Charlotte Baker
@cb123456.bsky.social
Climate, health and transport comms. Usually found cycling or walking somewhere.
Sun was setting as I came back - nothing like trundling along in the autumn sunshine ☀️ 🍁
November 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Sun was setting as I came back - nothing like trundling along in the autumn sunshine ☀️ 🍁
Stunning cycle commute to a work meeting today 🚲
After a year back in the New Forest, I am off *all* asthma medication, and am enjoying much better health and wellbeing ☀️
After a year back in the New Forest, I am off *all* asthma medication, and am enjoying much better health and wellbeing ☀️
November 25, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Stunning cycle commute to a work meeting today 🚲
After a year back in the New Forest, I am off *all* asthma medication, and am enjoying much better health and wellbeing ☀️
After a year back in the New Forest, I am off *all* asthma medication, and am enjoying much better health and wellbeing ☀️
My stepmum on her e-trike - she’s 76 and struggles to walk long distances, but this makes door to door trips easy!
October 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
My stepmum on her e-trike - she’s 76 and struggles to walk long distances, but this makes door to door trips easy!
Interesting policy suggestion from @transenvuk.bsky.social - Large Vehicle Levy, where cars are charged £10 per kg over 1600kg in weight (with a 400kg allowance for EVs).
Suggest it would raise £2 billion for the Treasury.
Suggest it would raise £2 billion for the Treasury.
September 16, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Interesting policy suggestion from @transenvuk.bsky.social - Large Vehicle Levy, where cars are charged £10 per kg over 1600kg in weight (with a 400kg allowance for EVs).
Suggest it would raise £2 billion for the Treasury.
Suggest it would raise £2 billion for the Treasury.
The U.K. isn’t using its tax regime to disincentivise SUV purchases.
A UK driver pays just £3200 acquisition tax on an £85k car, compared to *£66k* in France!!
As a result, 4x as many are sold here in the U.K. than France.
@transenvuk.bsky.social
A UK driver pays just £3200 acquisition tax on an £85k car, compared to *£66k* in France!!
As a result, 4x as many are sold here in the U.K. than France.
@transenvuk.bsky.social
September 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
The U.K. isn’t using its tax regime to disincentivise SUV purchases.
A UK driver pays just £3200 acquisition tax on an £85k car, compared to *£66k* in France!!
As a result, 4x as many are sold here in the U.K. than France.
@transenvuk.bsky.social
A UK driver pays just £3200 acquisition tax on an £85k car, compared to *£66k* in France!!
As a result, 4x as many are sold here in the U.K. than France.
@transenvuk.bsky.social
Shocking stats that show that adults are 17% more likely and children are *77%* more likely to suffer fatal injury if hit by an SUV, compared to a normal car.
September 16, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Shocking stats that show that adults are 17% more likely and children are *77%* more likely to suffer fatal injury if hit by an SUV, compared to a normal car.
Back to school now…it’s not just speed, but weight of cars that matters when determining outcomes of crashes…including fatalities.
September 16, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Back to school now…it’s not just speed, but weight of cars that matters when determining outcomes of crashes…including fatalities.
We are now onto the substance - and some shocking stats on SUV sales 👇
September 16, 2025 at 10:11 AM
We are now onto the substance - and some shocking stats on SUV sales 👇
Kicking off with @carltonreid.com in conversation with @sianberry.bsky.social and @barrysheerman.bsky.social - starting with a bit of history on Urban 4x4s and the campaigns against them.
This is not new! But it *is* pressing and urgent that we address SUVs in cities now.
This is not new! But it *is* pressing and urgent that we address SUVs in cities now.
September 16, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Kicking off with @carltonreid.com in conversation with @sianberry.bsky.social and @barrysheerman.bsky.social - starting with a bit of history on Urban 4x4s and the campaigns against them.
This is not new! But it *is* pressing and urgent that we address SUVs in cities now.
This is not new! But it *is* pressing and urgent that we address SUVs in cities now.
Good morning London 👋 amazing to see so many people walking and cycling to work, as I head to the @cleancitiescampaign.org Carspreading Conference on the bus 🚌 jealous that a running injury means I can’t join them!
September 16, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Good morning London 👋 amazing to see so many people walking and cycling to work, as I head to the @cleancitiescampaign.org Carspreading Conference on the bus 🚌 jealous that a running injury means I can’t join them!
Two different views of the future of deliveries in Oxford.
Both have their place - a zero emission van on the left, and a cargo trike max on the right.
Great innovation from the university to have bulk of internal mail delivered by cargo trike 🙌
Both have their place - a zero emission van on the left, and a cargo trike max on the right.
Great innovation from the university to have bulk of internal mail delivered by cargo trike 🙌
July 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Two different views of the future of deliveries in Oxford.
Both have their place - a zero emission van on the left, and a cargo trike max on the right.
Great innovation from the university to have bulk of internal mail delivered by cargo trike 🙌
Both have their place - a zero emission van on the left, and a cargo trike max on the right.
Great innovation from the university to have bulk of internal mail delivered by cargo trike 🙌
Southampton is not always the most beautiful city from a public realm perspective - it’s a busy port city that’s often car dominated 🚗
But this piece of public realm design is genuinely very nice 👌
And great to see it being used by kids, playing with friends on a summer’s eve ☀️
But this piece of public realm design is genuinely very nice 👌
And great to see it being used by kids, playing with friends on a summer’s eve ☀️
July 4, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Southampton is not always the most beautiful city from a public realm perspective - it’s a busy port city that’s often car dominated 🚗
But this piece of public realm design is genuinely very nice 👌
And great to see it being used by kids, playing with friends on a summer’s eve ☀️
But this piece of public realm design is genuinely very nice 👌
And great to see it being used by kids, playing with friends on a summer’s eve ☀️
Some personal news! 👇
July 2, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Some personal news! 👇
Need to take your parents’ suitcases home from the station? No car? No problem! 😌
As ever, our @ternbicycles.com cargo bike doing the heavy lifting 💪
#bikeisbest
As ever, our @ternbicycles.com cargo bike doing the heavy lifting 💪
#bikeisbest
July 1, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Need to take your parents’ suitcases home from the station? No car? No problem! 😌
As ever, our @ternbicycles.com cargo bike doing the heavy lifting 💪
#bikeisbest
As ever, our @ternbicycles.com cargo bike doing the heavy lifting 💪
#bikeisbest
Cycling is a joyful, practical and fun way to move from A to B ❤️
Love this photo I snapped in Toulouse on Saturday, which just encompasses everything cycling can and should be ☺️
#bikeisbest
Love this photo I snapped in Toulouse on Saturday, which just encompasses everything cycling can and should be ☺️
#bikeisbest
June 30, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Cycling is a joyful, practical and fun way to move from A to B ❤️
Love this photo I snapped in Toulouse on Saturday, which just encompasses everything cycling can and should be ☺️
#bikeisbest
Love this photo I snapped in Toulouse on Saturday, which just encompasses everything cycling can and should be ☺️
#bikeisbest
Toulouse is alive tonight for the national rugby final, which features the home side 🏉
People are walking, cycling, scooting and wheeling everywhere. Cars just don’t feature.
Fantastic vibrant, liveable city 🌆 💚
People are walking, cycling, scooting and wheeling everywhere. Cars just don’t feature.
Fantastic vibrant, liveable city 🌆 💚
June 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Toulouse is alive tonight for the national rugby final, which features the home side 🏉
People are walking, cycling, scooting and wheeling everywhere. Cars just don’t feature.
Fantastic vibrant, liveable city 🌆 💚
People are walking, cycling, scooting and wheeling everywhere. Cars just don’t feature.
Fantastic vibrant, liveable city 🌆 💚
Lac de la Cavayere, just outside Carcassonne, has a protected bike lane running almost all the way to this popular local attraction, connecting to nearby quiet ways 👌
This is incredibly rare in rural attractions near small towns in the U.K. - but should be the norm!
This is incredibly rare in rural attractions near small towns in the U.K. - but should be the norm!
June 26, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Lac de la Cavayere, just outside Carcassonne, has a protected bike lane running almost all the way to this popular local attraction, connecting to nearby quiet ways 👌
This is incredibly rare in rural attractions near small towns in the U.K. - but should be the norm!
This is incredibly rare in rural attractions near small towns in the U.K. - but should be the norm!
Loved seeing this cool micro mobility option in Carcassonne ‘new town’ today 🤩
It’s electric, free to use and takes people from the traffic-calmed centre to drop off points around the perimeter, usually bus stops 🚌
Saw lots of older people using it to shop today! 🛒
It’s electric, free to use and takes people from the traffic-calmed centre to drop off points around the perimeter, usually bus stops 🚌
Saw lots of older people using it to shop today! 🛒
June 24, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Loved seeing this cool micro mobility option in Carcassonne ‘new town’ today 🤩
It’s electric, free to use and takes people from the traffic-calmed centre to drop off points around the perimeter, usually bus stops 🚌
Saw lots of older people using it to shop today! 🛒
It’s electric, free to use and takes people from the traffic-calmed centre to drop off points around the perimeter, usually bus stops 🚌
Saw lots of older people using it to shop today! 🛒
The whole city centre is like this - and it’s wonderful!
June 22, 2025 at 11:57 AM
The whole city centre is like this - and it’s wonderful!
From June to September every year, the Pont St-Pierre in Toulouse is transformed for walking, cycling and wheeling, with shady seating areas and colourful street design 🚴♀️ 🚶🏽 🦽
Amazing and inspiring to see 💚
Amazing and inspiring to see 💚
June 22, 2025 at 11:27 AM
From June to September every year, the Pont St-Pierre in Toulouse is transformed for walking, cycling and wheeling, with shady seating areas and colourful street design 🚴♀️ 🚶🏽 🦽
Amazing and inspiring to see 💚
Amazing and inspiring to see 💚
Also loved to see this refrigerated cargo bike, delivering to the local oyster bar! 💚
June 22, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Also loved to see this refrigerated cargo bike, delivering to the local oyster bar! 💚
We’ve seen many families like this today.
Toulouse is France’s 4th city and has a population the equivalent of Sheffield.
I’ve seen this in Bordeaux, Lyon and other French cities - we could do this in the U.K too.
Toulouse is France’s 4th city and has a population the equivalent of Sheffield.
I’ve seen this in Bordeaux, Lyon and other French cities - we could do this in the U.K too.
June 22, 2025 at 9:41 AM
We’ve seen many families like this today.
Toulouse is France’s 4th city and has a population the equivalent of Sheffield.
I’ve seen this in Bordeaux, Lyon and other French cities - we could do this in the U.K too.
Toulouse is France’s 4th city and has a population the equivalent of Sheffield.
I’ve seen this in Bordeaux, Lyon and other French cities - we could do this in the U.K too.
Good morning from Toulouse - where streets are for people, cargo bikes are everywhere, and cars are guests.
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June 22, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Good morning from Toulouse - where streets are for people, cargo bikes are everywhere, and cars are guests.
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Big week for us, as it’s the first full week that our new solar panels have been operational ☀️
For the past week, we have imported virtually *nothing* from the grid, using exclusively solar, either directly or via our battery 👌
Heat pump coming next month - excited for the impact on our bills! 🙂
For the past week, we have imported virtually *nothing* from the grid, using exclusively solar, either directly or via our battery 👌
Heat pump coming next month - excited for the impact on our bills! 🙂
May 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Big week for us, as it’s the first full week that our new solar panels have been operational ☀️
For the past week, we have imported virtually *nothing* from the grid, using exclusively solar, either directly or via our battery 👌
Heat pump coming next month - excited for the impact on our bills! 🙂
For the past week, we have imported virtually *nothing* from the grid, using exclusively solar, either directly or via our battery 👌
Heat pump coming next month - excited for the impact on our bills! 🙂
🫖 REFRESHMENTS AT KEW ECOFAIR 🥣
Joining us at St Luke’s Church, Kew this Saturday 22nd March?
We’ve got a host of delicious refreshments, from soup and jacket potatoes, to tea, coffee and cake 🍰
See you there! 👋
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Joining us at St Luke’s Church, Kew this Saturday 22nd March?
We’ve got a host of delicious refreshments, from soup and jacket potatoes, to tea, coffee and cake 🍰
See you there! 👋
kewecofair.my.canva.site
March 20, 2025 at 10:18 AM
🫖 REFRESHMENTS AT KEW ECOFAIR 🥣
Joining us at St Luke’s Church, Kew this Saturday 22nd March?
We’ve got a host of delicious refreshments, from soup and jacket potatoes, to tea, coffee and cake 🍰
See you there! 👋
kewecofair.my.canva.site
Joining us at St Luke’s Church, Kew this Saturday 22nd March?
We’ve got a host of delicious refreshments, from soup and jacket potatoes, to tea, coffee and cake 🍰
See you there! 👋
kewecofair.my.canva.site