Karen Christian
@karenechristian.bsky.social
Pedestrian safety campaigner
Move more, save the NHS
Walker, active travel, car-lite, flight free, Humanist #visionzero #banpavementparking #20isplenty
Also writer and tree warden
Move more, save the NHS
Walker, active travel, car-lite, flight free, Humanist #visionzero #banpavementparking #20isplenty
Also writer and tree warden
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Looking for a walking challenge or project to complete next year? Here are 10 ideas!
buildstories.slowways.org/10-ideas-for...
#SlowWays
buildstories.slowways.org/10-ideas-for...
#SlowWays
November 27, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Looking for a walking challenge or project to complete next year? Here are 10 ideas!
buildstories.slowways.org/10-ideas-for...
#SlowWays
buildstories.slowways.org/10-ideas-for...
#SlowWays
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Why did the BBC think they should say that a woman in her 90s who has suffered serious injuries “was dressed in dark clothes”?
Do they think that is relevant? Did she in any way make this driver hit her?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Do they think that is relevant? Did she in any way make this driver hit her?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Pedestrian in serious condition after Owlthorpe crash
The woman, in her 90s, is in hospital with serious injuries after being struck by a car, police say.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Why did the BBC think they should say that a woman in her 90s who has suffered serious injuries “was dressed in dark clothes”?
Do they think that is relevant? Did she in any way make this driver hit her?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Do they think that is relevant? Did she in any way make this driver hit her?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The US State Department classified state-funded abortion services, including NHS services, as 'human rights violations'. Make no mistake, this will embolden the UK's anti-choice Christian Nationalist movement, hell-bent on reversing women's rights. humanists.uk/2025/11/27/n...
New US policy designates NHS abortions as human rights breaches
The US State Department has classified state-funded abortion services, including those provided by the NHS, as human rights violations that it will report on in its annual Country Reports on Human Rig...
humanists.uk
November 27, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The US State Department classified state-funded abortion services, including NHS services, as 'human rights violations'. Make no mistake, this will embolden the UK's anti-choice Christian Nationalist movement, hell-bent on reversing women's rights. humanists.uk/2025/11/27/n...
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"It’s ludicrous that aviation doesn’t pay fuel tax, especially now that Rachel Reeves is making noises about a tax on electric vehicles. If we’re looking for easy wins for revenue, just look to the skies."
~ Flight Free UK Director Anna Hughes in the Guardian today 👇
~ Flight Free UK Director Anna Hughes in the Guardian today 👇
End the tax break that makes flying cheaper than trains | Letters
Letters: Airlines benefit from a tax system that helps them keep fares low, writes Anna Hughes
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:15 AM
"It’s ludicrous that aviation doesn’t pay fuel tax, especially now that Rachel Reeves is making noises about a tax on electric vehicles. If we’re looking for easy wins for revenue, just look to the skies."
~ Flight Free UK Director Anna Hughes in the Guardian today 👇
~ Flight Free UK Director Anna Hughes in the Guardian today 👇
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For the first time this winter, watch live pup-dates from a solar powered seal-cam inside England’s largest grey seal colony at Blakeney Point, Norfolk Coast. Watch live and find out more at buff.ly/xQkMSUP
Thanks to @seamammalresearch for latest data.
📷 Hanne Siebers, Richard Steer
Thanks to @seamammalresearch for latest data.
📷 Hanne Siebers, Richard Steer
November 20, 2025 at 7:00 AM
For the first time this winter, watch live pup-dates from a solar powered seal-cam inside England’s largest grey seal colony at Blakeney Point, Norfolk Coast. Watch live and find out more at buff.ly/xQkMSUP
Thanks to @seamammalresearch for latest data.
📷 Hanne Siebers, Richard Steer
Thanks to @seamammalresearch for latest data.
📷 Hanne Siebers, Richard Steer
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I dunno, convert some of the endless paved space reserved for cars into green space that can absorb water, maybe?
Sorry, forget it. That could result in a car owner being inconvenienced, which would of course be far worse than the flooding of our cities and towns.
Sorry, forget it. That could result in a car owner being inconvenienced, which would of course be far worse than the flooding of our cities and towns.
Is there anything we can do to alleviate flash floods in the West Midlands
Experts say housebuilding and concrete drives are making floods worse, but that there are things we can do.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 9:22 AM
I dunno, convert some of the endless paved space reserved for cars into green space that can absorb water, maybe?
Sorry, forget it. That could result in a car owner being inconvenienced, which would of course be far worse than the flooding of our cities and towns.
Sorry, forget it. That could result in a car owner being inconvenienced, which would of course be far worse than the flooding of our cities and towns.
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It really is just simple geometry.
You cannot build a functional city if everyone brings a 2-ton living room on wheels with them.
You cannot build a functional city if everyone brings a 2-ton living room on wheels with them.
The entrance to the 3-storey bike parking garage at Utrecht Central holding 12,500 bicycles. It’s free for the first 24 hours, linked to the station, and used by tens of thousands every day. This is what happens when a country treats bikes as real transport infrastructure, not an afterthought.
November 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
It really is just simple geometry.
You cannot build a functional city if everyone brings a 2-ton living room on wheels with them.
You cannot build a functional city if everyone brings a 2-ton living room on wheels with them.
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69% of adults find it unacceptable that there may still be cars in the UK with #Dieselgate emissions defeat technology fitted.
A decade on, we're still breathing the emissions from these cars. Government needs to step up and make car manufacturers fund the recall of cars failing emissions testing.
A decade on, we're still breathing the emissions from these cars. Government needs to step up and make car manufacturers fund the recall of cars failing emissions testing.
Public do not trust car manufacturers as new Dieselgate case begins in High Court | ClientEarth
New polling shows the British public want accountability.
www.clientearth.org
November 21, 2025 at 8:03 PM
69% of adults find it unacceptable that there may still be cars in the UK with #Dieselgate emissions defeat technology fitted.
A decade on, we're still breathing the emissions from these cars. Government needs to step up and make car manufacturers fund the recall of cars failing emissions testing.
A decade on, we're still breathing the emissions from these cars. Government needs to step up and make car manufacturers fund the recall of cars failing emissions testing.
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Everyone needs to wee and poo every day.
Access to toilets should simply be a public health and accessibility issue and not dependent on other people’s views of how much you “look like” a man or a woman.
The EHRC has no clue about equalities and their priorities are shamefully discriminatory.
Access to toilets should simply be a public health and accessibility issue and not dependent on other people’s views of how much you “look like” a man or a woman.
The EHRC has no clue about equalities and their priorities are shamefully discriminatory.
"Trans people could be banned from single-sex spaces based on how they look. The Times has seen the equalities watchdog’s final guidance, which Whitehall figures fear Bridget Phillipson is delaying to avoid a political backlash" [Times]
www.thetimes.com/article/82ee...
www.thetimes.com/article/82ee...
Trans people could be banned from single-sex spaces based on how they look
The Times has seen the equalities watchdog’s final guidance, which Whitehall figures fear Bridget Phillipson is delaying to avoid a political backlash
www.thetimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Everyone needs to wee and poo every day.
Access to toilets should simply be a public health and accessibility issue and not dependent on other people’s views of how much you “look like” a man or a woman.
The EHRC has no clue about equalities and their priorities are shamefully discriminatory.
Access to toilets should simply be a public health and accessibility issue and not dependent on other people’s views of how much you “look like” a man or a woman.
The EHRC has no clue about equalities and their priorities are shamefully discriminatory.
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🚽 Today is World Toilet Day 🚽 Women use the washroom more frequently than men due to pregnancy, menstruation, caregiving, and more. With the lack of sufficient toilets, they spend longer times waiting in line, affecting their time and health. 📖 Read more at www.womeninurbanism.ca/words/washro....
November 19, 2025 at 7:07 PM
🚽 Today is World Toilet Day 🚽 Women use the washroom more frequently than men due to pregnancy, menstruation, caregiving, and more. With the lack of sufficient toilets, they spend longer times waiting in line, affecting their time and health. 📖 Read more at www.womeninurbanism.ca/words/washro....
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We need safe streets for every child, every school, every day.
#SafeStreetsNow #SchoolStreets #SafeSchoolJourneys
@solveschoolrun.bsky.social
@mumsforlungs.bsky.social
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#SafeStreetsNow #SchoolStreets #SafeSchoolJourneys
@solveschoolrun.bsky.social
@mumsforlungs.bsky.social
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Felixstowe boy hit by van calls for safer roads at Downing Street
Schoolboy Roman delivers a handwritten letter to Downing Street.
www.bbc.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
We need safe streets for every child, every school, every day.
#SafeStreetsNow #SchoolStreets #SafeSchoolJourneys
@solveschoolrun.bsky.social
@mumsforlungs.bsky.social
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#SafeStreetsNow #SchoolStreets #SafeSchoolJourneys
@solveschoolrun.bsky.social
@mumsforlungs.bsky.social
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
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🅿️ Pavement parking is dangerous. It pushes vulnerable people and children into the carriageway. That's why we're campaigning for city-wide measures to get parking back under control.
📍 Why not highlight your local hotspots on @livingstreets.bsky.social map?: www.livingstreets.org.uk/ge...
📍 Why not highlight your local hotspots on @livingstreets.bsky.social map?: www.livingstreets.org.uk/ge...
November 19, 2025 at 9:20 AM
🅿️ Pavement parking is dangerous. It pushes vulnerable people and children into the carriageway. That's why we're campaigning for city-wide measures to get parking back under control.
📍 Why not highlight your local hotspots on @livingstreets.bsky.social map?: www.livingstreets.org.uk/ge...
📍 Why not highlight your local hotspots on @livingstreets.bsky.social map?: www.livingstreets.org.uk/ge...
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Love this World Toilet Day loo-tour! 🚽
Accessible toilets shouldn’t be hit-and-miss. They’re essential for disabled people to travel with confidence. We shouldn't be stopped in our tracks because the loos we can use are locked, broken or missing.
Accessible toilets shouldn’t be hit-and-miss. They’re essential for disabled people to travel with confidence. We shouldn't be stopped in our tracks because the loos we can use are locked, broken or missing.
#WorldToiletDay is TODAY! 🚽
🔍Today, the London Loo Alliance will be touring the transport network to inspect some of TfL’s public toilet facilities to see which stations are ‘on a roll’ and which stations are ‘loos’ing out.
✅Follow @londonlooalliance.bsky.social for more details!
🔍Today, the London Loo Alliance will be touring the transport network to inspect some of TfL’s public toilet facilities to see which stations are ‘on a roll’ and which stations are ‘loos’ing out.
✅Follow @londonlooalliance.bsky.social for more details!
November 19, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Love this World Toilet Day loo-tour! 🚽
Accessible toilets shouldn’t be hit-and-miss. They’re essential for disabled people to travel with confidence. We shouldn't be stopped in our tracks because the loos we can use are locked, broken or missing.
Accessible toilets shouldn’t be hit-and-miss. They’re essential for disabled people to travel with confidence. We shouldn't be stopped in our tracks because the loos we can use are locked, broken or missing.
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The hysteria over this has been utterly insane.
No one bats an eyelids when parked cars reduce road width down to a single car width do they?
road.cc/content/news...
No one bats an eyelids when parked cars reduce road width down to a single car width do they?
road.cc/content/news...
Government shuts down "false" media claims roads to be narrowed to stop drivers overtaking cyclists, after tabloid "war on motorists" hysteria "misrepresents" latest road safety guidance
Tabloid meltdown and condemnation from motoring organisations, but Department for Transport insists "there has never been legally binding standards for road widths" and coverage was "false and misrepr...
road.cc
November 17, 2025 at 11:18 AM
The hysteria over this has been utterly insane.
No one bats an eyelids when parked cars reduce road width down to a single car width do they?
road.cc/content/news...
No one bats an eyelids when parked cars reduce road width down to a single car width do they?
road.cc/content/news...
I was out for a peaceful walk until my path was blocked by this sign. Hey, Martin Traffic Management, Wiltshire Council, @chippenhamtown.com I guess cars are more important than the safety of people who walk and wheel?
Q. If I move this sign to a patch of grass opposite, can I get in trouble?
Q. If I move this sign to a patch of grass opposite, can I get in trouble?
November 16, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I was out for a peaceful walk until my path was blocked by this sign. Hey, Martin Traffic Management, Wiltshire Council, @chippenhamtown.com I guess cars are more important than the safety of people who walk and wheel?
Q. If I move this sign to a patch of grass opposite, can I get in trouble?
Q. If I move this sign to a patch of grass opposite, can I get in trouble?
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When cities and society can take care of the needs of our oldest, youngest, and people that face the most uphill battles in life, it will indirectly take great care of all of us in between as well.
We have to make all decisions going forward that puts everything else first and car culture last.
We have to make all decisions going forward that puts everything else first and car culture last.
November 15, 2025 at 5:36 PM
When cities and society can take care of the needs of our oldest, youngest, and people that face the most uphill battles in life, it will indirectly take great care of all of us in between as well.
We have to make all decisions going forward that puts everything else first and car culture last.
We have to make all decisions going forward that puts everything else first and car culture last.
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Our most vulnerable members of society are the victims of our poor decisions to prioritize car culture, exclaiming that because robust public transit or high quality, efficient sidewalks are of no use to us in particular that our tax dollars shouldn't fund it. This is narcissistically selfish.
November 15, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Our most vulnerable members of society are the victims of our poor decisions to prioritize car culture, exclaiming that because robust public transit or high quality, efficient sidewalks are of no use to us in particular that our tax dollars shouldn't fund it. This is narcissistically selfish.
Its great to see that "shire counties" across the UK are setting 20mph as a norm for their towns and villages.
24 more communities to get 20mph limits in Westmoreland and Furness. A real improvement for residents and visitors.
24 more communities to get 20mph limits in Westmoreland and Furness. A real improvement for residents and visitors.
Statutory consultation opens for new 20mph schemes | Westmorland and Furness Council
Statutory consultation has opened on 24 community-backed 20mph speed limits across Westmorland and Furness.
www.westmorlandandfurness.gov.uk
November 15, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Look away now 🫣
Next week marks 5 years since the Government closed their consultation on pavement parking and we're still waiting for a decision.
We've received photos from across the UK highlighting pavement parking hotspots. Add your photos here👇 https://t.co/rO3Lat5JTB
Next week marks 5 years since the Government closed their consultation on pavement parking and we're still waiting for a decision.
We've received photos from across the UK highlighting pavement parking hotspots. Add your photos here👇 https://t.co/rO3Lat5JTB
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Look away now 🫣
Next week marks 5 years since the Government closed their consultation on pavement parking and we're still waiting for a decision.
We've received photos from across the UK highlighting pavement parking hotspots. Add your photos here👇 https://t.co/rO3Lat5JTB
Next week marks 5 years since the Government closed their consultation on pavement parking and we're still waiting for a decision.
We've received photos from across the UK highlighting pavement parking hotspots. Add your photos here👇 https://t.co/rO3Lat5JTB
I was feeling ever so slightly out of place at the Saxon concert last night. Then I popped to the loo and bumped into a fellow @thewaroncars.bsky.social fan. I showed off the stickers I always have on me. We talked about Bristol and the pedestrian improvements. It was the highlight of my night 😁
November 14, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I was feeling ever so slightly out of place at the Saxon concert last night. Then I popped to the loo and bumped into a fellow @thewaroncars.bsky.social fan. I showed off the stickers I always have on me. We talked about Bristol and the pedestrian improvements. It was the highlight of my night 😁
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106 people will be killed on Birmingham's roads next council term.
Along with 15 organisations, we're calling for Birmingham's future leaders to adopt 10 practical steps to prevent these deaths and many more serious injuries.
Who will make Birmingham's roads safer?
Along with 15 organisations, we're calling for Birmingham's future leaders to adopt 10 practical steps to prevent these deaths and many more serious injuries.
Who will make Birmingham's roads safer?
Will you make Birmingham's roads safer?
Better Streets joins with 15 organisations to make ten asks of tomorrow's politicians to address road safety.
betterstreetsforbirmingham.org
November 14, 2025 at 9:10 AM
106 people will be killed on Birmingham's roads next council term.
Along with 15 organisations, we're calling for Birmingham's future leaders to adopt 10 practical steps to prevent these deaths and many more serious injuries.
Who will make Birmingham's roads safer?
Along with 15 organisations, we're calling for Birmingham's future leaders to adopt 10 practical steps to prevent these deaths and many more serious injuries.
Who will make Birmingham's roads safer?
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Need to set weight limits on EVs to stop these ridiculous vehicles.
Buyers are clearly interested in Ford's electric truck. But Ford hasn't been able to get them to bite for one big reason.
The Ford F-150 Lightning's Struggles Are A Terrifying Lesson For The EV World
Shopper are clearly interested in the Lightning. But Ford hasn't been able to get them to buy, for one major reason.
insideevs.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Need to set weight limits on EVs to stop these ridiculous vehicles.
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Imagine if the tax from private jets helped fund cheap train tickets.
The richest polluters pay more, the rest of us travel greener.
That’s how you turn inequality into climate action. #ClimateCrisis #SustainableTravel #EcoTravel
The richest polluters pay more, the rest of us travel greener.
That’s how you turn inequality into climate action. #ClimateCrisis #SustainableTravel #EcoTravel
November 13, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Imagine if the tax from private jets helped fund cheap train tickets.
The richest polluters pay more, the rest of us travel greener.
That’s how you turn inequality into climate action. #ClimateCrisis #SustainableTravel #EcoTravel
The richest polluters pay more, the rest of us travel greener.
That’s how you turn inequality into climate action. #ClimateCrisis #SustainableTravel #EcoTravel
J17 Eastbound of the M4 - we always slow right down even when our light is on green because so many people go through when their light is red.
When our light turns green we always wait a few seconds before moving because there's always someone 'more important' racing to 'beat the lights' 😡
When our light turns green we always wait a few seconds before moving because there's always someone 'more important' racing to 'beat the lights' 😡
"Running a red is different. It’s a threat powered by gasoline, thousands of pounds of metal, a heavy foot and a desire to cheat the system, even for a microsecond. It’s an active threat. People die."
Take a few minutes to read this @timdonnelly.com piece on all-too-commonplace red-light running.
Take a few minutes to read this @timdonnelly.com piece on all-too-commonplace red-light running.
so uhhhhh is anyone going to do anything about the epidemic of drivers just blasting through red lights these days? @timdonnelly.com investigates: nygroove.nyc/why-does-no-...
November 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
J17 Eastbound of the M4 - we always slow right down even when our light is on green because so many people go through when their light is red.
When our light turns green we always wait a few seconds before moving because there's always someone 'more important' racing to 'beat the lights' 😡
When our light turns green we always wait a few seconds before moving because there's always someone 'more important' racing to 'beat the lights' 😡