The Sad Cycle Lane

What's holding up Sheffield's cycle lanes? A tale of politicians, planning and pirates

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Calling #Sheffield #Cycling people, come to our thing, it'll be fun.

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All human life doing #ActiveTravel but most space is given up for cars.

Video a couple of years old (just came across it scrolling) but taken doing #coffee #deliveries in #Sheffield, #Hillsborough.

#Cycling #skateboarding #running

Hail Mary post here - but I just lost a nice little pannier bag somewhere in Cat Lane woods and didn't have time to go back for it (plus its like the Blair Witch project in there - I wouldn't even know where I'd been) it's blue and green, Linus brand and had a can of cherry coke in it. #sheffield

An abandoned planter is now the Woodhead Road Wildlife Garden thanks to local vols, Nether Edge & Sharrow Sustainable Transformation, & a #KewGardens grant. This #urbangreenspace features native flowering plants that attract invertebrates, birds & night-flying insects. #Sheffield

Firma la petición Install Cameras and More Speed Bumps on Staniforth Road to Prevent More Deaths

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0 days without a death reported on Sheffield’s roads

London’s Cycle Superhighway 7.

Here is a 🧵on what I think the ideal cycleway should look like, based on many years of me cycling on Dutch cycle infrastructure all over the country 👇

Good urban design makes cycling after dark inviting and comfortable for everyone.

When you can let your five-year-old child play on the street that becomes genuinely safe street
You cannot safely share any space with heavy machinery
So safe cycle route is a cycle route that does not have motor vehicles on it
We need a car free network

Hope they learn.

Dozens of bicycles are parked in rows beneath a metal structure covered in leafy green climbing vines in a public square in Delft.

Bike parking is bike infrastructure.

Bike parking can also be green infrastructure.

Bastiaansplein, Delft.

A smiling woman stands in front of her cargobike with two large Ikea bags of clothing piled on the back

A cargobike with a countertop dishwasher strapped to the rear rack

Sometimes #CarryShitOlympics just happens to you... Was at a friend's place for a clothing swap (brought 2 Ikea bags of clothes!!) & her neighbour was selling a countertop dishwasher! So of course I biked home with a dishwasher. 🤣

The Most Useless of Bike Racks If you cycle this city, and lock your bike up outside of stores or restaurants, you know there are good bike racks and bad bike racks. The picture above was taken by yours truly outside the Costco in ...

The most useless of bike racks #biketo
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Car parked on a narrow shared path on a corner, near a crossing point.

Bloody state of this! FFS!! @yplac.bsky.social

Sunday at Bill's Mother's: 25th May 2025 News from the hot spring-watched moors, Parkwood Springs parkrun on the final straight, sunlight on the Sheaf, and why dull is cool for the city on the move.

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Man arrested after train and tractor collision in Herefordshire Two people hospitalised and services halted between Manchester and Cardiff after crash near Leominster

When a train crashes, there's a process to learn lessons so it doesn't happen again. Cars crash every day and the official response is 🤷
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A cycle track in the Netherlands at a red light, with 5 people waiting, including a mum and her young son.

If your cycle infrastructure isn't safe enough for everyone, of any age, to feel they can use it, then your cycle infrastructure isn't safe enough.

Antique photo of a man on a bicycle.

“When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle & go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.”

-Arthur Conan Doyle

#BicycleBirthday
May 22 (1859-1930)

Supreme Court rules public have right to wild camp on Dartmoor The Supreme Court has given the public permission to go wild … wild camping that is.

"It's been a fantastic victory to see wild camping rights on Dartmoor confirmed... but we want to see those rights extended"

ICYMI here's my interview with Channel 4 News yesterday evening from outside Alexander Darwall's estate at Cornwood, Dartmoor:

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Sunday at Bill's Mother's: 11th May 2025 Do we want a wild world? Route one footfall. Laurel and Hardy birdsong. Beginner birder in the Secret Valley. And lots more.

Some #walking / #cycling / #wheeling updates for #Sheffield #TheOutdoorCity in this week’s Sunday at Bill’s Mother’s - open.substack.com/pub/abitblac...

Cycling keeps me young in mind & body & “young at heart” especially when a lot of it is done with inspirational older riders like Eric here today who’s 87 in August & still rides 100 road miles every week Such a pleasure & an honour to share my hobby with people like Eric 🚴😁

Protected cycle tracks are needed alongside rural main roads, with the cycle tracks continuing at roundabouts with cycle priority, so teenagers can safely cycle home with their fishing rod in their hand after a day out fishing with friends

Schwalbe FTW.

Road safety requires changes to street design. Not the equivalent of a wet floor sign saying "please don't run over my child".

Flags and bubbles featured heavily on yesterday's #KidicalMass, spreading the message and spreading smiles.

*luck

It was a great ride. Good look with your ride in June. 🚴