Eilidh Murray

Show Us Green Lanes! 🚲
This month, please snap or film the good, bad & baffling bits of Green Lanes for walking and cycling. 📸 Capture moments that show, for example:
- No safe space for cycling
- Tricky crossings
- 🚴 in action
Avoid close-ups of 😃. Pref take photos from behind.
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Yha top of Leith Walk. Excellent value

Photo of a man wearing a tie standing astride a bicycle with one arm raised in the air.

"Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring."
-Desmond Tutu, anti-apartheid and human rights activist

#BicycleBirthday
October 7 (1931 -2021)

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

Commuter Collective run by Cycle Islington - London Cycling Campaign This is a regular social bike ride for commuters from the north to the south of the borough, welcoming others en route.  The initial ride is on Wednesday 24 September […]

🛎️ monthly meeting Wednesday 8 October 1900 in the Town Hall. All welcome to discuss what's on in the world of cycling in Islington followed by social drinks 🍺 ☕️ 🍷

Talking of what's on 👀
👇🏼 tomorrow at 0800 - Cycling Collective ride from north to south of the borough
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Photo of a Dutch-inspired fietsstraat (“bicycle street”), where cyclists are treated as the main users of the street, and cars as guests.

Amazingly, our Vancouver visit has coincided with the construction of Canada’s very first Dutch-inspired fietsstraat (“bicycle street”).

Burnaby’s Frances-Union Bikeway is currently getting an all ages and abilities upgrade that treats cyclists as the main users of the corridor, and cars as guests.

Project Officer - Active Journeys In this varied role, you will be responsible for planning and delivering practical activities for young people in schools, supporting the implementation of School Streets to create safer and healthier...

Fantastic chance to join the Walk Wheel Cycle Trust, working within the Active Journeys team as our new Project Officer.

London, East and Southeast.

#Vacancy #ActiveTravel

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Government launches £1 million competition to take active travel innovation to the next level Organisations and businesses can bid for a share of £1 million funding to help them deliver initiatives that enable more people to walk, wheel or cycle.

Excellent news!
www.gov.uk/government/n...

I'll be back at @activetravelcaf.bsky.social tomorrow evening with something a little bit horrifying given it's the run-up to #Halloween

Signup online:

www.activetravelcafe.org.uk

Exclusive: Labour blocks smart motorway safety data Ministers are sitting on a huge amount of data on the safety and value for money of smart motorway schemes, including at least nine that were due for completion in 2022. The concealment of multiple…

The Department for Transport has sat on the evaluation reports for nine ‘smart’ motorway schemes that were completed in 2022... The results must be so embarrassing that the DfT are refusing to publish them!
transportinsights.blog/2025/09/25/e...

Who on earth thinks this is a good idea ?

Good grief. @christianwolmar.bsky.social @seatsixtyone.bsky.social

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

RIBA + VitrA Talk: Carlos Moreno and the 15-minute city Daily life in the modern city is structured around long commutes and daily activities far too reliant on the car. Our alarmingly high carbon emissions...

#CPD #replay

RIBA + VitrA Talk: Carlos Moreno and the 15-minute city

If you missed this webinar, a replay is available.

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Give Greta the Nobel Prize...

Love a curly lamp post - here's one at Leith in Edinburgh. So elegant

Who kills who chart showing most road fatalities are killed by cars. Most car casualty fatalities don’t involve another vehicle

Just one pedestrian killed by a pedal cyclist in the UK in 2024. 265 killed by cars www.gov.uk/government/s...

Driver's 'flurry' of mobile phone activity caused death of popular cyclist on A11 A man killed a cyclist after crashing into her while looking at his phone before a fatal crash, Norwich Crown Court has heard.

How can this not have been dangerous driving? Suspended sentence and 12 month ban.

Norfolk driver spared jail after cyclist killed on A11 | Thetford & Brandon Times share.google/91XJHUD7o4Pg...

"Effectively decriminalising bike thefts": Bikes stolen from train stations that were left for more than two hours will not be investigated, says British Transport Police CCTV footage will not be looked at outside a two-hour timeframe — as British Cycling accuses policy of "letting cyclists down across the country and providing further barriers to people riding a bike"

British Cycling tells us the decision would "let cyclists down across the country and provide further barriers to people riding a bike"

Closing Central Madrid To Cars Resulted In 9.5% Boost To Retail Spending, Finds Bank Analysis City of Madrid significantly boosted the takings of its shops and restaurants last Christmas by banning cars from the CBD, finds an analysis by Spain's second largest bank.

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.

There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.

Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

Two women on bikes, wearing a bright yellow training vest that says "Fietsles" or "Bike lesson" in Dutch

A group of women walking, wearing a bright yellow training vests that say "Fietsles" or "Bike lesson" in Dutch or De Fietsmeisters, the group that offers the trainings.

Women in yellow vests in a park practicing to ride a bike.

I'm volunteering with an organization that teaches adults in the Netherlands how to bike

The 10 women in my group are working hard, and a few have already learned how to balance after just 2 lessons! Still 8 more lessons to learn turning, avoiding obstacles, road signs, etc.

Super-rewarding work!

Six Just Stop Oil activists found guilty in a trial riddled with rampant climate denialism Just Stop Oil supporters found guilty for M25 protest in skewed trial in which the prosecution denied the facts of the climate crisis.

Six Just Stop Oil activists found guilty in a trial riddled with rampant climate denialism

Just Stop Oil supporters found guilty for M25 protest in skewed trial in which the prosecution denied the facts of the climate crisis.
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

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I have watched his bit and the bit after Kuenssberg asks the question about 20 times and my ribs hurt.

Janey, Janey, Janey, still making me laugh from beyond.

Looks like we can add "trees" to the list of Things BrewDog's Bosses are Shit at Looking After, alongside "their reputation" and "their employees".

Photos of the 'Seoullo 7017' project in Seoul: an elevated park repurposed from a former highway overpass, that contains trees, shrubs, flowers, rest areas, cafes, kiosks, art installations, and panoramic views of the city.

Photos of the 'Seoullo 7017' project in Seoul: an elevated park repurposed from a former highway overpass, that contains trees, shrubs, flowers, rest areas, cafes, kiosks, art installations, and panoramic views of the city.

Photos of the 'Seoullo 7017' project in Seoul: an elevated park repurposed from a former highway overpass, that contains trees, shrubs, flowers, rest areas, cafes, kiosks, art installations, and panoramic views of the city.

Photos of the 'Seoullo 7017' project in Seoul: an elevated park repurposed from a former highway overpass, that contains trees, shrubs, flowers, rest areas, cafes, kiosks, art installations, and panoramic views of the city.

Outside Seoul's central station, above the bustle of traffic, an elevated highway overpass has been reborn as a "forest in the sky". Designed by Dutch architects MVRDV in 2017, 'Seoullo 7017' has transformed an aging concrete structure into a kilometre-long pedestrian skywalk and botanical garden.🧵

“Any offence which is not investigated will still provide us with valuable intelligence…”

Oxymoron of the day “police intelligence”

Let's call a spade a spade.

A "flying electric taxi" is essentially a private jet.

The last thing we need more of - electric or not.

Flying is hugely energy intensive.

Let's get East West Rail built and trains running asap instead.
#TrainsNotPlanes

What's a School Street you ask?

And then you ask, why aren't all transportation decision-makers choosing to build more streets for children?

@streetfilms.bsky.social
@yonahfreemark.com

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