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Zoe Banks Gross

@zoebanksgross.bsky.social
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Healthy, sustainable places & physical activity, #cycling, #walking #running #wheeling, #greenspace #bluespace #kidicalmass #playingout #justttransition

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
To anyone who gets around Birmingham without a car, this is in no way shocking and did not require AI to report something aleady so obvious.
bbc.co.uk
AI cameras spot nearly 19,000 road offences in West Midlands
Captured images include a front-seat passenger holding a small child on her lap without a seatbelt.
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London Cycling Campaign @londoncycling.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The driver who killed Harry Webb while doing 53mph in 20mph zone has been sentenced. Fragments of nitrous oxide balloons were found in her car. Harry's father said: ‘Nobody should be killed cycling within a 20mph area in London' and called it a 'senseless road crime’. metro.co.uk/2026/10/10/l...
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Speeding driver high on laughing gas jailed for 10 years for killing student
Harry Webb, 27, was killed while cycling in Hackney by Tiffany Treanor-Johnson, who had inhaled nitrous oxide before getting behind the wheel of her Audi.
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Will Norman @willnorman.co.uk · 04/09/2026
Croydon unlawfully removed a safety scheme paid for with public money. Rightly, TfL have required the money to be repaid & paused future funding - subject to the council submitting a revised plan that meets the requirements. mylondon.news/news/transpo...
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Zoe Banks Gross @zoebanksgross.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Looks like fun 👇🏽 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
UK's most ethnically diverse trail run event coming to Bristol
The aim of the Black to the Trails event is to boost inclusion and spread "joy", organisers say.
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Zoe Banks Gross @zoebanksgross.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The pavement is for people. Walking around this monstrosity requires going into the road. You may note that this person also parked on the double yellow lines. Is it so hard to be considerate? #pavementparking
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Zoe Banks Gross @zoebanksgross.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So inconsiderate.
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Zoe Banks Gross @zoebanksgross.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I was so pleased to see the no parking zig zags get painted, but it seems that black SUV drivers are exempt from #pavementparking.
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Zoe Banks Gross @zoebanksgross.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wonder what happened here? Hope there weren’t any pedestrians involved. RIP bollard.
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Zoe Banks Gross @zoebanksgross.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
That’s terrible. With the change in weather, wet streets take longer to brake on and kids are adapting to new routines too. It should not be difficult to be considerate and careful with people’s lives.
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Solve the School Run @solveschoolrun.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Sadly such a common sight. And absolutely not acceptable. #schoolstreets #streetsforkids #carspreading
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Neil Kingsnorth @neilkingsnorth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
'Areas most at risk of extreme warming are those with the least tree cover, green space and waterways.' Once again, the solutions are both obvious and based in the ecology around us.
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Zoe Banks Gross @zoebanksgross.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We know that our summers are getting hotter, and many of our cities, including #Bristol are more vulnerable to the urban heat island effect. Green infrastructure and a landscape led approach can help keep things cooler www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Cities in Great Britain most vulnerable to extreme heat revealed
OS index examines which ‘urban heat islands’ suffer the most – and which cope the best with rising temperatures
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Greenland is melting, Ursula. Where is your fossil fuel reduction plan, Ursula? Have you forgotten already? Greenland is melting, Ursula. Hurry up, Ursula.
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Rudolf Dvořáček ☮︎ @rudolfdvoracek.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Parking on the pavement should be banned accross the UK.
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Zoe Banks Gross @zoebanksgross.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
There isn’t loads of parking nearby, but the catchment for the school is also not that wide (most people live within 1 kilometre) so actually walking from home might be the best option.
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 07/09/2026
We haven’t just changed our weather. We’ve changed the climate in which our weather happens. climatelabbook.substack.com/p/learning-f...
climatelabbook.substack.com
Learning from the summers of 1976 and 2026
We have changed the climate in which our weather happens
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Zoe Banks Gross @zoebanksgross.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This #pavementparking across from a school forced me into the carriageway this morning. The driver shouted to tell me that it was only for a few minutes while they dropped off their kid. Well, I also have a kid, and this endangers lots of people.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 04/09/2026
Revealed: how companies ‘secretly’ use billions of litres of public water in drought-hit England
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Revealed: how companies ‘secretly’ use billions of litres of public water in drought-hit England
Exclusive: As millions of people face hosepipe bans, many companies are not required to report, let alone cut, use of public supply Less than 1% of businesses in England use more water than the daily needs of 10 million people, as millions of households face hosepipe bans and three-quarters of the country is in drought. Businesses across England use 2.6bn litres a day from the public water supply, which includes potable and non-potable water provided by water companies. In total, businesses account for about 30% of public supply use, with two-thirds of their consumption in water-stressed areas, according to Mosl, the organisation that operates England’s business water market. Continue reading...
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Zoe Banks Gross @zoebanksgross.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Exactly this. Children and young people need independently mobility. This should include getting to school, but also around their neighbourhood, town or city. Blanket 20 mph can help with this.
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Clarence Eckerson Jr./Streetfilms @streetfilms.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Depressing to see 13 years ago we made a series of important @streetfilms.bsky.social about the decline of safe streets & sidewalks that allow children to go to school and meet for playtime. Simply our kids have LOST THE FREEDOM TO ROAM! @urbantruth.bsky.social @openplans.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
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STREETFACTS #4: Children Have Lost the Freedom to Roam
Think of this Streetfacts chapter as a PSA about how, in just a few generations, we have tightly restricted American kids' freedom to roam, play, and become self-sufficient. The percentage of childre...
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“El Niño is being supersized before our eyes. The science leaves no room for doubt: the planet is in uncharted waters, and those waters are heating up.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
BoM forecasts strongest El Niño on record as research points to ‘alarming’ climate change influence
Bureau of Meteorology suggests El Niño has already broken records, with Pacific Ocean temperature change exceeding 2C in six months
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Ellie Saurus @elliesaur.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Reasons to ride a bike: - Bikes are fast and get you places on time - Gives you a nice butt - Most energy efficient way to travel - Get to go whee the whole time - Virtually immune to traffic - The going whee thing, but again
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Harvey J. Miller @mobileharv.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This move will improve pedestrian safety on 70% of Japan’s streets
theguardian.com
Japan halves speed limit to 30km/h on all narrow city streets
Speed limit dropped from 60km/h for around 70% of general roads in the hope of making narrow streets of crowded cities safer
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Town and Country Planning Association @thetcpa.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🌡️ What can communities do to address the urban heat island effect, prevent overheating and make homes cooler? Following a record breaking summer, this TCPA document presents invaluable case studies for community action. buff.ly/zZ71zKz
tcpa.org.uk
Community guide to overheating
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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It is dawning on more and more cities that the public space of our streets can have more purposes than just speed and convenience for those who own cars. Local authorities everywhere have a choice before them: lead, follow, or fall behind by committing to inequality.
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Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Pleased to see Tories are still incapable of learning the lesson that “ending the war on motorists” is not an election winning stance in London, which has the highest walking & cycling rates, lowest car ownership & best public transport of anywhere in Britain. It’s like they don’t know any of this
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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
We're being dragged into a future we didn't ask for and don't want, and the response of the Westminster political class is a mixture of cowardice, indifference, and outright support for the Silicon Valley technofascists who want to steal our jobs and destroy our democracies.
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Zoe Banks Gross @zoebanksgross.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Hooray for another big #kidicalmass ride in Bristol this September! www.bristol247.com/opinion/your...
bristol247.com
'For one afternoon, children take over the roads and remind us that Bristol belongs to all of us'
In 2026, with life increasingly lived through screens, Kidical Mass is more important than ever, writes Joe Wood
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 21/08/2026
Air pollution was holding too many children back. New research shows that after the ULEZ was introduced in Central London, the share of children with clinically impaired lung function fell from 14% to 9%. Cleaner air means healthier lungs and healthier futures.
bbc.co.uk
Children's stunted lungs show recovery in ultra low emission zone
Children's lung capacity caught up with their peers in less polluted areas once a clean air zone came in, a study shows.
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Just Kevin @kevinleecaster.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
We do not discuss how much damage flying causes for some reason. I think that we should talk about that fact a lot more.
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Calder @calderwook.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
As always the fact he was killed by a driver is entirely missing from the headline and the article.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/08/2026
Cambridge University should have known better, Fleet Street should have known better, the people hungrily absorbing every bit of news about it, making newsrooms feel like they had to keep going with it as a story, should have known better, horrible horrible horrible
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Zoe Banks Gross @zoebanksgross.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
32 in Bristol right now- too hot!
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National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Please share with family and friends to get the petition to 100,000 for a parliamentary debate. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76... #NationalEmergencyBriefing
Graphic with the NEB flag logo saying the country deserves the full picture - sign the government petition for a televised briefing
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Zoe Banks Gross @zoebanksgross.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Grateful for some shady #cycling routes in #Bristol. Too hot for walking, the bike provides a breeze as well as being quicker in this 5th #heatwave.
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Zoe Banks Gross @zoebanksgross.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Now is the time to ensure we’re making sound choices. Retrofitting our cities with shade and #greeninfrastructure, and decreasing fossil fuels and resource use. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
theguardian.com
UK heatwaves may have cost economy £4.4bn in lost output so far this year, analysis finds
Verdant thinktank says cost could top £25bn a year by 2030 and calls for maximum temperature for working and urban redesign to cool down cities
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 12/08/2026
Spot the difference. We didn't 5x the Cycleways network in London overnight. It took vision, hard work, & the conviction to invest in green infrastructure - often in the face of vocal opposition. In 2016, we had 90km of Cycleways. Now we're at 450km. That's progress. And we're not stopping there.
Graphic with the headline, “London’s cycle network is now five times larger than in 2016.” The upper map is labelled “BEFORE 2016” and shows London with a small number of bright green cycle routes concentrated around central London. The lower map is labelled “AFTER 2026” and shows London with many more bright green cycle routes extending across central and outer London.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
“Here’s what we found: Every additional 100kg of vehicle weight was associated with a 6% increase in odds of pedestrian fatality. Every additional 10cm of height was associated with an 11% increase in odds of pedestrian fatality. The relationship was even stronger in lower-speed environments.”
theconversation.com
Big US-style trucks are killing more pedestrians in Australia – our research proves it
Pedestrians are more likely to be killed by heavier cars – and even more so if the vehicle is taller, Australian-first research has found.
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My morning Latté @katjaschmied.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
“Because ultimately, the success of a bike lane shouldn’t be measured only by how many cyclists use it today. It should also be measured by how many people feel comfortable enough to leave the car at home tomorrow.”
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
free range.
two cars driving with two chickens below
"Feel bad for the kids in those cages, they really should be free range"
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Tim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
This is what the #ClimateCrisis looks like in #WesternPark #Leicester
A deep crevasse in dried out clay leads to a sun bleached meadow of grass with a line of dark green trees on the horizon. Very little rain for weeks and another dry weak ahead.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Amazing how "it was determined" (by who??) that there's simply nowhere left in the world to build this data center except on protected wetland
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
New data analysis “has provided fresh evidence that cycling is the fastest inner city rush hour transport, with new findings from London showing that 2 wheels beats the tube & cars for most trips…the bike beat 92% of matched trips aligned to TfL services, as well as 75% of rush hour driving trips.”
cyclingelectric.com
Cycling again declared London’s fastest transport in new data
New data analysis from health data experts Terra and triathlon icon Alistair Brownlee has provided fresh evidence that cycling is
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
What we should grasp is that this is what Trump is *for*. It's why fossil fuel companies and the ultra-rich backed him. The kleptocracy, the cruelty, the culture wars, all these, while real & grim enough, distract us from seeing the true purpose of his presidency. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Trump administration to pay German firm $1.22bn to cut offshore wind leases
Agreement with RWE is fifth deal Trump team has made with energy companies, offering payouts to give up projects
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Zoe Banks Gross @zoebanksgross.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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‘They were told bikes were for men’: how Latin America’s city of cycling is breaking gender barriers
With less than a third of cycling journeys taken by women, Colombia’s capital, Bogotá, is installing bike lanes, teaching cycling and making sure ‘stereotypes are left behind’
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Mums for Lungs @mumsforlungs.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
We have a new Minister for Roads, Justin Madders MP. Let's make sure he hears the need to take diesel cars emitting excess nitrogen oxides off our roads loud and clear! Send your email now with our quick e-action. 💪 💚
actionnetwork.org
Act now to protect children from toxic diesel
For over 10 years, successive Governments have known that diesel cars are polluting our air far more than the law allows, and have done next to nothing about it. To date, excess emissions from diesel…
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Zoe Banks Gross @zoebanksgross.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Walking around Bristol, even on a cooler day, these are relevant.
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