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Dan Kelly

@deekinstow.bsky.social

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I've spent the last decade banging on about the connections between how we travel and healthier, happier lives. An edgelands regular with Sustrans since 2019.

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Dan Kelly @deekinstow.bsky.social · Dec 8

#Pavementparking is a bad habit and drivers need help quitting.

Apologists will have you believe it's about lack of space. It's not.

A white van driver has parked van partially blocking a footway, on top of double yellow lines. Immediately opposite, some 2 metres away, are parking bays with enough length to accommodate 3-4 cars. On the right are terraced homes with tiny front yards. On the left are low rise flats. The road surface is wet. The sky is grey/white.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 2d

Plug-in hybrid cars are essentially a massive fossil fuel demand protection scam enacted on well-meaning consumers trying to do the right thing

The gap between reported and real emissions is just utterly bonkers - new @transenvuk.bsky.social study here

www.transportenvironment.org/articles/smo...

Polluting and costly: growing gap between PHEV claims and reality
The gap between real world and official PHEV emissions is widening
WLTP emissions
Real-world emissions
PHEV models emissions
gCO2/km
2021
50
35
0
38
3.5 times
134
2022
33
4 times
137
2023
28
5 times
100
120
139
140
In the real world, PHEVs have similar emissions than conventional hybrids and combustion vehicles
WLTP emissions
Real-world emissions
150
139
135
166
100
PHEV
ICE and HEV
PHEV
ICE and HEV
+500€
0
20
40
60
80
PHEVs operating cost are 500€ larger than what carmakers data suggest
Source: T&E analysis of 2021-22-23 OBFCM data collected by the European Environment Agency, EEA car registrations 2021-23, EAFO, Weekly Oil Bulletin
T&E

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Dan Kelly @deekinstow.bsky.social · 1d

So good to see a #busgate on Whiston Road in #Hackney.
Bus gates:
- prioritise transport modes that makes the most efficient use of road space
- AND reduce injury risk for more vulnerable road users

Will Norman @willnorman.co.uk · 1d

Between 2019-23, 30 people were injured in collisions on Whiston Road in Hackney - including a tragic fatality.

@hackneycouncil.bsky.social has now completed their vital safety scheme, inc traffic filters & bus gates, kerb build outs & width reductions & raised tables to cut speeding.

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walkwheelcyclet.bsky.social @walkwheelcyclet.bsky.social · 9d

Our Strategy 📒

Over the next five years, we’re focusing on the activities that will help us make the biggest strides towards our 2050 goals.

Graphic showing a photo of two smiling people cycling on a path. Text reads:

Our strategic goals
1. Building a national walking, wheeling and cycling network that brings everyone closer to the places and people they love
2. Connected thriving
neighbourhoods where everyone is free to live and move with ease
3. Empowering millions to walk, wheel and cycle for their health, their wellbeing, and their world. Walk Wheel Cycle Trust.

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Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 15d

I’ve spoken to TfL workers who are terrified.

One worker told me he can’t sleep, he doesn’t know what to say to his family. Another, pregnant with her first child, fears she’ll be deported before giving birth.

You can watch my exchange with the Mayor here ⬇️

youtu.be/qxy2YbCWdWU

Loss of skilled workers in London | Caroline Russell

YouTube video by Caroline Russell

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Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 15d

I raised the devastating impact of sudden visa rule changes with the Mayor – over 200 TfL workers are at risk of deportation.

These are people who trusted the system, built lives here and are now left in limbo.

I'm glad the Mayor has committed to lobby the Government and support these workers.

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Dan Kelly @deekinstow.bsky.social · 15d

a large building is being demolished with smoke coming from it

ALT: a large building is being demolished with smoke coming from it

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Dan Kelly @deekinstow.bsky.social · 15d

Fantastic indeed.

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Accessible Streets @accessiblestreets.bsky.social · 16d

🎉🎉SUCCESS🎉🎉

New dropped kerbs installed here means that people who use a wheelchair are now able to cross this entrance way 🙌

#AccessibleStreets 🧑‍🦽🧑‍🦼🧑‍🦯

Newly installed dropped kerbs on both sides of an entrance way which interrupts the pavement

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 16d

We ask everyone outside of the car to be safe so that drivers can be dangerous.

That’s the entirety of our approach to road safety.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 16d

So the business model is dependent on theft.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Accessible Streets @accessiblestreets.bsky.social · 16d

🎉🎉SUCCESS🎉🎉

A dropped kerb with yellow tactile paving is now in place! 🙌

#AccessibleStreets 🧑‍🦽🧑‍🦼🧑‍🦯

On the far side of the junction, a new dropped kerb with yellow tactile paving has been installed for access to the pavement

On both sides of the junction, there are dropped kerbs with yellow tactile paving.

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Dan Kelly @deekinstow.bsky.social · 15d

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Dan Kelly @deekinstow.bsky.social · 15d

It has become impossible for everyday folk to divest from tech like Microsoft. A plan realised. Like motordom.

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Dan Kelly @deekinstow.bsky.social · 15d

Yes, Happy City started me on the pathway to career change. Might be time re-read it.

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚 @emilykerr36.bsky.social · 15d

Am teaching primary school ids cycling today AND saw some street art happening as I took them out. It’s like the dream!

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 15d

Table For One Please.

Happy to hear this billboard is still up in Vancouver, was a pleasure to work with @visionzerovancouver.ca.

side of a building with a billboard that says smoking tables next to non-smoking tables used to be normal too and picture of child biking beside a truck on painted bike lane

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Dan Kelly @deekinstow.bsky.social · 15d

Thought leaders at Hackney are moving in the opposite direction to filtering. I have evidence in writing from officers.

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Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 16d

The situation on cycleway 1 at Whitmore Road is just completely unworkable and it is a travesty the Hoxton LTN hasn’t been designed to fix this. There is *far* too much motor traffic for these cycle flows. Someone is going to get hurt. @sarahwoodberrydown.bsky.social @hackneylcc.bsky.social

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Active Towns @activetowns.bsky.social · 15d

“Paris is an incredible example of how a city can transform when political will meets smart data,” says one of the report’s lead authors. “We wanted to understand exactly which factors made this happen.”
momentummag.com/new-study-pa...

New Study Shows How Paris Pedaled Its Way to a Cycling Revolution

Cycling through central Paris meant weaving between buses and scooters—a bold choice reserved for the fearless few.

momentummag.com

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Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 19d

Thousands of road deaths a year caused by motor vehicles, speeding almost completely ignored by authorities, drink and drug driving at record highs and this is how you choose to spend your time, boasting about your stupid stunt and your shit marketing company on LinkedIn. Pathetic.

Idiot marketing knumskulls on LinkedIn putting boards up at traffic lights about cyclists jumping red lights

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Dan Kelly @deekinstow.bsky.social · 16d

Good spot.

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Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 16d

Eerste Sweelinckstraat, Amsterdam in 1986 and today

Then and now photo showing how the road was open to cars and had car parking on both sides, now it is a pedestrianised street with bollards stopping motor traffic from using it

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Dan Kelly @deekinstow.bsky.social · 17d

Ergh, Microsoft, reminds me of that silly film with the lumbering mobile cities with bits and people falling off whilst they crush the landscape.

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 17d

Electric cargo bikes can replace many everyday car trips for the average family and “reshape suburban family mobility”, say Oxford University researchers. 49 British households were loaned e-cargo bikes for school runs, shopping trips, family outings and other day-to-day use.

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Dan Kelly @deekinstow.bsky.social · 17d

Not US car culture. Car culture full stop.