raise awareness of our recommendations for the Elections Bill we've sent a fake newspaper, The Misleading Times, packed full of dodgy bar charts and made up data to their desks in Westminster.

You can’t park there mate..🙄

When I said packed, what I really meant a spare pair of shorts and a t-shirt and not much else.

I got cold.

I can beat that. I once packed for a week of cycle touring on the basis of the beautiful sunny weather on the morning I left...
...in April...
...to the Netherlands.

How long should it take to cross a junction?
In suburban London it can take a while, like crossing the junction of Christchurch Road and Merantum Way to walk between two neighbouring shopping centres. Is it acceptable to let pedestrians wait this long?
@londonls.bsky.social
@willnorman.co.uk

Mayor’s budget approved, backing free parking, local growth and value for money  - Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, Paul Bristow, has secured approval for his 2026/27 budget, setting out how the Combined Authority will focus its resources on supporting local growth, deliver...

Last month, there was a story about the Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, Paul Bristow, wanting to spend £1.5m on free car parking in Peterborough City Centre.

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cambridgeshirepeterborough-ca.gov.uk/news/mayors-...

And there's your side road zebras being possible in Wales from 11th March this year.

www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2026/35/...

A meme of someone sneaking up behind an unsuspecting person. The unsuspecting person is labelled 'politicians too scared to do LTNs and believing in traffic busting roads' The sneaker is labelled '150 year old victorian cast iron'

here we go again

Relentless pressure, threats, and apologies Four years inside Haringey's street transformation

“I had to go in and face my colleagues who were saying, ‘Mike, what have you done?’”

A glimpse inside Haringey's street space transformation, featuring @mikehakata.bsky.social and @carlafrancome.bsky.social
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Weirdly Norfolk County Council are really good at issuing notices and cutting back hedges like this.
Absolutely nothing else mind you.

Best part of the world

Came here to say exactly this!
Same is true of bus stops, loading bays, taxi ranks, and a bunch of other parking restrictions.
I think it's only single and double yellow line that apply to the footway and verge in fact.

Yup

We have much the same in Norwich. You'd need to be staring at ground to notice them.

In 2024, more than 1,600 people died on UK roads. Yet a major new road safety strategy has passed largely unnoticed. This reflects media acceptance of road danger and a societal complacency—an “it won’t happen to me” mindset. Sadly, it can, and by then it is too late. How do we change this?

Parents call for road closure at school bedevilled by 'selfish drivers' Parents are calling for a road outside the Lionwood infant and junior schools to be closed at drop-off and pick-up times, after years of problems…

Parents are calling for a safer school run for their children in #Norwich. We hope Norfolk County Council will consider more #SchoolStreets, including one here at Lionwood Junior School. @norfolkcc.bsky.social

Can you photocopy these? Asking for a friend

Car parked squarely on a pavement with a foot or so of room either side, next to a horribly busy road on a bend.

Selfish driver yesterday.

A badly overgrown section of cycle path. Half the path is covered in vegetation. A cyclist is edging past slowly.

What the path looked like after the council had been to clear it. Not much different.

What the path looked like after we spent two hours clearing the path properly. You can see the edging of the path.

A man and a woman starting on the cleared path holding tools, looking tired but satisfied.

A section of cycle path on the Purple Pedalway had become badly overgrown. We asked Norfolk County Council to clear it but they only did half a job, so we spent two hours yesterday clearing back the vegetation properly.

It was hard work but satisfying. We shouldn’t need to do this.

"Councillors estimate the cost of providing free car parks to be around £10 - £15 [per household per year]: equivalent to a ten per cent increase in council tax."

- I find this story interesting mostly because it's rare that the true cost of free parking sees the light of day.

Yes, absolutely. I wonder what the commercial value of those sites are.

Tax hikes loom as market town votes to take over car parks Thetford Town council has taken a decisive step towards taking over its car parks, which could see locals pay more in council tax.

Ever wondered what it costs to provide free parking?

Thetford Town Council have decided to keep all car parks at an increase of £10-15 per year for every council tax payer in the town.

Details below

www.edp24.co.uk/news/2558378...

Police drop inquiry after man assaulted removing flags Tensions over divisive flag displays have erupted into violence in Norfolk, as police face criticism for inaction

Tensions over divisive flag displays have erupted into violence in Norfolk, as police face criticism for inaction | Owen Sennitt, Local Democracy Reporter

"Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race"
- Albert Einstein

The beach there makes a great place to hang around waiting for a ferry.

In my youth I tried cracked and microwaved.
It looked to be going really well for a bit, and then it was lots of cleaning the microwave.

Cycling UK’s glow rides a huge success! Thousands of people from communities in cities and towns around the UK came together to highlight the need for safer cycling and walking routes that consider the needs and experiences of women

Great to see our very own Kitty Cresswell Riol quoted in @cyclinguk.bsky.social's glow ride report!
www.cyclinguk.org/news/cycling...