Jamie Furlong

Highlights For marginalised street users mode separation is the key to human-scale movement. Streets conducive to walking and cycling have functional, safe and accessible design. Professionals must approach street design, regulation and user behaviour holistically. Combinations of influencing factors persuade people to either use or avoid a street. There are no easy fixes to the public realm that will work for all non-drivers.

"The single most important behaviour, design or regulation for creating streets conducive to walking and cycling, was physical separation between the modes"

We've got a new study out, learning from a broad mixture of street users, planners and designers

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Far more hopeful than anything the Labour Party is putting out at the minute for those of us that are desperate to feel like Britain is a fair country.

And far less baggage than Your Party.

She was arrested for holding a sign reading:

“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”

How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

Is this 'dilution' of the established population with wealthier newcomers a problem?

While it might not equal displacement, it presents concerns for environmental justice.

If expensive newbuilds go up next to new wetlands, who has direct access to the benefits of the 'blue-green' infra?

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On the one hand, wetland areas experienced significant declines in severely deprived households.

But was this because of gentrification (i.e. displacement)?

More likely 'dilution' - new, expensive developments attracting wealthier residents with higher education qualifications.

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Blue-green infrastructure and socio-spatial changes: A study of urban wetlands restoration, housing development and gentrification in London using census data While blue-green infrastructure (BGI), such as urban wetlands, can offer multiple benefits, including public health improvements, social cohesion, and…

New study out today!

Did 2 urban wetlands (Walthamstow and Woodberry) in London inadvertently lead to "green-blue" gentrification?

The answer is "it's complicated" (classic academia!)

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Happy to publish today in the @ejprjournal.bsky.social

Pop culture (think Netflix's Sex Education) make us think that emerging cohorts are happy to socially incorporate partners with sexually modern backgrounds and experiences 🏳️‍🌈

But is this really the case?

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Quite. So many Labour people on this website visibly have no idea of just how bad things have got for ethnic minorities since they came on, and how their visible indifference lands.

Mrs R: "There was a woman on the ward today who didn't want to take paracetamol. We've had to explain that we're not giving it to her because she's got a fever and we want her to feel better, but because she's got a fever and if we don't get her temperature down then her baby is going to die."

spokesperson for Sadiq Khan:

“We are not going to dignify his appalling and bigoted comments with a response.

“London is the greatest city in the world, safer than major US cities, and we’re delighted to welcome the record number of US citizens moving here.”

I'll have more to say on Reform's proposals to scrap ILR at some point but for now I'll just note this - anyone telling you this is a popular idea doesn't know the polling. Overwhelming majority of public back giving people who work and pay taxes most or all rights after 5 years or less

Reform are now coming after people with permanent residency. It'll be citizens next. No one is safe from authoritarian governments.

ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Live! From the Air ‘Indefinitely’ The decision follows conservative backlash to a comment the late-night host made about Charlie Kirk.

I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...

🚸 En Londres comenzó una idea sencilla pero revolucionaria: las Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (#LTN), calles con 🚗🌬️, pero donde se prioriza caminar, pedalear y vivir sin ruido

Spoiler: para nada fue un camino de rosas 🌹🌹

Te lo cuento brevemente 👇

#veranourbano

UK could raise nearly £2bn by taxing SUVs in line with European countries, study shows Thinktank says an ‘SUV loophole’ means UK buyers pay up to 20 times less tax on biggest models than in neighbouring nations

Can't come soon enough.

'The Transport & Environment thinktank has urged the government to use the autumn budget to bring in a levy on the largest vehicles, which it said would reflect the damage they caused to the environment and infrastructure.'

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says The panel finds that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out against Palestinians during the war.

Morning Bluesky.

As Israel begins its ground offensive in Gaza City.

Still absolutely nothing to say about far right thugs rioting and attacking the police while a US tech billionaire calls for a violent insurrection on our streets

The actual group moving most strongly to Reform are male Gen X-ers. We need more articles on how to deal with them.

Shot, chaser

Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them.

This is getting very dark, very quick.

Remember: this is the *same person* who thinks that it's a grave breach of "free speech" for the UK to criminalise calls for asylum-seekers to be burned to death

NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before.

Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.

Not that I'm aware of Nick, though would be an interesting project!

Vox pops are the lowest form of journalism because they allow news organisations to editorialise through selective interviews without even the spurious science of polling data. This is leading the website of the BBC which must think it’s the most important news happening today.

Radical right accommodation really does not work.

New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk

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Good question. We do have a paper coming out soon hopefully on travel times but not specific to junction changes. I'd be curious to know how many junctions have been redesigned though!

Road casualty statistics: definitions, symbols and conventions

Yes, 8% fall though not statistically significant.

Yes, basically :)

The definitions are in here I believe: www.gov.uk/government/p...

"The findings reveal that...traffic crashes are often framed as isolated, inevitable events, downplaying systemic issues such as infrastructure and policy" - new study of German-speaking media produces interesting results
www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

This reduction was consistent across:
✔️ travel modes
✔️ junctions with/without traffic lights

Filtering side streets hasn't just made internal LTN roads safer - it has made boundary-LTN junctions safer too. No negative impacts on other boundary road junctions.

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We focused on junctions between boundary roads and newly filtered minor roads - not streets inside LTNs.

After implementation, casualties at these junctions fell by 14% (95%CI: -21% to -8%).

Cyclist and motorcyclist casualties fell 20% (CI: -29% to -11%) and 22% respectively (CI: -32% to -10%).