Simon Munk
@psimonk.bsky.social
Head of Campaigns & Community Development, London Cycling Campaign. #ActiveTravel #HipHop #Veggie #Dad If I'm an idiot here, it's my fault.
Quite the thread. Quite the terrifying document. The US' National Security Strategy is openly racist, pro-Putin, anti-democratic, verges on conspiracy theorist and appears to have been dictated to ChatGPT by a 4Chan user with zero understanding of geopolitics. PS far right, Reform etc will love it.
1/ The new US National Security Strategy blames 'undemocratic' European governments for failing to make peace with Russia, takes a pro-Russian position on NATO, reflects white nationalist views on European demographics, and pledges overt support for far-right parties. ⬇️
December 5, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Quite the thread. Quite the terrifying document. The US' National Security Strategy is openly racist, pro-Putin, anti-democratic, verges on conspiracy theorist and appears to have been dictated to ChatGPT by a 4Chan user with zero understanding of geopolitics. PS far right, Reform etc will love it.
This may well prove to be a boost for @pedalme.bsky.social & Zedify etc. But it also clearly is going to be a boost for private motor vehicle ownership & therefore use in London. Really hope others step in to provide this kind of service...
Zipcar is shutting down its UK operations, basically the only car club that worked in London. Massive kick to anyone who tries to live in capital without owning a car. Having been a customer for 17 years and used Zipvans to move house repeatedly, this is.... very bad! (Zipcar is owned by Avis)
December 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
This may well prove to be a boost for @pedalme.bsky.social & Zedify etc. But it also clearly is going to be a boost for private motor vehicle ownership & therefore use in London. Really hope others step in to provide this kind of service...
THAT T-SHIRT IS TOO RED!
In today’s newsletter, we unpack what the UK Autumn Budget means for sustainable mobility. Plus, Bolt enters the AV race and London records 1.5 million daily cycling trips with progress still to unlock.
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December 1, 2025 at 10:56 AM
THAT T-SHIRT IS TOO RED!
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👨💻 Emailed the Mayor to call for safer junctions?
🚧 Urgent action is needed across London, and especially in Wandsworth, if the most dangerous junctions are going to be made safe for cycling...
📨 Email the Mayor today: bit.ly/47QcmUF
🚧 Urgent action is needed across London, and especially in Wandsworth, if the most dangerous junctions are going to be made safe for cycling...
📨 Email the Mayor today: bit.ly/47QcmUF
November 30, 2025 at 10:30 AM
👨💻 Emailed the Mayor to call for safer junctions?
🚧 Urgent action is needed across London, and especially in Wandsworth, if the most dangerous junctions are going to be made safe for cycling...
📨 Email the Mayor today: bit.ly/47QcmUF
🚧 Urgent action is needed across London, and especially in Wandsworth, if the most dangerous junctions are going to be made safe for cycling...
📨 Email the Mayor today: bit.ly/47QcmUF
>1,000 cycle 'hangars' in Waltham Forest. Amazing scenes @labourstone.bsky.social! "From 30 to 1,000 since 2015" says email. Fast catching up on frontrunners (AFAIK) Hackney, who currently have over 1,300 says their website. Secure cycle parking on residential streets in progressive boroughs FTW!
November 28, 2025 at 6:08 PM
>1,000 cycle 'hangars' in Waltham Forest. Amazing scenes @labourstone.bsky.social! "From 30 to 1,000 since 2015" says email. Fast catching up on frontrunners (AFAIK) Hackney, who currently have over 1,300 says their website. Secure cycle parking on residential streets in progressive boroughs FTW!
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.
🛍️ Black Friday is here, and to celebrate we've knocked 33% off the price of LCC Membership!
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
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Join today: bit.ly/3KmhV46
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.
This www.transportxtra.com/publications... by The Car Expert ed made me so angry I replied: www.transportxtra.com/publications...
I'm fed up of rhetoric from gov & motoring 'lobby' that we must never unfairly hurt poor drivers in pocket. That reducing "running costs for ordinary families" means...
I'm fed up of rhetoric from gov & motoring 'lobby' that we must never unfairly hurt poor drivers in pocket. That reducing "running costs for ordinary families" means...
Cutting the cost of motoring is expensive for communities
It's rare I'm ever incensed enough to write in to the august pages of respected publications such as TransportXtra, but Stewart Masson's opinion piece on t
www.transportxtra.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:49 AM
This www.transportxtra.com/publications... by The Car Expert ed made me so angry I replied: www.transportxtra.com/publications...
I'm fed up of rhetoric from gov & motoring 'lobby' that we must never unfairly hurt poor drivers in pocket. That reducing "running costs for ordinary families" means...
I'm fed up of rhetoric from gov & motoring 'lobby' that we must never unfairly hurt poor drivers in pocket. That reducing "running costs for ordinary families" means...
A true mega-city for cycling? London's doing it baby. BUT... outer London... Mayoral boldness... TfL 'business as usual' approach... appropriate funding levels? London still has some real issues and a long way to go. But this is great news!
Our @psimonk.bsky.social got rather excited about news London now seeing average 1.5 million journeys cycled daily this morning: bsky.app/profile/lond....
Now here's his slightly calmer & more detailed analysis: lcc.org.uk/news/1-5-mil... covering funding case, outer v inner London & a lot more.
Now here's his slightly calmer & more detailed analysis: lcc.org.uk/news/1-5-mil... covering funding case, outer v inner London & a lot more.
November 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
A true mega-city for cycling? London's doing it baby. BUT... outer London... Mayoral boldness... TfL 'business as usual' approach... appropriate funding levels? London still has some real issues and a long way to go. But this is great news!
The Thames & London deserves a lot better. Must read horrific investigation by @andrewkersley.bsky.social for @londonermag.bsky.social into @londonportauth.bsky.social. Lays bare literally 'toxic' culture in org. I've had couple of work encounters w PLA officers. Not a constructive experience IMO.
In August, 25,000 kilograms of ‘toxic’ tar was spilled in the Thames. Why was no-one told?
This is a saga of broken valves, anonymous whistleblowers and hundreds of undisclosed oil spills.
My investigation for @londonermag.bsky.social
www.the-londoner.co.uk/how-25-000-k...
This is a saga of broken valves, anonymous whistleblowers and hundreds of undisclosed oil spills.
My investigation for @londonermag.bsky.social
www.the-londoner.co.uk/how-25-000-k...
How 25,000 kilograms of ‘toxic’ tar was spilled in the Thames
'You start to think: hang on, if that’s floating in the water, what's that giving off?'
www.the-londoner.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The Thames & London deserves a lot better. Must read horrific investigation by @andrewkersley.bsky.social for @londonermag.bsky.social into @londonportauth.bsky.social. Lays bare literally 'toxic' culture in org. I've had couple of work encounters w PLA officers. Not a constructive experience IMO.
Lack of political will in London is perhaps most starkly visible in inaction around London's most #DangerousJunctions
1. We have 3 years in a row highlighted ratrun cluster in Wandsworth as the most dangerous in London, where ratruns cross main road cycle tracks. The same Cycle Superhighway, CS7...
1. We have 3 years in a row highlighted ratrun cluster in Wandsworth as the most dangerous in London, where ratruns cross main road cycle tracks. The same Cycle Superhighway, CS7...
NEW: INACTION CONTINUES ON DANGEROUS JUNCTIONS
📊The latest data published today, shows a picture of inaction from @mayoroflondon.bsky.social, TfL and local councils, when it comes to making junctions safe for cycling...
🧑💻 Email the mayor and demand action: bit.ly/47QcmUF
📊The latest data published today, shows a picture of inaction from @mayoroflondon.bsky.social, TfL and local councils, when it comes to making junctions safe for cycling...
🧑💻 Email the mayor and demand action: bit.ly/47QcmUF
November 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Lack of political will in London is perhaps most starkly visible in inaction around London's most #DangerousJunctions
1. We have 3 years in a row highlighted ratrun cluster in Wandsworth as the most dangerous in London, where ratruns cross main road cycle tracks. The same Cycle Superhighway, CS7...
1. We have 3 years in a row highlighted ratrun cluster in Wandsworth as the most dangerous in London, where ratruns cross main road cycle tracks. The same Cycle Superhighway, CS7...
This. This right here is years of long hard campaigning by @londoncycling.bsky.social that saved lives. Huge kudos to ex staffer Charlie Lloyd and current staffer Tom Bogdanowicz for their work instigating and maintaining this campaign through to now and beyond. #EndLorryDanger #RoadSafetyWeek
👏 Some great news to start of #RoadSafetyWeek!
🪧 Two decades of LCC campaigning helped bring in this life saving legislation to reduce blind spots in HGVs: bit.ly/4oKn05f
Safer lorries mean safer cycling for everyone on London's roads 🚲
🪧 Two decades of LCC campaigning helped bring in this life saving legislation to reduce blind spots in HGVs: bit.ly/4oKn05f
Safer lorries mean safer cycling for everyone on London's roads 🚲
New data shows that since @mayoroflondon.bsky.social
launched the Direct Vision Standard lorry safety scheme in London we've seen:
📉a 50% fall in people killed & seriously injured by HGVs
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️six fewer fatalities every year
tinyurl.com/j3475ua3
launched the Direct Vision Standard lorry safety scheme in London we've seen:
📉a 50% fall in people killed & seriously injured by HGVs
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️six fewer fatalities every year
tinyurl.com/j3475ua3
November 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
This. This right here is years of long hard campaigning by @londoncycling.bsky.social that saved lives. Huge kudos to ex staffer Charlie Lloyd and current staffer Tom Bogdanowicz for their work instigating and maintaining this campaign through to now and beyond. #EndLorryDanger #RoadSafetyWeek
This is an absolutely shockingly powerful simple read: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Reform's rhetoric on immigration is hateful, shameful. Seeing Labour effectively follow it almost as much so. Far too many Britons are chosing hate over hope, selfishness over collective society.
Reform's rhetoric on immigration is hateful, shameful. Seeing Labour effectively follow it almost as much so. Far too many Britons are chosing hate over hope, selfishness over collective society.
‘Death by a thousand cuts’: the people who could face deportation under Reform
As party’s rise fuels fears over future visa rules, people share how the lives they have built are in jeopardy
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is an absolutely shockingly powerful simple read: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Reform's rhetoric on immigration is hateful, shameful. Seeing Labour effectively follow it almost as much so. Far too many Britons are chosing hate over hope, selfishness over collective society.
Reform's rhetoric on immigration is hateful, shameful. Seeing Labour effectively follow it almost as much so. Far too many Britons are chosing hate over hope, selfishness over collective society.
This cracking commentary by @francesryan.bsky.social nails my views on politics of hopelessness. When people feel their lives, hopes, dreams are just getting worse & worse, they turn to authoritarian, populist, fascist leaders. Reform & billionaire media owners thrive off this downward spiral...
“Policies that favour the interests of the working class are disregarded as a fantasy, whereas those that push wealth and power towards the rich are seen as a realistic status quo.”
My col. on a politics and media that normalises Reform and dismisses the Greens. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My col. on a politics and media that normalises Reform and dismisses the Greens. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour’s rebuttal to the Green party this week sums up the double standard that dogs our politics | Frances Ryan
Why is it that the politics of hope offered up by the left is dismissed as naive, while the policies of the centre and right are portrayed as all that is possible? asks Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:47 AM
This cracking commentary by @francesryan.bsky.social nails my views on politics of hopelessness. When people feel their lives, hopes, dreams are just getting worse & worse, they turn to authoritarian, populist, fascist leaders. Reform & billionaire media owners thrive off this downward spiral...
Top 100 baby! Or, put another way, hugely honoured and humbled to be named in Zag Daily's 2nd annual Zag List as one of 100 "mobility changemakers" zagdaily.com/featured/the...
Not sure how "tireless" I feel right now, but we'll keep London moving forward @londoncycling.bsky.social!
Not sure how "tireless" I feel right now, but we'll keep London moving forward @londoncycling.bsky.social!
The Zag List: 100 Mobility Changemakers
In the 2nd annual edition of The Zag List, we are recognising 100 trailblazers driving the global shift toward cleaner, safer and more connected mobility worldwide.
zagdaily.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Top 100 baby! Or, put another way, hugely honoured and humbled to be named in Zag Daily's 2nd annual Zag List as one of 100 "mobility changemakers" zagdaily.com/featured/the...
Not sure how "tireless" I feel right now, but we'll keep London moving forward @londoncycling.bsky.social!
Not sure how "tireless" I feel right now, but we'll keep London moving forward @londoncycling.bsky.social!
Not sure I agree these 16 'critical safety issues' for designing for active travel all as stringent as needed, particularly vehicle speed only kicking in when 85% of vehicles on road doing 30+mph But glad @ategov.bsky.social rounded these up & updated them: www.gov.uk/government/p... Very helpful.
November 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Not sure I agree these 16 'critical safety issues' for designing for active travel all as stringent as needed, particularly vehicle speed only kicking in when 85% of vehicles on road doing 30+mph But glad @ategov.bsky.social rounded these up & updated them: www.gov.uk/government/p... Very helpful.
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🎉 Camden's new plans for Holborn are mind-blowingly good: bit.ly/4qOtVMg
Major changes for Theobalds Rd, Southampton Row, Kingsway, High Holborn & further afield. New Oxford Street & Great Ormond Street plans look like big changes for better!
Kudos Cllr @adamdkharrison.bsky.social 👏
Major changes for Theobalds Rd, Southampton Row, Kingsway, High Holborn & further afield. New Oxford Street & Great Ormond Street plans look like big changes for better!
Kudos Cllr @adamdkharrison.bsky.social 👏
November 7, 2025 at 2:36 PM
🎉 Camden's new plans for Holborn are mind-blowingly good: bit.ly/4qOtVMg
Major changes for Theobalds Rd, Southampton Row, Kingsway, High Holborn & further afield. New Oxford Street & Great Ormond Street plans look like big changes for better!
Kudos Cllr @adamdkharrison.bsky.social 👏
Major changes for Theobalds Rd, Southampton Row, Kingsway, High Holborn & further afield. New Oxford Street & Great Ormond Street plans look like big changes for better!
Kudos Cllr @adamdkharrison.bsky.social 👏
HT to @bearlypolitics.co.uk who I've been reading for a while now via Substack & rate as absolutely excellent on political analysis for summarising this absolute dunk on X/Twitter/Musk. Also huge HT to @news.sky.com for this in-depth, data-driven investigation into X/Twitter's biased algorithm...
November 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
HT to @bearlypolitics.co.uk who I've been reading for a while now via Substack & rate as absolutely excellent on political analysis for summarising this absolute dunk on X/Twitter/Musk. Also huge HT to @news.sky.com for this in-depth, data-driven investigation into X/Twitter's biased algorithm...
How did I not know this vital information?!
It occurs to me that some of you will not have seen Zohran Mamdani’s quite good 2019 rap video “Nani” which features the great Madhur Jaffrey in a starring role:
Mr. Cardamom - Nani (starring Madhur Jaffrey)
YouTube video by Mr. Cardamom
www.youtube.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
How did I not know this vital information?!
The far right anger of Reform folks, the bitterness of their pound shop racism, the idea what little we have needs protecting from folks like my parents, who came here as refugees & built lives here, the idea London & England has fallen rather than grown. They deserve contempt & ridicule...
Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.
October 25, 2025 at 8:47 AM
The far right anger of Reform folks, the bitterness of their pound shop racism, the idea what little we have needs protecting from folks like my parents, who came here as refugees & built lives here, the idea London & England has fallen rather than grown. They deserve contempt & ridicule...
Reposted by Simon Munk
Kudos again to @labourstone.bsky.social & Waltham Forest for more & more active travel in outer London. Latest: Chingford Road corridor from north circular to central Walthamstow: talk.walthamforest.gov.uk/chingford-ro... and check out the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkK7... We love to see it!
Chingford Road corridor proposals
YouTube video by Waltham Forest Council
www.youtube.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Kudos again to @labourstone.bsky.social & Waltham Forest for more & more active travel in outer London. Latest: Chingford Road corridor from north circular to central Walthamstow: talk.walthamforest.gov.uk/chingford-ro... and check out the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkK7... We love to see it!
WTAF? Some enforcement and some filtering please Camden. HT @cycleoptic.bsky.social
Why don't people who choose to cycle, use the infrastructure provided ? #C50 Randolf Street, Camden, contraflow @camdencouncil.bsky.social @camdencyclists.bsky.social
@londoncycling.bsky.social
@londoncycling.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 12:24 PM
WTAF? Some enforcement and some filtering please Camden. HT @cycleoptic.bsky.social
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"Paris, once the poster child for car-clogged boulevards and endless honking, is now rewriting the story of urban mobility—on two wheels." momentummag.com/paris-sets-a...
Paris Sets Another Record Logs 21,817 Bicycle Trips in a Single Day on One Route
Paris broke yet another series of cycling records, underscoring what many residents already feel in their daily commute.
momentummag.com
October 15, 2025 at 11:21 AM
"Paris, once the poster child for car-clogged boulevards and endless honking, is now rewriting the story of urban mobility—on two wheels." momentummag.com/paris-sets-a...
Reposted by Simon Munk
🤝 Becoming an LCC Member is the best way to support our work to make London a world class cycling city!
Join today: bit.ly/3R38Pcd
Join today: bit.ly/3R38Pcd
October 5, 2025 at 10:15 AM
🤝 Becoming an LCC Member is the best way to support our work to make London a world class cycling city!
Join today: bit.ly/3R38Pcd
Join today: bit.ly/3R38Pcd
Ah yes, but all roads justice resources should be directed at those evil scofflaw cyclists running down Visually Impaired people at bus stops nonstop everywhere. Or put another way, when law is updated for cycling and driving to match on causing death will killer cyclist sentences go down or up? Hmm
Norwich Cycling Campaign claimed the sentence was evidence that "...killing a cyclist through distraction does not carry meaningful consequences."
"Distracted driving is deadly, and sentencing must reflect that reality": Driver who killed cyclist on dual carriageway after "flurry" of phone activity avoids jail
Shayne Hill was given a 12-month suspended jail term and a 12-month driving ban by Judge Anthony Bate after admitted death by careless driving in the 2022 incident that took Cheryl Tye's life
road.cc
October 4, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Ah yes, but all roads justice resources should be directed at those evil scofflaw cyclists running down Visually Impaired people at bus stops nonstop everywhere. Or put another way, when law is updated for cycling and driving to match on causing death will killer cyclist sentences go down or up? Hmm