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@rob042.bsky.social
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Active Travel person - but views/opinions/statements personal. Lives in London. From 't north. Enjoys mountains, and travelling short, medium and long distances by bicycle

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Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
This Builder’s Merchant and DIY shop in Hackney hasn’t moaned about LTNs - instead it switched to cargo bike delivery, saving time money and environment. 👏 Kts4diy.co.uk
Cargo bike outside shopCargo 4-wheeler outside shop
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Joel Boerckel @jboerckel.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I present the most interesting graph ever made. HUMAN ON BICYCLE beats every other living thing. www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...
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Clarence Eckerson Jr./Streetfilms @streetfilms.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Low Traffic Neighborhoods! Low Traffic Neighborhoods! All in one mega blog post is a huge resource containing the most popular films, photos, diagrams & links on LTN's. Bookmark. Share. Link to it. Host a screening. Advocate. @talyaschwartz.bsky.social @solomonge.bsky.social @openplans.org
streetfilms.org
London’s Low Traffic Neighborhoods (LTN’s) Ultimate Resource Page — Streetfilms
If you need some enlightenment about Low Traffic Neighborhoods…well you came to the right place! Films! Maps! Photos! Presentations! It’s one-stop LTN shopping!
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Hackney Cycling Campaign @hackneycycling.org.uk · 14/01/2026
Not long until our yearly social / fundraising céilidh! www.tickettailor.com/events/hackn... Dinner and dancing, perfect to chase away the January blues.
Poster showing details of event:

Burns Night Cèilidh

City Academy, E9 6EA
Saturday 24th January, 6-11ish

We invite you to join us for our yearly fundraiser and social cèilidh on Saturday the 24th January. This will include:

Traditional dinner of haggis (with vegan and gluten free variants offered), neeps, tatties (and whisky!)
Recitations and performances alongside the dinner (please get in touch if you’d like to do a turn!)
Dancing after the dinner, led by our live band, the fabulous Muckers!
See more info at hackneycycling.org.uk/burns-night
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Rob @rob042.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Let's treat the unnecessary harms massive SUVs cause bystanders like we treat the harms caused by smoking, ie doing everything we can to limit the sales of these awful machines through taxes and regulation
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Rob @rob042.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I really noticed how many adoring shots of these horrific vehicles there were. Totally gratuitous.
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Rob @rob042.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Age yourself with gaming
BBC Micro educational game Podd
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Rob @rob042.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
So important to call out all of this "balanced" news reporting for what it is increasingly becoming (or indeed has been for a good while): client journalism.
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
@bmj.com, a renowned health journal, slams car bloat: "Cars are becoming steadily larger, [and] with this comes potential harms to health...Action is needed locally, nationally, and internationally to curb sales of new SUVs and to reduce their presence in urban areas." www.bmj.com/content/391/...
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Liam Duffy @liamduffy.dev · 07/11/2025
Led ride around Hackney this Sunday, starting at 11am from the Rio Cinema. Taking in a good portion of the borough and its cycleways / LTNs. Weather is looking, quite frankly, ridiculously good for November! See the link below to sign up:
lcc.org.uk
Hackney Cycle Ways 20km Loop - London Cycling Campaign
Join us for a ride round the borough, taking in many of Hackney’s cycle tracks, low traffic neighbourhoods, Cycleways and parks. Dalston, Millfields, Chatsworth, Hackney Central, Well St Common, Londo...
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Streetsblog USA @usa.streetsblog.org · 07/11/2025
Streetsfilms follows an urban planner around the “low-traffic neighborhood” of St. Peter’s in the London borough of Islington.
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Friday Video: The Utopia of London’s Low-Traffic Neighborhoods — Streetsblog USA
Streetsfilms follows an urban planner around the “low-traffic neighborhood” of St. Peter’s in the London borough of Islington.
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Rob @rob042.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Why not tell drivers: "Take more care now conditions are more difficult because you can cause serious harm".. It is not a difficult message to convey, but don't think I've ever seen it. No, it's the kids who must be taught that they must keep themselves safe from adults who might harm them
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, and most of the energy that does, moves the car, not the people. Sound efficient? HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social
Graphic full of stats on vehicle inefficiencies.
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Rob @rob042.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Which is better?
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Cargo Bike Ben @cargobikeben.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
It’s that time of year again when “safety” organisations crack out their victim blaming campaigns telling pedestrians and people on bikes to dress for battle rather than their destination and wear high vis clothing to be seen instead of focusing on the real source of danger - drivers.
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Rob @rob042.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Camden and Islington embarrassing Hackney by doing the necessary to keep people on bikes safe from the main causes of death and injury at junctions. The Pembury Circus scheme should shame all those involved in its implementation.
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Andy @andydrummond.eurosky.social · 24/10/2025
Your occasional reminder that opposing #ActiveTravel is a really poor choice of wedge issue to run on.
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Rob @rob042.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
"The appeal of endurance sports isn’t just getting somewhere that it would have been quicker to travel to in a machine. It’s about becoming the sort of person who can run [far] despite the physical toll and hardship. Our efforts may not always change the world, but they often change ourselves."
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Rob @rob042.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
This would, at a stroke, improve our high streets immeasurably.
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Rob @rob042.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
My kids have never said "yay!, let's go in the car", whereas they love hopping on the cargo bike
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Rob @rob042.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Beautifully put
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Rob @rob042.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
This. If they aren't fucking *looking*, it doesn't matter what radioactive nonsense you're wearing.
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Rob @rob042.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
I really hope this is a feature of the upcoming Hackney transport strategy... The double parked roads near me are getting narrower each year as the SUVs swell in size😳 Over to you @sarahwoodberrydown.bsky.social 🤞
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Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Bravo Cardiff. “It’s only fair that those driving the biggest, heaviest and most polluting vehicles pay more for the extra space and danger they bring” - Spot on from @olord.bsky.social Important: two-thirds (66%) of respondents to the related consultation agreed larger vehicles should pay more.
theguardian.com
Cardiff becomes first UK council to impose higher parking charges on larger vehicles
Premium charge aims to combat steep rise in SUVs and other larger vehicles which are ‘a danger to other road users’
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Rob @rob042.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Cardiff gets it!
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Mark Sutton @marksuttonbike.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
It is possible to differentiate between DIY e-bikes and manufactured e-bikes, so says the Australian state of New South Wales, which has now banned DIY from its trains, all the while still encouraging manufactured e-bikes. www.cyclingelectric.com/news/e-bikes...
cyclingelectric.com
Australian state bans DIY e-bikes on trains, permits manufactured models
Australian state New South Wales has got its head around the difference between a DIY e-bike and a manufactured product,
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Rob @rob042.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
@sarahwoodberrydown.bsky.social hi- FYI the Chatsworth Road camera has been knocked off angle (it's now pointing at the sky) - there's an adjacent cctv camera on Clifden Road so probably possible to identify the vandals that did it.
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Rob @rob042.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
This is an incredibly powerful way to frame your argument. It got me a few years ago via a Greta T speech to the UN: "My grandchildren one day will ask me about YOU (room full of powerful old men)". Not that I have much in common with them, but I quit my job and went to work for a local authority
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Rob @rob042.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Every morning I wake up and see various bits of horrific news from the US, and the Manics' "If you tolerate this, your children will be next" pings into my head.
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Rob @rob042.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Hey @teamlabouruk.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social : shout about achieving this please, while the vandals and wreckers at the Conservative and Reform parties peddle their lies ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
ember-energy.org
Decoupled: how Spain cut the link between gas and power prices using renewables | Ember
Spain has some of the lowest wholesale electricity prices in Europe, largely owing to the country’s strong solar and wind growth which reduced the influence of expensive coal and gas power on the elec...
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Rob @rob042.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Cambridge again leading... we have a perfect candidate for a cycle street in Hackney, on a major cycle route through an LTN... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
England's 'first official Cycle Street' being built in Cambridge
It aims to make one of the city's busiest routes safer by giving cyclists priority over motorists.
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20's Plenty for Us @20splenty.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
The Welsh 20mph default reduced casualties by 25% and insurance costs by £90m. If done in England expect reductions of 15,000 casualties pa and insurance by £2bn pa. Implementation cost would be approx £0.5bn. For comparison, 1st yr depreciation on new cars registered in England in 2024 was £78bn
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Rob @rob042.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
One of Nigel Farage's close allies of the past decade found guilty of taking Russian bribes, and barely a story. Reckon it'll come up in Laura Kuennsberg's next cosy interview? monkdebunks.substack.com/p/nothing-to...
monkdebunks.substack.com
“Nothing to Do With Reform?” The Myth of Nathan Gill’s Bribery
The bribery started the day he quit UKIP and continued under Farage’s leadership. The press have barely said a word
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Rob @rob042.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Just imagine. Imagine how great it would be to have our public (that's right they're ours!) streets as free and open as this again.
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Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
‘Cycleway 1’ Whitmore Road in Hackney. This amount of motor traffic just can’t safely mix with this amount of cycle traffic so it isn’t safe for kids to cycle to school. It is inexplicable the planned Hoxton LTN won’t address this.
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Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Today I had to cross Commercial St with my kids with no pedestrian crossing. Presumably this is impossible for a blind person. Can someone point me to where Vincent Stops and NFBUK have staged a video of the struggle here? Or given any indication they care at all when it’s nothing to do with bikes?
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Rob @rob042.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Great and sobering thread.
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Alex @alexsz.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Thread about yesterday's counter protest. Writing it mostly to collect my thoughts and ideas. I don't have much knowledge about the organizations organizing yesterday, these are just my thoughts. 1. Yesterday we lost. We came out defiant, chanting, but we lost that day.
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
All avoidable injuries are bad, but context is essential. Alongside this story, it's surely essential to say that there were 133,000 car-related injuries in 2024 in the UK, including 1624 fatalities & 28k "serious" injuries. E-bikes aren't the major problem. Data: www.chas.co.uk/blog/uk-car-...
bbc.co.uk
E-bike injuries are a massive burden, say Royal London Hospital surgeons
Frida, six, is one of the many patients treated at the Royal London Hospital for an e-bike injury.
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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 13/09/2025
“The odds of fatal injury increased by 44% for people of all ages struck by an SUV, compared with those hit by a passenger car. Among children the odds of fatal injury increased by 82%, and among children under the age of 10 it increased by 130%.” www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...
Laura’s two children stand in front of a giant, lifted SUV parked on the street. Their heads are below the hood.
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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 22/08/2025
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.
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Saskia Heijltjes @saskiaheijltjes.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
🚲 Kidical Mass is growing fast – now 50+ groups across the UK! We’ve launched a crowdfunder to continue to provide public liability & volunteer insurance for all KM groups in the UK. Target: £2,522. Please donate! 👉 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/km-insurance #KidicalMass #SafeStreetsNow
crowdfunder.co.uk
Kidical Mass Insurance
Insurance for 2025-2026 will be £2,521.42 for all Kidical Mass groups in the UK. This is for public liability and cover for our volunteers.
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Rob @rob042.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Remember the first thing Corbyn said he'd do if elected? End homelessness. Simple choice to make, eminently doable, as proved (short term) during the pandemic and longer term in places like Finland. So grateful the dangerous extremist never got anywhere near power and the grown ups are in charge.
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Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
The idea that cyclists are to pedestrians as drivers are to cyclists is nonsense. The relative risk posed by and to each party is worlds apart. In 2022 in the EU, the ratio of deaths in collisions between pedestrians and cyclists was 3.5 to 1. Between cyclists and drivers, it was 165 to 1.
transport.ec.europa.eu
2023 figures show stalling progress in reducing road fatalities in too many countries
Road safety in the EU 2023: Around 20 400 people were killed in road crashes last year, a small 2% decrease on 2022.
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Rob @rob042.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Every word Of Brent's thread 💯
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Rob @rob042.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Always express it in these terms - people are blind to road violence. How many deaths should we accept as simply an unavoidable byproduct of our wish to get to work or the shops as fast as car companies and 1970s road design tell us we can?
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Phil Jones @phil-pja.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
“What is an acceptable death toll that justifies getting to work two minutes faster?” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Journey times up, deaths down: Welsh 20mph speed limit still divisive two years on
Protests continue against default lower limit in urban areas that supporters say is working ‘exactly as intended’
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Rob @rob042.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
SHOCKING NEWS: Business owner wants to park right out in front all day and is SAD and angry that he can't
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Rob @rob042.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
The only way is road pricing, and giving away free E-bikes!
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Rob @rob042.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
FACT: Electric cars will make your city more congested and worse to live in. If policy makers don't prioritise buses, trams and bikes over and above the EV transition, we're sunk.
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