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Newham Cyclists @newhamcyclists.uk · 05/10/2026

The Council has posted a page with its plans for the #Greenway diversion via Plaistow Road, along with a timetable: starting the southern section early next year, finishing by Autumn. We support this scheme & want it to be accelerated wherever possible. newhamco-create.co.uk/en/projects/...

Diagram showing a redesign of Plaistow Road in Newham, with a 2-way cycleway on the north side. The footways and cycleways are continuous with Dutch entry kerbs over the junctions of Church Street, Stephens Road, and Plaistow Grove. A new straight-across parallel zebra and cycle crossing just east of Stephens Road makes it possible to cross Plaistow Road. The junction mouth of Church Street is narrowed significantly. A traffic island in the centre of the road is removed. On the north side, the cycleway runs behind a bus stop, with the boarding island reachable by a zebra crossing.

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Fietser Steve @fietsersteve.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Fingers crossed. In the meantime I have recently worked out a fairly simple, mostly quiet route, although I'm usually headed for the New City Rd area, I thought I'd share as it may be useful to someone.

A map showing a zigzag route through the back streets of West Ham & Plaistow.

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Fietser Steve @fietsersteve.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Maybe some gravel on the muddier tracks if we are lucky.

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Fietser Steve @fietsersteve.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It didn't go well for the London team, they certainly made a splash though. 😀

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Fietser Steve @fietsersteve.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

There was a time when The Register didn't use misleading headlines, they were always odd but they didn't lie. I miss the publication we called El Reg.

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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

We're probably only a few short weeks away from discovering a donation to Reform UK of Nazi gold

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Fietser Steve @fietsersteve.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I'm sure it's no coincidence that they share the name Blade Runners with the anti-ULEZ morons that cut down cameras in London.

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Fietser Steve @fietsersteve.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The iron dome also deflects reality, weirdly focused on Labour, despite international agreement.

Tweet reading:

Israel Foreign Ministry

The UK labour government cannot wage a campaign against Israel and then expect to be treated as a credible actor in the region. Every hostile measure has a consequence. Keep targeting Israel. Keep losing influence. Labour is making the UK irrelevant.
Posted on X
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Press release:
Joint Foreign Ministers' Statement on the Two-State Solution

Statement of the Foreign Ministers of Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the UK on the Two-State Solution

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Fietser Steve @fietsersteve.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If you know Havering there are no surprises here.

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Fietser Steve @fietsersteve.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I use Brave it blocks YouTube ads.

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Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

That’s because helmets are not rated for car crashes, only for falling off a bike, so telling people a helmet will protect them when a 7000 lb auto smashes their body is just a lie. Traffic calming, smaller cars, fix blind spots, infrastructure, consequences for drivers who run over humans.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Can't get a moment's peace on this bloody planet.

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Fietser Steve @fietsersteve.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Tory realises he cannot win and defaults back to troll mode.

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Fietser Steve @fietsersteve.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

An inaptronym, it would make a great heckle. 🤣

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Fietser Steve @fietsersteve.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hence me asking for a push. However, Rangers Road is half in LBWF.

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Fietser Steve @fietsersteve.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Are you able to push for some zebra crossings (or even speed cameras) on the roads that cut through it? The worst are: Rangers Road. Epping New Road. Woodridden Hill. Golding's Hill.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 16/08/2026

A former director of BBC News speaks:

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Fixed it for them.

Screenshot of Newcastle Chronicle

Photo of Tynemouth high street packed with parked cars

Headline: The popular North East seaside village that's a parking fine (word "fine" crossed out and replaced with "crime") hotspot - with 19,000 tickets handed out

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Fietser Steve @fietsersteve.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I've never had a problem in the area, but I prefer places where people hang around to places with high footfall.

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Fietser Steve @fietsersteve.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Amazing work by the City police, if only the rest of Greater London and the country had their resources. Full details in the alt text.

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 14/08/2026

Christ I thought the bombs were dropping #emergencyalert

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Reform voters aren't interested in the issues, they just want the people they hate to be miserable. Labour needs to stop trying to win their votes. They can't be reached.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I came first in the Clacton by-election! Of the candidates who bothered to turn up for the results. Here is my victory speech!

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Fietser Steve @fietsersteve.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I see you sharing this graphic on Facebook, it is misleading. It shows the Greenway in Newham which was closed earlier in 2026 for three years. As you can see there are no other north-south routes in the borough.

Two low detail cycle maps of Greater London labelled 'before 2016' and 'after 2026', nice loophole because it shows the Newham Greenway in the second one which was closed earlier in 2026 for three years.

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Fietser Steve @fietsersteve.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

North-south protected cycleways in Newham would be a game changer and would make up for the lack of effort over the three year Newham Greenway closure.

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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

By February this year, @london.gov.uk's TfL had spent £66.5m replacing the #GallowsCorner flyover and re-aligning the traffic lanes below. This should have been a once in a generation opportunity to future-proof the junction for walking, wheeling and cycling. Instead, it's a failure.

A black bicycle with red pannier bags is sideways across a path with a very wide road to the right.

The back wheel is against guardrail to the right and the front overhanging the grass of a verge to the left. The path is marked with a sign on a lamp column as shared use.

There is a large green directional sign straddling that path with posts within handlebar striking range.

The sign is for Gallows
Corner.

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Fietser Steve @fietsersteve.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Some north-south routes in Newham would be a game changer, and would make up for the lack of effort over the Newham Greenway closure.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Bin Day cometh.

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Fietser Steve @fietsersteve.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

A location thing too. I remember seeing one once.

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

If you live in a city you shouldn't have to own a car.

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Fietser Steve @fietsersteve.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Gemini has previously helped with a network bridge issue in Linux that had hung around for a year, it has uses. I learn from it and try not to use it again for the same stuff.

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Fietser Steve @fietsersteve.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I've been setting up Home Assistant and Gemini has worked for simplifying documentation and joining some dots, but good lord the yaml it produced was pointless, I could learn what to do quicker than the very sure of itself LLM could give excuses.

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Max Sullivan @maxsullivan.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Westminster Council Conservatives, of 'vertical drinking' fame, earlier this year proudly cancelled a cycle lane on Hamilton Terrace. Where on a Thursday afternoon last June a 13 year old boy was hit and seriously injured by the driver of a car. They have received no negative press for doing so.

Screenshot of TfL road danger reduction dashboard summary of collision which reads:

On 12/06/2025 there was a moderately serious collision at 15:15 at On Hamilton Terrace, Near The Junction With Abercorn Place.. The collision took place on an unclassified road. The collision involved a pedal cycle and a car, resulting in 1 moderately seriously injured cyclist.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Wow. Just wow.

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Fietser Steve @fietsersteve.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

It made me wonder if an additive to paint could be used to track damage done by individual motor vehicles, I'm not a journalist obviously.

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Fietser Steve @fietsersteve.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Seems like a good reason to close it to motor traffic again. People walking and cycling don't usually take a BBQ.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton

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Newham Cyclists @newhamcyclists.uk · 06/08/2026

Our neighbours in Waltham Forest just keep pushing further and further to make cycling better—here, a crowded shared footway that was over capacity is being replaced by a separated cycleway. More convenient for cycling, and much safer & less stressful for pedestrians going to Whipps Cross Hospital!

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Fietser Steve @fietsersteve.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Blimey look what the neighbors are building! I haven't been to Whipps Cross for a while so had no idea. youtu.be/PZIATQQyFck?...

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Whipps Cross Corridor: Linking Lea Bridge Road to Leytonstone

YouTube video by Waltham Forest Council

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Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

“As Aydin jumps a scooter over ramps set up in the middle of the road, children around him are drawing with chalk, blowing bubbles and kicking a football in a spot where cars are usually driving through.” Good job Leeds. More children should have the chance to play in their neighbourhood like this.

bbc.co.uk

Leeds: The city closing down streets so children can play

In Leeds, streets are being temporarily closed to traffic so kids have more space to safely play - an initiative proving beneficial to both children and adults.

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