🗳️ Later this week, Birmingham's local elections will hot up further as candidates are published.
Here's a thread of our election coverage so far, what you can do now to put safer streets and better transport at the top of candidates' agendas, and what to expect from us over the coming weeks. 🧵
Woman with short hair and glasses stands on a station platform. The sign behind her reads “Kings Heath”
Detail of a train network map showing Camp Hill line
Rail sign reads Kings Heath
Old rail station sign reads Kings Heath
It’s not every day a new train station opens just up the tracks from where you live.
Just completed the Kings Norton to Kings Heath South Brum challenge on the Camp Hill Line ❤️🚂
Graphic that says "More stops please!" on station and stop name style signage.
With three new rail stations on the Camp Hill line and two tram stops on the Eastside extension open in the last few days, we're taking the opportunity to ask for more stops please!
Nearly empty flower bed in a grassy lawn with a small tree and a tree stump. There are trees and a hedge beyond
A nearly empty flower bed between a hedge and a lawn. There are trees in the distance
S1 E1
I have two flower beds ready for planting.
I know 😀
Worn ground through some grass next to a tarmac footpath
Someone gave us pedestrian infrastructure in the wrong place so we moved it
A flattened grassy path along a grass verge along a highway
No one gave us any pedestrian infrastructure so we made our own.
Watch 👀 as drivers mount the pavement where a young mother pushes a baby, 20 metres from a primary school. This is normal in Birmingham. It’s the kind of behaviour which led to plans for an LTN in this area, which have now been abandoned by the Council after 6 years of development.
Just caught up with this excellent @brumhour.com conversation between @roifield.bsky.social and @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org's own @lucycaldicott.bsky.social.
As this positive discussion makes clear, we can have more mobility choices that improve our city for more of us.
Thank you so much for taking the time to listen and the kind comments, John!
Thanks Martin! Pleased to be working with everyone on such vital issues ✊🏼
It’s a pleasure to have @lucycaldicott.bsky.social in @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org’s committee.
Lucy steered our 1 year of the road safety emergency event and is currently preparing to launch our new manifesto asks into the world next month.
Lucy had an hour-long interview on Brum Radio y/day.
Leading teams through change doesn’t have to mean confusion, stress, and burnout.
I learned a powerful lesson years ago about maintaining trust with your team.
This week’s newsletter:
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Ah thanks Joel!
Hope all good with you xx
We don’t talk about burnout enough
I’ve written about it in this week’s newsletter ❤️
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A bright yellow sunflower fills the frame. There is grass, a hedge and trees beyond
This week’s newsletter is now out and it’s all about making the business case for joy 🌻
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I’m trying to understand all this better at the moment.
This is a crowd-sourced leaderboard ranking the different LLMs for different uses (research, text to image, coding etc)
Might help? lmarena.ai/leaderboard
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In this week’s newsletter I look at leadership in complexity where beliefs are sometimes held as being in opposition and where people are seeking black and white, not grey.
The important thing is to lead with inspiration and trust and try to find the common ground.
Have a good weekend
I hope 1 day our country and auto industry will change and these events will be a piece of history. Thanks to @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org for organising tonight's event to mark the 1 year of @brumroadsafety.bsky.social declared by council. Thoughts with the 23 victims since, including 1 today.
My speech from the @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org event to mark the first anniversary of the road safety emergency today. 🧵
Happy Friday!
This week’s newsletter is now OUT looking at why strategies should be kept simple, making wills and a mass Wuther.
Oh, and couldn’t resist mentioning the Lionesses again ❤️
Have a great weekend!
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#linkinbio #strategy #leadership
RNLI volunteers should never apologise for saving lives at sea.
The charity's legal purpose for over 2 centuries has been to do exactly that.
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"That the subjects of all nations be equally objects of the Institution, as well in war as in peace [and] that medallions or pecuniary rewards be given to those who rescue lives …"
"That an Institution can now be formed … to be supported by donations and annual subscriptions."
"That such immediate assistance be afforded to persons rescued as their necessities may require."
On 4 March 1824 at the City of London Tavern in Bishopsgate, over 30 eminent "gentlemen" put their names to the fledgling RNLI at its inaugural public meeting.
The crowd unanimously passed 12 resolutions, including:
You’re welcome!
And they could indeed 😢
A group of people holding placards with road safety slogans such as: Speeding Kills, Take it slow, No more deaths on our roads. Houses and road signs and shops beyond
A group of people on a pavement holding placards with road safety slogans such as: Speeding Kills, Take it slow, No more deaths on our roads.
A woman holding a sign which reads take it slow and a man with a sign which reads Speeding kills and a bicycle stand beside a road junction. Houses and cars are beyond them
A woman with a sign which reads Stop! Cats around. She has pictures of cats on her bag
Great to join the @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org demo in Moseley this morning. Thank you to everyone for coming.
Constant red light jumping while we were there which underlines what a dangerous junction this is.
Two people walking away down a street. Both are wearing black T shirts and dark shorts. The T shirt of the person on the left reads “Ozzy” in white letters with “up the villa” beneath and Ozzy Osbourne’s face also in white
Bunches of flowers cover a bench on a bridge with cut out figures of four men on it. The railing behind has a sign which reads Black Sabbath bridge
A mural of a man’s face in purple and black. There are bunches of flowers below. The signature Ozzy can be seen on the wall to the left in white with a clear plastic cover
A photograph of Ozzy Osbourne on an electric billboard. It reads RIP 1948-2025 on white letters
“I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that’s OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.”
RIP Ozzy
#utv
@betterstreetsforbirmingham.org doesn’t accept that road danger is inevitable.
We are campaigning for our public bodies and our politicians to work together to treat these issues with the urgency that they deserve and implement measures that will make crashes less likely.
