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Catherine Wykes

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Mark Sutton @marksuttonbike.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
£5.62 returned for each £1 spent on cycling investments, finds @cyclinguk.bsky.social study www.cyclingelectric.com/news/5-62-re...
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£5.62 returned for each £1 spent on cycling investments, finds study
CyclingUK has published a new report titled The Route Forward, within which it presents a diverse array of cycling schemes
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Cycling UK Official @cyclinguk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Our partners Altura and CatEye are giving 3 lucky winners the chance to win a prize package worth up to £350, including an Altura Nightvision jacket and helmet, CatEye lights & GPS computer, plus a Cycling UK T-shirt. Entries close 30 October! 👇 altura.co.uk/pages/glow-rides-competition
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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The BBC’s Ratcliffe interview is shocking. He’s allowed to spout unchallenged nonsense about politics, economics and energy. Ratcliffe is worth listening to because he represents an emboldened and retrograde section of Britain’s ruling class 🧵 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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Cycling UK Official @cyclinguk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
✨ Glow rides are lighting up the UK for #MyRideOurRight! Find a ride near you, or register your own, and join the call for safer streets for women. 👉 cyclinguk.org/glow-rides 🔦 Powered by Altura and CatEye
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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“Every fraction of a degree of warming avoided means lives saved” is going to remain a true statement for the rest of our lives
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Cycling UK Official @cyclinguk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
✨ Glow rides are back! This autumn, join #MyRideOurRight to light up the streets and call for safer streets for women. Because when streets are safe for women, they’re safer for everyone. Join in the fun at cyclinguk.org/glow-rides 🔦 Powered by Altura and CatEye
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"If you see someone without a smile today, give 'em yours." #RIPDollyParton
Photo of Dolly Parton wearing a flowing dress astride a bicycle.
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Catherine Wykes @cathybabes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Post a picture that should be an album cover
Black and white image of an oil rig in harbour framed by a Victorian cemetery entrance
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 16/08/2026
Media doesn’t “make” anyone do or believe anything. But it does provide permission structure and prioritization for what people think society will accept them doing or believing. This can be much more powerful and determinative than the seterotypical didactic propaganda we typically imagine.
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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 16/08/2026
We’ve long felt Montréal is one of North America’s best kept cycling secrets, but it was reassuring to get a fresh perspective from our daughter and her partner this week. After spending the day rolling across the city on BIXI bikes, they returned with a clear verdict: “It’s even better than Paris.”
People dressed in casual summer attire ride shared bikes along dedicated cycling infrastructure on the streets of Montreal.People dressed in casual summer attire ride shared bikes along dedicated cycling infrastructure on the streets of Montreal.People dressed in casual summer attire ride shared bikes along dedicated cycling infrastructure on the streets of Montreal.People dressed in casual summer attire ride shared bikes along dedicated cycling infrastructure on the streets of Montreal.
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Sally Watson @salawatson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Justin on eurostar @eurostarjustin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This clip is well worth 4 minutes of your time. #ClimateAction
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David Hulloween 胡大衛 @hushuo.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The photos at the end of this article are worth the whole world.
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Dylan Roth @dylanroth.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
“We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.” - Sam Altman. I will never stop thinking about how nakedly evil this is, and it has framed every single AI headline I’ve read since.
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Sam Altman Says Intelligence Will Be a Utility, and He's Just the Man to Collect the Bills
"Intelligence too cheap to meter" doesn't quite come across the way Altman might intend.
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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 29/07/2026
After discovering @bicycledutch.bsky.social, a Tsinghua University professor advocated for the fietsstraat: where cyclists are the main users and cars are guests. Today, that idea has spread across Beijing: Hundreds of kilometres of bike-priority streets now form the backbone of the city’s network.
Photos of a fietsstraat, or bicycle-priority streets where cyclists are the main users and cars are guests, along a quieter side road in Beijing.
Photos of a fietsstraat, or bicycle-priority streets where cyclists are the main users and cars are guests, along a quieter side road in Beijing.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The UK countryside is full of interdimensional portals. You just have to know where to look. I've decided to make a thread here of some of the best ones I've found on walks. 1. JRR Tolkien's Psychedelic Lime Kiln.
I can never resist getting inside an old lime kiln. This one was near Newton Abbott. The view up through the hole in the top of it to the overhanging trees on the ledge above is, I have to assume, even better than listening to the second Doors album on acid.
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Katja Diehl @katjadiehl.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The average occupancy rate of passenger cars used for commuting in Germany is on par with that of bicycles—did you know that? 1.075 people per vehicle.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Next time someone tries arguing that it’s “social engineering” (cue ominous music) to give people more CHOICE to walk, bike & take public transit in their city, tell them that designing our current car DEPENDENCY has been the largest and most damaging social engineering experiment in human history.
Highway filled with car congestionLow density suburban sprawl filled with roads and cookie cutter subdivisions.
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Cllr John Morris @plaistovian.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
1/ Four people die on UK roads every day. Someone is killed or injured every 18 minutes. 1,600 deaths and 28,000 serious injuries a year. This isn't statistics. This is normalised violence in our public space. 🧵
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Eric Doherty @ericdoherty.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
There is no solar power crisis. No wind power crisis. No insulation crisis. No heat pump crisis. No e-bike crisis. No electric bus crisis. But there is a #fossilfuel crisis. And a #climatecrisis.
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Catherine Wykes @cathybabes.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
A lot of my holiday photos these days are of bikes and cycle parking, so I’m enjoying this collection of holiday photos of estate cars taken in my local area! Leuchars Station, St Andrews, Edinburgh and not sure about the rest 🤔
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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 12/07/2026
One of the most pernicious myths about Dutch cities is they have always been designed for people, and are somehow finished with that process. In reality, places like Den Bosch spent decades accommodating growing volumes of motor traffic, often at the expense of public space, safety and liveability.🧵
People walk, cycle, and sit in the low-car streets of ‘s-Hertogenbosch lined with trees, terraces, benches, planter boxes, and bike parking.People walk, cycle, and sit in the low-car streets of ‘s-Hertogenbosch lined with trees, terraces, benches, planter boxes, and bike parking.People walk, cycle, and sit in the low-car streets of ‘s-Hertogenbosch lined with trees, terraces, benches, planter boxes, and bike parking.People walk, cycle, and sit in the low-car streets of ‘s-Hertogenbosch lined with trees, terraces, benches, planter boxes, and bike parking.
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Common Ninja @commonninja.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
In the UK, in 1949, 37% of all traffic was people on bicycles. Today's 1.4 - 1.6% is a staggering decline, and in the face of climate change, a staggering failure of transport policy.
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Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
One thing that is particularly telling here is that I lobbied all of the relevant authorities (Richmond, H&F, TfL) to install automated cycle & pedestrian counters at Hammersmith Bridge, without success. So I installed this one myself. Institutional windscreen POV is very selective in what it sees
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John McTernan @johnmct.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The case for Ed Miliband as Chancellor.
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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
🚨 New research by us! 📣 Most British drivers don't know how dangerous SUVs are to other road users, but adding information to SUV marketing materials seems to do almost nothing to change people's plans to buy SUVs Here's a 🧵 on why harder action is going to be needed 1/10
A mockup SUV advert image with a prototype safety warning
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Dave Walker @davewalker.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Why building safe routes to walk and cycle is really good value for money. [From my newsletter: diagramclub.substack.com ]
Black-and-white cartoon titled “Building safe routes to walk and cycle is really good value for money.” 
- A children’s drawings of traveling to school suggest they want to walk, but “they can’t because it isn’t safe.” 
- An “active travel money machine” illustration states that every £1 invested returns £5.50. 
- Benefits include physical activity, thriving high streets, reduced loneliness and improved mental health, road safety, and less pollution. - A section showing different transport options, bus, bicycle, walking, helicopter, and ca, around a person, with label “people need a choice.” 
- A pie labeled “roads budget” and a small slice labeled “active travel” illustrate the message that “a fair share goes a long way.”
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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Looking forward to the legitimate concerns of these folks being talked about by politicians and media talking heads endlessly for the next several years. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Belfast protest: Thousands gather for anti-racism rally
Protesters gathered at Belfast City Hall for a demonstration against racism, after the past week of violence and disorder.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Tomorrow's front page 📰 Refugees are woven into Scotland
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Pedestrian commercial streets are wildly popular in every corner of the globe.
Pedestrian street in Zaragoza. Photo by me.
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Billy Duss @bduss.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Because it's looking like someone is about to become a trillionaire... A trillion minutes ago is 1.9 million years ago. Homo Sapiens didn't exist.
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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 03/06/2026
“Legitimate Concerns”
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Brandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
There's an indicator species for evaluating the safety of your urban infrastructure, and it's not middle-aged men on bikes. It's women, seniors, and kids feeling safe enough to ride in their everyday clothes.
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Arseny Khakhalin @khakhalin.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Did the #sternfahrt26 today, for the first time: it's a demonstration against car-centered city planning in which cyclists organize and gather from small, well timed steams into one giant river, and then are allowed, once a year, to take over the city highway. Pretty cool!
People on bikes
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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 07/06/2026
Beginning as a pop-up pandemic-era intervention in the summer of 2021, Bristol's bustling Princess Victoria Street emerged as a permanent pedestrian space within four years; offering a compelling case of how such measures can reshape public opinion, local economies, and the future of urban streets.🧵
People walk and sit along a pedestrianised shopping street in the centre of Bristol, featuring terraces, trees, planter boxes, bike parking, and advertising boards.People walk and sit along a pedestrianised shopping street in the centre of Bristol, featuring terraces, trees, planter boxes, bike parking, and advertising boards.People walk and sit along a pedestrianised shopping street in the centre of Bristol, featuring terraces, trees, planter boxes, bike parking, and advertising boards.People walk and sit along a pedestrianised shopping street in the centre of Bristol, featuring terraces, trees, planter boxes, bike parking, and advertising boards.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?"
"Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
"Proposed bike lane cancelled after failing to get approval from every living and deceased resident within 25 km."
painted bike lane on the road 

Proposed bike lane cancelled after failing to get approval from every living and deceased resident within 25 km.
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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 02/06/2026
this is my kind of company motto right here
18 wheeler with one back door open splitting the company’s tagline into “if we can’t / we won’t“
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Dutch Cycling Embassy @dutchcycling.nl · 01/06/2026
2026 is the start of the UN's Decade of Sustainable Transport Transport has a major role in advancing the sustainable development goals (SDGs) around the world. The DCE has been working on this for the past 15 years, connecting the best transport experts with the places that need them.
Person riding along wide red bike path
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
The siren song of every authoritarian regime is to promise counter revolution against a revolution that never occurred. To sign onto this scapegoating is to endorse the authoritarians you profess to be opposing.
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Simon Christie @thebonnieloon.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
please consider asking your politicians to attend as well as support @pedalonparliament.org on 30th May
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Catherine Wykes @cathybabes.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Got caught in a freak rain shower on the way to vote, but there's always time for a #bikesatpollingstations pic! @cyclinguk.bsky.social @dundeecycling.co.uk
A picture of a bicycle next to a polling station sign
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Jay Hightman @jay.hightman.org · 03/05/2026
It is great to see New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani riding in the annual TD Five Boro Bike Tour! Things like this help illustrate the need and importance of safe bicycle infrastructure in the city...
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Catherine Wykes @cathybabes.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
www.nebriefing.org/get-involved
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National Emergency Briefing
Take Action on the Climate and Nature Emergency | How to engage after the National Emergency Briefing and support science-led solutions
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Pedal on Parliament #pop26 @pedalonparliament.org · 01/05/2026
On 30th May at 11:30am, we Pedal on Parliament for a cycle-safe Scotland. Today, we've released our renewed manifesto - will you join us? ➡️ pedalonparliament.org/our-manifesto/ #ThisMachineFightsClimateChange #PoP26
A poster for Pedal on Parliament 2026, on 30th May 2026 at 11:30am, featuring an bright illustration of three foxes cycling through a purple city backdrop. A parent fox rides a cargo bike with a young fox in the front, who is waving a small flag that reads #pop26 - a slightly bigger fox cub leads the way pointing ahead.
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Copenhagenizers @copenhagenizers.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Better cycling cities are not just "more bike-friendly." They are also more equitable in access to cycling between genders. This means that infrastructure, safety, and policy improvements tend to benefit women more by removing barriers that affect them disproportionately. #cycling #bicycleurbanism
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Catherine Wykes @cathybabes.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
@dundeecycling.co.uk excellent piece in West England Bylines 👍
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Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
It may seem like nerdy detail that the increasing weight of cars is worsening potholes, but it matters. The car makers push to sell wider and heavier cars is increasing road maintenance costs and that affects us all. Not to mention worse crash outcomes and less space to pass (wider) parked cars.
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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Dumping externalities onto the public purse in pursuit of profit..? Car manufacturers..? Surely not, so out of character.
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
“Cities across Europe saw a boom in cycling & bike-friendly infrastructure during the Covid-19 pandemic but have suffered setbacks amid a political shift to the right and the emergence of conspiracy theories that have unexpectedly taken aim at ideas such as having amenities within walking distance.”
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How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets
Under Anne Hidalgo – mayor for 12 years until last week – the French capital added bike lanes, cut traffic and reclaimed public space, but not without resistance
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