Will Petty

Will is doing really great public service stuff here. Go camping by train!

Cross posting from the other place: for anyone planning a UK camping trip without a car, I have updated my map of campsites sorted by distance from train stations. Campsites are from pitchup.com, so should be more up-to-date than before felt.com/map/Rail-Hik...

@netwench.bsky.social thank you so much for leading the amazing Hackney Feeder ride, along with volunteer marshals from @hackneylcc.bsky.social and @hoxtonrich.bsky.social @microlambert.bsky.social and others! 👏

Thanks - not sure about pedestrian levels, there’s no crossing currently. We’ve noticed drivers are more likely to stop if they come to the zebra crossing first, so the double design means they always do

(The alternative is a single two-way crossing, but then cyclists going in one direction need to veer across the lane to join it)

No banned turns - so maybe you’d need a car’s length offset of the crossings?

Question: could you do a cycle crossing like this, with two parallel parallel crossings? Would be nice to have cycle lanes on the main road too, but that’s for another day. This is just to get a cycle route across the main road

Women's Freedom After Dark Report New report finds nearly a quarter of the total length of TfL’s cycle network is ‘socially unsafe’ after dark

We're in our monthly meeting discussing the Women's Freedom After Dark report, which finds nearly a 1/4 of the total length of TfL’s cycle network is ‘socially unsafe’ after dark.

👀Take a look at the map & tell us if you think there's any missed stretches in Hackney.
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That’s the way to do do it. Not half-arsing it with cameras that are only going to get vandalised

Might be the time of day, but I’d say 4 times out of 5 I’m able to get across there without stopping. Otherwise, slowly nosing out seems to stop most drivers. It definitely works better than I feared from comments on twitter

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“Dishonest and farcical”: Campaigners accuse council of rejecting “safer” cycling infrastructure plans as it will be “too difficult” for pedestrians to cross two-metre cycle path The campaigners said that the council was giving all the space reclaimed from cars to pedestrians and “next to nothing” to cyclists, but council believes the project is “once in a generation” opportun...

"Of the extensive space reclaimed from cars, you can see with your own eyes that pedestrians get all of it, and cyclists get next to nothing"

Have you seen detailed plans for Westfield Ave? I couldn’t find them on the link

Do you have thoughts about what the market area should look like in an LTN? I have a sense of the solution for the route of C1, but much less so here

So overtaking cyclists is basically impossible? I guess that’s consistent with the design speed of the street (as long as drivers agree)

A greener, safer Hackney Central: Pembury Circus transformation revealed New images have been revealed of the planned transformation of Amhurst Road and Pembury Circus in Hackney Central, which will reduce traffic and improve safety for people walking and cycling, create a...

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The bit about pedestrians needing to use "multiple crossings across roads and cycle lanes" as a reason to not put in protection for cyclists is very revealing. It treats crossing a road and cycle lane as though they are functionally equivalent.

Nice to see some faces here I realise I hadn’t seen since they dropped off Twitter. Is this what it feels like to arrive in the afterlife?