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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 1h

If someone invented a miracle pill that reduced your risk of cancer, heart disease and strokes as well as boosting mood, memory, and lifespan it would be the most popular drug ever. Except we already have it and it's called exercise, and most people can't be arsed doing it.

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 5h

I live 5min walking distance from 2 supermarkets, 2 pubs, a cinema and numerous restaurants, 10min from town, 15min from work, 30min bus ride to nearest city. Despite this, car-owing zealots seem to think I'm an idiot because I don't spend £200+ a month on a vehicle I don't need.

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Mike McKillen @mikemckillen.bsky.social · 3h

“It is highly energy-efficient, costs almost nothing, reduces congestion and pollution, and obviates the need for huge car parks. Yet it is not the self-driving electric car, as tech moguls and car industry executives imagined. Rather, it is the humble bicycle.”

www.economist.com/internationa...

Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport

Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war

www.economist.com

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Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 15h

Amazing. 100,000 members.

A new chapter for @greenparty.org.uk, and huge thanks to @zackpolanski.bsky.social, @mothinali.bsky.social and @rachelmillward.bsky.social our new leadership team.

join.greenparty.org.uk

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Cllr Emma Garnett @greenpartyemma.bsky.social · 16h

🥳🎉🪅🎉🥳

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Green party reaches 100,000 members for first time after Polanski becomes leader

Green party in England and Wales has had near-50% rise in membership since Zack Polanski took over last month The Greens in England and Wales have more than 100,000 members for the first time, the party has announced, a near-50% rise since Zack Polanski took over as leader last month. It puts them on a potential course to overtake the Conservatives and comes little more than a week after the Greens announced they had moved past the Liberal Democrats in membership numbers, getting to 83,500. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 16h

The UK needs an expanding rail network. www.bigissue.com/news/housing...

Could building new train stations help get Britain back on track?

Why we need to build new train stations – and how they could improve issues from the housing crisis to poor health.

www.bigissue.com

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Kirsten de Vos 🚶🏻‍♀️💚🚲🍃 @kirstendevos.bsky.social · 1d

3+ years #carfree for me too 🚶🏻‍♀️🚲🚌🚖

Walk, ride, public transport, and the occasional car share (Co-Wheels) or taxi when needed. Honestly? It’s nowhere near as hard as we thought it would be

Still saving money, still getting places, still feeling good.
#CarFree #NoRegrets #ActiveTravel #BrumbyBike

A woman (me!) wearing a red jacket is standing next to her bike beside a street sign which reads ‘Carless Avenue’

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Will is too honest to ever be an MP 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.bsky.social · 1d

Climate change? Nah, it's just a hoax, isn't it?

(For clarification, this message is ironic)

ECIU @eciu.net · 1d

England sees second worst harvest on record, analysis shows

England has seen its second worst harvest on record, according to an analysis of Government figures, after the country’s hottest spring and summer on record as well as the driest spring in more than 100 years.
buff.ly/ip0wwGL

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Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 2d

👏 Something for Bristol to be proud of.

Not sure there are quite 900 groups here but there are a lot and many local bars, Talk Clubs etc have their own groups. Wonder how key the harbour is to sustaining these social running clubs? It provides a central, all-weather, traffic free and flat circuit

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TODERIAN UrbanWORKS Inc. (TUW) @toderianuw.bsky.social · 2d

Switzerland is “rich in something vanishingly rare in the rest of the world: common sense. This is most apparent in the way the Swiss get around…a model of sensible, sustainable — and yes, even enjoyable — transit. It’s simply the best transportation system in the world.” Via @taras-grescoe.com

Anatomy of the Swiss Revolution

How Switzerland Engineered Itself into Becoming the World's Greatest Transit Nation

www.highspeed.blog

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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 1d

Raft of legal changes to back new cycling infrastructure signed into law

A wide range of legal changes relating to cycling and other transport-related changes have been signed into law by the Minister for Transport, Darragh O'Brien. The changes range from giving legislative backing to relatively…

Raft of legal changes to back new cycling infrastructure signed into law

A wide range of legal changes relating to cycling and other transport-related changes have been signed into law by the Minister for Transport, Darragh O'Brien. The changes range from giving legislative backing to relatively minor details, such as square cycle lane markings called "elephant's feet", to more radical changes which will allow for the trialling of a French-style yielding system for people cycling at traffic lights.

irishcycle.com

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American Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 2d

A perfect illustration of which "lifestyle" actually imposes itself on public space, public safety, and the public purse.

Jfrisco @jfrisco.bsky.social · 2d

Hold my beer...

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Mike Hudema @mikehudema.bsky.social · 2d

There are 26,000 polar bears left on the planet. By the end of the century, climate change could bring them to extinction as the melting of the Arctic increases: buff.ly/3HnL4Yi

There is no time to wait. #ActOnClimate

#climate #energy #biodiversity #rewilding #SDGs

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Mike Cookson 🔶 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mikecookson.bsky.social · 2d

When public transport runs at 7mph but the Mayor wants to spend 3/4 billion on saving drivers a few seconds, you know what their real priorities are.

Always follow the money, not the press release.

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Will is too honest to ever be an MP 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.bsky.social · 2d

It's 2025. How on earth are there STILL people who believe widening roads will fix congestion?

Lewis Mumford said in 1955 "Building more roads to prevent congestion is like a fat man loosening his belt to prevent obesity”

Why don't you follow evidence?

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Graeme Holdsworth 🦋 @fatherhilarious.blog · 2d

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Cars. Lots of them. Queuing on an American spaghetti of tarmac.

𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 3d

“We assume that car use is an incompressible liquid that must be routed somewhere. But it’s more more like a gas that fills whatever space it is given.”

—Ian Lockwood, Harvard Loeb Fellow, transport planner.

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Alison Hill @dralisonhill.bsky.social · 2d

Wonderful! Another little step towards reducing motor traffic in Oxford.

Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 7d

A freight interchange between delivery trucks and cargo bikes is planned for Oxford Parkway car park. Shipments will be delivered to the “micro consolidation hub” every morning, then taken into Oxford and Kidlington by electric cargo bike.

The underused cycle parking at Oxford Parkway proposed for conversion to a bike freight hub – Google Street View

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Jacqui B @ashbycloudtrail.bsky.social · 2d

www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

No right of way: how more than 30,000 footpaths have been blocked

Thousands of waymarked routes have been deliberately obstructed or fallen victim to neglect as council budgets dwindle and staff have been axed

www.thetimes.com

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Engineer Like A Girl @engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social · 2d

I think it's always interesting to reframe stats to the cost of NOT doing the thing.

20's Plenty for Us @20splenty.bsky.social · 2d

In Wales, Cornwall, Edinburgh, London and so many places when most 30mph roads were changed to 20mph, people injured or killed by motor vehicles reduced by 20%+. With minimal change to journey times and £2bn saving in insurance costs it's a huge win. bit.ly/4gIBPlJ

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 2d

80% SNP voters in the 2024 General Election say climate and the environment important to them in determining how to vote
www.thenational.scot/news/2553465...

SNP and Labour warned that ditching eco policies will cost them votes

THE SNP and Labour have been warned that abandoning environmentally-friendly policies will lose them votes according to new polling.

www.thenational.scot

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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · 3d

Subcontinental solar surge.

India races ahead with record solar surge, installing 17.5 GW between April and August 2025 - more than double last year’s pace. The boom is driven by cheap modules, strong demand and a 143 GW project pipeline.

https://f.mtr.cool/ncbzkponcc

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Justin @ediparolev.bsky.social · 3d

Everyone should call it Farage’s Brexit. He should be inseparable from its failure.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 3d

Nigel Farage's Brexit smashing it again.

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Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 3d

Loved welcoming the @londoncycling.bsky.social women’s network to Isljngton Town Hall last night. Lots of idea sharing, networking and general joy about riding bikes. 😍

London Cycling Campaign @londoncycling.bsky.social · 3d

A fantastic evening yesterday - women coming together to discuss tackling London's cycling gender gap 🚲 🚲

This was the first time the LCC Women's Network has convened its associate member organisations. Watch out London, and watch this space... 👀