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Cycleway, my arse! @issaddlethereis.bsky.social · 6h

In Tottenham, our Cycleway looks like this. I wonder why I hardly see children or families cycling to school on it!? 🤔

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Cycleway, my arse! @issaddlethereis.bsky.social · 6h

School children experiencing the reality of cycling on London's dismal, ill-equipped streets, first hand during a BikeAbility session.

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Cycleway, my arse! @issaddlethereis.bsky.social · 7h

Queen Street, N17. Part of the @tflondon.bsky.social funded Cycleway 1 route, backed by @mayoroflondon.bsky.social @willnorman.co.uk. Looks perfectly safe and not all intimidating(!). Anyone fancy cycling down here at night on their own?

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Cycleway, my arse! @issaddlethereis.bsky.social · 7h

I can't believe she'll be allowed to drive again.

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Cycleway, my arse! @issaddlethereis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Highlights from Cycleway 1 this week include: the usual really. It's always the usual nonsense. Every single day. Most of C1 is pile of horse poo. @tflondon.bsky.social @willnorman.co.uk @mayoroflondon.bsky.social ought to be ashamed to have anything to do with it.

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Cycleway, my arse! @issaddlethereis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is why you're not supposed to park on the corner at junctions. Especially if you have a big, ugly SUV. No chance of seeing anyone coming until it's too late. Thank goodness for those bicycle painted on the road though! Thanks Haringey Council!

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Cycleway, my arse! @issaddlethereis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The TfL "funded" Cycleway 13 route on Tabernacle St is bad enough in the daytime, but at least you can see the bits to cycle around. But at night time, there's no chance! Sort it out please @hackneycouncil.bsky.social @islington-council.bsky.social. We've been asking for years! @willnorman.co.uk

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Cycleway, my arse! @issaddlethereis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is where car dependency gets you.

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Cycleway, my arse! @issaddlethereis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I first reported the tampering of the ANPR camera on Hillside Rd in Haringey in May 2022. More than 4 years later, the issue is still ongoing and I haven't seen the camera pointing the right way now for well over a year. Both @haringeylabour.bsky.social and @haringeygreens.bsky.social are failing.

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Cycleway, my arse! @issaddlethereis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The government has responded many times to this very silly plea. Don’t try to burden the humble act of riding a bicycle with car-related bureaucracy.

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Cycleway, my arse! @issaddlethereis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A 96-year-old man said it was "unbelievable" to see his treasured racing bicycle again after his daughter arranged for it to be restored and brought to his care home. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Cyclist, 96, reunited with treasured bike in Cambridge care home

Alice Craske has her father Clifford's beloved bike restored and it will go on display in his room.

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Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Goes, Netherlands. The Terwellegang underpass opened in 2020, replacing a nearby level crossing. It includes a cycleway connecting the railway station and city centre with neighbourhoods south of the railway, with cyclists getting priority at every junction and roundabout.

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Cycleway, my arse! @issaddlethereis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I won't keep running these through Copilot, but you get my point. Just look at all this space!!!!!! The A10 is crying out for protected cycle tracks.

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Cycleway, my arse! @issaddlethereis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Nope. It's four lanes in both images.

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Cycleway, my arse! @issaddlethereis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ditto forr Stoke Newington Rd A10. Copilot obviously struggling to understand two-way bus lanes and cycle tracks here, but you get the gist. I keep telling myself that it's surely only a matter of time until @tflondon.bsky.social @willnorman.co.uk @hackneycouncil.bsky.social get on board with this.

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Cycleway, my arse! @issaddlethereis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

How about it @willnorman.co.uk @mayoroflondon.bsky.social @tflondon.bsky.social @haringeycyclists.bsky.social? Think of the potential. Greenery, trees and seating. A truly connective Cycleway, that's safe and easy to find. Real bus lanes. Ped x-ings that are direct and not 2-stage. Every one wins!

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Cycleway, my arse! @issaddlethereis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is what Tottenham High Rd A10 could look like. Remove the useless central islands, put in proper bus lanes and a Cycleway that delivers (instead of the second rate parallel backstreet Cycleway 1 route). A Cycleway that's direct, easy to find and navigate, and is safe.

A comparison of image of the A10, Tottenham High Road. The above image shows what it's like today. The bottom image shows the same location, with added Dutch style protected cycle tracks, greenery, seating, trees and bus lanes, with the central reservation islands removed to create the extra space needed.

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Cycleway, my arse! @issaddlethereis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A man had to be rescued by firefighters from a house that partially collapsed after a driver crashed their car into it. Happens so frequently that hardly anyone takes any notice. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Man rescued after car crashes into house in Waltham Abbey

A man is arrested at the scene on suspicion of being unfit through drink or drugs.

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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 05/10/2026

Monday morning outside Rotterdam Centraal, thousands of cyclists stream toward the station in a carefully choreographed flow. What you’re seeing is the power of systems thinking—the bicycle and train both succeed because they work together seamlessly, where each mode extends the reach of the other.

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Cycleway, my arse! @issaddlethereis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh goody. Another Sheffield stand being used as a bollard. No one in their right mind is going to lock their bike there!

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Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

16 cars removed from one small street in one London borough. But yes, let's keep having the same endless conversations about the occasional Lime bike on the pavement. Lime bikes are heavily used. The endless cars stored all over London's streets for days on end? Apparently much harder to notice.

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Cycleway, my arse! @issaddlethereis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One day on the @tflondon.bsky.social funded Cycleway 1. Impatient drivers, parking on zigzags, drivers blocking crossings (where they exist) and hard-to-filter-to junctions, to name but a few...

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Cycleway, my arse! @issaddlethereis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The more obvious solution would be to put protected cycle tracks on that very road. Which is what Cycleway 1 should've been.

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Cycleway, my arse! @issaddlethereis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That was close! Driver clearly not paying attention. Technically no on Cycleway 1 but crossing it. A fine example of the sorts of drivers using the route.

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Cycleway, my arse! @issaddlethereis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

No part of any true Cycleway should ever be so bumpy that you need to do this sort manoeuvre to avoid the worst parts of it. Cycleway 13 on Tabernacle St. Will @hackneycouncil.bsky.social @islington-council.bsky.social ever tackle this I wonder?

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Cycleway, my arse! @issaddlethereis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is what people who live on the "wrong side" of the A10 have to do to access Cycleway 1. Imagine doing this with a young child on separate bikes (as I often have)! It's not for the fainthearted. Why are you okay with this @willnorman.co.uk @tflondon.bsky.social @mayoroflondon.bsky.social?

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Cycleway, my arse! @issaddlethereis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Would you let an 8-year old child cycle across this Cycleway 1 junction independently? Be honest? @willnorman.co.uk @tflondon.bsky.social @mayoroflondon.bsky.social @hackneycouncil.bsky.social

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Cycleway, my arse! @issaddlethereis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s happened again. A driver lost control of their car and smashed it through a nursery fence, trapped a two-year-old boy under the wheels and injured two other children. But yes. Let’s keep complaining about e-bikes… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Grandmother drove into nursery trapping boy, 2, under wheels

Jayne James has been given a suspended jail sentence over the incident in Ellesmere Port.

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Cycleway, my arse! @issaddlethereis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

£11 million to maintain a single road junction for motor vehicles, and a measly £104 million for the National Cycle Network across the whole of England. It's little wonder that cycling habits in England as a whole aren't changing much. www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

standard.co.uk

Brent Cross flyover roadworks begin as drivers warned of major disruption

Brent Cross Flyover will be reduced to one lane in each direction from Wednesday evening

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Paris has embarked on a grand transformation, planting 155k trees, adding hundreds of kms of bike lanes, pedestrianising 300 school streets and banning cars from the banks of the Seine. Parking has been turned into green space…Fewer parents fear their child being run over when they walk to school.”

theguardian.com

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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Cycleway, my arse! @issaddlethereis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Check out all the cars and vans choking Cycleway 1 at Holmdale Terrace. How on earth did @tflondon.bsky.social and Haringey Council think this was going to work as a Cycleway?!?! Any clue @willnorman.co.uk @haringeycyclists.bsky.social? Are we okay with this? Would you let a child use this?

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Cycleway, my arse! @issaddlethereis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Some karma for this impatient driver on Cycleway 1 yesterday!

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Cycleway, my arse! @issaddlethereis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Nothing spells out the space inefficiency of the car than a quick glance at US car parks on Google Maps. Check out this parking lot for a chapel in Virginia, which takes up around 3x the land area of the chapel that it serves. Absolute diabolical madness.

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Cycleway, my arse! @issaddlethereis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Car ownership during an average lifetime can cost up to £438,000! That's more than triple the average value of a private pension pot at retirement! Car ownership is a huge financial burden. Motorists should welcome any attempts to undo car dependency.

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Cycleway, my arse! @issaddlethereis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Cycleway 1 has it all! Bin lorries, driver entitlement, parents with children cycling on the pavement, oncoming HGVs hurtling past due to cars on double yellow lines, and useless cycle contraflow lanes (Moor Lane)! So much better than protected tracks! @willnorman.co.uk @squarehighways.bsky.social

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Cycleway, my arse! @issaddlethereis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Makes a change from most drivers who stop at the zebra crossing, blocking Cycleway 1 access in the process.

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Cycleway, my arse! @issaddlethereis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Exemplary driving here from this @hackneycouncil.bsky.social driver! Stopping to let people on bicycles cross on Cycleway 1, where there should be a cycling crossing. 👏👏👏

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Cycleway, my arse! @issaddlethereis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The car culture of "beating the red light" by driving through solid amber lights has to stop. It puts people in danger and is too common. This driver on this morning's school run had plenty of time to stop on amber and didn't. The Highway Code is clear on this. @metpolice.bsky.social

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Cycleway, my arse! @issaddlethereis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A law unto themselves! Thousands of illegal registration plates on cars and other vehicles have been detected by a new camera system currently being tested on motorways in south-east England. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Thousands of illegal ghost plates on cars revealed by new cameras

Illegal registration plates are far too easy to get hold of and are putting the public at risk, BBC is told.

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Cycleway, my arse! @issaddlethereis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A rough idea of what a proper TfL Cycleway 1 would look like running through Stamford Hill. Why isn't this possible? Just think how busy it would be with people of all ages and abilities using it 24/7! @willnorman.co.uk @mayoroflondon.bsky.social @hackneycouncil.bsky.social @hackneycycling.org.uk

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Cycleway, my arse! @issaddlethereis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Same day, different nonsense on Cycleway 1.

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Cycleway, my arse! @issaddlethereis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Followed by more nonsense like this a little further on on Kingsbury Rd. Unless at least one strip of car parking is removed on all streets in favour of protected tracks, Cycleway 1 will never be fit for purpose.

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Cycleway, my arse! @issaddlethereis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Seriously @hackneycouncil.bsky.social @willnorman.co.uk @mayoroflondon.bsky.social. Boleyn Rd, southbound Cycleway 1, desperately needs sorting. Can't filter through properly thanks to the parking. Cycle box always blocked. It's insane! Are there any plans to resolve this? @hackneycycling.org.uk

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Cycleway, my arse! @issaddlethereis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A 16-year-old girl has died after being hit by a car driver near Highgate School. The driver, a 68-year-old man, remained at the scene and was arrested on suspicion of causing death by careless driving. www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

standard.co.uk

Girl, 16, dies after being hit by car near north London private school

A 16-year-old girl was pronounced dead at the scene in Highgate

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