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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Want to help spread our message, & tell the truth persuasively while calling out disinformation? Explore the posters. Pick the ones you like best. Share them in your own posts everywhere. Use our @ and #UrbanTruth hashtag with them. We’ll repost the best. www.urbantruthcollective.com/copy-of-work

“They spelled OPEN wrong.”

Street closed to cars but fully open to people during a pedestrian street festival

“Suburban Sprawl. Bankrupting public costs, skyrocketing household costs, paralyzing car dependency, irreversible harm to the future.

The cost is far too high.”

“Speed wasn’t a factor.”

Speed is ALWAYS a facto

Image of two vehicles mangled in a road crash

“If we don’t build housing to solve homelessness, we don’t really want to solve homelessness.”

Affordable housing project in Central Vancouver

Via the Urban Truth Collective

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Cycling Capital @cyclingcapital.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Utrecht being the cycling capital is not a coincidence or historical path dependency. It is a series of conscious political decisions to make the city more livable and attractive. ⬇️

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Emma @belfastbikemum.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Rome wasn’t built in a day but huge changes in urban mobility can happen in very short periods of time! Five years on from the new covid cycle lanes, one in five Brussels workers commutes by bike (I was one of them who started in 2020!) A 40% increase in five years.. Belfast take note 🤓

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Emma @belfastbikemum.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Wonder where Belfast would rank? 🤔 Car saturation off the charts here but so much potential still

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Kristin @kristinceleste.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

I'd like to ride my bike more often and wish it felt safer. "According to the new study, bike production has ballooned over the last 60 years. 123 million bikes were produced in 2015 - up from 20.7 million bikes in 1962."

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Emma @belfastbikemum.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

The user experience of reading articles on @belfastlive.co.uk: unparalleled 😒

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Bike-lanes don’t cause traffic congestion. Car dependency, dumb land-use sprawl, too many (& bigger) cars being driven too much taking up too much space, highly subsidized driving costs, and not enough choices in how to get around, ALL cause traffic congestion. Think about it. THAT’S common sense.

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Emma @belfastbikemum.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

‘Why are we not promoting free parking every Saturday of the year?’ 🤦🏻‍♀️ Wish politicians here put as much effort into improving our public transport or cycle infrastructure as they do promoting permanent traffic www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/norther...

belfastlive.co.uk

Christmas car parking "confusion" could see motorists out of pocket

"I find it hard to stomach that if we had gone to RingGo a few weeks ago we could have had things sorted, we should know the terms and conditions, they are our car parks."

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Cycul @cycul.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

By 2030 Paris will have removed 70,000 parking spaces and replaced them with this…

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

We ask everyone outside of the car to be safe so that drivers can be dangerous.

two kids walking with flags across a crosswalk

Instead of dulling the sharpest of weapons we hand out the weakest of shields

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Emma @belfastbikemum.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Pavement parking is ubiquitous in #Belfast (👏 city planners) but the utter selfishness of some drivers still manages to shock me. My 6 year old just about managed to squeeze past this one but if I had a pram? Or a wheelchair? I’d be on the road at rush hour, put in danger so someone can park 😒

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Emma @belfastbikemum.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

If you’re not going to put in actual cycling infrastructure, the least you could do is enforce the constant and multiple illegal parked cars on the painted cycle lane… This is not a one off either… #cyclinginbelfast

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Ola Løkken Nordrum @olaln.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

For cars in Ireland: build and they will come. For bikes: build something, tick a box. In my latest Substack, I look at Dublin’s new cycle routes and why "better than nothing" is not nearly good enough! If we built for bikes the way we build for cars, Ireland would be transformed. #ReimagineDublin

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For cyclists it is build something and tick a box

If we built for bikes like we build for cars, Ireland would be transformed.

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Emma @belfastbikemum.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

And if I was pushing a pram or my child used a wheelchair? Walking in #Belfast is as difficult and depressing as #cyclinginbelfast sometimes.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

“Safety and space at risk as SUVs reach 30% of car market in English cities, researchers warn. Campaigners call for Paris-style parking charges amid fears big vehicles are taking up excessive public space.” Cities need smart strategies to manage vehicle size. NOT bigger parking space requirements.

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Safety and space at risk as SUVs reach 30% of car market in English cities, researchers warn

Campaigners call for Paris-style parking charges amid fears big vehicles are taking up excessive public space

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Emma @belfastbikemum.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

What a beautiful evening for our second Critical Mass Belfast. The six year old managed the full course and the ride home too #proudmum #cyclinginbelfast #criticalmass

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Emma @belfastbikemum.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

‘But what about your big shop?’ 🤩 #cyclinginbelfast

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Some examples of how language matters. Via @sightline.org www.sightline.org/2015/03/31/s...

Chart comparing current language and recommended better language

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Emma @belfastbikemum.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Second week #cyclinginbelfast: new investment required: helmet cam 😵‍💫

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Trigger warning. “In crashes, SUVs are more likely to strike vital organs in the core of adults’ bodies & heads of children. Hitting pedestrians above their center of gravity means they’re more likely to be knocked forward & down and then be driven over.” Plus more likely to hit in the 1st place.

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Emma @belfastbikemum.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Nearly 2000 speeding offences in just a 3 day period. Sure, we can educate drivers (again) but the road designs here too often do nothing to slow people down. Pretty shocking to see the speeds of some in really built up areas 😞

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Emma @belfastbikemum.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

First week #cyclinginBelfast down ✅ 🚲 Did a little bit of the Comber Greenway - beaut! 🚲 Biked from Belfast ➡️ Holywood, less beaut 😬 🚲 Had our 1st #criticalmassbelfast - loved! 🚲 Did the big shop with just the bikes - surprisingly doable. Just need to invest in some waterproof clothes now 😅

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