#pavementsareforpeople
#antisocialparking
#banpavementparking
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Impressive work @ellybakeram.bsky.social @carolinerussell.bsky.social 👏👏👏
The failure to regulate uneccessary and dangerous supersized SUVs at a national & international level is leaving city leaders with little choice but to take a stand and do all they can to end #carspreading on our streets.
"...children are the canary in the coalmine for what is happening to our cities. When the city is no longer able to cater to children... places don’t die, but neither are they truly alive."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Seen this @peterwalker99.bsky.social? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Senior @theguardian.com Editor pulls every Telegraph anti LTN bingo trope going. A long rant strong on Harker's opinions stated as if fact but very short on actual evidence. It's shameful Strawman rubbish frankly.
What is he thinking. Embarrassing.
Another dodgy dossier from Blair.
In reality people are being forced to live with crap services (bus cuts anyone?) and wait for huge daily cost savings and jobs in green industries thanks to this kind of visionless hogwash. #GreenNewDeal
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Planning permission for 300,000 homes in London extant, not built. Ludicrous to blame planning. @pollytoynbee @theguardian.com
Anyway.. housing crisis is not about building. It's about affordability +OBR confirms building homes will not reduce house prices.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
British Steel can't be a one off - Labour should bring key services into public ownership
Why are we letting other countries profit from our essential public infrastructure?
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Time to take back our national assets, me for @labourlist.bsky.social 👇
labourlist.org/2025/04/nati...
The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes per year — enough to end homelessness, hunger, and pay for universal childcare.
👆🏻 This is the crime wave we should be talking more about.
London's bus speeds are at an all time low. It's time to #FreeTheBus. Bus lanes, bus gates, 'blue paths'.
Here's my piece on why TfL's plans to rely on traffic light signal changes won't work.
www.standard.co.uk/comment/tfl-...
I guess Newcastle under Lyme can look forward to a LOT more traffic ...
About 1/3 of your Thames Water bill goes to interest payments on the £15bn debt.
📢 WEBINAR: Is Government Taking London’s Housing Crisis Seriously? 🏡
Families priced out, councils struggling—what’s next?
Join:
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National and local government in the U.K. owns 7,555 hectares of surface car parks. That's enough land to build 2.1 million low-cost homes...
..where people would not have to finance car ownership
..& which don't add to global warming and air pollution
www.knightfrank.com/research/art...
So now we are solving the #HousingCrisis by building motorways.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
And yet...
At People’s Question Time last week, a woman bravely shared her story of losing her partner to road violence.
The Mayor is currently falling short of his Vision Zero target of zero deaths on London’s roads by 2041.
We need streets designed mainly for people not cars.
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Hopefully Sarah means that free parking will go and instead there will be less (and controlled) resident parking, loading bays for residents (who currently can't get anything delivered), rain gardens, bike hangars, street trees and a crossing at the children's centre 😊
As London's unemployment rate rises to 6.1% (the highest in the UK), here are the parliamentary constituencies with the highest and lowest number of unemployment benefit claimants
In London, the number of homes with planning permission, but left unbuilt, is around 290,000.
We cannot build our way out of this crisis anyway.
www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/more-th...
A very clear response from London Fire Commissioner, Andy Rowe to a question at Fire Plenary last week from Emma Best AM about the impact of LTNs on fire brigade attendance times.
"We genuinely couldn't find any evidence of LTNs doing anything to our overall attendance times".
"It's at capacity and therefore must be expanded is not an industrial strategy from a government".
Dr Alex Chapman discussing why airport expansion should not be the default option, while providing evidence to the transport select committee, earlier this week.
A graphic showing how much wider cars are getting and especially in the SUV market
Cars are getting 1cm wider every two years. That may not sound much, but over time it adds up, and they're showing no signs of slowing down 😬
That's #carspreading. Our new campaign is calling on city leaders to make parking policies fairer by varying costs based on the size of a car.
Why? 🧵1/8
Six months ago, Rachel Reeves and the Government were elected on a manifesto that stated:
'we will build more sustainable homes and create places that increase climate resilience without weakening environmental protections.'
Is it any wonder people have zero faith in politicians?
Text: Research and policy skills to help the housing movement. Join us on 29 January 3-4pm for an introduction to our research and policy clinics and a chance to tell us what you want to learn! Sessions will be on zoom.
The Homes for Us alliance is excited to be launching a new series to help housing activists develop their research and policy skills!
Find out more and sign up for the first session here: homesforus.org.uk/campaigns/bu...
Now is a good time to see the scale of sewage overspill 💩🤮
www.sewagemap.co.uk
Expanding airports are not a silver bullet for economic growth - and the damage it would incur is massive.
Our new analysis in @businessgreen.bsky.social
Read more here: neweconomics.org/2025/01/airp...
Lunchtime reading
@parkingreform.org @parkingreview
