The author and in progress kerb protected cycle tracks construction works on Westbourne Terrace in Westminster, London.
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📸 Kerb separated cycle lane and better pedestrian crossings in progress
📍 Westbourne Terrace, City of Westminster, London
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With @ibikelondon.bsky.social @zeroemissions.bsky.social @solveschoolrun.bsky.social
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It’s our blunt NEW @usa.streetsblog.org op-ed sharing why we’ve created @urbantruth.bsky.social. SPOILER: We need to call out the lies and tell the truth much more persuasively!
There are some yellow markings in place for probably the most significant piece of the scheme - a cycle crossing which will allow a northbound connection from the incoming Westbourne Terrace cycle track(s) up to Little Venice and beyond.
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I can confirm it is !
Asked about cycleways supposedly slowing buses. Bus speed data fished out by @maxsullivan.bsky.social (my graph) shows the biggest change to bus speeds was during the pandemic, when people drove their cars less. NB Camden's bike lanes didn't go away too... movepeople.substack.com/p/do-cycle-l...
New modal filter here should be reopened to pedestrians and cyclists by end of April, all being well.
Metal sign on a lamppost which says SWITCH OFF YOUR ENGINE OFF. Vehicle exhausts are toxic. You could be fined £110. There is an illustration of a van's tailpipe with fumes coming from it, and the City of Westminster logo.
Don't make me tap the sign, from The Simpsons
Drivers, don't make me tap the sign.
Our excellent team have now installed around 800 of these signs at engine idling hot spots and outside schools around the City of Westminster.
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Westminster Council to freeze council tax for 2026-2027
Westminster City Council is freezing its share of council tax for 2026/27 and using £19.7mn in reserves to balance the budget. The council, which already has one of the lowest council tax rates in the country, said the pause will help…
Update: Construction commences on 2nd March and will continue in phases til October.
The new infrastructure will complement nicely the recently installed zebra/cycle crossing where this route meets the canal, and the new cycle contraflows on Delamere Terrace and Blomfield Road.
"Keen cyclists"
"Anyone who lived here in the ’30s or ’40s wouldn’t recognize the car-centric city we have devolved into. LA once had the best transit system in the country... So the city has already reinvented how it gets around multiple times. And we can do it again if a majority of Angelenos want it."
For many years I have been posting little observations online. What you may not know is that for many years, artists have been illustrating them - for no reason other than they wanted to respond. Below is a thread of some of these beautiful drawings because they should be seen 🧵
I wasn't aware of this dimension when I wrote about the Waymo who hit and injured a school girl in Santa Monica. But it certainly tracks with a company making every attempt to justify their existence and approach. open.substack.com/pub/movepeop...
Waymo robotaxi hits child who was previously hidden behind an oversized SUV. Waymo praises its own technology for reacting faster than a human driver. So we need SUV robotaxis. Everything's fine in carbrain countries.
Wow & double Wow 🙏👍👏👏👏
Well Done Westminster City Council for becoming
“Flagship borough of sanctuary” in London for “asylum seekers & Refugees”.
After horrid days of listening to fascists & anti migrant racist Reform & far right morons it’s a welcome news for the long suffering asylum seekers.🙏
Harrow Road in North Paddington is looking a bit rough around the edges these days. Adrian Zorzut went down to chat to businesses as Westminster City Council looks to force long-vacant units back into use, to improve the area's fortunes
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I've just checked our consultation response and the clumsy phrasing was contained within so not @linusrees.bsky.social's fault - it was reported accurately. We do need TfL to more actively fund and help to execute alternative E-W routes but we are leading on the planning and design of those routes.
What's written in the screenshot/report is untrue - multiple E-W alternative cycle routes are in the works led by WCC. North of Oxford St, have a read: marylebonewestend.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos.... And another through Mayfair at an earlier stage.
Westminster's Bayswater Rd scheme would deliver a safer continuous cycling connection linking Cycleways 3 and 27, as well as providing a direct east–west route along the north side of Hyde Park.
Last chance to have your say:
cmsbayswaterroad.commonplace.is
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Train and tube tracks too - always empty. Rip them out.
I’m proud to have played a small part in making the massive undertaking of Thames Tideway a success over the last 10 years. A major UK infrastructure project (almost) on time & budget (bar covid). Bazalgette Embankment is a great public realm legacy & well worth a visit.
Me with a lot of car brained people from Putney listening to fleur Anderson and Simon Hogg repeat baseless claims about delays to emergency services etc
I’m down at Hammersmith Bridge to hear SW London politicians wang on about how hundreds of millions should be spent to bring cars back over here. They’ve gathered down by the river for their “reopen the bridge” rally to avoid embarrassing context of huge numbers of pedestrians & cyclists crossing it
Big Ben photographed by me from a double-decker bus.
Side road zebra crossing photographed by me.
You, a normal person: [visits Westminster to see Big Ben]
Me, a nerd: [visits Westminster to see one of the only side road zebra crossings in the UK]
Wales could give local authorities the power to install side road zebra crossings at junctions. This would be a first for the UK – giving pedestrians more priority at side streets.
But what is a side road zebra? And how would it work? 🦓
Find out more: https://bitly.livingstreets.org.uk/3MJM5PI
Last opportunity to comment on proposals for improving cycling on Bayswater Road cmsbayswaterroad.commonplace.is/en-GB/
Split “then and now” photo of Eerste Sweelinckstraat in Amsterdam. Top: black-and-white 1986 view with parked cars lining a narrow street. Bottom: present-day scene with trees, bike parking, people, and children playing, showing a shift from car-dominated to people-friendly street design.
Eerste Sweelinckstraat, Amsterdam in 1986 and today. From a car park to a street with seating, bike parking, trees, and space for kids to play. Same street, different priorities. Proof that cities can change and that when politicians choose people over cars, streets become communities.
And please respond to the consultation here before it closes:
cmsbayswaterroad.commonplace.is
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Comments from Felicity Buchan's Facebook post. See link to read them.
Comments from Felicity Buchan's Facebook post . See link to read them
The comments are an absolute treat.
See here to read for yourself:
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Screenshot of Felicity Buchan's Facebook Reel where she claims she's still an MP and opposes plans for safer cycling and walking on Bayswater Road. She is pictured staring at the road.
Why is Conservative Felicity Buchan pretending to still be a Member of Parliament? She lost her seat in 2024.
She's been pretty quiet on social media lately but has lately sprung into action to oppose...
Another cycle lane!
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