Solve the school run team hold up a cheque that they won in the Lambeth climate pitch competition.

Woo! 🏆 We won Saturday’s Lambeth Climate Pitch competition for our work supporting safer streets for children & our parent powered Cargo Collective promoting cargo bikes.

Thanks to @integrateuk.bsky.social for hosting a great day.

#netzero #parentpower #cargobikes

👏 👏 This kind of work (and not pro bono!) is needed all across London, addressing road danger and street design so that places work well for people running local shops, and everyone living nearby as they make their local journeys.

Highlight of my week (and it's been an amazing week!) meeting Mark and examining the mess of Herne Hill Junction. Some really great advice on how to prioritise action in terms of user hierarchy. Thank you! @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social @jamesmcash.bsky.social

It’s national walking month..

☀️ And whilst we encourage families to try walking to school in the sunshine…

🦓 We mainly encourage local authorities & the government to give children safe routes to school.

#nationalwalkingmonth #saferoutes #cleanair

Dieselgate pollution killed 16,000 people in UK, study estimates Experts decry lack of UK government action and warn a further 6,000 early deaths could occur

Shocking new research by @clientearth.bsky.social & @creacleanair.bsky.social reveals the #Health effects of excess NOx #AirPollution emissions in the UK.

Reminder: these emissions come from Euro 5&6 #Diesel cars emitting suspiciously high levels of pollution. Millions are still on our roads.

Evidence shows that LTNs improve people’s lives | Letters Letters: Jon Bromwich and Heather Glass of Lambeth Living Streets, former Lambeth council leader Joan Twelves, Graham Clewes and Richard Aldwinckle of One Dulwich respond to an article about LTNs by J...

Changes to Lambeth’s streets are in the news again. Here’s our view in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Solve the school run founders, a dog, a child and local councillors around a family cargo bike.

Cargos, canines, kids & councillors..

It was all happening at last Friday’s Cargos & Cakes in Brockwell park.

We had local families & those from as far as Catford come to try different bikes and find out more.

Huge thanks to everyone who came along.

We’re thrilled to have won the Climate & Green spaces award at the #lambethcivicawards25

We spent 5 years on a complex campaign for an ambitious school street, which is now in place & providing a blue print for other big school zones in the borough.

Inspired by so many great orgs at the awards

Once you see #carspreading you can't 'unsee it' so today @kidicalmasslond.bsky.social @solveschoolrun.bsky.social helped us hear it too! Research shows new cars are getting bigger & bigger, taking more space and causing great harm to kids. A big wake up call to politicians 🚸 #streetsforkids 1/2

Ulez: Cleaner air for Londoners after expansion, study finds - BBC News London pollution has reduced after the controversial expansion of the Ultra Low Emission Zone, a report finds.

💪 The #ULEZ is revealed to have reduced #AirPollution significantly across ALL of London. 💚

Congratulations to @london.gov.uk, thank you for protecting children’s #Health and ensuring the next generation of Londoners can grow up breathing cleaner air.

Biggest class action ever in court as campaigners demand Dieselgate documents It comes a decade on from ‘dieselgate’ - the 2015 scandal Volkswagen admitted as many as 11 million of their cars had ‘defeat’ software to manipulate the tests

NEW: Car manufacturers want to hide the truth about their dirty diesel emissions. Along with MPs, over 50 major charities & organisations and hundreds of individuals, we demand court documents are made public. #Dieselgate #AirPollution

1/5 We recently attended & spoke at the Landor Links School Streets South conference hosted by @lambeth_council. The progress councils are making on delivering these schemes is truly heartening. We heard exciting updates on school streets underway from Medway to Oxford.

Here's a solid example of #carspreading affecting public services. We need to discourage monster SUVs and pickups in our cities. Impractical and unnecessary 🙄

This in a street in Camden. How can a vehicle like this ever be necessary outside military manoeuvres? What can possibly be the point? #carspreading @cleancitiescampaign.org

An SUV parked on the pavement with the caption 'when your car's too big for the road'

Just like diesel engines, #carspreading in urban areas is a failure of national regulation and we are reliant on bold city leaders to act.

French and german cities have progressive parking policies... will UK follow suit? 👀

🧵7/8

A sports utility vehicle is parked on a pavement. The caption says "Carspreading. When your car's just too big for the road".

As cars get bigger, so do the risks.

People hit by larger cars when walking or cycling are far less likely to survive.

@cleancitiescampaign.org needs your help to stop #Carspreading! Find out how: https://buff.ly/4gCta2z

A massive jeep SUV parked on the pavement in Brussels

Hello Brussels 👋

V clear from response to our campaign that carspreading isn't just a UK issue!

Got pics to share? Tag @cleancitiescampaign.org #carspreading

A large car is parked on a pavement, completely obscuring it for pedestrians.

👀 Once you see #Carspreading, you see it everywhere. It's taking over our streets, one oversized SUV at a time.

Share your #Carspreading photos so we can show the world how bad it's getting.

https://buff.ly/3X99Lzf

A hospital bed on London's South Bank with a teddy in it, hooked up to a machine. The placard on the bed says "Today's children are the diesel generation".

🚘 💨 Remember #Dieselgate? That was 10 years ago. 💨 🚘

Diesel cars fitted with defeat devices are still on our roads today. We believe the public needs to know what we're breathing - please sign our letter if you agree. https://buff.ly/4hxAJZx

#AirPollution #Diesel

🚨The rise of ‘Carspreading’🚨
UK car owners say supersized SUVs “not necessary in towns and cities” and the majority think more SUVs “will make parking more difficult” and are “not necessary in towns and cities”
cleancitiescampaign.org/carspreading/

Fantastic stunt from these Sheffield parents, once again highlighting the dangers in walking to school.

“Two thirds of parents had seen a near miss on the way to school”.

School is a legal obligation- families shouldn’t have to risk their lives every day to get there.

bit.ly/4jLfC7E

A school street sign, a bike lane and a rental cargo bike.

A school street, a cycle lane and a rental cargo bike. Off to take kids to swim lessons apparently!

A beautiful snapshot showing how even complex school run trips are now able to be made sustainably.

#familycycling #schoolrun #cargolife

@rezinachowdhury.bsky.social @lambethlivingst.bsky.social

Delighted to be at the OurBike launch on West Norwood high Street - hosed by the wonderful Bon Velo

www.norwoodforum.org/node/3502

We love this: richmond.gov.uk/news/news_ja...
@richmondcouncil.bsky.social - let's hope it's the start of a big roll out of #cargobike parking.

The SUV that many think of as safe for their kids is actually not safe at all.

White toy poodle with pink ears and doggles standing up in the front bucket of a cargo trike.

Get in. There's no time to explain.

We're campaigning for families to have safe, green, clean and convenient school runs.

From actual school buses to bike buses, we'd love school runs to look more like this 👇

Find out more, and sign up to our newsletter here:
solvetheschoolrun.org

#saferoutes #activetravel #healthystreets

"Not TV or illegal drugs but the automobile has been the chief destroyer of...communities." ― Jane Jacobs

A split image of three people sat on a street café. Alongside an image of the front covers of the Pedestrian Pound supplementary documents.

The #PedestrianPound 3rd edition broadens the evidence base to include the benefits of happier and healthier people, stronger communities and a more resilient environment.

New for 2024:
📗 country annexes
📗 12 x case studies + typology
📗 evaluation briefing

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