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Tom Jeffs

@tomjeffs.bsky.social
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I work in TV on things like the World Rallycross Championship and Sky Sports, and am also a Bikeability instructor, I love cycling and cars but hate car dependency.

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Tom Jeffs @tomjeffs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The annoying thing is that on every new scheme where crossings are placed at the start of the exit, the social media experts tell us how dangerous that is - despite that being the area where collision speeds might be lowest, and visibility highest. And also where the pedestrian desire line is.
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Tom Jeffs @tomjeffs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What a stupid policy. We need to reduce car dependency, not enable it.
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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just look at the glee on Nigel Farage’s face as he watches a Piddington resident cry about the overt racism she, her Caribbean heritage husband, and their two children have felt in the village during the referendum. Time and again he’s showing us exactly who he is.
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Tom Jeffs @tomjeffs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Feel free to use Manchester's best example maps.app.goo.gl/uGRm29fBtyL1...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A macho culture of performative selfishness might start on the roads, through racing, rolling coal, ever bigger SUVs ... But it doesn't end there. If we want to live in a decent country which values human life, we need to change this culture. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Driving that’s too fast, too dangerous and utterly lawless: why do we tolerate this petro-masculinity? | George Monbiot
In towns and in the countryside, I see 4x4s and pick up trucks driven without care or consicence. It’s a Magafication of transport, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Tom Jeffs @tomjeffs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
About 35 years back I took a "wrong" turn here and ended up quite legally on the A56, which resembles a motorway. I haven't made that mistake since. maps.app.goo.gl/1s2U9LqgtQPL...
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Tom Jeffs @tomjeffs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Utd had a few good chances though, a shot off the post and a very good save kept the ball out.
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Tom Jeffs @tomjeffs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Two words everyone should know "dumb TV". Just have a screen, and let the devices you attach to it be "smart" instead.
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Tom Jeffs @tomjeffs.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
That's the guy who doesn't know what Brighton Pavilion is, who thinks it is a brand new mosque.
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Tom Jeffs @tomjeffs.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
It isn't an argument to not wear a helmet. On an individual level it's a good idea to wear one. It's an argument that there are more effective ways to improve cycle safety than suggesting everyone wears one - like physically separating motoring from cycling. And enforcing traffic laws properly.
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Tom Jeffs @tomjeffs.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
You appear to be from the USA, which is a very car-brained culture. In the UK our highways are quite different. Here, cyclists have a right to use the roads. Motorists do not.
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Steve @lollercake.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
What an absolute roaster. @therealyplac.bsky.social @yplac.bsky.social
A car, registration YD65WVW, parked on zigzags on the leadup to a pedestrian crossing, partially blocking the exit to a protected cycle lane.The same car, with a YPLAC sticker on the driver's window. There is nobody in the car.
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Tom Jeffs @tomjeffs.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"I wear a seatbelt and have multiple airbags in a car to help decelerate me in an imperfectly safe manner." And yet serious and fatal head injuries during car collisions are common. There's no reasonable argument against wearing a helmet in a car - but nobody ever considers it.
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Tom Jeffs @tomjeffs.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
There's a green hill near me that's in the greenbelt. You'd think it's an unspoiled wilderness. But it's a thin layer of soil on top of a power station slag heap.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure raping children is an impeachable offense.
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Tom Jeffs @tomjeffs.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
There used to be an informal crossing here maps.app.goo.gl/HkMqdfT5GyGD... but the council decided to block it with a guardrail. People still cross there, even with the guardrail, because there's nowhere else safe to cross either. And still, the council won't put a controlled crossing in.
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Tom Jeffs @tomjeffs.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
They want controlled burning so they can continue their pastime of driving onto moors and blowing grouse out of the sky. That's it.
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Tom Jeffs @tomjeffs.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Full sugar Dr Pepper. Not the muted weak crap stuff they sell now.
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Tom Jeffs @tomjeffs.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I think that's just the type of financial tool they were rolled up in. The slaves got fuck all.
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Tom Jeffs @tomjeffs.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
That'd be the abolition that included paying off the slave owners. In other words, everyone else paid so the rich could keep their money.
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Tom Jeffs @tomjeffs.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
There was a popular post on Reddit recently about motorists queuing to collect children at a school in Texas, I can only imagine someone linked your video as an example of a better way to do things.
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Tom Jeffs @tomjeffs.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
It's also a lie, because part of that scheme introduced a brand new car park free for anyone to use here maps.app.goo.gl/4kjPwYrJdUjA... And it winds me up how many people whinge about consultations - where was the consultation that allowed everyone to park in cycle lanes, or on the pavement?
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Tom Jeffs @tomjeffs.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"A National Highways spokesperson said: "We manage our roads to ensure the highest levels of safety while minimising disruption to drivers." I'm guessing they haven't been to the M60/Princess Parkway junction lately. Or Worsley. Or the East Lancs junction.
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Tom Jeffs @tomjeffs.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
My council (Trafford) lets you pay for a street tree outside your house. I have one, my neighbour does too. www.trafford.gov.uk/environment/... Not only do the birds like it, not only does it look nice, and not only will it provide a bit of shade - it also keeps motorists off the pavement.
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Adopt a tree | Trafford Council
We offer residents the opportunity to adopt their own street tree on the pavement outside their house or in their local park.
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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Misinformation is everywhere. Listening to Hannah Spencer you realise how cynical & targeted it is. Confirmation bias of all who oppose her leads to most believing fake news without even an attempt of double-checking the 'info' they read. All it takes is a screenshot of her shirt & a reverse search.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 09/06/2026
The most expensive taxpayer funded nap #NBAFinals
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Tom Jeffs @tomjeffs.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
@showmeasign.online might like this pic near Edenfield from the 1970s.
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Tom Jeffs @tomjeffs.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
We need Clive Warren to play Bond.
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Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Liverpool just cancelled a plan for a cycle lane because people wanted to still be able to park on pavements and drive down a street two way that isn’t wide enough for cars
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Tom Jeffs @tomjeffs.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Similar stuff in Oldham. maps.app.goo.gl/bdM9bquw6gMA...
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Tom Jeffs @tomjeffs.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
It's clearly used very frequently by lots of people. This is just Strava users. www.strava.com/maps/global-...
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
We've asked Lee Anderson to tell us about him visiting Reform UK's new Councillor Andy Arnold, Wombwell in Barnsley at his tattoo parlour. Mostly about his friend's cover-up tat. The one he got to cover up his right-facing swastika.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Community cafe demands apology from Farage for ‘intimidating’ uninvited visit
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Community cafe demands apology from Farage for ‘intimidating’ uninvited visit
Reform UK Makerfield team reportedly arrived as cafe run by people with special needs was holding celebration event
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Tom Jeffs @tomjeffs.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
This is the former schoolteacher who, post Parliament, was whinging that he could no longer find a job as a teacher?
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Tom Jeffs @tomjeffs.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
It's the ground-level infrastructure that annoys me, not the masts. Half a dozen boxes, usually plonked on the pavement, whirring away. At least that install would be on private land out of sight.
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Tom Jeffs @tomjeffs.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Not only that, but it will remember, and you'll be first in the mincer when the robots take over.
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Tom Jeffs @tomjeffs.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Very high quality and totally accessible boardwalk under construction at Dunham. Very high attention to detail, such as perfectly vertical uprights, totally unrandom undulations and curves, and plenty of space for people to pass oneanother with a huge 1m of space. maps.app.goo.gl/UuV56FVokaig...
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Tom Jeffs @tomjeffs.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
The Orville shows us that there's a demand for good Star Trek. The third season of that show is astonishingly good television.
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Tom Jeffs @tomjeffs.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
There'd almost certainly be one as the existing recently-built section south of Wigan has a shared footway throughout.
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Tom Jeffs @tomjeffs.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
www.walkridegm.org.uk/2026/03/24/s...
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Speak Up for the Fantastic Oldham Road Scheme - Walk Ride GM
Manchester City Council recently launched a consultation to gather views on proposals to transform Oldham Road for people using the Bee Network, whether taking the bus, walking, wheeling or cycling. Y...
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Tom Jeffs @tomjeffs.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
www.walkridegm.org.uk/2026/03/24/s...
walkridegm.org.uk
Speak Up for the Fantastic Oldham Road Scheme - Walk Ride GM
Manchester City Council recently launched a consultation to gather views on proposals to transform Oldham Road for people using the Bee Network, whether taking the bus, walking, wheeling or cycling. Y...
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Tom Jeffs @tomjeffs.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
I guess all those Scandinavians don't know what they're talking about then. You probably have a badly-designed system that's influencing your views on all heat pumps.
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Tom Jeffs @tomjeffs.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
"When it’s 10F outside there is no heat to extract." - absolute zero is 0K, or -273 celsius.
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Walk Ride Salford @walkridesalford.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
For the 2nd time this week Salford council have indefinitely postponed a scheme to make cycling safer at the expense of cutting a few seconds off motor journeys. This time it’s the cyclops junction at Trinity Way / Chapel St, meaning the status quo of danger will continue
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Tom Jeffs @tomjeffs.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Here's a nice @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social Ranty-Swanson kerb in Anglesey - maps.app.goo.gl/qLLe3PryDfaH...
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Tom Jeffs @tomjeffs.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
That'd be the exact section of road that's since had multiple high speed crashes.
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Tom Jeffs @tomjeffs.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
hmmm, ok, this is definitely caused by an LTN.
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Tom Jeffs @tomjeffs.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
This bridge's hi-viz vest wasn't big or bright enough. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUzk...
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Roof ripped from doubledecker bus in Greater Manchester
YouTube video by Guardian News
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Tom Jeffs @tomjeffs.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
This is the Laura Evans married to Timperley Partridge. The Laura Evans who said in a hustings that Andy Burnham "should throw himself under a bus". She's a ghoul. Oh and they drive a >4 litre Range Rover.
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Wow.
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