Reposted by @katycycles.bsky.socialPete Dyson - Bicycle Mayor for Bath, UK @bicyclemayorbath.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Looking 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... 7269
katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Cookiespreading not carspreading - do we have a movement @mumsforlungs.bsky.social @solveschoolrun.bsky.social @londoncycling.bsky.social @livingstreets.bsky.social ? 020
katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Terrible. This isn’t the victorian ages - seeing our kids die is much more avoidable. 010
katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Roald Dahl lost his daughter Olivia to measles. It happened very quickly. Worth reading his short piece about it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measles...en.wikipedia.orgMeasles: A Dangerous Illness - Wikipedia 2231
katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 05/12/2025It becomes interesting when you realise that what they mean is ‘I’d rather have a dead kid than an autistic one (for example, though there’s no link!). I think it is weird to prefer anything to the kid you have, honestly! they just need you to love them more than anything in the world. not hard! 050
katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Yeah, I hear it is bloated. But I also hear that the French automotive cos are responding to weight-based charging with less bloat and that both Ftench and Italian cos have faced up to the reality of tiny old Mediterranean cities on car size too, which interests me! 000
katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Family holidays when I was a kid: Renault 4 plus small trailer for some of the camping gear. we took the trailer off when we didn’t need it, the rest of the year. Using an SUV is like wearing wellies all summer because you potentially have a muddy walk in February 190
Reposted by @katycycles.bsky.socialPeter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 04/12/2025While 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. 4928248
katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 04/12/2025i walked with my kids with stage props for a week one summer. Amazing how a long hard rubber sword made a difference - but utterly infuriating 050
katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Lovely #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 000
katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 02/11/2025Imagine if all non-driving/non-car owning households realised how much they were propping up a whole load of other people and decided to take action? Hmmm 010
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. 000
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!) 000
katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Questions 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. 000
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. 000
katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Does it mention the magic wand she’s presumably still searching for to fix traffic problems without noticeably changing anything about the status quo??? what a muppet. Though again what a reflection on the steadfast, determined approach from Sadiq Khan, who’s looking ever more heroic here 120
katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 11/09/2025disabled cycle users can’t be put in that position so I call discrimination on those plans. By all means permit cycling but it is not 24/7 4- season usable and you know women & disabled people do have work and events and education and many other trips to make after 5.30 pm in the winter. 130
katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Please please see @londoncycling.bsky.social ’s Women’s freedom after dark report. this looks and smells to me like a council that just doesn’t want to reallocate road space and thereby shows they actually don’t care about safety after all, ie fob off alert 031
katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Weird. everyone knows his real name is Mandy? this Is looking murkier than Michael Green. 000
katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Can we get that stat for overlap with domestic violence convictions just once again please? 010
katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 11/09/2025And TfL needs to focus on safety quality and less on delaying cos buses. ‘we have to model it again’ long grass game going on in places where councils are trying to catch up. 010
katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Naivety 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. 010
katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 10/09/2025only a quarter of cycled miles in the UK are cycled by women! I need to get out more 010
katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Did she really say cycling wasn’t for serious trips?? first, try telling VisitLondon tourism doesn’t count but second, what is the cycling rush hour about every day if not work-related??? all cycle trips matter, not none. 140
katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Wishing @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 000
Reposted by @katycycles.bsky.socialThe Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 24/08/2025A 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?...youtu.beWe Visited Britain’s Most Dangerous JunctionYouTube video by Global Cycling Network 116221
katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Can 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 ? 000
katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Has London shed most of its outer boroughs? They’d like that. If not, though, perhaps the Mayor of the whole of Greater London could kindly get out of the Ivory tower and visit Hillingdon, Harrow, Bromley, Barnet and don’t bother taking a very long tape measure to count the inches of cycle lanes 180
katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Especially when there are successful examples hiding in sight. Brighton Lower Prom??! (Actually no cycling there due to reasonable space constraints. Self-enforcement proof of success because it is so rammed with people on foot!) 030
katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 13/08/2025That said, those short distance cycle users do still need to get to the shops… And the ‘short distance cycle users’ are less likely to be the type mixing it up feistily with buses, right? Ps some of us do amiable cycling for long distances too 170
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… 000
katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 02/08/2025The 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? 000
katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 01/08/2025This is so important and will potentially put the inclusive back into how we make our streets and places properly accessible and inclusive. 000
katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 29/07/2025My RA would say clipping handlebars risk. Side by sides are sometimes less than 1m wide but the van Raam Fun2Go is 113cm 150
katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Happy 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!!!news.osleisure.co.ukRediscover the joys of map reading 🗺️ 000
katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 05/07/2025And walking to things is monumentally satisfying. Further to fiction/Hardy/walked journeys, my flute teacher’s perfect explanation of how to blow was centred on a long walk, ending in your favourite Cotswold town, the favourite pub, the perfect ale, you sit down and *phoooo* that’s it ;0))) 120
katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 05/07/2025Enjoy the journey, not just the destination! I had a lecture once on the significance of journeys in fiction. I think we were looking at Thomas Hardy (a number of key moments in his plots!) but he’d have cycled anyway - loved riding round Dorset 010
katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Isn’t this offensive to anyone holding social justice and equity at their heart, like, for example, core Labour support? I didn’t know they had that much political capital to throw away 010
katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Disproportionality is key. Of course criminal damage or whatever, but what the government wants us to think is that criminal damage in the name of protest against an evil that many, many people are deeply horrified by is the same as terrorism. That damages the state’s relationship with its citizens. 030
katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Face it, if there are no alternatives to using a car, that’s saying that non-drivers can’t expect to live & participate somewhere. Now let’s look at that in discrimination terms. Interesting, huh? I’ll leave everyone to fill in some serious gaps (and check every rural authority too) 000
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 100
Reposted by @katycycles.bsky.socialSally Watson @salawatson.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Relatedly, 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. 54014
katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 02/07/2025What I’m saying is that if someone is worried about access at this bus stop there are bigger issues than the bypass! 030
katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 02/07/2025That looks so unsafe! Cycle users are meant to pull left across the front of the bus where the bus is likely at any moment to pull right across the path of the cycle user - what could possibly go wrong?? 050
katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 02/07/2025I mean stuff the fact that this bus stop, gorgeous though it is with grassy bank, is pretty inaccessible - not much flat access or easy bus ramp access going on there. I don’t think people wheeling get much of a look in in this debate though! 120
katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 02/07/2025I’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. 000
katycycles.bsky.social @katycycles.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Saving 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 031
