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Donaeld the Unready @donaeldtheunready.bsky.social · 8h

It's a terrible day to be someone with a background in satirising modern life through an early medieval lens.

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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 12h

Initial reports seemed implausible but so they are actually that mad...

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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 13h

How huge is it in reality ？

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Honestly guys isn’t this a bit weird? This is a bit weird

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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The National Cycle Network is quite good for this - it tells you where is fully off road and what the surface is like. Is that the kind of thing you mean>

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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And yes, I am currently spending more time than I would like arguing with the 'women need protecting' gang...

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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh then we are very much on the same page. My work is basically about helping people build places which work better for women and girls - a lot of which is about safety but also including other factors too. And intersectionality is a huge part of that - safer places are better for so many people.

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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The issue here is the difference between measured safety and perceptions of safety, and it's the latter which is the biggest barrier. There's a bit of a discussion of this in the new Active Travel England introduction to gender and active travel.

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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's possible to frame this in a variety of different ways too, and I think that - given that the focus from Ox Uni is jobs, productivity and access to affordable housing - these benefits need to be available as equitably as possible. After dark is commuting time every winter.

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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And sadly some fears are valid; 93% of women in London have experienced a man using a vehicle aggressively against them and research shows that that they are more likely to experience near misses.

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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

But can we reframe this into creating the kinds of infrastructure that many more women do want to use at all times? Because that is very achievable

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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

But for many women this is a real barrier; so if we want to meet sustainability goals we do need to understand this and address it.

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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’ll message you tomorrow as it’s hard for either of us to go through a clearly v nuanced set of arguments on here. But the messaging of the launch was very much around commuting and economics which is why I was raising these questions particularly.

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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

But are these fully separated from traffic?

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Shahan Miah @shahanshahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've just declared myself as a traitor by mistake #CelebrityTraitors #TheCelebrityTraitors

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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And women are more likely to be traveling outside the commuter peak

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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I literally wished for a mad creative project yesterday so it has to be. Yes.

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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Would be interested to see the gender breakdown of the commuters who use it - do you have a feel for that?

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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That's great - but many women trip chain due to a greater share of unpaid care work, and so are less likely to do this kind of commuting; so we also need connections that enable those journeys too if we want the benefits to be equally available.

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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Then create links to the radial community routes that reflect women's travel patterns better. So it's very much doable. But would require a round of specific engagement with women.

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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think looking at the location of the off-road project, and perhaps providing alternative routes for after dark would be step one (lighting greenways doesn't solve the main safety issues which are lack of exits and oversight). 1/2

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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Or perhaps we do the cenotaph. The unknown victim. But I think we might get enough evidence in once place to make a list, even if not complete...

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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This might be of interest: www.activetravelengland.gov.uk/sites/defaul...

activetravelengland.gov.uk

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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That's not what women say when you ask them and there have been big safety issues on the wider Cambridge greenways. But if you don't want to believe women, that's your perogative. And, as I said, these routes do not facilitate the journeys that many women actually make.

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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Let's do one. Gold painted letters on varnished wood.

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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is my job, or at least part of it.

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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Based on experience of evaluating safety and engagement with women around a number of greenways and talking to women who prefer to cycle on roads rather than through quiet places which are not overlooked, and reading all the research on this.

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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Further question. Who benefits most from these routes? Women's travel is less likely to follow the traditional centre-periphery commute, so....

The periphery to centre links of the new Oxford Greenways

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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There's also a bigger issue, which is that women's mobility does not follow the traditional male commuting pattern of periphery to centre and so even the design of these routes means that they are more likely to be used by men. So, who benefits more from this investment and prosperity?

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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

No, of course not, but we do need to recognise that they are not commuting routes which are equally available to everyone. Given that this project is selling itself in terms of commuting and economic development, it does need to recognise that safety is an issue.

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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is the image in the Clarion article, for example. Even in cities, women would rather cycle on main roads than use safer paths through quieter areas; very few women would use this path after dark.

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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Existing bridleways and canal towpaths do not feel safe for the majority of women after dark.

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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And it's not lighting which is the issue, it's the presence of other people which makes a much bigger contribution to perceptions of safety. (I work with ATE and WWCT on this).

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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes, but that illustrative picture in the Clarion piece is not a road which is ever going to feel socially safe for women after dark, so is no use for commuting for a third of the year. So it looks very much as though this has not been considered. It only works for women if they *all* are safe

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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here is one visualisation, which is so far from oversight and other people that it's impossible to think that women will use this after darker

drawing of a cycle path with lovely rivers and nature and woodland edge planting that would never feel safe for women

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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This does not look like a cycle path which women will use for commuting, for example.

A drawing of a cycle path designed to be so far from human oversight that it is unlikely to feel safe for women and girls after dark

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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hello, was just about to tag you. While the idea sounds great, I think there are huge and unaddressed social safety issues for women - some of the illustrations do not look like safe spaces for women and there is a lot of evidence that greenways do not work for women and girls.

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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Please can someone send me the Equality Impact Assessment for this project?

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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Despite the picture, this is a development which will not necessarily benefit women. Research and engagement is clear that greenways do not feel socially safe for many women, particularly after dark, and they would prefer to cycle near a road.

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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Now that would be an extraordinary art project.

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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

...for men. Greenways have a tendency to feel socially unsafe for women and girls, particularly when they are empty or after dark. This is a project that desperately needs a good Equality Impact Assessment.

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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Rape is four times more likely to cause PTSD than combat. Where is the help for heroes for women who have been attacked - oh, instead we have idiots on social media trying to doxx and discredit them.

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Vera Fang @verafang.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m totally with you. Glossy gorgeousness. Years ago I came across a group of teens in the woods opposite my house. “I bet they’re up to no good” said the man who went on to bother them.* They were actually playing “Conkers Got Talent” which involved judging the deliciousness of various conkers

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