Brighton Active Travel 🚶‍♀️🧑‍🦽🚲

Could you ask @brighton-hove.gov.uk to do likewise?

We fully support your desire for pavements free of wheelie bin obstructions. Unfortunately @brighton-hove.gov.uk has never enforced the Highways Act 1980 so thousands of bins block pavements 24/7.
@rnib.bsky.social

We filmed the departure from the Peace Statue and then replayed it in stop-motion and counted. We counted 404.

It’s crazy that children walking and cycling to school need protecting from adult drivers but it’s the sad reality so it’s good that our Council plans proper enforcement of School Streets.
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It’s crazy that children walking and cycling to school need protecting from adult drivers but it’s the sad reality so it’s good that our Council plans proper enforcement of School Streets.
@livingstreets.bsky.social
@cyclinguk.bsky.social
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SUVs are more dangerous for pedestrians and cyclists than standard cars – study Researchers gathered data from more than 680,000 road collisions over the past 35 years.

#NationalWalkingMonth starts tomorrow when we begin celebrating the #MagicOfWalking, but today's news is a harsh reminder of the dangers we can face while trying to enjoy something as simple as walking and wheeling.

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How does walking and cycling help to protect the environment? Changing the way we travel can play a surprisingly big role in protecting the environment. Here’s how.

It really is in our power to protect our planet 🌍

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"I think about how much I’ve saved on fares, petrol & parking & it feels like a win."

For Annette, 39, cycling brings freedom, fitness and a voice for change. Through #MyRideOurRight, she’s highlighting how small changes can make a big difference.

✊ cyclinguk.org/annette-my-ride-our-right

A quick win would be if the Council did something to get the thousands of recycling wheelie bins and boxes that are left on the pavements 24/7 off the pavements.
Oh, and the scores of redundant parking fee machines.

Wonderful to see all these #KidicalMass rides taking place across the country. Let our kids ride their bikes safely! 🚲🚲🚲

A screengrab of the Metro article about TimeOut’s survey of walkable cities, including a photo of Market Street, Brighton, with people walking between the cafes where there is bunting against a bright blue cloudless sky.

Huge congratulations to @brighton-hove.gov.uk for helping to make the city the most walkable city in the country!
Now you can make it the best in the whole wide world by completing the long-delayed seafront #activetravel scheme.
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A seafront road filled with children and adults cycling towards the camera, in the sunshine and a bright blue cloudless sky. Rising from the centre of the horizon is the i360 vertical pleasure ride.

#KidicalMass in Brighton & Hove today set new records - hundreds of children and adults came along, to call on the council to make everyday cycling easier across the city.
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Join today’s free, huge, family-friendly, city-centre cycle ride. #KidicalMass takes to the streets of Brighton & Hove. Start at 2pm for the feeder rides and all join wheels at 2.45pm at the Peace Statue for the main ride. Whoooooosh!!!!

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Get your skates on. #KidicalMass hits Brighton & Hove tomorrow, Sunday.

#pandemic #madeiradrive #popup #covid19 #activetravel… | Mark Strong | 14 comments Five Years On: What are the lessons from the #Pandemic about streets & space The Easter weekend marked exactly five years since Brighton & Hove City Council restricted motor traffic in #Madei...

The boost for active travel is one good thing that has come out of the terrible COVID pandemic. Here’s an interesting reflection by @ibikebrighton.bsky.social

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And many lives were extended by health improvements through cycling. Not so many by driving.

Two people cross a road at a set of traffic lights. They are smiling.

Breaking news! @sportengland.bsky.social's #ActiveLivesSurvey shows that walking for leisure has increased by 6.8%. That's over 3 million adults in England who are walking more! But there’s clearly a need for safer, more pleasant streets, as fewer people are walking for travel. 🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️

A pink background with a black graphic of a person crossing a road. Text reads: 38% of fatalities and 25% of serious road injuries in England are pedestrians.

When pavements are blocked, pedestrians are forced into the road, which isn't safe.

Living Streets Groups campaign for clear pathways and better places for walking. Could you help them with a gift today? Until 29 April every donation is match-funded! livingstreets.org.uk/greenmatchfund

Two days to go

Telegraph headline: Cyclists who kill pedestrians to face life sentences Offence of causing death by dangerous cycling to be brought in line with motoring laws in victory for campaigners

So the first real policy decision on active travel or road safety by this government is a law targeting cyclists which will do nothing for road safety, briefed to a newspaper which openly hates cycling. Whatever your hopes for active travel from current ministers, perhaps calibrate these downwards.

Yep, some elderly/disabled/deliveries already move by using active travel. When it’s made a more attractive alternative those numbers would grow.

What’s good for London can ve even better for Little London by the Sea - when people get more support to travel by foot, bicycle and public transport.

Come down to Brighton & Hove in three days to see how many people are having fun while asking our council to make the city safer for active travel.

Pavement parking: Call for ban to improve school run safety MP Olly Glover says tackling pavement parking would encourage families to walk or cycle to school.

Children rely on safe pavements to get to school

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Right now in Parliament: @heidialexander.bsky.social tells the Transport Select Committee she’s committed to publishing the pavement parking report “in coming months”. She says pavement parking is a big concern of @liliangreenwood.bsky.social (Future of Roads minister)

Crowds of people behind barriers either side of an empty two-lane road. A policewoman wearing a hi-vis top stands in the middle distance on the left side of the road facing away from the camera. Two white vans are parked behind the spectators on the far side of the road in the middle distance. In the far distance is a large blue apple up to 10m diameter with the logo Europ1. The barrier on the far side of the road has a banner also saying Europe1.

Ok, who knows where and when this was taken?

@transportaction.bsky.social

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