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Charlotte Baker

@cb123456.bsky.social
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Climate, health and transport comms. Usually found cycling or walking somewhere.

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Charlotte Baker @cb123456.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Agreed. In the case outlined above, it’s because there is a faster parallel main road, so relatively few drivers ‘need’ to use this route. You’d only use it to go to a handful of places, creating a decent low-traffic cycling/horseriding route, and pretty good for walking and wheeling too.
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Charlotte Baker @cb123456.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
We don’t necessarily need bespoke infrastructure everywhere. Sometimes, quiet, low-speed & low-traffic rural lanes, waymarked as such, can function in such a way to enable sustainable transport. I saw max dozen cars in total during a 15 minute ride - but similar no. peds and cyclists - perfect 👌
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Charlotte Baker @cb123456.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I happened to capture this photo while cycling to the nearest town to me in the New Forest. It’s a quiet back route between small villages & hamlets - and a great example of what can happen on low-traffic rural lanes. ✅ Walking ✅ Horse-riding/walking ✅ Cycling ✅ Driving - carefully as a ‘guest’
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Charlotte Baker @cb123456.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Is it feral cycling, or sheer numbers of cyclists outgrowing the infrastructure? I’d suggest it’s the latter personally, and that further road space reallocation is needed. (Parliament Square walking and cycling only anyone?!)
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Charlotte Baker @cb123456.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
If you book carefully, it doesn’t have to be. There was a £50 per person difference in price for the trip - but we reckon we saved most of that in the fact we arrived directly into the city centre, didn’t have to pay an extra bag fee etc.
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Charlotte Baker @cb123456.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
I’ve also done that route many times, when I worked in Geneva - for Milan, you can go via Zurich and change, but Paris to Milan is direct and easier!
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Charlotte Baker @cb123456.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
This is the route!
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Charlotte Baker @cb123456.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
I mean, it’s just spectacular 🤩
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Charlotte Baker @cb123456.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
This train is full of ordinary people making fantastic use of the 7 hours on a train: - Finishing Christmas shopping - Watching a movie or TV - Listening to music & watching the view - Working/studying - Reading - Chatting in the buffet car I’ll never take a short-haul flight again ☺️
Photo shows a stunning winters scene of brown scrub and trees in front of a green field, with snow capped mountains in the background
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Charlotte Baker @cb123456.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
My ‘office’ for today is a TGV train from Paris to Milan - via stunning scenery of mountains, waterfalls, lakes and forests 🌲🗻 I gave up short-haul flying 4 years ago for climate reasons - but I genuinely just prefer this way of travelling now. @flightfreeuk.bsky.social
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Charlotte Baker @cb123456.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Sun was setting as I came back - nothing like trundling along in the autumn sunshine ☀️ 🍁
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Charlotte Baker @cb123456.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Stunning cycle commute to a work meeting today 🚲 After a year back in the New Forest, I am off *all* asthma medication, and am enjoying much better health and wellbeing ☀️
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Robert Knight @rupertairbear.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
It's amazing how much of a difference the congestion charge in Oxford has made. The roads are much quieter, it's so easy driving around the city centre now and being able to keep to time. My job has become less stressful.
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Will Norman @willnorman.co.uk · 30/10/2025
Every death & serious injury on the roads brings devastating pain & trauma to victims, family, friends, communities & colleagues. Our powerful new road safety campaign is shaped by real stories of loss - massive thanks to RoadPeace for working with us. #VisionZeroLDN
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Charlotte Baker @cb123456.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
My stepmum on her e-trike - she’s 76 and struggles to walk long distances, but this makes door to door trips easy!
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Charlotte Baker @cb123456.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Don’t love the tone of this. Leans into lots of stereotypes.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
“Let’s call it for what it is: bullshit. The truth is, politicians have talked about little else but immigration for decades and in the most dehumanising ways. Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
independent.co.uk
UK faces ‘battle for the soul’ of the country, says Starmer amid Reform threat
In a rallying cry to progressives around the world, the Prime Minister said allies must stop the ‘politics of predatory grievance’.
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Charlotte Baker @cb123456.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Amazing to see this Will! How far this project has come in a year - thanks in significant part to your hard work.
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Charlotte Baker @cb123456.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Interesting policy suggestion from @transenvuk.bsky.social - Large Vehicle Levy, where cars are charged £10 per kg over 1600kg in weight (with a 400kg allowance for EVs). Suggest it would raise £2 billion for the Treasury.
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Charlotte Baker @cb123456.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
The U.K. isn’t using its tax regime to disincentivise SUV purchases. A UK driver pays just £3200 acquisition tax on an £85k car, compared to *£66k* in France!! As a result, 4x as many are sold here in the U.K. than France. @transenvuk.bsky.social
Slide reads ‘A tax haven for cars’ and
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Charlotte Baker @cb123456.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Shocking stats that show that adults are 17% more likely and children are *77%* more likely to suffer fatal injury if hit by an SUV, compared to a normal car.
Slide shows that adults are 17% more likely and children are 77% more likely to suffer fatal injury if hit by an SUV, compared to a normal car
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Charlotte Baker @cb123456.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Back to school now…it’s not just speed, but weight of cars that matters when determining outcomes of crashes…including fatalities.
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Charlotte Baker @cb123456.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
We are now onto the substance - and some shocking stats on SUV sales 👇
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Charlotte Baker @cb123456.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Kicking off with @carltonreid.com in conversation with @sianberry.bsky.social and @barrysheerman.bsky.social - starting with a bit of history on Urban 4x4s and the campaigns against them. This is not new! But it *is* pressing and urgent that we address SUVs in cities now.
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Charlotte Baker @cb123456.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Good morning London 👋 amazing to see so many people walking and cycling to work, as I head to the @cleancitiescampaign.org Carspreading Conference on the bus 🚌 jealous that a running injury means I can’t join them!
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 13/08/2025
The number of children injured or killed by cars while walking or riding a bike has fallen steadily since the 1970s, but CDC researcher note that this decline is not because streets are safer, but because fewer kids are out and about in the first place.
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Kids need freedom. Dangerous roads make it hard to grant it.
Bigger cars, distracted drivers and worried parents mean fewer kids are roaming freely.
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Charlotte Baker @cb123456.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Two different views of the future of deliveries in Oxford. Both have their place - a zero emission van on the left, and a cargo trike max on the right. Great innovation from the university to have bulk of internal mail delivered by cargo trike 🙌
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Charlotte Baker @cb123456.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Another child tragically killed by a driver who got behind the wheel under the influence of drugs/ alcohol. We have technology to stop people driving in this state. But as a society we’ve decided such deaths are acceptable collateral damage from car-domination. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Pedestrian, 14, killed in village collision near Waterlooville
Hampshire police say a pedestrian and a car towing a trailer were involved in a collision on Monday.
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Charlotte Baker @cb123456.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Southampton is not always the most beautiful city from a public realm perspective - it’s a busy port city that’s often car dominated 🚗 But this piece of public realm design is genuinely very nice 👌 And great to see it being used by kids, playing with friends on a summer’s eve ☀️
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Charlotte Baker @cb123456.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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Charlotte Baker @cb123456.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Some personal news! 👇
After almost a decade working in large organisations, I’m delighted to share that I’ve taken the plunge and set up my own consultancy - Charlotte Baker Communications & Strategy 🎉

Really pleased to be offering my experience in strategic communications, stakeholder engagement and policy development to clients across the public health, environment and transport space - with some exciting projects in the works already ☺️

Drop me a message if you’d like to connect about a project or strategy need! 📧
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Charlotte Baker @cb123456.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Need to take your parents’ suitcases home from the station? No car? No problem! 😌 As ever, our @ternbicycles.com cargo bike doing the heavy lifting 💪 #bikeisbest
Photo shows a man on a green bike outside a railway station. There is a large pink suitcase strapped to the front of the bike, and a large pink suitcase strapped to the rear rack, with a small black case on top.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 01/07/2025
I’m hiring a reporter for London Centric, looking for someone smart who can use a phone, knock on doors and wants to cause trouble. Don’t care if you’ve got qualifications, just want evidence of caring about news. Initial six month contract, pay above national rates. www.londoncentric.media/p/jobs
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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Now in the Commons committee stage there are proposed amendments and new clauses which, if passed, would ban the use of floating bus stops and end cycling as transport for most people in England. Clauses 30, 31 & 32 are key here 3/n publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...
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Charlotte Baker @cb123456.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Cycling is a joyful, practical and fun way to move from A to B ❤️ Love this photo I snapped in Toulouse on Saturday, which just encompasses everything cycling can and should be ☺️ #bikeisbest
Photo shows a street in Toulouse, with a man cycling a bike with a woman riding in the basket
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Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
A lower speed limit was imposed on this road after a fatal crash. It's now going to be raised again because impatient drivers overtake others dangerously. Probably until some other poor soul is killed. It's absolute insanity. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Speed limit to be increased at Ilkley fatal crash site - BBC News
The council plans to increase the limit from 30mph to 40mph on a stretch of Moor Road in Ilkley.
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Charlotte Baker @cb123456.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Just returning from South of France where it has been mindbendingly hot 🥵 Businesses clearly struggling, natural environment dry as a bone, local lake can’t be swim in because water levels too low and green algae everywhere. Everyone I spoke to was deeply concerned. And they should be.
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Charlotte Baker @cb123456.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Toulouse is alive tonight for the national rugby final, which features the home side 🏉 People are walking, cycling, scooting and wheeling everywhere. Cars just don’t feature. Fantastic vibrant, liveable city 🌆 💚
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Charlotte Baker @cb123456.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Lac de la Cavayere, just outside Carcassonne, has a protected bike lane running almost all the way to this popular local attraction, connecting to nearby quiet ways 👌 This is incredibly rare in rural attractions near small towns in the U.K. - but should be the norm!
Photo shows a bike lane with a clear sign designating it as such, and bollards and raised concrete. There are trees in the background and hedges on the left hand side.Photo shows a lake with a beach in the foreground, trees either side, and an inflatables course in the distance.
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Charlotte Baker @cb123456.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Loved seeing this cool micro mobility option in Carcassonne ‘new town’ today 🤩 It’s electric, free to use and takes people from the traffic-calmed centre to drop off points around the perimeter, usually bus stops 🚌 Saw lots of older people using it to shop today! 🛒
Photo shows a small vehicle with four seats in the back, with a small wheelbase that says ‘Navette Gratuite’ on the back. It’s stopped on a street corner.
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Charlotte Baker @cb123456.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
The whole city centre is like this - and it’s wonderful!
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Charlotte Baker @cb123456.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
@hammersmithbridge.bsky.social @crisortunity.bsky.social
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Charlotte Baker @cb123456.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
From June to September every year, the Pont St-Pierre in Toulouse is transformed for walking, cycling and wheeling, with shady seating areas and colourful street design 🚴‍♀️ 🚶🏽 🦽 Amazing and inspiring to see 💚
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Charlotte Baker @cb123456.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Also loved to see this refrigerated cargo bike, delivering to the local oyster bar! 💚
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Charlotte Baker @cb123456.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
We’ve seen many families like this today. Toulouse is France’s 4th city and has a population the equivalent of Sheffield. I’ve seen this in Bordeaux, Lyon and other French cities - we could do this in the U.K too.
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Charlotte Baker @cb123456.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Good morning from Toulouse - where streets are for people, cargo bikes are everywhere, and cars are guests. 💚💚💚
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Charlotte Baker @cb123456.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
In that case, I don’t think we were robbed :) And our battery has already meant we’ve imported next to nothing from the grid for over a week now. V content with our choices!
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Charlotte Baker @cb123456.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Well prices have gone up significantly since then - and did that £5k include a battery, as that is quite a substantial part of the cost? I’m ok with what we paid, having got 3 quotes.
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Charlotte Baker @cb123456.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Yes - worth noting we’ve been saving for a while… ☀️ 12 solar panels & battery = £14k - but we went with slightly pricier Spanish panels over Chinese, and local installer over big company. ♨️ Heat pump = £5k - inc government subsidy & £2k ‘greener living’ incentive from our mortgage company.
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Charlotte Baker @cb123456.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Wow 😮 wasn’t expecting that kind of saving!
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