A road sign indicating 'No Entry except for cyclists'.
Cycling in Graz (“Austria’s cycling capital") is general good. Infrastructure is not up to Dutch standards, but here’s my top 5 things other cities could do.
Number 5: make roads one way, except for cycling.
Amazing work! @newhamcyclists.uk bigging up our Streets For Cycling local elections campaign in Newham: www.newhamrecorder.co.uk/news/2598406...
Ask your borough's next leader to commit to a safe cycling network for everyone, across the area you live, today. Takes just 1 minute: lcc.org.uk/streets
🚨 The first manifesto has been published and we've copied the key transport points to our comparison document.
As manifestos/manifesto-like documents appear over the coming weeks, we'll add to this document.
Then we'll discuss them collectively on a podcast.
We do,drmo.
Pedestrians can injure pedestrians.
Almost all pedal cycles can go at more than 25kph. E-bikes are pedal cycles nevertheless.
Perfect classifications.
Emotorbikes in one class, pedal cycles in another. This isn’t difficult. There are many explanations online.
Cities with cycling infrastructure all have emergency vehicles.
Cycling infrastructure does not exclude the disabled.
This disinformation is unhelpful. Please stop.
By a minority, yes. Change is hard. Change to your privilege harder still.
You can, but on an e-bike the assistance cuts off at 25kh. You’re confusing e-bikes with e-motorbikes. A lot of people seem to do so.
Because emotorbikes are classified as emotorbikes and pedal assist cycles are classified as e-bikes.
I’m not sure what post you replied to as I blocked them. Seems like that would be a good plan. The old place has enough of that nonsense.
Exactly what we need to do in Salisbury - let’s discuss at the Salisbury Transport strategy meeting in April
Utrecht is your model, then. Not every street will have a cycle lane and we can make some of the narrow streets cycle streets. All cycling cities have emergency vehicles. One of the challenges is imagining the right solution. There’s a model out there.
A car trapped on tram tracks in an area where cars cannot go.
The new tram extension to Millennium Point opened this morning. And then day 613 of the road safety emergency stepped in.
Photo credit: Peter Plisner.
Here’s the model for transforming a city in a decade. We could do the same in the UK.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Flyer with text: Birmingham CIRCLE THE CITY Group Ride First Friday of every month. 6pm Start. Meet at Hippodrome Square, Hurst Street All ages and all abilities are welcome. The more the merrier! Meet people, learn new cycle routes and enjoy the fun and freedom of cycling safely in the city.
🚲 Come join our monthly cycle around Birmingham City Centre. Open to all ages and abilities. Every first Friday of the month, 6pm start from (currently) Hippodrome Square on Hurst Street. We look forward to welcoming you! 🙂
It will take years. Probably decades. That’s why we need to continue the pressure. Not doing so, will mean it won’t happen.
2 cars parked on a shared use cycleway and footway.
A silver skoda estate car parked on a cycleway restricting use for everyone else due to the lamppost and bus stop.
The same section of cycleway which now has clearway signs up prohibiting parking.
I cant claim the credit, but I have complained to the council about cars being parked on the cycleway along the A194 or tesco on south Shields several times over the kast year.
Parking along there has now been banned and its a clearway.
Well done South Tyneside Council 👏👏
Great new Streetscapes documentary about how Groningen (NL) implemented a controversial traffic circulation plan, half a century ago, and how it transformed the city into the pleasant place it is now.
youtu.be/bgKokpZMFnU?...
👨💻 It’s quick and easy to apply for a grant from the Share The Joy Fund, just head to our website and get all the info there: bit.ly/4jXxZGn
We need you to lend your support to Oldham Road.
Help this scheme over the hill of hysteria (learn more about that here: www.walkridegm.org.uk/2024/11/01/m...).
Have your say by 29 March and Choose Choice here: www.walkridegm.org.uk/2026/03/24/s...
CGI showing the proposed street layout for Oldham Road looking south towards the Northern Quarter. There are bus lanes and cycle lanes added alongside high quality footways
Choose Choice.
Don't wake up in 6 months to learn that the proposal to give people genuine transport choice along this North Manchester corridor has cancelled in favour of car-choked roads and unreliable bus times.
Have your say by 29 March and Choose Choice: www.walkridegm.org.uk/2026/03/24/s...
Great interview
“Changing a city is complicated, because even the most progressive people don’t want to alter their habits. To succeed, you have to have a strategy, be determined and, yes, accept being unpopular.”
So it turns out the real scandal of the Gorton and Denton by-election was the willingness of media organisations to collude in Nigel Farage's attempt to undermine the result of a free and fair election
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/how-the-bb...
Funding has to come from elsewhere, and any infrastructure improvements gets delivered by BCC.
There is progress, though. The new Langley development will have separated cycling infrastructure throughout, and there's a group looking at how to route to existing areas and on the to town centre.
There’s broad areas of spend and the results of the consultation. It would not have been possible to identify specific projects in the time. We now need to make sure we spend the money on worthwhile projects. Active travel was a clear priority in the consultation.
Sutton Coldfield’s Pride in Place Regeneration Plan, including the active travel investment, has been approved. That’s good news. suttoncoldfieldtowncouncil.gov.uk/government-e...
Photos from a high-speed railway journey between Shenzhen and Xiamen, including the stations, as well as interior and exterior shots of the modern train.
Photos from a high-speed railway journey between Shenzhen and Xiamen, including the stations, as well as interior and exterior shots of the modern train.
Photos from a high-speed railway journey between Shenzhen and Xiamen, including the stations, as well as interior and exterior shots of the modern train.
Photos from a high-speed railway journey between Shenzhen and Xiamen, including the stations, as well as interior and exterior shots of the modern train.
China’s high-speed rail is the largest and most intensely used system on the planet; boasting over 50,000 km of track linking 97% of cities above 500,000 people at speeds of 350 km/h.
Today’s proof: comfortably gliding from Shenzhen to Xiamen, a distance of nearly 600 km, in just under three hours.
