Eilidh Murray

YouTube video by DW News Parklets: How Londoners are taking back the streets | Focus on Europe

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If you like #parklets, have a look 👇🏼
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We’re hiring! — Mums for Lungs We are hiring an energetic, creative and community-focused Schools Lead to continue our impactful work on School Streets in Lambeth and Southwark in London, and across the country. 

Smashing job this for someone.

Schools lead at Mums for Lungs.

A year from October – 8 days a month @£210/day. Pass on to any friends this would suit!

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Give yourself an inspiring evening on 18 September with cycles at its 💚. Book👇🏼
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Societal bias at play, an average jury are going to be drivers, and therefore empathise and downplay because of personal bias towards their own behaviour.

OK, Hivemind, some help, please?
I want to compile a YouTube playlist of videos to be played during Cycle To Work Day.
I'm NOT looking for serious roadie videos, nor close pass videos.
Instead, I'm looking for inspirational videos, showing everyday cycling.
Please can you help? Also, please repost?

Wandsworth’s section of the National Cycle Network is a mixed bag. Much of it, like the Wandle Trail, is great and family-friendly. But even the Wandle Trail has gaps, most notably at Earlsfield. There is a petition asking Wandsworth and Merton councils to sort it:
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Fun fact: we devote ten times more space to golf courses in England than we do to allotments (source: OS Greenspace data) www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

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Jeremy Corbyn attacks Angela Rayner for selling off allotments The ex-Labour leader - and keen gardener - accuses ministers of threatening a British tradition.

To what new depths has the current government sunk to ?

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Day done! Raising a beer to Tim at the Three Little Pigs in Crediton. He would have loved this place - loads of character, good beer and great food (tbc).

Mark is filling the role of ‘taking photos of everything’, and Lorenzo is filling the role of ‘drinking voluminous ale’, both in honour of Tim.

Get Unlimited Free Santander Cycle Rides in August With TfL Cycle Sundays, all Londoners and visitors can get free unlimited 60-minute Santander Cycles rides every Sunday in August

Free Santander Cycle rides are back every Sunday in August 🚲

Whether you’re new to cycling or a regular rider, it’s a great way to explore London. With more than 410km of cycling routes in the capital, cycling can be for everyone.

Best of luck to @annacycles.bsky.social and her companions.
I really used to enjoy reading Tim's travels, and this is a great undertaking to honour his memory.

Paris Street filled without outdoor seating during the pandemic

To ensure cars didn’t just take back ownership of Paris streets as the pandemic was ending (like they did in so many cities), Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social made sure that 60k parking spaces and many streets were permanently transformed with restaurant seating, people-places, greening, & bike-lanes.

Again. No lessons ever learnt about CEO pay. If they deliver, don't deliver, half-deliver, they still pay themselves by whatever means lines their pockets the most. No shame, no morals, totally unethical.

Arrived in Penzance ready to start the LEJOG for Tim tomorrow. I will post as many updates as I can and bring you all along for the ride as Tim would have done. Lots of food, drink & beautiful scenery.

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Shows maybe 100 rental bikes parked on a pavement. There is a main road along the side. It is raining. There is a tree canopy over the road

Cricket was on at the Oval in London this week. It was pouring with rain. This is just one of five parking bays for the cricket fans to get to the ground (unfortunately taking most of the pavement rather than taking up storage spaces on the road. Is it time we talked about e-vehicle storage space?)

Massive camper van beside 4-person tent

Side view of massive camper van showing ?retractable side extensions

Saw this monster on a recent camping trip. Couldn't miss it, really. Engine 8300 cc. Weight 14500 kg. Diesel.

No words.

#campervanspreading

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It's totally fab. Wish we had more like this but a great showcase of what can be done with imagination and political will. All other boroughs, please get copying !

What do you do when you've got a cat and a bike and you need to grab some snacks for the train ride home? 🤔🐱

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I remain opposed to a new runway at Heathrow Airport because of the severe impact it will have in terms of noise, air pollution and meeting our climate change targets. Despite progress to make the aviation sector more sustainable, I remain unconvinced that you can have a new runway delivering hundreds of thousands of additional flights every year without a hugely detrimental impact on our environment. I will carefully scrutinise the new Heathrow expansion proposals - including the impact these would have on people living in the area and the huge knock-on effects for our transport infrastructure, which would require a comprehensive and costed plan to manage - and I will keep all options on the table in how we respond.

I remain opposed to a new runway at Heathrow Airport.

My full response to the expansion proposals for a third runway:

Unique Highland juniper forest given special European status in UK first - Trees for Life

"In a UK-first, a genetically unique juniper forest at Trees for Life’s Dundreggan rewilding estate in the Scottish Highlands has been awarded a special European designation to protect and enhance its globally significant diversity."

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Increasing Heathrow airport capacity from 84m to 150m per year is absolute madness. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Sign the petition to stop airport expansion: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

Double decker bus catches fire near Great Portland Street station The back of the number 88 went up in flames at about 06:50 BST on Great Portland Street.

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Will @islington-council.bsky.social implement a ban on using pesticides in our streets?

Calls for UK air traffic control boss to resign as new glitch disrupts flights System restored after Nats limited flights due to technical problems that raised fears of repeat of chaos in August 2023

We don’t take any pleasure in this (honest).

BUT these delays don’t stop people from flying. So why do delays on trains, real or imagined, mean people don’t even try taking the train?
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Screenshot of a tweet from Simon Lightwood MP. Jul 21. "Everyone deserves safe, accessible transport. That’s why we’re extending e-scooter trials to 2028 and expanding them to new towns to learn how best to regulate them. We’re also looking at our mobility aid laws so disabled people can use the devices they need for independence." Accompanied with a photo, the alt text for which was "Hire escooters parked in a line in a designated parking area", image attribution Department for Transport.

Easy to miss, but important. At @wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk we've been working towards this moment for years - the DfT has publicly announced that it is looking at sorting out mobility aid laws. 🎉 Our #MyCycleMyMobilityAid campaign looks like it is paying off.

Emissions C02 per person per km 3g train, 260g plane

On holiday in France, a useful ticket machine reminder of just _ONE_ reason why Heathrow expansion is a bad idea

#ClimateEmergency

Can't get the testimonies at @carolinerussell.bsky.social recent report launch out of my mind. Such brave people to speak of their personal losses and grief without end.

And NO-ONE with the power to actually make Vision Zero a reality appears to be listening

If not now, when ?
#PoliticalWill

A study shows that people who cycle regularly have a 19% lower risk of all-cause dementia and a 22% lower risk of Alzheimer’s.

As well as being effective transport and climate policy, installing and developing active travel infrastructure is a sound public health investment.