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Simon Munk
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Head of Campaigns & Community Development, London Cycling Campaign. #ActiveTravel #HipHop #Veggie #Dad If I'm an idiot here, it's my fault.
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That reminds me to chase that up with @willnorman.co.uk...
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
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The link goes to a campaign with four strands. One of the strands is, of course, bus stops and continuous footways. I am so exhausted with the nonstop idea that cycling represents the greatest threat to humanity and needs to be designed out of existence but cars and driving is just a fact of life.
Think there already has been some discussion. Let me check.
The quiet beating heart of the entire film IMO is Del Toro. Absolutely brilliant movie I'm still riffing off more than a week later.
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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
Benicio Del Toro's sublime Sensei is the warm, revolutionary heart of the film. He's there to point out a revolutionary path through all of this chaos that 'works' - kindness, calmness, "no fear". That's how you resist 'the man' and build a progressive movement despite one battle after another.
Saw One Battle After Another at IMAX last night. www.youtube.com/watch?v=feOQ... If you liked Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice, it has similarities. It's a spectacularly good film - warm, funny, political, sharp, complex, and incredible cinematography & acting. And I wanted to say one thing...
One Battle After Another - Official Trailer - Warner Bros. UK & Ireland
YouTube video by Warner Bros. UK & Ireland
www.youtube.com
The entire case for HS2, indeed high speed rail in general, is dismissed without any explanation while demanding sympathy & simultaneously ignoring roadbuilding at £10s of bns, Lower Thames Crossing, climate crisis, freight & vehicle volumes & potential for mode shift etc. "Flimsy" pot meet kettle.
IMO David's airy rhetoric approach is sadly increasingly common. On one hand, entire teams at newspapers are beavering away clearly trying to find folks who have been impacted significantly by HS2 and even then the piece admits "the valley does also contain pylons and the busy A413". On the other...
Also cough cough Susan Hall etc. The piece asked for comment from City Hall Conservative team who stoked anti ULEZ vandals. Strangely enough no comment has been forthcoming.
This is what happens when politicians act bravely and deliver progressive change. Notable from the news story where other metro mayors are still deliberating and delaying on such measures, they still have illegal air quality issues. Cough cough Manchester & Andy Burnham, Liverpool & Birmingham...
184 years earlier than predicted, London has met the legal limits for toxic NO2 for the first time.

This historic milestone proves that bold action like expanding ULEZ works, protecting children’s health and giving millions cleaner air to breathe.
London Ulez reduced nitrogen dioxide to legal limit, mayor says
The mayor of London says the fall in airborne toxins is due to the Ultra low emission zone expansion.
www.bbc.co.uk
Back lastly on the idiotic title of this idiocy. Turning a tide is famously something you can't do despite a past English king's attempts. And of course, it's current utterly distasteful rhetoric & pandering to far right racists around small boats & immigration that Labour needs to turn away from.
Labour can turn a rising green tide is by not assuming that the sizeable majority of UK voters, who want fairly progressive politics & something done about the climate crisis, are morons with zero memory and nowhere else to put their votes. This kind of Punch & Judy politics needs to get in the sea.
Title for this Labour conference session is quite startling. Labour has lurched rightwards in an apparent attempt to stave off Reform. That approach has unsurprisingly failed. Now they want to stop a "rising Green tide" as if it's not OK to want progressive politics or to save planet. The way...
Our event ‘Turning the rising Green tide’ in partnership with Hold Fast Labour is starting now in Meeting Room 11a ACC!

Featuring @_karin_c, @johnmcternan, @BellaSankey, @ThangamDebb, and @Scarlett__Mag of @StrategyMerlin.
Oops. Outside North America. Sorry folks in US but not in North America.
Folks outside the USA who do urbanism, active travel etc. including me & @londoncycling.bsky.social. Starter pack of key follows from key follow & top urbanist @brenttoderian.bsky.social.
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Politicians, shopkeepers & landowners not getting it.
1. Car parking outside shop serves shop manager. Not shop.
2. More deckchairs < economic conditions. Make structural changes to town.
3. Stuff to 'do' not just 'buy'.
4. No big box chain rivals on outskirts
www.centreforcities.org/publication/...
Checking out: The varying performance of high streets across the country - Centre for Cities
This report identifies four key reasons why high street vacancy rates vary so much from city to city and how to improve their fortunes.
www.centreforcities.org
What is your town centre 'for' in this day & age? What does it offer you that the internet can't? And why can't politicians see that if everyone in your town is struggling, the centre will no matter how many giant deckchairs you put out? Town centres aren't a sodding mystery, despite most...
The thing about Labour levelling up and giving money to ‘smarten up town centres” is that you can paint a shop all you like but if people have no money to spend in a shop because their bills are too high and shopkeepers can’t afford the rent then your town centre will remain desolate
The far right from both sides of the pond hates London & our Mayor. Why would that be?
Is it because they're racists who can't stand the way Londoners generally just get on with each other?
Love, tolerance and diversity > racist, fascist hate.
Trump to the UN: "I have to say, I look at London where you have a terrible mayor -- terrible terrible mayor -- and it's been so changed, so changed. Now they want to go to Sharia Law ... both their immigration and their suicidal energy ideas will be the death of Western Europe."
That sir, I contend, is a perfectly reasonable question. To which I have no, I tell you, no answer.