A key approach by boroughs and TfL has been treating the most dangerous junctions.
But on Soho's side streets, like so many in Westminster, we'll need more than tackling a handful of junctions. We will need to build on the 20mph speed limit with much better street design here and across the city.
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*Driver.
For most people, being behind the wheel of a car is the time we are most easily able to maim and kill other people, and also the time we are most likely to get away with it, whatever the circumstances.
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The many cyclists in our fair borough...
As we head full pelt into election season, it’s pretty😯🤪🤯to think how far things have come in @citywestminster.bsky.social . For decades, this borough was the "missing link" in London’s cycle network. In 2026, it is starting to become the heart of it. Here’s why the shift here matters👇
the second worst part of any car journey is traffic
the worst part is realising you are the traffic
Here’s the transport pitch from the Conservatives hoping to take back Westminster Council. A key promise is to spend several hundred thousand pounds on a legal challenge to the Mayor’s Oxford Street pedestrianisation without having identified any argument that a challenge could be based on.
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Westminster Council ‘is the knife-edge London result everyone will be watching’
An election expert has said that all eyes will be on Westminster City Council -- where results balance on “a knife-edge” -- at the upcoming local elections. The Central London council turned red at the 2022 local…
New southbound cycle track
A trip on Monday around some of the recent Westminster changes.
First a new southbound cycle track @safecycleldn.bsky.social among the improvements around the Seven Dials area.
@edmondchuihw.bsky.social @raynoldchow.bsky.social
Thanks flagged this snag to the team !
quaint stuff right?
Tim wanted to see some of the new infrastructure that’s been going in, and you’ll be pleased to know @maxsullivan.bsky.social
that this NY free skater was a fan!
Here he is skating on Stanhope Place.
Tim came over last weekend, to join Dom Whiting’s Drum N Bass … 3/8
Me and John on bikes
Me and John close up
This weekend, I was treated to a wonderful tour of the Royal Docks Corridor – an area that has 6 KM of protected cycle lanes in London 💫💫
I was invited by the Deputy Cabinet Member for Highways and Transport in Newham, John Morris
@plaistovian.bsky.social
and it was a proper adventure. … 1/19
The Government has proposed updates to school meal standards to support healthier choices:
🍎 More fruit, veg & wholegrains
🍎 Less high-sugar & deep-fried options
🍎 Focus on balanced & nutritious meals
A public consultation is now open ⤵️ www.gov.uk/government/n...
Westminster Labour have launched our manifesto for the local elections. If elected this is what we'll do on TRANSPORT:
1) Reduce to zero the children killed or seriously injured on Westminster roads by 2030 by designing for safer motor vehicle speeds, volumes and reduced rat-running routes.
Two train sections, one each along the length of the photo, both inside a ferry boat with a blue floor and white walls. There are yellow sections on the floor indicating safe areas to walk and highlighting the rails integrated into the floor. The trains are close together at the prow of the boat, with daylight glowing between the trains where they almost meet.
Photo taken from the deck of a boat, with a large open area to the floor below. A navy train with a red stripe has a "comfort" logo in white showing a person laying down. The floor under the train is blue with bright yellow markings. The battery on top of another train section it in the foreground. Water and islands are visible beyond the boat.
I took an overnight train from Milan to Sicily, and the train drove onto a ferry, we all got off and enjoyed the boat, and then the train drove off the ferry.
Not at all.
You don't need a cargo bike--you just need to know where to hang the bags: maxmautner.com/2026/04/10/y...
Photo of two rails of kids tshirts. At the front of one rail a blue tshirt that says 'Let's go on a trip' with an illustration of a white airplane. At the other a white tshirt that says Beep Beep with an illustration of a red car. The illustrators signature is visible - Jason Polan
I went shopping for kids tshirts. Many depicted dinosaurs or things powered by dinosaur juice.
#NeedsMoreBike? Or just apt for the fossil fueled brink-of-extinction times we live in?
1. Humbly observe where people in your community are struggling.
2. Ask "What's the next smallest thing we can do to address that struggle *right now*?"
3. Do that thing. Right now.
4. Repeat
@clmarohn.bsky.social
A quote to live and govern by. Credit: Charles Marohn. @strongtowns.org
Road design is an announcement of policy priorities.
About whose safety and convenience matters, what public space is for, where to spend our budget, when we should take action on the climate crisis, whether or not to encourage global wars of resource extraction, etc.
It will truly be a tragedy if Westminster council falls to the Tories in May.
4/ Basically their whole pitch on transport is a confused mess. Read it on the link in their original post. Then read ours below. Then vote.
bsky.app/profile/maxs...
3/ Their transport section opens: "Westminster's streets serve 200,000 residents and over 800,000 daily visitors. Transport policy must work for all of them"
Then on 'Genuine Consultation': "We will prioritise the views of local people when making major decisions, not people from unaffected areas."
2/ Another part as you’ll hear in this video is to review all cycle lane schemes…. OK, and then? Haven’t they had ample time to review them in opposition? If they are so unpopular with residents, why not run on cancelling them all?
Here’s the transport pitch from the Conservatives hoping to take back Westminster Council. A key promise is to spend several hundred thousand pounds on a legal challenge to the Mayor’s Oxford Street pedestrianisation without having identified any argument that a challenge could be based on.
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🔴 14 Government Reforms the Media Has Largely Ignored Over Recent Weeks
You probably won’t have read much about these announcements. Some of that is understandable. But not all of it.
bylinetimes.com/2026/04/10/1...
Cllr Adam Hug, current Labour leader of Westminster City Council.
Current Westminster leader @adamhug.bsky.social says 1st ever Labour council is building 15km of Cycleways currently & if re-elected "will build a safe, connected cycle network across Westminster" with £12.7m funding committed for next year.
Have your candidates pledged yet? lcc.org.uk/streets ...
Seven years today since @hammersmithbridge.bsky.social closed to motor traffic. Many happy returns to all who celebrate
HI EVERYONE 🙋🏼♀️
I had the best lunch break at work yesterday, cycling around and seeing all the new cycle infrastructure changes in Westminster 🙌🏻🙌🏻
Video part one: the first new kerbed cycle lane in the borough in YONKS
Sound up for a bit of music 🎶 … 1/4
