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Better Streets for Birmingham @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org · 9h

These roles will ass much-needed capacity to our volunteer-led organisation, helping us strengthen our day-to-day operations, support and grow local groups, and enable more people across birmingham to get involved and make a difference in their neighbourhoods.

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Better Streets for Birmingham @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org · 9h

We're looking for enthusiastic, organised and community-minded people who share our ambition for safer, healthier and more people- friendly streets.

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Better Streets for Birmingham @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org · 9h

We're recruiting! We're recruiting two new part-time roles to help grow Better Streets For Birmingham ad strengthen our network of local groups across the city. Administrator roll: forms.gle/ripgwP3UHE4VcmvA6 Community Organiser role: forms.gle/XfFwuRRqA1M7YLS18

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There's a reason why Somerville hasn't had a traffic death in 4 years. The city isn't perfect, but they've made a concerted effort to design many streets around people and not cars. You can still drive, but you're going to have to do so slowly and while paying attention.

bostonglobe.com

Somerville is intentionally making roads harder to drive on. It’s getting results. - The Boston Globe

To make roads safer, the city says, sometimes you have to put some obstacles in drivers' way.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Drivers who speed because they like the feeling of going fast should ride a bike. It feels fast at 20 mph.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Since everyone’s arguing about speed cameras, let’s keep a couple facts in mind: 1) Research show that camera enforcement is much more popular than the media implies – in suburbs as well as cities. Lesson: Don’t conflate a few angry car owners with “public opinion.” (cont'd)

bloomberg.com

Automated Traffic Enforcement Is More Popular Than You Think

Cameras that ticket drivers who run red lights and speed are effective and widely popular with city residents. So why are they banned in so many places?

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Approximately 74% - 80% of drivers ticketed by New York City's speed camera ticket do not receive a second one. Speeding dropped by 94 percent reduction in locations where cameras were installed. www.nyc.gov/html/dot/htm...

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Momentum Magazine @momentummag.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Cargo Bikes Can Replace Cars for Many Families, New Study Finds. momentummag.com/cargo-bikes-...

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Better Streets for Birmingham @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org · 03/10/2026

Today Bournville Village Green was pedestrianised for the launch of Bournville Village Farmers Market. Great to see people out enjoying the area. It shows that when space is made for people, people fill it with life and community. You can make a new friend and your local area becomes a nicer place!

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Martin Price-Phillips @mpricephillips.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Free Selly Oak from its rat run status! (Yes those cars are stopped in the box junction)

A high street full of traffic with cars stopped in the yellow box junction.

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One of these is an oversized, elitist mobility vehicle. The other is an e-cargo bike. One tears up our local infrastructure and is a threat to people outside of it. The other weaves into the urban fabric, accomplishing a lot and asks for very little.

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

mangled fluorescent flex post on a bike lane with tire tracks behind

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Better Streets for Birmingham @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org · 01/10/2026

Not yet, although there may be some screenings of the full film in the future!

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Cassie Smith (she/her) @cassiesmith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I took 5yo and her friend on a cargo bike ride today. It was his first time and he was so full of joy and enthusiasm. We took the long way home just to get more time feeling like a bird flying.

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A bit of litter picking with my local community gardening group and we stopped to admire this little bed which one of us planted up a while back and has finally bloomed after such a hot summer! 🙂

A roadside flower bed at a traffic calming feature which is blooming with yellow and orange marigolds and pink cosmos. A woman dressed in yellow stands next to it holding a litter picker.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hyper-fast acceleration is dangerous as well as pointless. As I wrote in 2024, the 0-to-60 metric is outdated and needs to die. No driver on a public road needs to go from 0 to 60 mph in under 8 seconds. Even the slowest car on the market is more than quick enough.

fastcompany.com

How fast can a car go from 0 to 60? It really doesn't matter

The auto industry has pushed this metric for decades. But cars—especially EVs—are so fast that comparing the decimals is pointless and dangerous.

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Tim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is a refuge on a residential street. The guy leaning on his bike is at the primary school entrance, hence the green fencing beside him. The bollards are pencil shaped to say “KIDS HERE” the plastic bollards on the refuge have been flattened. There is no #WarOnDrivers there is a #WarOnWalkers

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un Américain perdu à Paris @paris75009.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I love the freedom of riding a bike in the city. You can explore so many areas & discover new places. Parks, canals, alleys - all waiting for you. #paris #bike

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Thanks for reminding me of this.

A short history of traffic engineering show walk, cycle, transit and car routes over time with cycling and walking getting worse.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One of the hardest things about being a cyclist is dealing with the nagging feeling that a serious crash is inevitable. Because you can indeed do everything "right" and it still does not matter.

I followed every precaution and it didn’t matter

New to biking here

I started in July around the time of the fatal car crash with that biker. That and hearing everyone who bikes to work tell me that they have had horrid experiences with cars was disheartening.

I made sure to only use protected routes. I take Southwest corridor for basically my whole trip and even though it adds so much more time to my commute, it makes me feel safe.

None of that mattered because at some point, even for a second you will hit the main road. And you will always lose to the 4 ton machine. I got hit by a car parking in the bike lane. He was more concerned with his car than the fact that I could have my life potential altered forever because he was looking at his phone. And at the end of the day, the police can literally choose to not respond to your 911 call and you get stuck with medical bills.

It’s hard to have a conversation about sharing the road when people in cars feel entitled to do whatever they want and the only person who’s ever in danger is the biker. I love biking in this city and I have found a really love and joy for the outdoors because of it. Now I am terrified to even get on a bike lane, even if there is one, if it’s shared with the main road.

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Erik Noonan @eriknoonan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Bike/pedestrian networks don't take 30 years to build. Stop accepting those timelines in your community. The best practices have been proven & they already exist. Safety should already be the #1 priority. The ROI is unbeatable. The timeline is a moral document and it shouldn't be generational.

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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 28/09/2026

When it comes to road safety, cities have two choices: Adapt kids to traffic: keep them indoors and drive them everywhere. Or adapt traffic to kids: make streets safe enough to move as autonomous members of society. The choice says a lot about the kind of city we want to build. youtu.be/O_WjWRmQwtg

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“They’re too young to ride" Nope. They’re ready to ride, it’s our cities that aren’t ready.

b/w photo of 3 kids on bikes - one in the bike lane

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Active Towns @activetowns.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If we want to be successful in advocating for better streets, we need to tell better stories. A short excerpt from episode 358 with Sara Stace 👇 youtube.com/shorts/X0o8t...

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For Better Streets We Need to Tell Better Stories #shorts

YouTube video by Active Towns

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 28/09/2026

The countdown is on for a traffic-free Oxford Street. Monday 26 October marks a new chapter for the nation’s high street as it becomes pedestrianised.

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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 27/09/2026

Too often, public transportation agencies think their responsibility begins and ends at the turnstile. Dutch railways have increasingly embraced the idea they are part of a door-to-door mobility system—one that includes walking, cycling, bike parking, and shared micromobility. youtu.be/ZuiyDEkyPW0

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"The worst political outcome is one in which I have to share" sums up the logic of many rich people when it comes to taxes and many car owners when it comes to public space.

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Critical Mass Brussels @critmassbrussel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

1700 cyclists yesterday. ✨ Thank you for showing with us the ridiculous space cars take in our everyday life. And how many people could fit instead. 🤷‍♂️ See you next month with the same ambition as usual: riding to improve our beloved city. 💗 #LetsRideTogether 📸 @lanomadesed.bsky.social

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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 26/09/2026

Photo from Reddit of today’s Critical Mass. There are hundreds of cyclists in this photo and only about 40 people in cars. Yet both groups are taking up roughly the same amount of road space.

Photo of Critical Mass bike ride in Toronto today

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Mums for Lungs @mumsforlungs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The diesel scandal isn’t over. Since 2009, there have been 30,000 new cases of childhood asthma in the UK because of excess diesel emissions. Without action there’ll be thousands more. Watch our film, then email our leaders. www.mumsforlungs.org/news/the-die... #AirPollution #Diesel

mumsforlungs.org

The diesel scandal - still making our kids sick — Mums for Lungs

10th July 2026 Our new film calls out the UK government and car manufacturers over the millions of illegally polluting diesel cars still on UK roads - and the toll they're taking on our…

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Mums for Lungs @mumsforlungs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“What family needs a car with a 4.4-litre engine that goes from zero to 60 in four seconds?" Powerful piece on the need to ban SUV advertising and introduce limits on the width, length and bonnet height of cars. #Carspreading #RoadDanger

standard.co.uk

Daughter calls on Sadiq Khan to crack down on ‘monster’ SUVs after parents killed

Claire Corkery is calling on Sadiq Khan to back tougher controls on large SUVs after her parents were killed by a BMW X5 travelling at 87mph

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Cassie Smith (she/her) @cassiesmith.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Our school doesn't just have a #bikebus, there's also a run club that meets, trains and runs to school together (another weekday). The parent organizer asked for a volunteer to drive all the kids backpacks to school. My husband said why drive when you could cargo bike?! 25 bags delivered this week.

A term GSD longtail with backpacks in a front basket, storm box, and trailer pulled behind.

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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 25/09/2026

“Streets and their sidewalks, the main public places of a city, are its most vital organs.” - Jacobs “If you want to know what a culture values, look at what it builds. Our cities and towns are some of the greatest works of human civilization. They all began with their streets.” - Dover+Massengale

A paperback book, “Street Design: The Secret to Great Cities and Towns” sits in the middle of a brick paved and tree lined street in Delft, The Netherlands.

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Mark McIntyre @markjmcintyre.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There's something amazing about being in a peloton of 40+ bikes on the cycle lane heading home. Every driver at the front of a queue of side-street traffic... every person peering out of a bus window... every passer-by gets the message: "Oh wow, yeah, people are using this stuff". Never gets old.

My view travelling home by bike: Loads of people cycling on the South City Way cycle lane on Victoria Road in Govanhill in the Southside of Glasgow, during evening rush hour. A woman in front of me wears an incredibly fetching gold coloured helmet.

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Nice work, Raleigh NC. Combining a protected bike lane with a continuous sidewalk creates necessary friction. The elevation change acts as a hard design cue, physically reminding motorists they are crossing a pedestrian domain, not the other way around.

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Campaign for Better Transport @bettertransport.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A truly inspiring day at our #TimeforTrams event in Coventry. At times it was standing room only, as we heard from a stellar lineup of Mayors, MPs and industry leaders, councillors and campaigners, about the extraordinary potential of trams and light rail.

Attendees at the Time For Trams conference

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

There’s a family of four on this cargo bike. You don’t need an SUV, let alone a car.

Two adults and two children on a cargo bike

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Dutch Cycling Embassy @dutchcycling.nl · 20/09/2026

Cycling supports socialisation and happiness, by spending time outside and meeting people; while reducing our reliance on motorised transport and its associated emissions and externalities such as noise and occupation of space.

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Terrible policy when domestic transport is the biggest contributor to greenhouse gases in the UK. We need to be going all-in on helping people AWAY from reliance on fossil fuels, not subsidising their use even more than we already do.

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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 24/09/2026

“Stay in bloody Holland and don’t come mess up our lives with your nonsense.” “Cycling extremists.” “Mobility propagandists.” “Idiots.” “A new breed of slugs and rats.” “Who invited these clowns?” “Out to cause harm.” “Zero empathy towards anyone who needs to get around.” “Revolting, evil people.”🧵

A middle aged couple in casual business attire pose for a photo in an industrial courtyard in Tartu, Estonia.

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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 23/09/2026

Two hours in Vienna. One train stopover. Instead of sitting on the platform, we borrowed shared bikes and pedalled the length of Argentinierstraße: Vienna’s first Dutch-style fietsstraat; where cars are guests and bikes set the pace. Sometimes you don't need a whole day to discover a city by bike.

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Better Streets for Birmingham @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org · 22/09/2026

Two years on, NOTHING HAS CHANGED on the street itself TO MAKE IT SAFER, although we understand plans are now afoot. We hope they lead to meaningful change and safer streets for everyone. We’ll keep campaigning for streets where people come first. 🚶‍♀️🚲 #WorldCarFreeDay #BetterStreets #VisionZero

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