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Danny Williams

@mrdannyw.bsky.social
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Transport and journeys, working on policy things. Based London, Yorkshire and Sussex. (Available in 🇬🇧🇩🇪🇫🇷a bit of🇨🇭and learning 🇪🇸)

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Danny Williams @mrdannyw.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I often wonder what happens to the driver of one of these things in the right. When one of these things on the left collides with it at speed
Shows a large new American style pick up van parked on the street. directly facing it is a slightly older car. The  car is a much lower height. The front bonnet of the van is approximately head height of the car driver position. The vehicles are parked on a street with houses behind
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Danny Williams @mrdannyw.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Heard a new expression today when I bumped into lots of people looking for hire bikes: “I guess lots of people are ‘liming’ today because it’s so hot on the tube”
Pic shows a collection of green and white “lime” branded hire bikes parked next to each other on a road
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Danny Williams @mrdannyw.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Rush hour. London
Shows a long queue two people wide of people on cycles. They are on a cycle track next to a main road. Offices down both sides of the road
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Danny Williams @mrdannyw.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Cricket was on at the Oval in London this week. It was pouring with rain. This is just one of five parking bays for the cricket fans to get to the ground (unfortunately taking most of the pavement rather than taking up storage spaces on the road. Is it time we talked about e-vehicle storage space?)
Shows maybe 100 rental bikes parked on a pavement. There is a main road along the side. It is raining. There is a tree canopy over the road
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T&E @transportenvironment.org · 12/06/2025
In crashes, high-fronted cars typically strike adult pedestrians above the centre of gravity, often first hitting vital organs. The higher the vehicle front the more likely a person will be knocked under the car, rather than pushed to the side, at speeds of up to 50 km/h. 3/
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T&E @transportenvironment.org · 12/06/2025
NEW: Car bonnets are becoming a half-centimetre higher every year, driving road safety fears. This #carspreading trend where supersized SUVs crowd out space in towns and cities is also leading to cars that are more dangerous in a crash. 🧵
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Max Sullivan @maxsullivan.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
We've installed another three new simple zebra crossings, this time near Edgware Road. Without them drivers yield to pedestrians around 40% of the time. With them, it's around 80%. (Based on monitoring results from our first 4 sites)
Junction of Chapel and Cabbell Streets. Two simple side road zebras without Belisha beacons can be seen with pedestrians crossing and a driver yielding. Edgware Road underground station entrance visible in the background.North junction of Chapel and Cabbell Streets. One simple side road zebras without Belisha beacons can be seen with pedestrians crossing. Edgware Road underground station entrance is visible.Junction of Transept and Chapel Streets looking West with three pedestrians crossing a simple side road zebra without Belisha beacons.
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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 07/06/2025
Hop on, ride off! 🚆🚲 As of today, bikes are welcome on-board of EU trains. All new and upgraded trains in the EU will have dedicated spots for full-sized bicycles. So, you can ride wherever the train takes you!
Illustration of a woman with a helmet carrying a bicycle while boarding a blue and white train. The text reads: ‘Bikes on trains? You want it – EU got it!’ An EU flag is shown on the ground and in the top-left corner.
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EmmanuelSPV @emmanuelspv.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Dude, where’s my road ? In the Bois de Vincennes in Paris, they closed a road and replaced it with a wide lane for bikes and pedestrians - but not as wide as the road before, now there is a bit more green around it ;)
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Danny Williams @mrdannyw.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
❤️
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Danny Williams @mrdannyw.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Nice to see the England cricket team hop on e-bikes to cycle to their game against the West Indies at the Oval in London last night www.espncricinfo.com/story/west-i...
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London traffic chaos makes West Indies late for Oval ODI as England cycle in
Traffic-light outage near the ground causes issue for team bus on journey from Chelsea
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Danny Williams @mrdannyw.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
35% fewer collisions & 36% fewer casualties on London roads that have been dropped to new 20mph limit. No evidence it increases congestion. www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
standard.co.uk
More 20mph roads on way for London after injuries and collisions are cut by a third
Research commissioned by TfL on the safety benefits of 20mph has given the green light for more speed cuts
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Danny Williams @mrdannyw.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I’m not sure I have ever seen this sign used in the UK anywhere else. Seen it plenty of times overseas
Shows a lane with bushes and trees either side. There is a signpost with a round blue sign showing a car and a bicycle
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Danny Williams @mrdannyw.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
More shots of the Chertsey - Woking cycle path (shared cycle path and foot way. As you can see, Surrey County Council has not been particularly interested in maintaining the asset
Shows a footway with a white lane down the middle. A man is walking towards the camera. There is a cycle lane on the right side of the white line. Almost all of the cycle way is covered in vegetation. There are trees on either side
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Danny Williams @mrdannyw.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
There is a cycle path between Chertsey and Woking in Surrey. This section of it nearly killed me today. I was approaching slowly when a car came out from the right. There’s simply zero room to brake safely in that context
Shows a shared use cycle path and foot way that is slightly wider than my bicycle handle bars. There is a tall fence on the right. A driveway ahead and to the left a busy and fast main road with cars on it
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
“Local stores next to the protected bike-lane have seen a 49% increase in sales, compared to an average of 3% for Manhattan as a whole.” (Among MANY other public benefits.) Want To Make Money? Build A Business On A Bike Lane. #CityMakingMath via @fastcompany.com #BikeLanesMeanBusiness
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Want To Make Money? Build A Business On A Bike Lane
Research from New York City notes that newly installed protected bike lanes do more than keep bikers safe--they raise the income of the stores they are in front of.
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Jack Thurston @jackthurston.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Life-affirming account in the FT of a father and son's weekend away in the Yorkshire Dales, riding @bromptonbicycle.bsky.social on routes from my book Lost Lanes North www.ft.com/content/2446...
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My post-cancer joy ride in the Yorkshire Dales
In celebration of a clean bill of health, novelist Ben Markovits set out to tackle one of the toughest routes with his son
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Sam Dumitriu @samdumitriu.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Coventry is doing something that many thought impossible: building a tram line in Britain quickly and cheaply. Read David Milner of @createstreets.bsky.social on how they've done it and what we can learn from it. capx.co/coventrys-tr...
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Danny Williams @mrdannyw.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Love this
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Danny Williams @mrdannyw.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
New look urban mobility in London. A cargo bike delivery on one side of the street. A cargo bike heading back into town on the other. And a large goods lorry in the background
Shows a wide road. Skyscrapers in the background. Victorian buildings either side. A cargo bike delivery on one side of the street. A cargo bike heading back into town on the other. And a large goods lorry in the background
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Will Norman @willnorman.co.uk · 30/04/2025
New research shows children are 82% more likely to suffer fatal injuries in a SUV collision than one involving a car. In children under 10, the risk of being killed was 130% higher. www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
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'Supersize SUVs much more likely to cause fatal injury to cyclists and pedestrians'
Sports utility vehicles account for more than half of new cars bought in UK
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Danny Williams @mrdannyw.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
I definitely did not realise this
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Danny Williams @mrdannyw.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The City of London (the financial centre) has seen a massive change in how its streets are used. Since 2019: • - 24% private motors (exc buses + coaches) • - 15% freight vehicles • + 60% cycling • - 30% walking + wheeling www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/assets/Servi... via @lastnotlost.bsky.social
Graph shows total motor vehicles in City of London 1999 - 2024. In 1999, there were 198,000 motor vehicles a day and 8,000 people on cycles. In 2024, there were 59,000 motor vehicles a day and 52,000 people on cycles
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Danny Williams @mrdannyw.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Actually amazed to see this level of granular data about individual speeding drivers is made public in NYC
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Active Travel England @ategov.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The country is walking and wheeling more Today's National Travel Survey shows trips walked or wheeled up 7% in 2024, compared to 2019🧑‍🦽🚶‍♀️ While average distance was up 13% to 230 miles a year 💪 This is progress as we work to make active travel a safe everyday choice for all
The image shows two graphs - one is walking trips and one is walking distance travelled from 2019 to 2024. In 2019, around 250 walking trips were made per person per year. In 2024, there were 267 walking trips person per year. The average miles walked per person per year in 2019 was 205. It is now 230 miles walked per person per year (year ending June 2024).
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Philippe Quirion @philippequirion.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Bologna has recently published a Report on the first year of implementing the 30 km/h speed limit in the city. For the first time since 1991, no pedestrians were killed, road deaths decreased by 50%, crashes by 13% and urban traffic pollution by 30%. 👍 www.comune.bologna.it/notizie/citt...
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Comune di Bologna
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Danny Williams @mrdannyw.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
This is quite interesting from New York City: "Buses with Automated Camera Enforcement, which the MTA introduced last year, move 5 percent faster and get into 20 percent fewer bus crashes in bus-only lanes and busways" nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/03/25/f...
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Freeze Frame: Fixed Cameras Are Speeding Up Buses In And Out of Bus Lanes - Streetsblog New York City
The expansion of bus-mounted traffic enforcement cameras is yielding faster and safer trips for bus riders, the MTA said.
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Danny Williams @mrdannyw.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Birds-eye view of the road works on Lambeth Bridge, London. As you can see, the bridge has one way for motor vehicles , the other lane is being worked on. There are temporary cycle tracks in both directions during the road works
The pic is taken from the top deck of a bus looking directly in front along the length of the bridge. There are office buildings in the background.
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Danny Williams @mrdannyw.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
This used to be a two way street for motor vehicles. Now a small scheme is being built to make it a two-way quiet route for people cycling and one way for cars (Clapham, London)
Pic taken from top deck of a London bus. Looking sideways late a side street. There are pics and bars on both sides with many outside seats. One side of the side street is now a cycle lane. There is a traffic island in the middle. And an exit lane for cars to the right of it. People are walking along the street in the same direction as the bus is travelling
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Danny Williams @mrdannyw.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
So much better than the (recent) old one!
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Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
New analysis of relationship between car weight and fatal collision rates in the UK finds “ppl driving heavier cars are disproportionately involved in more fatal collisions”. Particularly the case for those involving other cars or pedestrians. Available here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
FIGURE 2: Average Annual Fatal Collisions per 1 Million Cars by Weight Category (2019-2023)

Key findings:

Lighter cars (500-1000kg) have the lowest fatal collision rates per million cars across all collision types, indicating a lower relative risk compared to heavier
cars.

As car weight increases, the number of
fatal collisions rises, peaking at 26.2 for
the heaviest cars (2001-2500kg)
suggesting a higher likelihood of
involvement in fatal collisions. This trend is consistent for Car-Car and Car-
Pedestrian collisions.

In Car-Bike collisions, lighter cars have
the lowest fatal collision rates per million cars, indicating they are less likely to be involved in fatal collisions with cycles compared to heavier cars, which show consistent fatality rates for cars in categories above 1001kg.
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Danny Williams @mrdannyw.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Pavements are for….? Bins! 13 bins permanently stored on the pavement outside this house in London (all of them for the same building which is divided into six small apartments)
Pic taken from across the street. On the other side of the street is the wall of a house with windows. It is a Victorian house. There are 13 wheelie bins along the wall of the house and on the pavement.
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Danny Williams @mrdannyw.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
New cycle track. Bournemouth, England
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Danny Williams @mrdannyw.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Interesting. The US state of Virginia has become "the first state to adopt legislation that would impose life-saving speed-limiting tech on the most dangerous class of drivers. “ www.familiesforsafestreets.org/news via @fam4safestreets.bsky.social
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News — Families for Safe Streets - USA
Get the latest news on what Families for Safe Streets chapters are doing around the country.
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Danny Williams @mrdannyw.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Before and after: This used to just be a bit of nondescript street. Now it’s a micro space for people. As I walked past, this kid walked up and immediately started playing. Amazing what happens when you design city spaces for people. Not just for cars.
Shows a boy playing on a small play space which takes up half the width of a street. The other half of the street is a cycle lane with a cyclist on it. There is a wall along the side of the road. And terraced houses further down the street Shows the same street a few years ago. It is a two lane street with some road jumps and a few cars parked in it
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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
My first ride along one of the new sections of North Tyneside’s “seafront sustainable route” - decent width and separation here and good to see side road priority. Nice to have lots of extra zebras too. Enough people on foot, even on a grey day, to be grateful to no longer have share the path.
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Danny Williams @mrdannyw.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
When I used to work here, this space used to be a private car park. And now, well, it’s rather nicer. Chancery Lane, London
Shows benches and tubs with greenery in a space between office blocks. There are lots of people sitting on the benches and it is sunny Shows the same space as the previous picture with the space between two office blocks. The surface area is grey tarmac. There are car parking spaces and some rubbish skips on the surface
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Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Good morning! To almost everyone
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Danny Williams @mrdannyw.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
"For people living near London's busiest roads, there was an estimated 80% reduction in 2023 in people exposed to illegal levels of pollution; 82% in outer London". First results of London's motor pollution charge (ULEZ). That's quite a massive policy outcome www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Ulez: Cleaner air for Londoners after expansion, study finds
London pollution has reduced after the controversial expansion of the Ultra Low Emission Zone, a report finds.
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Danny Williams @mrdannyw.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
London people: Just me, or is everyone else noticing that pretty much any red light, a driver will speed through it? Sometimes multiple drivers. Has definitely become 'a thing'.
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Danny Williams @mrdannyw.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Active Travel England joins Bluesky...
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Danny Williams @mrdannyw.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
First glimpse of the new cycle track being installed at the junction south side of Lambeth Bridge, London
I am standing on the pavement. To the side of the pavement is a new cycle track with lanes for heading in different directions at the junction which is just behind me. The track is slightly lower than the pavement. To the side of the track are lanes for motor vehicles. And then on the other side of the road is a line of office blocks and tall buildings
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Danny Williams @mrdannyw.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Not the best photo. But super to see so many kids cycling to school on the safe cycle paths out in inner Bristol this morning.
Shows two girls on bikes. They have cycled over a bridge on the right. Behind them is a river and behind that some houses
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Danny Williams @mrdannyw.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Pre work wander around Bristol this morning. Very noticeable how bus stops in the centre almost all have raised platforms to enable easier boarding
Shows a street with shops either side of the the buildings are 3 storeys tall. There is a bus stop in the foreground. The pavement buts into the road and is slightly raised. Behind the bus stop is a planted area and behind that is a cycle lane and pavement
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Danny Williams @mrdannyw.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Again, just nice. Very, very nice.
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KeaneMJ @keanemj.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Was out on the tandem today taking my wife for a Valentine's Day ride. Cycle barriers are bad enough for ordinary bikes but offer an extra level of challenge for tandems.
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Danny Williams @mrdannyw.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
New government guidance on how local authorities can include community engagement in the project development process for transport schemes involving walking and cycling. With a nod to @bespokejon.bsky.social for his hard work on much of this www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Community consultation and engagement within transport schemes
Explains how authorities can include community engagement in the project development process for transport schemes involving active travel.
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Danny Williams @mrdannyw.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Travelling all around England this month. Can’t help but notice a huge increase in these in lots of cities. In this case, taking up 2/3 of the footway on a very busy pedestrian route between Manchester Piccadilly and Oxford Road. Is this a good thing for enabling walking?
Shows a digital advertising screen on a pavement in a city centre. The screen takes up 3 paving slabs width of a pavement that is 5 slabs winde. People are walking past the screen. The road has four wide lanes for cars
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Danny Williams @mrdannyw.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Transport Secretary: lack of reliable, integrated transport is letting people down. www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/news-op... @manchestereveningnews.co.uk
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'Workers sleep in the staff room because there's no night buses'
'It's one example of many, in the North West and beyond, where a lack of reliable, integrated transport is letting people down'
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Danny Williams @mrdannyw.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Active Travel England’s new funding announced for improved or new walking and cycling schemes. And the launch of new guidance on local community consultation www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Almost £300 million to gear up new walking, wheeling and cycling schemes
We are making sure local authorities can provide high-quality and easily accessible active travel schemes across England.
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