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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 10h

Sigh. Welsh Gov are going to "fix" congestion with more road capacity. Obligatory Mumford quote here...

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Simon Munk @psimonk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh snap bsky.app/profile/psim...

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Fred Cowell @fascowell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Classic motornormatvity . Cars are presented as natural and inevitable rather than the result of policy choices and planning.

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

That's a really helpful recommendation as I was planning to get one of his books for my wife's birthday

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I remember seeing this exhibition in the National Film and Photography Museum. Even though I was too young properly to appreciate it at the time, something about it left a re impression on me.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Cycling and walking to work were associated with better physical health, mental health, and life in general than driving." doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This train carriage smells like somebody has urgently discharged a whole can of cheap air freshener to disguise a violent poo

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I am begging people to stop buying perfume off Instagram and wearing it in public places

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'd never noticed they were spelt differently before! Top-class pedantry

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Grant Ennis @grantennis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“Great Britain can internalize the negative externalities of driving by expanding congestion charging, increasing the cost of parking to match its true societal cost, and by going down @gregshill.com ‘s checklist to eliminate the many laws that force society to subsidise driving.”

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Lest we forget, the police took quite some time to decide that it was terrorism when a bomb went off in public with an obvious political motive - presumably because cars

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Autonomous vehicles offer to entrench, for another generation, the idea that the any other use of urban streets must come second to the rapid movement of metal boxes

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you want to help Wheels for Wellbeing with their incredible work, a small donation would make a big difference: cafdonate.cafonline.org/11192#!/Dona...

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Will Norman @willnorman.co.uk · 02/10/2026

Really enjoyed joining @wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk this week to learn about Wheels4Me - an amazing inclusive cycle hire project providing adapted cycles for people with disabilities. with @walkwheelcyclet.bsky.social Pedal UK & Motability Foundation

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Living Streets @livingstreets.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#InternationalWalkToSchoolMonth starts today! Spend quality time together and start the day with a smile. Share your photos with us throughout the month for a chance to win a Sprite Neochrome scooter from Micro Scooter. Terms and conditions apply: livingstreets.org.uk/October

Illustrated Living Streets promotional graphic encouraging active school journeys. An adult carrying a bag walks alongside three children, including one child using a wheelchair. Text reads: “Spend quality time together and start your day with a smile. Walk or wheel to school and feel great.” The graphic includes the web address: livingstreets.org.uk/October.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you're in my GP's office any time soon, prepare yourself for what many are calling the greatest mnemonic of all time. Come for E and P, but sit down and clap for I.

A screen in my GP's office advertising a mnemonic of signs to spot SEPSIS.

S slurred speech of confusion
E extreme shivering or muscle pain
P passing no urine all day
S severe breathlessness
I ot feels like you are going to die
S skin mottled or discoloured

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Can't believe Bluesky hasn't added a content warning to this because phwoar

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

READ: If you haven’t seen this yet, please take a look. Motonormativity ("car brain") is a bias that stops people from making rational judgements about driving. This study co-authored by @ianwalker.bsky.social looks at where this bias comes from & how it works. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Screetshot of study title “Why Do Cars Get A Free Ride?” #CarBrain #Motonormativity

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a lot of "oh dear" to go around in the results of this very thorough Pew study on the issues with synthetic samples, but this strikes me as particularly "oh dear" www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...

AI polling results can lean on racial or partisan stereotypes

In many cases, our AI poll took beliefs or attitudes that are reasonably common among a particular subgroup and portrayed them as nearly ubiquitous. For example, our AI poll would indicate that:

97% of Hispanic adults are at least somewhat likely to follow the World Cup (while the actual share is 43%).

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A tree that's had long experience of the wind. From this morning's dog walk #wales

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Mark On A Bike @mtonabike.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Well these are eye catching from Better Streets for Liverpool

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A #WarOnWalking. A war on biking. A war on public transit. A war on any transportation choice other than driving. A war on better cities. But a war on cars? Hardly. Cars still get most of the space, rights, budget, prioritization, etc. And any effort to add more choice is immediately attacked.

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I see a lot of people complaining about the undoubtedly stressful conditions at present on London's roads. But I see few people complaining about motor vehicles. Yet in the last 24 hours three vulnerable road users have died after being hit by people driving motor vehicles.

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Meanwhile, behind the camera SOMEONE was having a wild zoomie

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This morning's dog walk and this evening's dog walk #swansea

A rock on a beach, bathed in golden morning light

A distant field of black sheep, disproving the claim there is always just one black sheep

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Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One of the last projects I set in motion before I left @wearepossible.bsky.social has finally borne fruit: the School Run Cruncher! TL;DR? YES, it does indeed look like school run traffic to private schools is disproportionately responsible for morning rush hour congestion. You’re welcome!

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Private schools, public pollution: the need to better understand school run congestion — Possible

The school run is one of the most visible sources of traffic in our towns and cities, with 25% of weekday morning car trips in London being trips to school. For many of us , it’s clear that roads that...

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Pretty nice out there for tonight's dog walk too

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Swansea University was founded over a century ago to solve society's problems. So on Day 1 of the Psychology degree programme we've got our students devising policy interventions within a Theory of Change framework I wonder how many other UK undergrads discover the Magenta Book in Week 1?

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Moody skies on the dog walk tonight

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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The WAR ON WALKING has taken many forms around the world. It’s often as simple as how we signal who space is and isn’t for. Once our eyes are opened to all the ways we’ve prioritized cars over people, we can’t unsee it. Frustrating photo contributed by @stadsplanering.bsky.social. #WarOnWalking

Background photo from North Macedonia, where “sidewalks are mostly used to park cars” as explained by photo contributor Carl-Henrik Barnekow. Text says “Don’t buy the lie that there’s a war on cars. They’ve been waging a war on walking for a century.” Via the Urban Truth Collective. #WarOnCars #UrbanTruth

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Glad you posted this. When I saw the headline earlier I remembered he was a wrong 'un, but couldn't remember why. Grimly amusing to see a "cyclists should pay road tax" person turns out to be a tax dodger

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Chris Cox @coxyjindas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Premiere time. Just over an hour. Furore in Brisbane as residents who setup a community soccer pitch face $3500 in fines - while people can park boats on the street for free. A look at one example of Motonormativity in the news here in Brisbane.

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What a suburban soccer pitch tells us about car brain

YouTube video by Chris Cox

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is why I welcome the digital revolution

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Enjoy! It's great up there. I hope the amazing tailwind that we had along the Wall is still there

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Living Streets @livingstreets.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Our pavements are not for sale. Four in five Brits think delivery robots could cause issues for blind people and those with mobility issues. Tell the Government: pavements are for people, not vehicles. 👉 pavementoverload.com

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Seven years ago today we finished our utterly bonkers coast to coast to coast to coast to coast ride, all because we couldn't decide which coast-to-coast route to ride. So many tales from this one trip, perhaps especially pre-dawn breakfast with the Whitby trawlermen still in their oilskins

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Living Streets @livingstreets.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It's great to hear that pavement parking could soon become illegal in Coventry: www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/cove… Read more about our campaign to end pavement parking across the UK: www.livingstreets.org.uk/pavementpa…

A woman pushing a pushchair with a baby and young child walks into the road because the pavement is blocked by a parked car.

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The "War on Walking" is a great reframing of baked-in car dependency, and I'm sure I'll be using some of these images in future public talks

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026

On why 'road violence' is the right way of describing automobility. In the style of what you get after merging the comunist manifesto and a haiku poem.

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The thing the government refuses to grasp is that trains are often in competition with people's cars - which have no formal demand management. So I worry that reservations, like peak prices, create friction that just pushes people into their cars

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Oops - my mental maths let me down there

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Holding people who use the same mode of transport as someone who has committed an antisocial act responsible for that individual's behaviour is a clear logical fallacy. That we don't apply this standard to car drivers, but regularly do to people who ride cycles makes this textbook #motonormativity.

A photo of an inconsiderately parked hire bike with the comment:

"I’m all in favour of hire bikes in principle but idiot cyclists who park like this give the rest a bad reputation. It only needs a molecule of common sense …"

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Why do people think they're clever saying things like this, as though a ready supply of 2001 cars will exist forever?

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