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Pete Dyson - Bicycle Mayor for Bath, UK @bicyclemayorbath.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Looking at today's Active Travel England (@ategov.bsky.social) updated funding allocations, here is the funding per person per year. I think it makes good sense to fund places that put money to best uses, I made this chart shows how that policy play out in practice. www.gov.uk/government/p...

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

While this BBC article on ever-bigger SUVs is perfectly good, it's absurd the way there has to be quotes from people who insist they could not get around without a vehicle the size of a Sherman tank. It's just bollocks. I'm one of three kids and we were all ferried around in a Vauxhall Astra estate.

'Carspreading' is on the rise - and not everyone is happy about it

But many owners say they are reliant on big cars.

Matt Mansell, a father of three based in Guildford, runs a technology company, as well as a property development business, and says he needs his Land Rover Defender 110 for ferrying around clients and children.

"I need to have enough space to put children in, with all of their kit - also, you can fit a door or a three-metre length of pipe in it," he says.

"It's very much a utility vehicle, but it's presentable."

Lucia Barbato, from West Sussex, says her second-hand Lexus RX450 SUV - a hybrid model - is vital for transporting her large family in an area with limited public transport. She runs a marketing agency from home and drives her three sons to the bus stop each day, so they can go to school.

"On a Monday morning with three boys, three school bags, three sports kits, and a trumpet thrown in the boot there isn't even room in the car for the dog!"

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katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Lovely #Regency car park here. #Hove is known for its stunning car parks that extend monotonously for street after street, abounding with superb heritage features such as blocked sightlines and authentic grey kerbsides prividing the most limited interest for people moving around the area sustainably

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katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

@theguardian.com great article on ferritin deficiency but I wish you’d found space to cover ADHD. It’s very typical to have low ferritin with this condition - double whammy for the concentration. People really should get automatic ferritin tests on ADHD diagnosis.

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katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

@lrb.co.uk Jackson Lears on The Righteous Community seems to resonate completely with the broken faith-based communities of Hawthorne. A nation of fear and superstition whose sociological transition into the modern world has been cynically stunted by its leaders? Discuss… (sorry so far behind!)

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katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Questions and answers, @lcefuk.bsky.social , questions and answers. Your party is failing on decarbonising a sector that is mired in public health and environmental calamity and inequality, and you just stack failure upon failure, failure in aerospace upon failure in surface transport.

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katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

@lcefuk.bsky.social summit looks more than slightly hollow with airport expansion going through. Vision, determination, needed - instead we have a flock of sheep wandering aimlessly towards a climate cliff. Irresponsible and inappropriate and nowhere near governing standard, honestly.

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katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Naivety and optimism* are responsible for how many KSIs ever year? See also Paint is nor protection. *I’m being very generous. it’s really abject failure to fix evident road danger. Drivers swing into this gap round other drivers waiting to turn right.

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katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

only a quarter of cycled miles in the UK are cycled by women! I need to get out more

Picture of two wheeled cycle on bridge over river Aire

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katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Wishing @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social programmers didn’t assume that people can’t possibly meant to listen to marvellously violent classical music at bedtime! come on - Scythian suite is for any occasion

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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

A few weeks ago, I wandered down to Clapham in South London for a chat with Conor of Global Cycling Network to help peel back the layers of a junction dubbed as one of Britain's most dangerous for cycling. With @psimonk.bsky.social and @ianwalker.bsky.social youtu.be/d1BhyZSrZU8?...

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We Visited Britain’s Most Dangerous Junction

YouTube video by Global Cycling Network

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katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Can we extent collision reporting improvements to rail incidents? A vehicle didn’t just hit a bridge. A person driving hit the bridge with their vehicle. Drivers matter, right @thameslink.bsky.social ?

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katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

@radio3.bsky.social please stop the national lottery level introductions of all the proms artists??? It’s offputting. Something about their interpretation or where else you can hear them, but not ‘the 157th time they’ve been here and the 78th with Fred the guest associate conductor’ - thanks…

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katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

The 21st century will go down as the time when we had all the tech we needed but not the will to make it available to people who need it. Transport for Wales TrawsCymru turning the lifts off at night?

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katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

This is so important and will potentially put the inclusive back into how we make our streets and places properly accessible and inclusive.

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katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Happy map-reading week!!! news.osleisure.co.uk/cr/AQjVjwcQm... Thank you for all the joys @ordnancesurvey.bsky.social - contours, screes, tracks, trails, features waiting to come alive when we go out with a MAP!!!

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Rediscover the joys of map reading 🗺️

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katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social can you tell us how risk assessment features in examples like this? Link to blogpost absolutely fine

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Sally Watson @salawatson.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Relatedly, if you’re on your way to Active City York today, or just enjoying a morning coffee, you can read about another failed attempt at creating safer streets for children - 50 years ago - in my article for Highways Magazine.

For full text - https://misc.pagesuite.com/pdfdownload/baee12cb-58e4-427b-9f7a-146a848a1df9.pdf

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katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I’m with sharpening up comms around fixing travel by making it healthier and more inclusive. I’m also for pointing out that most of what we campaign for is literally fixing what we broke over the last century. The status quo is literally broken.

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katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Saving money by walking/wheeling/cycling isn’t just good for your personal finances. It means you’re not subsiding two interdependent industries that have lied and exploited and dragged the planet into climate crisis #activecities

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katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Struggling to follow Rachel Reeves’ claim that the #LowerThamesCrossing is a turning point for national infra. Throwing unreal money at massive schemes that worsen traffic and yet again failing to invest in community travel up and down the country is a 60-yr-old broken record, not a new direction

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katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Winnie-the-Pooh put them in the picnics & expotitions section of the cookbook - sensible bear. There’s never, ever a time when a rock cake isn’t a great answer. (Replaced chocolate with glacé cherries by popular demand)

Photo of Winnie-the-Pooh cookbook open at rock cakes page with a small wire rack above showing cooling rock cakes

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katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Here’s that piece about @bromptonbicycle.bsky.social . Mine’s done many epic rides! A long day tour of Dorset years ago, 50+ miles in & out of the chilterns last month; but it’s the smaller rides I just could not have done without it that I value every time. www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...

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Video exclusive: behind the scenes at Brompton bike factory on 50th anniversary

A million of the iconic folding cycles - dubbed the bike equivalent of a Bentley - have been sold worldwide

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katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Another death, another ghost bike; simultaneously, @bromptonbicycle.bsky.social use their 50th anniversary to call for safer streets. Massive Hat Tip to Brompton: small bike & a million small stories: but the company’s directors still see the big picture. Chapeau. www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...

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Parents' safety plea as ghost bike unveiled for latest young Londoner killed cycling

Critical Mass demonstration held after death of 24-year-old Jamal Yahya Pratley on his way to work

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London Cycling Campaign @londoncycling.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Why some Londoners aren't able to access a bike... 💸 Cost: Prices are high, and a scheme like 'Cycle to Work' falls short 🏢 Space: Many live in places with stairs and limited storage 🚲 Specific cycle needed: The challenge of finding one can be great Ask Sadiq to find solutions: bit.ly/43YSUC7

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katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

The ‘everyone must drive, you can’t be part of society without driving’ fake narrative is costing families and lives. Always set young person collision casualties alongside older adults/health calamity. I’m beginning to think it’s just the auto industry that really benefits.

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katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Some local hilltops have protected green spaces around their ancient monuments. We have a shoddy third-rate events venue that, having driven a track through the monument, has recently replaced green space with this, to add to the shoddy car parking on the other side @brightonhovearch.bsky.social

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London Cycling Campaign @londoncycling.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

💫 Finally, meet Susie, a cycle instructor for Wheels For Wellbeing! Susie's taking part in the campaign to raise awareness of the additional barriers faced by Disabled people who want to cycle and how the Wheels4Me London scheme helped her find the right cycle...

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EmmanuelSPV @emmanuelspv.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

This change just happened in Lille, France, and the store owners are happy. The tables on the road were only there for the inauguration, but the new bike lane is here to stay, of course. Details in French here: www.lavoixdunord.fr/1596032/arti...

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katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

My road is a heat bath. Kids are trying to get home in uniforms carrying heavy bags up here. @timrowkins.bsky.social the council is eons behind heat management and it is more important than EV chargepoints

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katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Did anyone query the reclassification of heatwave temperatures/duration? human physiology cannot recalibrate - so doesn’t this mean raised health risk because we’re just not talking about heatwave/take more care? @bmj.com

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London Cycling Campaign @londoncycling.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 There are families across outer London who want to cycle safely together, but can't. We think this should change. 🙋‍♂️ Agree? Take a minute to email the Mayor and let him know today: bit.ly/43YSUC7

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚 @emilykerr36.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Refreshing from a car journalist: basically “don’t buy this SUV cos it kills kids and the climate, go and buy the estate instead.” www.irishtimes.com/motors/revie...

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You’d be genuinely mad to buy an SUV unless you need it - just look at latest climate and safety figures

The new Kodiaq is efficient, but the Superb estate is a much better option

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katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

WTF Ken Skates, backtracking and weasling after a policy has worked instead of saying ‘change needs leadership and this government has shown it can save more lives on our roads.’??https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/huge-change-number-crashes-20mph-31696587

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Huge change in number of crashes on 20mph and 30mph roads

Police forces in Wales reported 3,993 casualties from road incidents overall in 2024 - the lowest number apart from during the Covid lockdown in 2020

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katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Data from Wales: 20mph saves money (have you EVER seen insurance people excited? Except for this, no). Data from London: 20mph saves lives without adding time. Data, huh. @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social

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katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Just remind yourself how rare it is that the planners’ visualisations ever match reality. Camden bucks that trend! Grey’s Inn Road, greener, calmer, quiet but busy #win adamdkharrison.bsky.social

Photo of new cycle track/bus stop bypass/rain verge/parallel crossing with cycle user in the track. Mature trees provide gorgeous shade on hot days.

Photo of new cycle track/bus stop bypass/rain verge/parallel crossing with person walking onto crossing in the track. Mature trees provide gorgeous shade on hot days.

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katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Beigel BIKE!! - great work Zhero.app

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katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Really. The hot new social media network whose initialism is BS. Did they really think that through, or are they just trolling??

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