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Sam Wakeling @samwake.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Bumped into my local @sheffgreenparty.bsky.social candidate Seb this morning st school drop off. Good luck in the by-election today! Polls are open until 10pm.

Two men squinting my into the sun with green vote geeen sign beside them and sunny grassy neighbourhood behind

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Sam Wakeling @samwake.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hillsborough Corner, one of Sheffield’s more complex junctions, has all signals out today. It can be difficult for people crossing, esp if you’re blind, but in some ways the traffic has really calmed down with drivers giving way (including to people) and checking if they can risk going through.

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Sam Wakeling @samwake.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Just my 8yo filming a butterfly that landed on my leg as we sheltered from rain under a tree while playing some tennis in our street.

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Sam Wakeling @samwake.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

There seem to be lots of no-priority junctions in residential Oxford. Any idea why/how?

Aerial photo of two residential roads meeting at a t junction with no painted markings. Church hill road and Kelburne road

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Sam Wakeling @samwake.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

PPE is always a good idea…?

Painting of rainy city scene with people wearing top hats, long dresses, umbrellas, and luminous reflective vests

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Sam Wakeling @samwake.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

What counts as unnecessary pavement obstruction? As I walked down here, someone else was walking up. We would have passed beside the van, but they stepped aside to wait to avoid squeezing past. Obstruction doesn’t just mean whether one person can get through.

A pavement on a terraced street with parked vehicles and a white van with wheels just on the kerb and wing mirror sticking out.

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Sam Wakeling @samwake.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Good to have bus fares capped again - they should be cheap. Transport sec on media saying Bee Network buses have had 11% more passengers in a year. Great! Does that mean less car driving? No. That’s also gone up. Better, cheaper buses are essential. And they don’t mean less driving. Both true.

Manchester miles driven going up steadily since 2010 (with dip for Covid). All time high in 2024 beaten again in 2025.

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Sam Wakeling @samwake.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

When your transport helps your propellers spin 💨

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Sam Wakeling @samwake.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The Drawing Shop in Hillsborough’s old Wilko is such a joyful and wonderful place. Anyone can wander in and make art for free. While I quite liked Wilko, I can safely say I never wept with joy there while it was a shop. Go along if you can www.thedrawingshop.co.uk

A child wearing a red boiler suit paints on a wall covered in abstract coloured paint. There is also paint and drawing on the floor.

Child in red boiler suit does a cartwheel in a large indoor space with walls hung with colourful paintings and long paper hanging from the ceiling

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Sam Wakeling @samwake.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Ambulance getting delayed for at least a minute because Hillsborough Corner prioritises traffic capacity over safety. Hope they’re okay.

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Sam Wakeling @samwake.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

There is some dependency, but how far does that go? Where in this slope does affluence of wealthy households become a factor?

Chart of car ownership per income decile - with lowest incomes owning 5x fewer cars than highest incomes

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Sam Wakeling @samwake.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

During yesterday’s record June heat all Sheffield’s trams were stopped. The less we do on climate, the more of this we get.

Tram platform with person walking past and electronic sign saying- Service suspended due to high heat
We apologise for disruption to journeys TiCkets valid on First & Stagecoach

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Sam Wakeling @samwake.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

(There is also a NI strategy, but with this photo on page 1, I think the less said about it the better)

An adult walking holding hands with a child. The adult is wearing a brown/orange coat and the child is wearing a large hi vis vest with “be safe be seen” on the back.

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Sam Wakeling @samwake.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Real-time heatwave records are something our media know how to report - simple numbers, hour by hour changes, fairly predictable. All the human story angles you want. Often focused around London. It’s perfect newsy stuff. Even if they manage to grossly miss that these are epically violent crimes.

Photo of person filling water bottle and white man in open necked shirt.
Headline: Hottest June day on record as temperatures soar to 36.1C in Hampshire

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Sam Wakeling @samwake.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Currently baking a cake in a shoe box on our bike shed roof, which is 77C.

Thermal image with yellow area labelled 77.4 and purple box shape

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Sam Wakeling @samwake.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Say what you like about the BBC’s climate coverage, they know how to make a heatwave feel chill. 🧊 [sound on]

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Sam Wakeling @samwake.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

After the terrible crash last week, EMR’s website has this message when you open it. It feels like another reminder of how normal and considerate responses to tragedy can look when they aren’t on roads. Have you seen a road authority share this kind of message after a serious collision?

Black website image with text:
Our heartfelt condolences and support following the tragic incident on Friday 19th June.
On the 19 June, two EMR services were involved in a collision at Bedford South.
Tragically, this incident resulted in the fatality of an EMR driver and a number of inuries to…

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Sam Wakeling @samwake.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I was wondering how long it would take for “hydration break” to enter common usage. Then got an email from school 🚰

• We will take regular hydration breaks in class and encourage all pupils to drink water.

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Sam Wakeling @samwake.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Brick paving helps make most local streets in Netherlands feel so much friendlier and less car-dominated. I’d assumed this was more expensive than tarmac, but I gather it is more durable so actually often cheaper in the longer run.

Three people, two of them children, walking on herringbone pattern brick paved street with flowers and trees around.

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Sam Wakeling @samwake.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Is this one thing where Labour don’t want to sound like Reform?

Claire Ward - Labour East Midlands
Mayor posts on Facebook:
Reform calls for congestion charge in the
Peak District
Alan Graves, Reform UK leader of Derbyshire County Council, wants to spend public money installing cameras to bring in a congestion charge
Whether it's a visit to the Peak District for the day or popping to the shops or work, Reform want you to pay to drive! I wont let that happen.

BBC News clip:
The Reform UK leader of Derbyshire County Council, Alan Graves, has already backed the idea of charging visitors and has suggested the park authority should harness modern technology to implement a form of congestion charge.
"We could put some kind of cameras up - when you enter, you pay E1", he said.
"The initial cost would be expensive but over time it would all be paid for."

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Sam Wakeling @samwake.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

On this day 6 years ago all UK papers gave a coordinated message. A reminder of how when a crisis really feels like a crisis, it makes sense to appeal not to self-interest but to us as part of a community.

Shelf of newspapers (mail, sun, mirror, express, times, star) with each having a different block colour ad with the same message: Stay at home for the NHS, your family, your neighbours, your nation, the world and life itself

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Sam Wakeling @samwake.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

If the worst happens at least there’s this.

HI VIS VEST - FUNERAL
TRIBUTE - MEMORIAL

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Sam Wakeling @samwake.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

It doesn’t need to be a conspiracy for a problem to be systemic. The role of a decent prime minister would be to ensure that companies like this stop killing children.

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Sam Wakeling @samwake.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

What if there were a colour-coded map of road danger? I wonder how close it might be to the inverse of the traffic delay shown on Google Maps? ✅ Where this shows green/good it indicates large amounts of traffic moving at speed. ‼️ That also usually implies high levels of danger.

Map from Google maps with sheffield shown with traffic layer. The busiest roads like ring road are coloured green with some bits of yellow and red.

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Sam Wakeling @samwake.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Correction: 71% was the average over the whole day so far. At the moment renewables are actually generating about 82% and fossils 2%.

Pie chart with big green segment for renewables and yellow chunk for solar. A smaller blue chunk for nuclear and wood burning. Red wedge for fossil gas is tiny.

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Sam Wakeling @samwake.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

It’s windy and sunny 🌞 Right now renewables are producing 71% of UK electricity. Fossil fuels only 6%. grid.iamkate.com

Chart of last 24 hours of electricity generation. Green line high above everything is wind power at 23GW, yellow solar line has a curved bump rising for the middle of the day to 8GW. Other lines below these show nuclear at 4GW and gas and transfers far below

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Sam Wakeling @samwake.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Whoever pinned this minimal dose of calm to the community notice board at Sheffield Station cycle hub, thank you. 🙏🏻

Postcard photo of ripples on water starting black and blue and the bottom, fading to white at the top. No caption.

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Sam Wakeling @samwake.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

“Gentlemen, there is no "architecture" in this square and you know it.” — a Bristol Councillor arguing for the construction of the dual carriageway through the square in the 1930s.

Aerial view of the square showing the road going diagonally across the square and splitting in the middle to go either side of the statue.

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Sam Wakeling @samwake.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Queen Square in Bristol. Doing ok without a dual carriageway through the middle since 1992 🥰

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Sam Wakeling @samwake.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Walking my kids to Lidl today and passed this fallen soldier. Thank you for your service 🫡 @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social

A bollard lying prone on the mud some way from a zebra crossing with broken tarmac where it appears to have been smashed out from

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Sam Wakeling @samwake.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Fresh hell: Carbon-Neutral Ads This is dystopian for anything, but in this case it’s for Bet365. The scheme boasts clients can: “offset the carbon footprint of their in-feed advertising campaigns by investing in green initiatives across the world”

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Sam Wakeling @samwake.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I’m in Norwich city centre and I’ve got some bad news about Dixons

Pedestrian and cycle only sign with camera enforcement and a buff over street behind with people waking around. White man with glasses and grey hat smiling alone

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Sam Wakeling @samwake.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

A beautiful morning and appropriate place to journey to the future with @robintransition.bsky.social ✨🚀 “The future must enter into you a long time before it happens” Rilke

Site galley in red brick with sign in lights on the roof saying everything is different today

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Sam Wakeling @samwake.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Sheffield climate emergency: How it’s going. The carbon budget overspend is growing each year. We have no plans to meet our targets. Welcome to the greenwash city. 🌱

Chart of Sheffield carbon emissions

2019 - Climate emergency declared
Actual emissions (est)
Amount over-budget
- CO, which will heat our atmosphere for centuries
Sheffield's 1.7C budget
Advice sought by SCC but not applied in city plans
Sheffield's 1.5C budget
To minimise tipping point risks
Sheffield's political target Net zero by 2030

GOV.UK local authority data for Sheffield CO2 emissions
Estimated from GOV.UK emissions data and forecasts
Tyndall Centre advised annual reductions of 12.3% from 2020 to meet IPC's 50% chance of 1.7C, (shown adjusted to start from updated UK Gov local authority data for 2019)
Global carbon budget for 66% chance of 1.5C was roughly half this, needing 25% annual reductions

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Sam Wakeling @samwake.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

When there’s more going on than our eyes can see

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Sam Wakeling @samwake.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Happy with my first attempt at a digital star trail photo

Bright circles of stars over a cross and chapel

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Sam Wakeling @samwake.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I love doing some errands. Sheffield FTW

Panorama of sheffield view across hills over Bolehills with cargo bike in foreground

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Sam Wakeling @samwake.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Sheffield. A mundane and ordinary local street used as a main road and utterly excluding to children. No kids in view because of the obvious.

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Sam Wakeling @samwake.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Phone Shop, and look up. Sheffield city centre. So often worth enjoying what is above the most ordinary of shop fronts. It’s neither grim up north, or grim upstairs.

A white sign with the phone shop in red on it, and above this are four storeys of honey stone architecture with arched window tops, frilly details, tall gable end. Sorry I don’t know more of the right terms for the building features!

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Sam Wakeling @samwake.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

It doesn’t specify children but this (entirely conventional) statement that “everyone has to behave responsibly” feels relevant to children. I fear it encourages yet more of the usual victim-blaming of those least able to even avoid danger let alone cause it.

Hierarchy of responsibility diagram with text highlighted saying “Across the whole hierarchy, everyone has to behave responsibly.”

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Sam Wakeling @samwake.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Happy New Year! My favourite photo from NYE in London 15 years ago. May we be open to the joy before us.

Fireworks explode above a crowd of people holding up glowing camera screens and one person is standing watching the show with arms outstretched

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Sam Wakeling @samwake.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

It’s ordinary online for people to be explicit about their fantasies of killing people with their car. This example was someone reacting to a video of a closed road for a marathon event. These things are normal. Would this be deemed worthy of police investigation?

Twitter post
It should be law we can drive over those types take them to the local park and roast the carcass over an open fire then feed the homeless and undernourished. I'd eat some just to do my part eradicating idiocy.
The hills are getting lonely everyone's hiking the city roadways ©

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