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Brian deegan @bricycle.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Just turned the house upside down looking for interview footage I took 20 years ago of legendary boxers. Most have sadly now passed, but I am passing it on to the families and might stick some up on YouTube Ken Buchanan Alan Minter, Henry Cooper. I still miss my old club. Times ABC in Islington.

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Brian deegan @bricycle.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

🇦🇺 🇷🇴 🇸🇪 🇪🇺

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Brian deegan @bricycle.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Shout out to all of those others around for the last lunar trip. Space 1999, 2001 and the Martian Chromicles didn't quite happen to schedule, but we are getting there.

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Brian deegan @bricycle.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Integrated transport image from Greater Manchester six years ago now. They did it.

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Tim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Another great @activetravelcaf.bsky.social this evening hosted by @roxyfromoz.bsky.social with @bricycle.bsky.social I'm old enough to remember #IdeasWithBeeers so I bought them a Coffee, you could too ko-fi.com/home/coffees... Catch up with previous session here activetravelcafe.org.uk/sessions

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Tim Morton just supported Active Travel Cafe on Ko-fi! ❤️

Ko-fi lets you support creators you love with tips, memberships and shop sales!

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Cycling Scotland @cyclingscotland.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Chair Laura Young and Brian Deegan, Director of Inspections at Active Travel England bring the #CyclingScotlandConf to a close, with a Q&A focusing on the unique benefits that cycling can bring to transport planning and the success stories already being seen across Scotland.

Brian Deegan, Active Travel England Director of Inspections addresses the 2025 Cycling Scotland Conference in Dundee.

Climate researcher and environmental campaigner Laura Young chairs the 2025 Cycling Scotland Conference in Dundee.

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Cycling Scotland @cyclingscotland.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

📣 Keynote speaker announcement! #CyclingScotlandConf Brian Deegan (@bricycle.bsky.social) is @ategov.bsky.social Director of Inspections and one of the UK’s leading experts in active travel design. 📍 Dundee 📅 10 September 2025 🎟️ Full agenda & tickets: buff.ly/cdQp0px

Brian Deegan, Active Travel England Director of Inspections, is announced as a keynote speaker at this year's national Cycling Scotland Conference, taking place in Dundee on 10th September 2025.

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Brian deegan @bricycle.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

How many countries have you been to this week? I like the guidance tactile on the island.

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Brian deegan @bricycle.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Quick 24hours in London doing what I like best, riding around in my suit in the sun whilst cracking deals, going for long meandering walks with experts and popping up to do optimistic speeches.

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Westminster Cycling Campaign @westminster-lcc.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Just when you thought London couldn't feel any more glorious, up pops this fantastic bit of cycling infrastructure - TULIP WANDS 🌷🚴‍♂️🌷🚴‍♂️! They’re being installed on Sussex Gardens and are an absolute joy to behold and causing all sorts of delight, as we discovered…

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Brian deegan @bricycle.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

I was honoured to hear @robinlovelace.bsky.social inaugural lecture as Professor. The man is a brilliant-idea generating machine. Transport professionals should check out his work on github.

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Brian deegan @bricycle.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Even though we don't benefit anymore, it's interesting to see what other countries are building and the framing around tackling transport poverty. Bang on IMO . www.ecf.com/en/news/euro...

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Commission Highlights Cycling’s Role in Tackling Transport Poverty – Now Member States Must Act

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Sally Watson @salawatson.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Am pleased to say that my article on Newcastle’s postwar play streets has been published www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... It draws attention to how traffic engineers framed streets as too dangerous for children’s play but not dangerous enough to warrant infrastructural changes.

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'The freedom of the place during daylight hours': urban renewal and the fight over play streets in Newcastle upon Tyne, c.1955-1980
Sally Watson
School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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Newcastle upon Tyne's 1960s planning policy included play streets as a short-term measure in neighbourhoods intended for long term urban renewal. The sia as on treate a tess for shiere of lay in are as that a ked ten
environmental turn of the 1970s, this article examines the circumstances surrounding the implementation and adaptation of this policy,
abandonment in 1974 and continuing resident activism following this. Based on municipal and government archives and local newspapers, it critically examines the moral landscape of play streets and the planning and traffic engineering policies and practices underpinning their governance. It shows that the demise of play streets was not due to a decrease in demand for them. Instead, a dominant 'car logic' contributed to constituting the child as out-of-place in the street. Factors including the transfer of play streets from planning to engineering,
reductions in traffic management budgets
following the 1973 oil crisis and a lack of national and regional government support would ultimately limit the possibilities they afforded. The article argues that ideas about the child and street play in this period cannot be divorced from evolving postwar planning and engineering policies and
practices.

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Brian deegan @bricycle.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Honour to be mentioned in such illustrious company. Well done on the article.

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Active Travel England @ategov.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Seven-year-old Betty from Manchester wrote a letter to the Prime Minister about more safe spaces for walking, wheeling and cycling 🚶👩‍🦽🚲 @chrisboardman.bsky.social met her to talk about how it will make us all happier, healthier and greener: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUWu... 🌲🌍

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Betty, aged seven, wants more walking, wheeling and cycling

YouTube video by Active Travel England

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Brian deegan @bricycle.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I wrote this several years ago but it never got published. I would probably change a lot now, but if you are interested in protected junctions for cycling, you may find it interesting: drive.google.com/file/d/1BRFs...

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Brian Deegan - Cycling Infrastructure Chapter.pdf

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Brian deegan @bricycle.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Friday's thinly veiled analogy: I hate dogs when I am riding, and my daughter is terrified of them, but I don't want them banned because they promote activity and increase people's health and well-being. I accept that society is not about meeting my needs but addressing everyone's needs inclusively.

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Brian deegan @bricycle.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I reckon there are loads of decent LCN routes out there that people should know about. Main thing missing is decent crossings. Loads of signs still up. Still a live network.

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Brian deegan @bricycle.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Gentle is 1 in 20 taper on the merge but be super careful on the re-merge as if it's gentle you might risk encouraging a shunt or collision from alongside. Design to maintain link position between nodes. It is often safer to maintain a primary and ignore bypasses unless they lead to protected infra.

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Brian deegan @bricycle.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Brilliant I thought I couldn't have been the only person to spot that. Your paper helps make the case for car free days to break the spell. We should have more in the UK.

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

HOT RESEARCH NEWS! Motonormativity ("car brain") is a bias that stops people making rational judgements about driving en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motonor... Our new study shows where this bias comes from AND how it makes people think they're odd for supporting changes to the transport system 🧵

Cover sheet of a journal article: "Why do cars get a free ride? The social-ecological roots of motonormativity" by Ian Walker and Marco te Brömmelstroet

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Brian deegan @bricycle.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

It's really interesting (especially the policy cakeism point-owch), and great to see you two join forces. I also reckon there is what I call Residual car effect, where people walk with less care and greater aggression for a good five mins after leaving a car they have been driving.

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Brian deegan @bricycle.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

If you have never read this but are in to road safety, it is well worth it. publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/... every idea is a winner.

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House of Commons - Transport Committee: Written evidence from Stephen Plowden

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Brian deegan @bricycle.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

That's my point about it being enabled.

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Brian deegan @bricycle.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Being enabled to walk, ride a bike or use public transport to get to work or school is a human right and not a nice to have. I wish we could all start from a position of enshrining this first and foremost then factor in more convenient and damaging options.

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Brian deegan @bricycle.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

If having no car puts you at a transport disadvantage then cycling is the cheapest fix to stop transport poverty. Bike infrastructure is a social justice solution. Seasons greetings one and all. I love this chart.

Flow chart Lucaa 2012 on transport poverty

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Cllr Rob Wilson 🔶 @robwilson.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

@shrewsburybid.bsky.social, on behalf of the Big Town Plan Partnership, is seeking an organiser to deliver a conference on the topic of movement and the future of town centres. Shrewsbury has just adopted a 10-year movement and public space plan. #ActiveTravel shrewsburybid.co.uk/invitation-t...

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Seeking a conference organiser for Shrewsbury Moves

Shrewsbury BID, on behalf of the Big Town Plan Partnership, is seeking a conference organiser to arrange an engaging series of talks...

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Brian deegan @bricycle.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Always weirds me out when I see cars parked in junction mouths in Spain, but they know man...they know.

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Brian deegan @bricycle.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I am living the pedestrian pound life at the moment by walking to Aldi at least once a day and always getting a bonus item.

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Danny Williams @mrdannyw.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Neat video by the Active Travel England team about an newly pedestrianised street in Sheffield youtu.be/WdC5lYW8qgM?...

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People-friendly streets make for prosperous societies

YouTube video by Active Travel England

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Brian deegan @bricycle.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I am not sure that guardrail goes with implied roundabouts and crossings. I had to sprint out of the way of a bus whose driver was clearly not psychologically persuaded to slow down. Go all in if you are going to go,I reckon, or signal control it.

Implied roundabout and coloured crossing point in the same materials as the footway. Guardrail to shepherd people to the non respected crossing places.

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Brian deegan @bricycle.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I hope I am still an honorary member. I must admit that I always quite liked the confusion.

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Danny Williams @mrdannyw.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Three new assistant inspector roles with loads of development opportunities for anyone interested in active travel at Active Travel England, based in York www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...

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Assistant Inspector - Civil Service Jobs - GOV.UKGOV.UK

Search and apply for jobs in the UK Civil Service

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Sally Watson @salawatson.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

‘Children see streets differently: Making space for children’s play and mobility’ - pleased to see this new article by @alisonstenning.bsky.social and I out today in the IPPR Progressive Review onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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“Children see streets differently”

Click on the article title to read more.

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Brian deegan @bricycle.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Well done Sally. Amazing work. Let's make that conclusion happen.

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Brian deegan @bricycle.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

youtube.com/watch?v=WcTo... my COP26 speach in honour of COP29. I arrogantly try and solve transport decarbonisation. Excuse the glasses.I was trying to channel Jonathan Meades.

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Brian deegan @bricycle.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Mainly if it goes past opposite side roads or places with an obvious place for access.

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Brian Cooper @theomnisis.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Like this?

an image showing a gap between a wand and an armadillo - sadly created using AI and I should be hung drawn and quartered for doing so.

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Brian deegan @bricycle.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Sorry I am 50% impenetrable jargon and 50% sarcasm. I am surprised anyone ever listens. Gaps between wands and armadillos is what I am banging on about.

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Brian deegan @bricycle.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

An interesting question came up today about exit gaps from protected bike lanes. Original Spanish spec was 2.5m max between intermittent protection, but I set that as a min under the motto "Protect don't trap." A long continuous strip can be a real pain to exit from.

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Brian deegan @bricycle.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

Those were the big two covered

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Brian deegan @bricycle.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

Reflecting on my statement at the innovations conference that we need standardisation rather than standards for street design to make sure we get all the accessibility details right. I want to deliver on this promise soon. Geometric alignment is the art, but street components should be pure science.

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Brian deegan @bricycle.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

Heading back to Manchester tomorrow to talk literally all day at the Innovations conference. Really looking forward to it even if I am sick of the sound of my voice. Doing a few interactive sessions on capability action planning.

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