Lib Dem Friends of Cycling 🔶🚲

Safer bike storage at train railway stations, tram interchanges and bus stations is a must if we want to encourage #ModalShift and transport #Decarbonisation

LTNs cut road casualties in half, campaigners say

Either you're happy for people to be killed and injured to save you a couple of minutes on your journey, or you're not. The evidence that LTNs and 20mph zones save lives is overwhelming.

Call on your MP to support @werahobhouse.org.uk’s call for safer infrastructure, and to support @cyclinguk.bsky.social’s #MyRideOurRight campaign,

60% of women limit how much they cycle due to safety concerns.🚲

Too often women must choose between busy roads with little protection or quieter routes with poor lighting. Both are unsafe.

I’m calling on the Government to build the infrastructure needed to make women feel safe on our roads.

And quite right too! @libdems.org.uk

Outputs not outcomes (CWIS3) | Streets Ahead And why we need to start treating active travel like road and rail transport

NEW POD EPISODE! 🚨This time, we're talking Outputs, not Outcomes and England's Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy, with Xavier Brice of @walkwheelcyclet.bsky.social

Listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts: shows.acast.com/streets-ahea...

So much of our infrastructure, planning, environmental, and road safety measures seem to be based around politicians' fear of slightly inconveniencing easily-angered motorists. Pedestrians, cyclists, and public transport users are barely considered in their calculations.

Critical safety issues for walking, wheeling and cycling

Just done a pre-recorded segment for LBC on Active Travel England's road width's doc. Should be on after 11pm tonight with Nick Abbott. Why? Tabloid media getting in tizzy today over "war on motorists" crap. www.gov.uk/government/p...

Pleased to have been re-elected to the Exec of LibDem Friends of #Cycling, #Walking & Wheeling. 🚲🛴🚶‍♀️

@libdemcycling.org.uk

#ActiveTravel #Health #Wellbeing

The LDFoWWC AGM is today with an excellent opening speech from @ollyglover.bsky.social

If you are a member of the @libdems.org.uk join us here and campaign for safer walking, cycling and wheeling. #ActiveTravel

www.libdemcycling.org.uk

#GreaterManchester, would you like a calmer, safer, less polluted journey to school?

#SchoolStreets reduce traffic and #AirPollution around schools and encourage walking, cycling & scooting. Get in touch with our GM Co-ordinator Liz at manchester@mumsforlungs.org if you want this at your school!

We so need to have people-friendly pavements here in Congleton. It has been done in London so when here? @cheshire-east.bsky.social

How do you know your city is a healthy habitat for people? A decent place to start is whether children can play freely in their neighbourhoods and get around independently.

This is an excellent introduction to Tim’s work and the benefits of shifting away from car centric urban spaces.

Cities for Children with Tim Gill Podcast Episode · The War on Cars · 30/09/2025 · 38m

Good episode of @thewaroncars.bsky.social
- who *did* decide that all our public space would be given over to cars? #LiveableNeighbourhoods

Good evidence of the effect of building safe #ActiveTravel infrastructure - aside from the health and environmental benefits, it builds in transport resilience

Record numbers choose cycling on Oxford Road during Manchester bus strike

Bus strike mania has hit Manchester

This week Oxford Road saw the most cyclists in a single day EVER

Nearly 4000 people used the route on Monday

Good to see an MP speaking up on #PavementParking - five years after the consultation closed there is public appetite for action. Councils need the powers to enforce (including retention of fines to pay for other road safety initiative)

Excellent work in Oxford #CongestionCharge

87% of British schools in toxic air zones, 12million at risk 25,000 campuses are located in areas that exceed the World Health Organization’s air quality guidelines, according to a new analysis.  The assessment shows that 87% of schools are situated in ‘toxic…

"Looking at the entire British population, 90% of citizens live in areas which breach World Health Organization guidelines."

New analysis by @healthequals.bsky.social emphasises the inequities of exposure and vulnerability to #AirPollution, & shows how far we still have to go to clean up our air.

More than 600 dead after earthquake hits Afghanistan, officials say Authorities said that more than 1,500 people were injured by the 6.0-magnitude earthquake

Disappointing that the Government’s strategy for the #InactivityPandemic is to encourage people to go for a run (which people with busy lives will find hard to make time for) rather than building in ‘incidental exercise’ by making it easier to walk to the shops or school #ActiveTravel

As the schools go back, the additional traffic from the school run will be obvious. For a substantial proportion, especially primary, the distance to school is less than a mile so walking, wheeling or cycling would be feasible if it felt safer to do so #SchoolStreets @solveschoolrun.bsky.social

We need to curb carspreading - Transport for Quality of Life Limited Reversing the trend towards heavier, longer, wider and higher cars would make our streets healthier, safer and more people-friendly; and could leverage funds to improve alternatives to car travel.

A good read on why we need to reverse the trend towards ever bigger cars.

Children are 82% more likely to be killed in a collision with an SUV rather than a small car.

#Carspreading

Schoolchild hit by car running red light Dashcam footage captures the moment a pupil is hit by a car on the Coast Road in Heaton, Newcastle.

Trigger Warning for Road Violence.

I found out last night that this video forms part of the induction for new students at Jesmond Park Academy.

Accompanied by a warning to pupils to look both ways, even when the green man / red light is on, because drivers can't be trusted to stop🚦.

Cont.

Today is #CycleToWorkDay

Contact your councillors and ask for safe infrastructure to give more people the choice to cycle to work, school or the shops in safety - ⅔ of adults would cycle instead of driving with the health benefits this brings if they didn't have to mix with traffic.

#DemandBetter

Today is National Cycle to Work Day! 🚲

Cycling means cleaner air, less congestion, and a healthier you. It’s good for our planet and our wellbeing: boosting fitness, lowering stress, and lifting your mood before the workday even begins.

Let’s make active travel the norm.
#CycleToWorkDay

Petition: Mandate funding of active travel provision as part of any transport projects In light of the Chancellor's recent announcement of funding for transport infrastructure, we call for new legislation mandating funding for active travel provision alongside funding for transport…

Please consider signing this petition to help ensure alternative long-distance walking and cycling routes are provided when existing ones are lost to major transport schemes #ActiveTravel @cyclinguk.bsky.social @sustrans.bsky.social

Journey times up, deaths down: Welsh 20mph speed limit still divisive two years on Protests continue against default lower limit in urban areas that supporters say is working ‘exactly as intended’

“What is an acceptable death toll that justifies getting to work two minutes faster?”

#20sPlenty @walkridegm.org.uk

Central Motorway this morning

Me, trying to work out how Newcastle managed to solve its traffic problems overnight.

Oh yeah, it's the start of the 6 weeks summer holidays.

Which demonstrates that an awful lot of our traffic in the mornings is School Run.

Why did the Council abandon it's #SchoolStreets programme?

This is good work from @vikkislademp.bsky.social - #IllegalParking is a danger to people walking, wheeling and cycling and councils should be properly empowered to enforce it (including using #ANPR cameras) and keep the fines to subsidise enforcement and other transport measures.