Concerns for vulnerable road users as Met disbands specialist cycle and motorcycle safety units - Cycling News | Bike Reviews | road.cc Specialist Met Police units that investigate fatal collisions involving HGV’s and London buses, with a specific focus on cyclist and motorbike safety, are being disbanded as part of a major overhaul o...

Specialist Met Police units that investigate fatal collisions involving HGV’s and London buses, with a specific focus on cyclist and motorbike safety, are being disbanded as part of a major overhaul of road policing in the capital.

Parking policies - for Local Plans and Local Transport Plans Reviving town centres, bringing back our buses, saving countryside, building affordable housing: why parking matters.

Reviving town centres, bringing back our buses, saving countryside, building affordable housing: why parking matters.

Online event on 19 March 2026: Parking policies – for Local Plans and Local Transport Plans www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/parking-po...

Wow!

Great proposal this. Continues to be incredibly funny and incredibly stupid that for years we've *banned* bus and rail operators "colluding" to make their timetables integrate with each other.

Isn't he the guy who argued with @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social that he'd installed pedestrian crossings (which were actually inaccessible traffic islands and nothing more) or am I getting my privileged idiots mixed up?

A portion of the Strøget pedestrian street in Copenhagen that widens into a grand people-place.

One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.

The evidence from the 2 years since Wales set a 20mph default for urban/village roads is clear:-
1,270 fewer casualties
134 fewer of them being fatal or serious
£45 pa lower insurance premiums than without 20
These are big wins for communities, NHS, emergency services and economy.
𝗪𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗪𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀

View from Bramber castle across flood plains on river Adur Sussex

Crocuses

A walk without rain! Joy on the Downs. No. 2 bus from Churchill Square to South Downs Way bus stop then over the Adur and round Steyning bowl and a visit to Bramber castle and 2 bus back to Brighton

YouTube video by BicycleDutch Rethinking the Role of the Car – Time to Let Go

Share this absolute BANGER from @bicycledutch.bsky.social far and wide 🚶‍♂️👨‍🦽🚲 🚌

Don't change rules for migrants already in UK, Labour MPs tell Mahmood Some 35 Labour MPs are among those who have written to the home secretary to raise concerns about the plans.

The Government must stop listening to dodgy advice! Hear the trade unions, the care workers, the migrant support organisations - LISTEN TO YOUR BASE.
The immigration plans must be scrapped.
@zoejardiniere.bsky.social
@unison.org.uk

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Ace thread by Ranty. Free parking is like homeopathy for ailing town centres. Despite all the evidence many think it will work.

Why Our Streets Are Failing Kids – And How to Fix It Three Steps for Designing With Children’s Autonomy in Mind

“children are not choosing to stay off the streets and parents are not choosing to be helicopters; our streets are choosing to exclude children”

From @urbancyclinginstitute.org

Excellent work Emma please keep it up.

Rain It rained and rained and rained and rained The average fall was well maintained And when the tracks were simply bogs It started raining cats and dogs. After a drought of half an hour We had a most refreshing shower And then the most curious thing of all A gentle rain began to fall. Next day was also fairly dry Save for the deluge from the sky Which wetted the party to the skin And after that the rain set in.

A poem for our time

RAIN

Yes it's a wonderful privilege I have shops including a hardware store nearby. And other amenities a 20 minute walk away. Wonderful way of living.

William Shakespeare wrote this speech 400 years ago about people in London wishing that immigrants go back to where they came from, performed by Sir Ian McKellen on the Stephen Colbert show:

Public ownership of water is the only way to deliver security, efficiency, investment and value for money 37 years of privatisation has been a disaster

England's water companies have paid £85bn in dividends.

Borrowed £82.7bn. 35% of customer covers interest payments and shareholder payouts.

Sewage in rivers, insecure water supplies. Customer complaints up 50% last year. No exec prosecuted

Govt response - abolished fines on water companies.

Viz Letterbocks. APPARENTLY it costs the NHS over £300,000 a year to remove foreign objects from people's rectums. Why aren't we removing British objects instead? Was Brexit all for nothing? Gerry Paton, London

Your Supreme Leader is in hospital again. It’s nothing serious and ABSOLUTELY NOT THIS.

I repeat: BOTTOM-RELATED, NOT THIS.

This is so appalling for cared for children. BBC Radio 4 did an excellent File on 4 on this topic #bbc www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

‘Tame’ wide British roads and replace them with boulevards of homes, says thinktank Exclusive: Create Streets proposes building on Britain’s ‘road belt’ rather than its green belt amid housing crisis

You can absolutely build more homes where the existing services are, whilst shrinking traffic in those areas by improving public transport further. Build the homes on the roads. www.theguardian.com/cities/2023/...

'I have something to communicate'

Pictured reply text: Let's close all roads and ban movement of people----see if you can feed yourself and family next month----no food, no water, no electricity, no gas, no toilet, no shower,---children starving.--- one month later gangs running riot and killing for food. This is what happens when society continues in it's current direction. We are closer to civil war under this government than people realise.

My absolute favourite response to my gentle Nextdoor post about how LTNs can make roads safer for everyone. 🤯

Country diary: Purple catkins light the way towards spring | Oliver Southall Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex: Look out for the alders – they’re remarkable trees and one of our first to come to life as winter recedes

One of my favourite trees in today's @theguardian.com by Oliver Southall...

#countrydiary #naturewriting

10,000 voices called for climate resilience: the Government minimised the threat. by Rupert Read and Caroline Lucas

“Without significant increases in the UK food system and supply chain resilience, it is unlikely the UK would be able to maintain food security if ecosystem collapse drives geopolitical competition for food.” open.substack.com/pub/climatem...

The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

‘But we must tear ourselves away from the [Trump] spectacle, for there are other threats just as critical.’ Got up the courage to read this @georgemonbiot.bsky.social. If we’re aware, most aren’t. 30yrs since the Newbury Bypass protests, for example. If nothing else, join @greenparty.org.uk

Kudos once again to the anti-fascist sticker guerrillas of Dundee.

Which one of these two is your favourite? 😎

#Dundee #Scotland #Humanism #Antifascism #RefugeesWelcome #ChristianNationalism

Please on Walter Presents now @channel4tv.bsky.social @channel4.bsky.social French police on bicycles through iconic Paris streets @bricycles.org.uk

Agreed!

Bus lanes now!

My vote goes to Anne Jane Thornton. She disguised herself as a seafarer and travelled the high seas. What a woman!