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Smiles,this is what freedom of mobility without the burden of car dependency creates! A university student with a driver’s license, choosing to ride a bike to the gym is definitely the sensible thing! Communities worldwide need to enable this by making it safe through infrastructure! #PoliticalWill

#MyCycleMyMobilityAid #CyclingEasierThanWalking #BeyondTheBicycle

Just awful.

Map of proposed location of barriers along London Fields West Side

Example given by council of barriers creating chicane along cycle path

Example given by council of barriers creating chicane along cycle path

If you live near or visit London Fields this may be of interest to you:

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A child was hit and injured here a few years ago. While we understand the desire to improve safety, this will in effect bar users of adapted cycles / mobility scooters / cargo bikes.

Really? Discriminatory anti cycling anti mobility barriers. What on earth are they thinking at Hackney Streetscene? This is not a suitable solution to anything. consultation.hackney.gov.uk/housing-serv...

The FT endorses LTNs, better for the environment, for society and adds a premium to your property value. FT Weekend 7/8 March.

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Yep 31. Pretty much everything wrong with London buses and not a bicycle to blame anywhere on the route. But Stops Stewart & the others aren’t interested in the obvious reality, just using anything they can to further their obsessive hatred of ‘mass cycling’

Avenue Road South Hampstead - 5 lanes of one-way general motor traffic

(Also why on earth do roads like this still exist in central London? 5 lanes & not even a bus lane let alone a cycle track)

I did an agonisingly slow bus journey from Holland Park to Camden today and the only things holding up the buses were 1) Too many private cars, & 2) Endless parking/ obstructions. This isn’t complex to solve it just takes political will & bravery.

Inequality in access to grammar schools Looking at the empirical evidence on socio-economic inequalities in who goes to grammar schools.

The idea they are helping bright working class kids is also a straight up lie. Everything is stacked against less affluent people from getting in, which is why their intakes are grossly unrepresentative of the population. This is just not a serious attainment policy. www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/research...

Grammar school system does not boost grades and could be detrimental to some. - Durham University

It doesn’t actually lead to better overall attainment anyway. This is a question with an objective answer. It is an utterly discredited system & little more than a backdoor to social segregation. www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

If only it was wearing hi-vis

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They get vandalised by idiots so I guess that’s why. I assume they’re cheaper than a camera - although more obvious too. They do count bikes supposedly. The monitoring is for an LTN baseline. Agree about vision although there’s already so much cycle traffic here ‘provide’ would be real progress!

Traffic monitoring on cycleway1

Traffic monitoring on cycleway 1

Traffic monitoring on cycleway1

Great that further traffic monitoring is taking place on ‘Cycleway1’ (Whitmore Rd) in Hoxton. Firmly hoping the results are used to justify a much more comprehensive LTN here - it is crazy to mix that much cycle & motor traffic.

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It is an inevitable consequence of not offering safe infrastructure. But it is impossible to achieve the scale of change needed if you force people into this.

I’ve been arguing on Nextdoor again 😖. Why do people who insist it is literally impossible for families to get kids to football practice without a car not see they’re talking to families who already get their kids to football practice without a car? Apparently it’s ’gaslighting’ to point this out.

Mum and 2 kids cycling on the pavement outside Hnps Hackney where the road was improved but no safe cycle lanes were added

3 kids cycling on pavement outside HNPS Hackney

For every family cycling on the pavement outside my kids’ school, there are many more who just feel too unsafe to cycle at all. Really ‘solving the school run’ means being much bolder. @solveschoolrun.bsky.social

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Anchor retail park Mile End - massive surface level car park in Zone 1/2.

Drive through McDonalds City Road - I'd love to see how many car journeys this induces every day but it will be several hundred and possibly more

More examples. 24hr Drive-through McD’s on City Road must induce hundreds of daily car journeys. Anchor retail park Mile End Road, thousands.

Why is main road traffic a 'social injustice' if it’s being stopped from ratrunning, but a fact of live (or human right?) if it's picking up a burger?

There has been a campaign against this Islington scheme because people drive to the pitches. But removing these big parking / inducers of demand to drive is as important as upgrading the door-zone painted cycle lane IMO.

Comment until 8th March here:

www.letstalk.islington.gov.uk/market-road-...

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