Rob

Let's treat the unnecessary harms massive SUVs cause bystanders like we treat the harms caused by smoking, ie doing everything we can to limit the sales of these awful machines through taxes and regulation

I really noticed how many adoring shots of these horrific vehicles there were. Totally gratuitous.

"People actually prefer quiet routes to cycle specific infrastructure " was a dubious and disingenuous comment I heard from an officer, as if you couldn't have both.

Age yourself with gaming

This is what I mean when I call VC advocates like Vinnie ableist, sexist ageist. It's a disgraceful position for a supposedly progressive person to take.

Either because they're so rich and the sizes of fines are such that they don't care, or because enforcement is so weak they won't have to cough up. Both should be intolerable, and are totally solvable.

Lovely to see Big Jim get a shout out

So important to call out all of this "balanced" news reporting for what it is increasingly becoming (or indeed has been for a good while): client journalism.

Sorry that this is the position you find yourself in, that sounds really hard. You're right I'm probably guilty of generalising - it was based on a number of real life encounters with people who were to my (judgy) mind clearly using the disabled to argue for keeping the car centric status quo.

Love it

@bmj.com, a renowned health journal, slams car bloat:

"Cars are becoming steadily larger, [and] with this comes potential harms to health...Action is needed locally, nationally, and internationally to curb sales of new SUVs and to reduce their presence in urban areas."

www.bmj.com/content/391/...

Cargo bikes observed during the commute! Equally - number of squeaky old Dutch style bikes encountered (an indicator species for good and safe local cycle infrastructure)

I tried this on the hottest days of my summer commute. Couldn't work out if an extra 2-5 min outside in the heat was worse than being slightly hotter but getting into the aircon earlier 🙃

"Honey! I just SAVED us five grand on a new guitar!"

They've not assessed the ramp gradient or kerb radii to slow vehicles to a pace at which they'll reliably yield to pedestrians. Must try harder

Hackney Cycle Ways 20km Loop - London Cycling Campaign Join us for a ride round the borough, taking in many of Hackney’s cycle tracks, low traffic neighbourhoods, Cycleways and parks. Dalston, Millfields, Chatsworth, Hackney Central, Well St Common, Londo...

Led ride around Hackney this Sunday, starting at 11am from the Rio Cinema. Taking in a good portion of the borough and its cycleways / LTNs. Weather is looking, quite frankly, ridiculously good for November!

See the link below to sign up:

Those that really can't are in a small but important minority and their mobility needs must be catered for, but there's a lot of folk, frankly who play the "not everyone can cycle" card because they prefer their comfy SUV thank you very much.

I try not to agree with "not everyone can cycle". It doesn't mean what is being said, it means "I don't want to cycle, based on current conditions out there". With 50+ years of policy change in NL, (effectively) everyone CAN bike (or trike.) Even your disabled auntie.

Blimey ! Any one of these proposals would be great, but wow, what a plan. I hope it all survives contact with TfL buses...

Friday Video: The Utopia of London’s Low-Traffic Neighborhoods — Streetsblog USA Streetsfilms follows an urban planner around the “low-traffic neighborhood” of St. Peter’s in the London borough of Islington.

Streetsfilms follows an urban planner around the “low-traffic neighborhood” of St. Peter’s in the London borough of Islington.

Why not tell drivers: "Take more care now conditions are more difficult because you can cause serious harm".. It is not a difficult message to convey, but don't think I've ever seen it. No, it's the kids who must be taught that they must keep themselves safe from adults who might harm them

Speed limiters on motor vehicles in built up areas, or camera enforcement everywhere. Some motorists are absolutely lawless based on the current levels of enforcement/deterrent being completely inadequate in the face of the machines that we allow on our streets.

No such thing a road tax, but sure, when would be a good time? 20 years ago was the best time, when Blair's govt first mooted it and it was destroyed by the mail, and the second best time is now. It's always going to be unpopular and they have four years...

Graphic full of stats on vehicle inefficiencies.

A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, and most of the energy that does, moves the car, not the people.

Sound efficient?

HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social

Needs baking into council tax (reductions?) or some other hard incentive structure.

So all of the non-drivers (many of who can't drive) are paying to subsidise those who get around in cars?

Which is better?

[Can't remember who to credit, but]... "Ah yes, "Parkway"; that's English for "absolutely nowhere near""

It’s that time of year again when “safety” organisations crack out their victim blaming campaigns telling pedestrians and people on bikes to dress for battle rather than their destination and wear high vis clothing to be seen instead of focusing on the real source of danger - drivers.

And they could have had a design like this. For free!!