Steve Knattress
@cycleoptic.bsky.social
“retired" broadcast technical editor. Islington, North London.
Campaigning for a safer London for cycling and walking.
https://m.youtube.com/@cycleoptic
Everything is possible, somethings just take longer than others !
Opinions my own
Campaigning for a safer London for cycling and walking.
https://m.youtube.com/@cycleoptic
Everything is possible, somethings just take longer than others !
Opinions my own
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And it would have been gone years ago, if it wasn't for Conservative Westminster Council's injunction, 3 days before shovels were to be in the ground.
@camdencyclists.bsky.social
camdencyclists.org.uk/campaigns/cu...
@camdencyclists.bsky.social
camdencyclists.org.uk/campaigns/cu...
Swiss Cottage Gyratory
Following CRIM on Link 26 and buses consultation in July 2007, we started a campaign against the gyratory; renewed in context of CSH11 and again in Safer Junctions review 2012- 2013.
camdencyclists.org.uk
November 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
And it would have been gone years ago, if it wasn't for Conservative Westminster Council's injunction, 3 days before shovels were to be in the ground.
@camdencyclists.bsky.social
camdencyclists.org.uk/campaigns/cu...
@camdencyclists.bsky.social
camdencyclists.org.uk/campaigns/cu...
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Quite.
I must of missed the petition for every road junction getting tactile drop kerbs, elimination of bell mouth junctions in urban areas and better policing of the mode of transport that kills an average of 7 pedestrians and maims 104 per week...
Halt hazardous bus stops
Will you sign our petition for safe travel? We're calling for a pause on bus stops that put people with sight loss in harm's way.
act.guidedogs.org.uk
November 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Quite.
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Our swift population is in sharp decline. They've fallen by two thirds since 1995 and were added to the UK's conservation red list in 2020.
But we have a simple, low-cost solution. Tell the government that now is the time to act to save our swifts.
greens.scot/saveourswifts
But we have a simple, low-cost solution. Tell the government that now is the time to act to save our swifts.
greens.scot/saveourswifts
Safe homes for Scotland’s swifts
Safe homes for Scotland’s swifts -
greens.scot
November 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Our swift population is in sharp decline. They've fallen by two thirds since 1995 and were added to the UK's conservation red list in 2020.
But we have a simple, low-cost solution. Tell the government that now is the time to act to save our swifts.
greens.scot/saveourswifts
But we have a simple, low-cost solution. Tell the government that now is the time to act to save our swifts.
greens.scot/saveourswifts
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On my way home from Tulse Hill where cross-party campaigners @transformtulsehill.bsky.social are campaigning to get rid of a hostile-traffic clogged gyratory.
November 29, 2025 at 2:27 PM
On my way home from Tulse Hill where cross-party campaigners @transformtulsehill.bsky.social are campaigning to get rid of a hostile-traffic clogged gyratory.
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BOOM!! 100,000 signatures! Now let’s have a date for the debate
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
BOOM!! 100,000 signatures! Now let’s have a date for the debate
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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At simultaneous green junctions, all cars get a red while all cyclists get green in every direction at once. Straight, left, right, even diagonals. By separating bikes and motor traffic into different phases, this design cuts collision risk while also improving capacity and reducing waiting times.
November 29, 2025 at 1:47 PM
At simultaneous green junctions, all cars get a red while all cyclists get green in every direction at once. Straight, left, right, even diagonals. By separating bikes and motor traffic into different phases, this design cuts collision risk while also improving capacity and reducing waiting times.
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November 29, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Santa Ride 2025! - Sat 13th Dec- 1:30pm🚴♀️
Fab offer!!!
🚲 Need to move kids, shopping, kit or recycling without using the car?
OurBike’s e-cargo bikes are available locally for just £5 per hour.
Book through the app, pick up from your nearest host, and ride.
Get 2 hours off your booking with code
Fab offer!!!
🚲 Need to move kids, shopping, kit or recycling without using the car?
OurBike’s e-cargo bikes are available locally for just £5 per hour.
Book through the app, pick up from your nearest host, and ride.
Get 2 hours off your booking with code
November 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Santa Ride 2025! - Sat 13th Dec- 1:30pm🚴♀️
Fab offer!!!
🚲 Need to move kids, shopping, kit or recycling without using the car?
OurBike’s e-cargo bikes are available locally for just £5 per hour.
Book through the app, pick up from your nearest host, and ride.
Get 2 hours off your booking with code
Fab offer!!!
🚲 Need to move kids, shopping, kit or recycling without using the car?
OurBike’s e-cargo bikes are available locally for just £5 per hour.
Book through the app, pick up from your nearest host, and ride.
Get 2 hours off your booking with code
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Southwark Council is consulting on the Lower Road cycleway scheme – part of Cycleway 4 and a vital safe cycling route for us in Greenwich.
engage.southwark.gov.uk/en-GB/projec...
Survey closes 14 December.
engage.southwark.gov.uk/en-GB/projec...
Survey closes 14 December.
November 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Southwark Council is consulting on the Lower Road cycleway scheme – part of Cycleway 4 and a vital safe cycling route for us in Greenwich.
engage.southwark.gov.uk/en-GB/projec...
Survey closes 14 December.
engage.southwark.gov.uk/en-GB/projec...
Survey closes 14 December.
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If you need an excuse to join the amazing @londoncycling.bsky.social here's a good one. But really, amazing benefits and you support the work me & my team do nonstop to keep making London better, particularly for cycling.
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Does it still come with the welcome gift? It sure does, so you can still pick from either a...
💡 CatEye Lights Set
💨 Lezyne Hand Pump
🔐 Kryptonite D Lock
Join today: bit.ly/3KmhV46
November 28, 2025 at 9:54 AM
If you need an excuse to join the amazing @londoncycling.bsky.social here's a good one. But really, amazing benefits and you support the work me & my team do nonstop to keep making London better, particularly for cycling.
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🙋♂️ Want a joined up cycle network? Want safer junctions? Want more LTN's?
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LCC Membership directly funds our campaigning work to make all this happen...
👋 So take advantage of our 33% discount this Black Friday and join today: bit.ly/3KmhV46
November 27, 2025 at 11:01 AM
🙋♂️ Want a joined up cycle network? Want safer junctions? Want more LTN's?
LCC Membership directly funds our campaigning work to make all this happen...
👋 So take advantage of our 33% discount this Black Friday and join today: bit.ly/3KmhV46
LCC Membership directly funds our campaigning work to make all this happen...
👋 So take advantage of our 33% discount this Black Friday and join today: bit.ly/3KmhV46
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Seems that what is possibly the busiest cycle route in the borough was closed without warning or consideration of cyclists. #SkerneRoad
November 27, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Seems that what is possibly the busiest cycle route in the borough was closed without warning or consideration of cyclists. #SkerneRoad
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And how many more people will just not MOT their cars? There’s plenty around without tax/MOT/insurance already and limited enforcement
November 27, 2025 at 9:12 AM
And how many more people will just not MOT their cars? There’s plenty around without tax/MOT/insurance already and limited enforcement
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Looks like we're not hanging our helmets up any time soon. Our top two Dangerous Junctions have been on our to-do list for years. Nothing is happening. We need to get noisy.
@london.gov.uk and @islington-council.bsky.social need to step up
cycleislington.uk/2025/islingt...
@london.gov.uk and @islington-council.bsky.social need to step up
cycleislington.uk/2025/islingt...
Islington’s Dangerous Junctions 2020 – 2024 – Cycle Islington
cycleislington.uk
November 26, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Looks like we're not hanging our helmets up any time soon. Our top two Dangerous Junctions have been on our to-do list for years. Nothing is happening. We need to get noisy.
@london.gov.uk and @islington-council.bsky.social need to step up
cycleislington.uk/2025/islingt...
@london.gov.uk and @islington-council.bsky.social need to step up
cycleislington.uk/2025/islingt...
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Since 2011 fuel duty freeze has cost the Treasury a whopping £133bn and added to yet more climate emissions. Freezing it yet again is reckless & irresponsible #budget2025
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Since 2011 fuel duty freeze has cost the Treasury a whopping £133bn and added to yet more climate emissions. Freezing it yet again is reckless & irresponsible #budget2025
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Rachel Reeves, whose budget was almost entirely and deliberately briefed in advance of her statement, says it is "deeply disappointing" that the OBR has accidentally done the same
November 26, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Rachel Reeves, whose budget was almost entirely and deliberately briefed in advance of her statement, says it is "deeply disappointing" that the OBR has accidentally done the same
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We have "car experts" who think it's in any way sustainable to have cheaper driving and therefore more driving, who oppose any moves to make driving even a tiny bit 'worse' or more 'costly' despite the clear demographic skews of car ownership & use. We need less driving, now, fast. It's that simple.
November 26, 2025 at 11:49 AM
We have "car experts" who think it's in any way sustainable to have cheaper driving and therefore more driving, who oppose any moves to make driving even a tiny bit 'worse' or more 'costly' despite the clear demographic skews of car ownership & use. We need less driving, now, fast. It's that simple.
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8am, 1 degree C, one of London's finest LTNs and people still cycle. Provide people with safe routes, and they will cycle throughout the year. Shout out to the cyclists in shorts
November 26, 2025 at 11:05 AM
8am, 1 degree C, one of London's finest LTNs and people still cycle. Provide people with safe routes, and they will cycle throughout the year. Shout out to the cyclists in shorts
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Renewables routinely generate more than half of U.K electricity.
They also generate thousands of jobs, reduce our exposure to volatile gas prices, and allow us to stick two fingers up to fossil-fueled dictators.
Leadership is knowing the way, showing the way, AND going the way…🇬🇧♻️⚡️👷👩🔧
They also generate thousands of jobs, reduce our exposure to volatile gas prices, and allow us to stick two fingers up to fossil-fueled dictators.
Leadership is knowing the way, showing the way, AND going the way…🇬🇧♻️⚡️👷👩🔧
November 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Renewables routinely generate more than half of U.K electricity.
They also generate thousands of jobs, reduce our exposure to volatile gas prices, and allow us to stick two fingers up to fossil-fueled dictators.
Leadership is knowing the way, showing the way, AND going the way…🇬🇧♻️⚡️👷👩🔧
They also generate thousands of jobs, reduce our exposure to volatile gas prices, and allow us to stick two fingers up to fossil-fueled dictators.
Leadership is knowing the way, showing the way, AND going the way…🇬🇧♻️⚡️👷👩🔧
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PFI is where Private Investment build NHS buildings and then the NHS rents it.
The result is the NHS permanently has 'no money' because it has to pay huge rent costs and the Government goes, "Oh dear we will have to cut services."
The result is the NHS permanently has 'no money' because it has to pay huge rent costs and the Government goes, "Oh dear we will have to cut services."
November 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
PFI is where Private Investment build NHS buildings and then the NHS rents it.
The result is the NHS permanently has 'no money' because it has to pay huge rent costs and the Government goes, "Oh dear we will have to cut services."
The result is the NHS permanently has 'no money' because it has to pay huge rent costs and the Government goes, "Oh dear we will have to cut services."
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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🤝 When you join LCC, you're not just getting all the benefits that come with membership, you're also directly funding work to campaign for a London that everyone can cycle in...
🛒 So, enjoy 33% off LCC Membership this Black Friday, and become one of our 12,000 members: bit.ly/3KmhV46
🛒 So, enjoy 33% off LCC Membership this Black Friday, and become one of our 12,000 members: bit.ly/3KmhV46
November 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
🤝 When you join LCC, you're not just getting all the benefits that come with membership, you're also directly funding work to campaign for a London that everyone can cycle in...
🛒 So, enjoy 33% off LCC Membership this Black Friday, and become one of our 12,000 members: bit.ly/3KmhV46
🛒 So, enjoy 33% off LCC Membership this Black Friday, and become one of our 12,000 members: bit.ly/3KmhV46
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Proud to see London is fast becoming a cycling city ⤵️
📈 Daily journeys are 12% up from last year to 1,500,000 trips
📈 Up by more than 40% since 2019
This is just the start, we’ll continue working with partners to improve safety and invest in more routes.
📈 Daily journeys are 12% up from last year to 1,500,000 trips
📈 Up by more than 40% since 2019
This is just the start, we’ll continue working with partners to improve safety and invest in more routes.
November 25, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Proud to see London is fast becoming a cycling city ⤵️
📈 Daily journeys are 12% up from last year to 1,500,000 trips
📈 Up by more than 40% since 2019
This is just the start, we’ll continue working with partners to improve safety and invest in more routes.
📈 Daily journeys are 12% up from last year to 1,500,000 trips
📈 Up by more than 40% since 2019
This is just the start, we’ll continue working with partners to improve safety and invest in more routes.
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Trial by jury is a cornerstone of our democracy and an essential safeguard against authoritarianism.
It is truly frightening that such a fundamental freedom is now under attack.
Once rights are lost, they are not easy to win back. We must resist this with all we’ve got.
It is truly frightening that such a fundamental freedom is now under attack.
Once rights are lost, they are not easy to win back. We must resist this with all we’ve got.
MoJ to remove right to trial by jury for thousands of cases in controversial overhaul
MoJ to remove right to trial by jury for thousands of cases in controversial overhaul
Exclusive: Courts minister says change needed to stop criminals opting for juries to delay cases, sometimes by years, and clear huge backlog
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UK politics live – latest updates
Criminals will be stopped from “gaming the system” by choosing trial by jury in order to increase the chances of proceedings collapsing, the courts minister has said, promising to enact radical changes to limit jury trials by the next election.
Drug dealers and career criminals were “laughing in the dock” knowing cases can take years to come to trial, Sarah Sackman told the Guardian, saying inaction would be a road to “chaos and ruin”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Trial by jury is a cornerstone of our democracy and an essential safeguard against authoritarianism.
It is truly frightening that such a fundamental freedom is now under attack.
Once rights are lost, they are not easy to win back. We must resist this with all we’ve got.
It is truly frightening that such a fundamental freedom is now under attack.
Once rights are lost, they are not easy to win back. We must resist this with all we’ve got.