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Brynley Heaven @brynleyheaven.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The Houthis have got hypersonic missiles, but what frightens me is solar panels generating clean electricity to replace oil from the Gulf and Red Sea

bbc.co.uk

Locals 'shocked, angry and scared' by Oxfordshire solar plan

Developer Low Carbon says the 2,400 acre West Oxfordshire Energy Plant would produce 500MW.

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Car Free Driver @carfreedriver.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Some good news in Jon Stone's latest London Cycle Routes video - there are plans to part pedestrianise Parliament Square. Long overdue! youtu.be/ZNMH2I8WHlo?...

youtu.be

🚲 A new MUCH better way to cycle from Brixton to Westminster without traffic

YouTube video by London cycle routes

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Car Free Driver @carfreedriver.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Nice day for rugby, wind will be a factor!

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Car Free Driver @carfreedriver.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Post Brunel Museum visit, a rare foray onto Thameslink to go Mill Hill to cath the shuttle bus to the Saracens v Bristol rugby game.

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Car Free Driver @carfreedriver.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Not wandered around Rotherhithe before, quiet low traffic streets by the river.

Cobbled street with overhanging tree canopy

River Thames, the shard, tower bridge and the City.

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Car Free Driver @carfreedriver.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Guided tours on sat/sun at 12.30, museum about the first tunnel under the river now part of the Windrush Line of the London Overground, most of the talk in the tunnel shaft above the railway line.

Picture of brick victoriana building with chimney

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Car Free Driver @carfreedriver.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Visited the Brunel Museum in Rotherhithe, cycled across central London on an ebike of course, nice autumnal day, quite windy so the e-assist helped!

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Car Free Driver @carfreedriver.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Cycle to school week Let's get active" says the traffic sign. Yeah, I'm sure that'll work...

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Car Free Driver @carfreedriver.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I was pleasantly surprised to see the council I work for is putting on a a screening of the @nebriefing.bsky.social in the office! Hopefully I will encourage/force a few colleagues to attend.

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Car Free Driver @carfreedriver.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Lots of Beryl bikes at Watford Junction this chilly morning. No protected cycle lanes on any of the main roads leading to this station. I don't know, maybe we should actually start taking cycling as a form of transportation seriously...

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Car Free Driver @carfreedriver.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

some councils now have car free streets, i was in hackney and there are no cars" was busy so didn’t comment - next time we're all in the office I will educate them...maybe put reading Curbing Traffic and Life after Cars as a performance target.

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Car Free Driver @carfreedriver.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Overheard a very motornormative conversation in the office today. One of my team who lives in very inner London next to a tube station is buying her 1st car, heard 2 other colleagues talking about it. "Her flat doesn't have parking" "Thats mad" "

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Car Free Driver @carfreedriver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Cycle back from the station and of course the cycling contraflows through west Watford are blocked by parked cars. The number of cars parked overnight on double yellows is ridiculous - will be bringing this up (again) with the Cllr responsible at next week's Watford cycle forum.

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Car Free Driver @carfreedriver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Cool venue next to St Paul's for @thewaroncars.bsky.social event. Also, met bluesky active travel celebrity @shivajishivalaw.bsky.social Made a slight mistake buying Lime minutes as I walked half way back to Euston before I found one.. (should have gone with Forest).

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Car Free Driver @carfreedriver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Popping into London for @thewaroncars.bsky.social "Life after Cars" thing...

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

These are Moylan’s full comments on floating bus stop bike lanes. This is the sort of transport policy almost every other European nation would find deeply weird.

“People who haven't seen a floating bus stop might think it's got nothing to do with them and they're safe. But I can promise you, the zealots behind these bike schemes are coming for you.
“So you will get a floating bus stop if you don't have a Conservative government, because we are going to put an end to them.
“These are bus stops, basically where the cycle lane sits between the pavement and the boarding area for the bus. So to get to the bus stop when the bus comes, you have to cross over the cycle lane.
“Of course, the cyclists are all meant beautifully to stop for pedestrians across, especially for blind pedestrians who are crossing. They never do. There are horrendous videos of cyclists racing through them.

“Now we've announced that we are going to put an end to these. It'll take little time. We'll get rid of the most egregious ones immediately.
“We'll prevent any new ones coming along, and we'll design out the others as they go on, because they are hated by people, especially by the blind, by pedestrians, by elderly, by anyone who just does not want to have to think about a crazed bicycle coming at them at high speed, when all they want to do is get on the bus.”

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

1972. We've known for so long.

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Car Free Driver @carfreedriver.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Really good episode from Streets Ahead pod with City of London police's cycling team. open.spotify.com/episode/6mx7...

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Catching illegal e-motos with the City of London Police

Streets Ahead · Episode

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Car Free Driver @carfreedriver.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A lot of people commute the other way too. Pre-covid I had a conversation with Watford's Mayor who told me that data showed more people from Greater London work in Watford than the other way round.

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Car Free Driver @carfreedriver.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"We don't need HS2, we don't need to free up space on the West Coast Main Line." Watford Junction this morning, train full, left waiting for the next train.

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚 @emilykerr36.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thrilled to visit Oxfordshire’s first of the new Quiet Lanes: filtered to motor traffic, safe for us cyclists and walkers and horse-riders. First time I have ever felt safe to cycle to the fabulous Rectory Farm: love supporting local businesses.

Me in hi viz by the shepherds pit lane QL

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Car Free Driver @carfreedriver.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Every child should have the right to travel by bike in the middle of a city (& everywhere else too). London's C6 today.

Mum and 2 kids travelling on long tail cargo bike on C6 by the British Library.

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Car Free Driver @carfreedriver.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

To my great surprise, the potholed alleyway entrance to a local park has been resurfaced! I did mention this at the last Watford cycle forum, however...the discriminatory staggered barriers remain.

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 25/09/2026

What makes something a uniform? If everyone in an organisation wears the same clothes and you wear them every time you show up, that's a uniform right? If the clothes are iconic (actual meaning of word) of your organisation then that's a uniform? www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw8an...

legislation.gov.uk

Public Order Act 1936

An Act to prohibit the wearing of uniforms in connection with political objects and the maintenance by private persons of associations of military or similar character; and to make further provision f...

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Car Free Driver @carfreedriver.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hertfordshire County Council doesn't care about making streets safer, doesn't matter which party is in power. "It comes after a serious crash involving a pedestrian in Hampermill Lane, two serious motorbike crashes in Eastbury Road, and 24 other collisions causing injury between 2021 and 2025."

Watford Observer headline: No speed cameras commitment despite 27 injury crashes and 254-strong petition.

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Car Free Driver @carfreedriver.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

For "War on Cars" related stuff, best cycling map is safecycleldn.com some of the routes through LTNs are not bad now (C5, C27 through Islington/Hackney), also Waltham Forest (no bike share there, though).

safecycleldn.com

SafeCycleLDN

Up to date maps and blogs about safe cycle routes and infrastructure in London.

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Note how there is no (0) person, whether politician or activist, quoted in this piece who‘s in favour of more liberal asylum policies, and as for quoting any actual refugees, their function is to be the silent object of other people’s violent imaginings, not to have a voice or personhood

bbc.co.uk

Most migrant small boat arrivals in single day of 2026

A total of 781 migrants arrive on Wednesday, but the yearly total is below the same point in 2025.

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Simon Munk @psimonk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Possibly longest thread I've ever written. Once again, despite all evidence, some folks, closely related to the 'bus industry' want to blame cycling for slowing down London buses. tl;dr: this is a lie & it's cars wot done it. It is not buses v cycling v walking or wheeling. It's all of us v cars...

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Car Free Driver @carfreedriver.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My thoughts exactly on my cycle to the station yesterday, reckon all the people who avoided taking holiday in the school holidays are now back. (A colleague complained about 3 school kids in his way when driving, I pointed out that I had to pass 50 cars that didn't get out of my way on my commute.)

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Car Free Driver @carfreedriver.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

...by reducing fuel duty for drivers...

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Car Free Driver @carfreedriver.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Working for a local council, weekly email to staff on World Car Free Day: Council is focused on improving air quality. Are there protected bike lanes & low traffic neighbourhoods being rolled out? No. Asks staff to think about how they travel and if they could be more environmentally friendly....

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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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Car Free Driver @carfreedriver.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We've got a few in the same short road like this...

Tactile paving on a shared path with Cyclists Dismount sign, remount tactile less than a bicycle's length after Dismount sign.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The RNLI rescued Luftwaffe pilots in WW2 because the organisation is there to 'save life at sea' - it's something to be immensely proud of. But as I've said many times before Farage and Co don't seem to have pride in Britain and its institutions beyond flags and crap Enoch Powell said 60 years ago.

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Ben (BicycleBenUK) @ben.fiets.uk · 17/09/2026

Change the way we travel? Then mandate that councils MUST rapidly roll-out safe, connected, direct cycle infrastructure everywhere (+fund them). It takes 15-20 mins by e-bike to travel across town, but direct uses a 40mph road with guaranteed close passes and only a narrow footpath for active travel

theguardian.com

Andy Burnham: UK must fully commit to reaching net zero by 2050

Exclusive: PM, who is facing pressure over whether to approve North Sea oil and gasfields, makes strongest comments yet on issue

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Car Free Driver @carfreedriver.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Mayoral boundaries don't align well with transport either. Look at these TfL services in Herts/Bucks/Berkshire.

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Car Free Driver @carfreedriver.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Can the UK nations become provinces of Canada? (We've already got Tim Hortons.)

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

All day Piddington's womminfolk have been telling news how they will be terrified of "hundreds of young men nearby, free to come and go as they please." NOT ONE JOURNALIST has asked: "How did you cope when it was an army base? Who came and went then? Nuns?" Soon as you ask that, all becomes clear.

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Car Free Driver @carfreedriver.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Took the scenic route to the station on a hire ebike this morning, misjudged it slightly and almost missed the train I was aiming for (which thankfully was running late, although there was another one 5 mins later...)

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Car Free Driver @carfreedriver.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Find your posts on trade informative but this thread... last year someone cycled into me while walking on the pavement, didn't expect mythical "cycling community" to take responsibility for it any more than the "driving community" to take responsibility for the driver that crashed into my car.

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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I see there's more Bad Cyclists Discourse again. It's actually a symptom of how broken the UK's road network planning is, but it's easier to complain about what just *nearly* happened to you than to pause for thought about the "why" it nearly happened. The actual real problem is political.

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Car Free Driver @carfreedriver.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Probably Audi drivers on bikes. An idiot is an idiot, just be glad they weren't driving a car. (Drivers will kill 5 people on Britain's roads today.)

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Car Free Driver @carfreedriver.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Looking forward to it! (You've mentioned going to watch local sports teams on the book tour, if you are in London on Sun 4th, my suggestion PREM rugby match Saracens v Sale - come on Sarries!)

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Was exchanging notes with a fellow Brexit veteran in the last few days and we were in agreement that the UK-EU picture was currently pretty gloomy, a real failure in UK politics to come to terms with the world of Brussels as a third country.

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Car Free Driver @carfreedriver.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We Brits used to have the right to live/work in the EU (& EFTA) countries (because we were in the EU, obviously). Brexit took our rights away. It seems Carney wants Canada to be closer to the EU than the current Britsh govt wants Britain to be!?

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Car Free Driver @carfreedriver.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Good to see decent match day bike storage for football match days.

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Car Free Driver @carfreedriver.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Nice traffic free street next to the stadium (flats all have underground car parking...).

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Car Free Driver @carfreedriver.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My once a decade trip to a London Broncos RLFC game today, currently play at AFC Wimbledon's stadium. Good to see a few Broncos players (I think) getting Lime bikes from Earlsfield station to the ground.

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