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Rebecca Sharkey

@rebshark.bsky.social
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Campaigner for active travel, sustainable transport, road safety. Challenging car dominance. Chair of Better Streets for Liverpool 🚸🚶🏻‍♀️🧑🏾‍🦽🚲🚌🌳

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Austrian Fietser #klimafreak @woemi.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The bicycle is the ultimate urban vehicle: fast, compact, flexible, silent, emission-free, and incredibly efficient. No other mode of transport moves people through cities better.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
On my way, Clacton.
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Mike Keil @mikekeil.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
It's forecast to hit 40 degrees centigrade in some parts of the UK this week. Just to put this insane temperature into context, today it is 44 degrees in Death Valley.
A warning signing saying "stop heat kills" with blue sky and sunshine in the background.
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Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I honestly think Summer Streets are the best events in NYC, and possibly the world. 10 miles of car free walking, riding, and jogging through all of Manhattan, completely free. Just unbeatable.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
As already warm cities become more and more vulnerable to extreme heat events, or just the “new normal” of hotter and hotter cities every day, here’s just one more reason why more street trees and other greenery are good for streets & cities. It’s just common sense, really. Cooler, cleaner, smarter.
Images comparing temperature on streets with and without trees. With trees, the temperature ranges from 18 to 26°C. Without trees it ranges from 36 to 50°C. #UrbanHeat
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The anti-Trump
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Marcus Payne @nowtro.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
It’s all kicking off in Richmond.
TGJones in Richmond. The name has been crossed out and replaced with WHSmith (its former name) by a disgruntled graffiti artist.
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
When the bike lane is only paint.
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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 16/05/2026
BBC has started to use “e-motorbikes” instead of “e-bikes” and the accuracy continues with agency now used for crashes. See, journalists, it can be done! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC story Man drives car into pedestrians in Italy, injuring eight.
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
“After analyzing crash data over a 13-year period in areas with separated bike lanes on city streets, researchers estimated that having a protected bike facility in a city would result in 44% fewer deaths and 50% fewer serous injuries than an average city.” Safer for ALL. Via @usa.streetsblog.org
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Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA
Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂
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Rebecca Sharkey @rebshark.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Back to Blitz Beach, north of Liverpool, an incredible place.
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Rebecca Sharkey @rebshark.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Bold Street, one of Liverpool’s best loved shopping streets. Once choked with cars, now filled with people browsing the shops and sitting out at tables and chairs, with local businesses thriving. Nobody would suggest bringing the cars back to Bold Street. More streets for people not cars! 🌞
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Prime Minister Péter Magyar inaugural speech: "The psyche of the whole country was poisoned by politics that was artificially inciting hatred. The Hungarian state is not allowed to do anything like this ever again... This era is, once and for all, finished."
Péter Magyar addressed the Hungarian parliament after being sworn in as PM.
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Walkable neighbourhoods aren’t scary, they’re convenient. #UrbanTruth
Image of a walkable, local coffee shop in a walkable neighbourhood, with the caption “Walkable Neighbourhoods aren’t scary, they’re convenient.” With the logo Urban Truth Collective” at the bottom. @urbantruth.bsky.social
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath Some costs aren’t costs.
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One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss
Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact.
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Cargo Bike Ben @cargobikeben.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Birkenhead Park – the inspiration for New York's Central Park – once again proving that car free places bring lots of people out; even on a cold winters' morning. When you don't have to worry about cars, you get runners, dog walkers, and kids learning to ride a bike.
Birkenhead Park with lots of walkers, runners, and dogs, and not a car in sight.
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Melissa Chemam @melissaontheroad.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
And another bites the dust? The BBC World Service will run out of funding in just seven weeks. Its funding arrangement with the Foreign Office finishes at the end of March. There is no plan for what happens next. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Guardian view on the BBC World Service: this is London calling | Editorial
Editorial: With just seven weeks before its funding runs out, the UK’s greatest cultural asset and most trusted international news organisation must be supported
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.
A portion of the Strøget pedestrian street in Copenhagen that widens into a grand people-place.
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Samantha Ellis @samanthaellis.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Really enjoyed talking to @alexvont.bsky.social about the novel. Do have a listen. And if you’d like to hear my thoughts on the film I will also be on Front Row tonight to review it.
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Cooper River Indivisible @crindivisible.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
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Mike Cookson 🔶 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mikecookson.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country? Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.
Screenshot of Tommy Ten Names, claiming he's afraid and fleeing the UK.
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Simon (only spookier) @winklesbloke.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I'm firmly of the opinion that if you use you car as a weapon then you shouldn't ever be allowed to drive again.
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Simon (only spookier) @winklesbloke.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I've said it before and I'll say it again. If you're going to attack somebody, you've got a better chance of a lenient sentence if you do it in a car. A suspended sentence for a what amounted to attempted murder.
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Driver described as "otherwise decent individual" spared jail after ramming cyclist off the road - Cycling News | Bike Reviews | road.cc
A driver who cut across a cyclist before ramming into him was described as a “decent individual” as he was handed a suspended prison sentence.Asif Laher, 55, was driving through Bayswater, London in F...
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Liam Kirkaldy @liamkirkaldy.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
The news from Scotland
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Merseyside Cycling Campaign @merseycyclists.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Brilliant to hear how local campaigners successfully stopped the building of a dual carriageway right down the middle of Rimrose Valley Country Park in Sefton. Now, thanks to @rimrosevalley.bsky.social it's teeming with wildlife and walking and cycle paths for everyone to enjoy. Have you visited?
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Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
The victim blaming of people walking or cycling and injured or killed in road collisions is off-the-charts shocking. It seems motor normativity is so ingrained that people desperately clutch at the language of “accidents” or worse just blame the victims.
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Four bicycle riders stop for a photograph on the Alameda Avenue Bridge, Denver, Colorado ca. 1905
Two men and two women - all African-American - pose with bicycles near a bridge. They are wearing the bicycle costumes common in the early 20th century: the men in plus-fours, the women in long skirts. They are all wearing hats.
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Andy Cox @andy-cox.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Let’s shift the narrative: focus on drivers — with better legislation, clearer guidance and stronger communication — so harm isn’t normalised or dismissed as “cycling is risky”. It’s long past time to prevent harm, not explain it away. Less victim-blaming.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
So no, 15-minute cities are not restrictions Restrictions on car use are normal and have been in place for decades in one form or another A congestion scheme is NOT the same thing as a 15-min city The ability to DRIVE wherever you please, whenever you please is not an inalienable human right👍🏼 24/
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Ok, let’s do this🙄 We’ll start with an explainer covering: 🕒What is a 15-minute city 🏫What on Earth is going on with Oxford 👽Where the conspiracy theories have come from And then we’ll look at the Telegraph article 🧵 1/25
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Peter Cheung @bostonaruban.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Alex Pretti Unity Ride - Boston #NoICE #PrettiGood #MinnesotaStrong
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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 01/02/2026
More great video from yesterday’s unity ride in Minneapolis, from Recovery Bike Shop. This one has a clip of our city council president, @elliottpayne.org , corking an intersection to keep other riders safe. Minneapolis is a special place. 🚲 ❤️
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Dom Cycling @domcycling.com · 01/02/2026
It’s match day, so of course any Street in Stretford without residents parking becomes an unofficial match-day car park. Appears that those drivers too selfish to pay for parking are also the type to block pavements with their cars. Who’d have thought it 🤷
Pavement parked cars on Railway RoadPavement parked cars on Kendal RoadCar parked in the alleyway in Gorse HillCar parked in the alleyway in Gorse Hill
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Pekka Tahkola @pekkatahkola.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
This is one of our main cycling and walking routes (#8) and here we have a 5 km stretch with ZERO at-grade crossings w/ motor traffic. I repeat, it's physically impossible to meet any motor traffic here. So it is very peaceful, safe & comfortable to ride & walk completely uninterrupted. Just bliss.
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Pekka Tahkola @pekkatahkola.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
It is rather beautiful here in Oulu 🇫🇮, right now. Absolutely no filters needed at all 🤌 -20°C, wind chill -28°C. #Oulu #MeanwhileInOulu
A couple of people cycling on a wide, illuminated bicycle path, in a frosty scenery, under the moonFrosty scenery and trees, moon and mist, a person pedaling on a bike path
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Adam Tranter @adamtranter.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Motonormativity is not clearing snow from the sidewalks and then doing an Instagram post telling pedestrians not to walk in the road.
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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚 @emilykerr36.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Just went on a school mums night out (brilliant). At least half of the 15+ attendees came by bike. Most of the rest walked. Wasn't just us - more than 20 bikes parked up at the Jolly Farmers in Oxford's Florence Park. Does your city allow you to do this? Nag your politicians if not! 🚴‍♀️❤️
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
“They cut speed limits, changed street design, removed space for cars… Now it appears that work is paying off. #Oslo & #Helsinki are reaping the rewards of committed action on making their roads safer, reducing pedestrian fatalities to zero last year.” #VisionZero #SpeedKills
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How Helsinki and Oslo cut pedestrian deaths to zero
After years of committed action, neither city recorded a single pedestrian fatality in 2019
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Hannah BW @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
my grandmother, an Auschwitz survivor, was Anne Frank’s neighbor in Amsterdam, and Oma thinks this comparison is perfectly apt
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Cargo Bike Ben @cargobikeben.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Yup. The whole "you ride a bike, therefore you're a cyclist" narrative needs to be countered constantly and professionally. Someone who rides a bike as transport to work, school, the shops, the dentist is no more a cyclist, than someone who uses a train to get to work is a rail enthusiast.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
As we resist Trump’s tyranny, America gains solidarity. As we gain solidarity, we feel more courageous. As we feel courageous and stand up to Trump, we weaken him and his regime. As we weaken Trump and his regime, we have less to fear.
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Rebecca Sharkey @rebshark.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
“Auschwitz took time….” #HolocaustMemorialDay
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Zak Bond @zakbond.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
⚠️Registrations of the most commonly-sold pick-up trucks have nearly doubled in just over a decade! 📈Our new analysis has found a major increase in the number of large, US-style pick-up trucks on UK roads over the past decade - with serious implications for pedestrian safety, particularly children.
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Number of US-style ‘battering ram’ pickup trucks on UK roads has nearly doubled in a decade
Exclusive: Campaigners say ‘menacing vehicles’ are putting children at risk owing to their large front blind zones
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Rebecca Sharkey @rebshark.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
“The driver might have spent an hour in the gym or eating organic but all those health gains would have been wasted – and reversed – by idling their engine, poisoning both themselves and everyone around them.”
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Air pollution kills thousands a year in the UK and abroad – why isn’t there a bigger uproar? | Devi Sridhar
Initiatives such as London’s ULEZ can be a model for other cities. But even more could be done to save lives and protect us from deadly toxins in the air, says Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global publi...
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Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
For example, not good morning to these guys. Good morning to everyone not driving blithely through the green man phase of a pedestrian crossing in a deadly urban land shark, basically
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Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 26/01/2026
The issues highlighted in this thread are common to almost every town in the UK. None of this is rocket science and there's decent design standards available - local politicians just have to stop thinking that drivers are more important than everyone else
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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 22/01/2026
In the late 1920s my grandparents would bike to the Isle of Wight from North London after finishing work on a Saturday, and come back for work on Monday morning .
My grandma and grandad on their tandem in front of a Cadbury poster.
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 23/01/2026
We need a government that will TAKE BACK our public services 💧💡🚌🚄🏥📮 Privatisation has failed for 40 years. Brilliant to see @andyburnham.bsky.social recognise this As an independent campaign group we praise all politicians when they support public ownership, hold them accountable when they don't
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Sarah-Jane @porschespider.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
4yo: 'Can I go to school in my fleecy pyjamas today?' Me: 'No, not today.' 4yo: 'Do I have to wear my human form?' Me: 'Your uniform. That's right.'
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