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Katcycle 🪈🚲 💚 @katcycle.bsky.social · Sep 23

That is indeed one of life’s eternal pleasures 😁

Katcycle 🪈🚲 💚 @katcycle.bsky.social · Aug 30

This is so important to understand. We MUST NOT let anyone get rid of our NHS, it’s just too important for us all - individually AND as a society.
youtu.be/F35MtUpjMa4?si

the shocking reality of USA healthcare that would NEVER happen in Britain

YouTube video by Girl Gone London

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The Rancid Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · Aug 26

Why are commentators spending so much time on how RefUK would go about implementing fascist policy and not enough time explaining that RefUK are fascists?

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · Aug 26

It would be messy and chaotic and crazy expensive but ultimately Reform can override courts if they have a majority and I don't see why, say, the Taliban wouldn't sign a returns agreement to get back people they would like to torture and kill. So yes it could work.

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · Aug 26

One of two very good threads by Adam on this. A startling number of people - responding, in part, by the tone set by their government - just have this very complacent 'oh, no, this plan will never work'. I mean, 1) it could but also 2) they will definitely try.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · Aug 26

Migrants didn't cut council funding. Migrants didn't cut NHS funding. Migrants didn't close youth centres. Migrants didn't sell off council houses. Migrants aren't filling our rivers with sewage.

Farage and co. will tell you to point the finger at migrants.

Don't fall for it.

MIGRANTS AREN'T THE PROBLEM
INEQUALITY IS
Green Party
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · Aug 23

Overheard at the playground:

“I’m seeing all of these parents pull up w/ their kids on cargo bikes & thinking I should try biking here next time.”

Do not underestimate the potential inspiration & motivation you might offer simply by riding your bike.

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4 bikes (3 cargo bikes) are parked at a playground

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Katcycle 🪈🚲 💚 @katcycle.bsky.social · Aug 25

We have bicycle ambulances in Manchester city centre too, I can’t help but smile whenever I see one 😁

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Katcycle 🪈🚲 💚 @katcycle.bsky.social · Aug 24

I just watched this, I love that GCN are covering this and getting input from you and other experts in their fields. 👏

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Katcycle 🪈🚲 💚 @katcycle.bsky.social · Aug 23

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Katcycle 🪈🚲 💚 @katcycle.bsky.social · Aug 11

The problem is that a lot of them are not using e-bikes, but unregistered, unlicensed and therefore illegal electric motorbikes.
And as they’re not classed as employees, not protected by employment laws around health & safety, so there are no checks on their bikes, for either safety or legality.

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Katcycle 🪈🚲 💚 @katcycle.bsky.social · Aug 11

Not just for over 70s please! I was diagnosed with glaucoma in both eyes last year at the age of 58, and I was surprised that I had to report it to the DVLA myself. I did, of course.
And all is not lost - I had a further test, and have a new licence that needs to be renewed every 3 years.

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Katcycle 🪈🚲 💚 @katcycle.bsky.social · Aug 11

This is important to understand. For example, those people who MUST GET IN FRONT (dangerously) of the bike that they see as slow and ‘holding them up’. They’re falling for this, rather than understanding that their overall journey time will not be affected by more than a couple of minutes, at most.

Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · Aug 11

I don't think most people understand how our brains have adjusted to the high speeds of driving. What once felt fast feels normal. And thus anything slower feels like unacceptable impediment. It isn't just better insulation and shocks (although it helps - my '84 Volvo *told you* when you hit 60 mph)

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Katcycle 🪈🚲 💚 @katcycle.bsky.social · Aug 11

Oui, c’est la vérité. Je le fais tout le temps

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Pharmacist on a Pushbike @ppushbike.bsky.social · Aug 3

Really useful article summarising the data around 20mph speed limits. One to save, and send to local councillors and MPs.

Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · Aug 3

Great piece on the Welsh government’s 20mph policy by @willhaycardiff.bsky.social

“What is great about evidence based policy is that it has a wonderful habit of working”

Inspiration for England as DfT work on the promised road safety strategy.

Turns out the 20mph limit was great idea!

Two years on from the controversial policy, it's becoming increasingly clear that the doubters were wrong

willhaywardwales.substack.com

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Katcycle 🪈🚲 💚 @katcycle.bsky.social · Aug 2

So I had to take 2 buses to get there, via Altrincham. Was suddenly struck by the fact that buses exiting bus station are not prioritised over cars, it’s just a give way to get out, relying on goodwill from car drivers.
These things need sorting.
@trafford-council.bsky.social

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Katcycle 🪈🚲 💚 @katcycle.bsky.social · Aug 2

So today I needed to get to Timperley, Gtr M/cr. No bike racks in the village centre, where all the shops are, so I didn’t cycle. It’s a real shame. @walkridetrafford.bsky.social

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Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · Jul 13

The more people own cars, the more our society is built on the expectation that people will own cars, and the more people who do own cars insist that they can't do without them, and the more people who don't own cars are treated as an afterthought & an inconvenience.

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Katcycle 🪈🚲 💚 @katcycle.bsky.social · Jul 10

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Katcycle 🪈🚲 💚 @katcycle.bsky.social · Jul 10

Yes

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Cargo Bike Ben @cargobikeben.bsky.social · Jul 10

These. Aren’t. Ebikes.

They. Are. Electric. Motorbikes.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Police seize illegal e-bike modified to reach a top speed of 62mph

Merseyside Police take more than 500 of the unregistered vehicles off the streets as part of a crackdown.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Katcycle 🪈🚲 💚 @katcycle.bsky.social · Jul 10

Bravo to the driver of the black Peugeot, who perfectly waits for me to pass in the cycle lane before turning left across the lane.
Boo to the impatient driver of the white Citroën, who beeps twice at the Peugeot driver while he's waiting. The wait is only a matter of seconds.

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Katcycle 🪈🚲 💚 @katcycle.bsky.social · Jul 1

This is a v short service road + parking for a row of shops, joining the main road just beyond the white van.
I’m appalled that a speed hump has had to be installed to slow down rat-runners, who just can’t wait to join the main road, just to the right of where I’m standing.
It’s a telling detail.

Short service road with black and yellow speed bump installed a quarter of the way along it.

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Adam Tranter @adamtranter.bsky.social · Jun 28

It is 39°C in Lisbon today. The same in Madrid. In Paris next week it will also be 39°C.

Look at this picture. People are under trees, where it can be up to 12°C cooler.

Given trees take decades to mature and many don’t survive, cities need to plant many more street trees. And urgently.

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Katcycle 🪈🚲 💚 @katcycle.bsky.social · Jun 28

Oh no l, I used to use that route regularly, it was so useful.

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Katcycle 🪈🚲 💚 @katcycle.bsky.social · Jun 23

That’s awful. 😣

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Katcycle 🪈🚲 💚 @katcycle.bsky.social · Jun 21

They are fabulous 😁

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