Paul Luton
@paulluton.bsky.social
Chemist by education ,retired teacher, National Trust guide and Nature conservation volunteer who uses a bicycle to see the world.
Pressing for safer cycling routes so that more people can enjoy it too.
Pressing for safer cycling routes so that more people can enjoy it too.
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“Every bicycle is one less car on the road, meaning that there’s less congestion. . . The more cars we can get off the road, the more room there will be for the people who have to drive.” @davidwtrueman.bsky.social on why investing in protected bicycle infrastructure is good for everyone #BikeHFX
Halifax's temporary green bike lane posts draw criticism from cycling advocates
www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...
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Halifax's green bike lane posts draw criticism from cycling advocates
Cyclists say the green posts make bike lanes like Bell Road too narrow. HRM says the posts are temporary while permanent fix is planned.
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November 27, 2025 at 1:23 PM
“Every bicycle is one less car on the road, meaning that there’s less congestion. . . The more cars we can get off the road, the more room there will be for the people who have to drive.” @davidwtrueman.bsky.social on why investing in protected bicycle infrastructure is good for everyone #BikeHFX
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Let’s play “spot the moment the UK left the EU”
UKIP/Brexit Party/Refuk really do capture the imbeciles.
UKIP/Brexit Party/Refuk really do capture the imbeciles.
November 27, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Let’s play “spot the moment the UK left the EU”
UKIP/Brexit Party/Refuk really do capture the imbeciles.
UKIP/Brexit Party/Refuk really do capture the imbeciles.
‘We like it a lot’: how Romania created the largest deposit return scheme in the world www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘We like it a lot’: how Romania created the largest deposit return scheme in the world
In the two years since the system was launched, beverage-packaging collection and recycling has risen to 94%
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
‘We like it a lot’: how Romania created the largest deposit return scheme in the world www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Our Head of Campaigns @psimonk.bsky.social quoted in this 👇
New stats on soaring cycle trips are great, but...
“Until every borough gets with the programme, cycling’s potential in London will remain ...restricted to the fast, fit and fearless"
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New stats on soaring cycle trips are great, but...
“Until every borough gets with the programme, cycling’s potential in London will remain ...restricted to the fast, fit and fearless"
zagdaily.com/places/cycle...
Cycle journeys soar 43% in London since 2019
Cycle journeys in London have surged by 43% since 2019, Transport for London (TfL) has revealed.
zagdaily.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Our Head of Campaigns @psimonk.bsky.social quoted in this 👇
New stats on soaring cycle trips are great, but...
“Until every borough gets with the programme, cycling’s potential in London will remain ...restricted to the fast, fit and fearless"
zagdaily.com/places/cycle...
New stats on soaring cycle trips are great, but...
“Until every borough gets with the programme, cycling’s potential in London will remain ...restricted to the fast, fit and fearless"
zagdaily.com/places/cycle...
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Holy moly - Welsh Government have approved side-road zebras! www.gov.wales/written-stat...
Written Statement: Side Road Zebra Crossings in Wales | GOV.WALES
Ken Skates, Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales
www.gov.wales
November 26, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Holy moly - Welsh Government have approved side-road zebras! www.gov.wales/written-stat...
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🪷 #NovemberCountdown to the birthday of Antinous on November 27th: #Antinous as #Osiris at Vatican Museums. Like Osiris, #Antinoos died tragically in the Nile. Like Osiris, he triumphed over death as a deity. Antinous is within us ALL! The Blessing of Antinous is with us all! 🪷
November 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
🪷 #NovemberCountdown to the birthday of Antinous on November 27th: #Antinous as #Osiris at Vatican Museums. Like Osiris, #Antinoos died tragically in the Nile. Like Osiris, he triumphed over death as a deity. Antinous is within us ALL! The Blessing of Antinous is with us all! 🪷
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Ebike batteries are in the (bad) news again. Here's background from Bunch about UL certification and regulation - aka "why consumers should not have to guess whether their bikes are safe!" #cargobike #ebike #bunchfam
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November 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Ebike batteries are in the (bad) news again. Here's background from Bunch about UL certification and regulation - aka "why consumers should not have to guess whether their bikes are safe!" #cargobike #ebike #bunchfam
bunchbike.com/blogs/the-bu...
bunchbike.com/blogs/the-bu...
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Little reminder of Farage's pro Putin tendencies....
Hopefully some media outlets may take up @eddavey.libdems.org.uk 's suggestions to probe Mr Farage a bit more on this.
Is Farage saying he chose to support the wishes of a hostile foreign govt for free? 😲
#ReleaseTheRussiaReport
Hopefully some media outlets may take up @eddavey.libdems.org.uk 's suggestions to probe Mr Farage a bit more on this.
Is Farage saying he chose to support the wishes of a hostile foreign govt for free? 😲
#ReleaseTheRussiaReport
November 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Little reminder of Farage's pro Putin tendencies....
Hopefully some media outlets may take up @eddavey.libdems.org.uk 's suggestions to probe Mr Farage a bit more on this.
Is Farage saying he chose to support the wishes of a hostile foreign govt for free? 😲
#ReleaseTheRussiaReport
Hopefully some media outlets may take up @eddavey.libdems.org.uk 's suggestions to probe Mr Farage a bit more on this.
Is Farage saying he chose to support the wishes of a hostile foreign govt for free? 😲
#ReleaseTheRussiaReport
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Who is responsible here? The engineer who designed the road? The construction industry that uses these killer trucks? The government for refusing even to make sideguards mandatory, let alone regulate truck design as they do in Europe, where the rate of killing and injury has been cut in half?
A crossing guard dies in Hamilton, Ontario, due to regulatory failure and bad design
Meanwhile, in London, the government says, "safe vehicles save lives."
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November 21, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Who is responsible here? The engineer who designed the road? The construction industry that uses these killer trucks? The government for refusing even to make sideguards mandatory, let alone regulate truck design as they do in Europe, where the rate of killing and injury has been cut in half?
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CPSC Warns Consumers to Immediately Stop Using Batteries for E-Bikes from Rad Power Bikes Due to Fire Hazard; Risk of Serious Injury or Death www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/202...
November 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
CPSC Warns Consumers to Immediately Stop Using Batteries for E-Bikes from Rad Power Bikes Due to Fire Hazard; Risk of Serious Injury or Death www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/202...
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20 before and afters of streets in Paris in one minute.
November 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
20 before and afters of streets in Paris in one minute.
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24 hour bus lanes should be standard; there’s no point in increasing road capacity outside of the busy times a bus lane is needed. You might as well make them active all the time by default, then there’s no confusion. If it’s to allow parking - tough. There should be no parking on a bus corridor.
November 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
24 hour bus lanes should be standard; there’s no point in increasing road capacity outside of the busy times a bus lane is needed. You might as well make them active all the time by default, then there’s no confusion. If it’s to allow parking - tough. There should be no parking on a bus corridor.
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Over at the Daily Telegraph, they're scratching their heads as to why the former mining and steel producinv city of Gliwice in Poland is now 45% more prosperous than Darlington... and why it has new shiny infrastructure... without mentioning EU funds for urban and regional development...
November 24, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Over at the Daily Telegraph, they're scratching their heads as to why the former mining and steel producinv city of Gliwice in Poland is now 45% more prosperous than Darlington... and why it has new shiny infrastructure... without mentioning EU funds for urban and regional development...
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“Gardening is the slowest of the performing arts.”
~ Mac Griswold
🌱 #MagentaMonday🩷 #BloomScrolling 🌼 #FlowerReport 🪷 #Gardening 💜 #Zone10a
~ Mac Griswold
🌱 #MagentaMonday🩷 #BloomScrolling 🌼 #FlowerReport 🪷 #Gardening 💜 #Zone10a
November 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
“Gardening is the slowest of the performing arts.”
~ Mac Griswold
🌱 #MagentaMonday🩷 #BloomScrolling 🌼 #FlowerReport 🪷 #Gardening 💜 #Zone10a
~ Mac Griswold
🌱 #MagentaMonday🩷 #BloomScrolling 🌼 #FlowerReport 🪷 #Gardening 💜 #Zone10a
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Hooray!! It's good to hear that not every MP thinks we have to ride roughshod over nature in order to build more homes: www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/nature-... Hope #Reeves and #Starmer are listening.
Nature not an ‘enemy’ or ‘blocker’ to housebuilding, MPs find
Nature should not be viewed as an “inconvenience” to development and most housebuilding delays are for other reasons, a parliamentary committee has found.
www.insidehousing.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Hooray!! It's good to hear that not every MP thinks we have to ride roughshod over nature in order to build more homes: www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/nature-... Hope #Reeves and #Starmer are listening.
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This bus-and-cycle expressway runs directly from Nijmegen station to the university and hospital in the south of the city. People on bikes and buses get there fast without delays, while motor traffic has to take the longer route.
Priorities matter. This is what it looks like when a city means it.
Priorities matter. This is what it looks like when a city means it.
November 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This bus-and-cycle expressway runs directly from Nijmegen station to the university and hospital in the south of the city. People on bikes and buses get there fast without delays, while motor traffic has to take the longer route.
Priorities matter. This is what it looks like when a city means it.
Priorities matter. This is what it looks like when a city means it.
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You need big sticks as well as carrots.
Make driving the inconvenient choice.
Make driving the inconvenient choice.
Improving cycle infrastructure and public transport has little impact on car use, a new review finds.
Improving cycle infrastructure and public transport has little impact on car use, new review finds
These non-coercive measures need to be combined with measures such as higher driving costs or reduced car access to have an effect
road.cc
November 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
You need big sticks as well as carrots.
Make driving the inconvenient choice.
Make driving the inconvenient choice.
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When asked which leader he most admires, Farage didn't skip a beat before answering "Vladimir Putin".
Farage and Reform have been bought and paid for.
Farage and Reform have been bought and paid for.
Nathan Gill, Reform UK’s former leader in Wales has been jailed for ten-and-a-half years for taking bribes to make pro-Russia statements. What does Nigel Farage think about this?
November 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
When asked which leader he most admires, Farage didn't skip a beat before answering "Vladimir Putin".
Farage and Reform have been bought and paid for.
Farage and Reform have been bought and paid for.
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“The lesson from these junctions is that with political will, there is a way. Claims we need to ‘balance’ motor traffic, public transport, cycling, walking and wheeling, are bogus… The compromises, delays, and inaction around too many junctions are currently killing and injuring too many Londoners”
Why aren’t London’s lethal junctions being fixed faster? Transport chiefs happy with “acceptable” number of crashes to avoid impacting bus times, cycling campaigners say – as “people keep dying”
New research by the London Cycling Campaign found that the capital’s ten most dangerous junctions resulted in four cyclist deaths and 51 serious injuries between 2020 and 2024
road.cc
November 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM
“The lesson from these junctions is that with political will, there is a way. Claims we need to ‘balance’ motor traffic, public transport, cycling, walking and wheeling, are bogus… The compromises, delays, and inaction around too many junctions are currently killing and injuring too many Londoners”
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Fake speed camera has massive effect on traffic but council removes citing "legal issues."
Why not make them legal and roll them out all over ?
Why not make them legal and roll them out all over ?
November 21, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Fake speed camera has massive effect on traffic but council removes citing "legal issues."
Why not make them legal and roll them out all over ?
Why not make them legal and roll them out all over ?
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Compare and contrast the Government language.
£3,750 EV grant on a £35k car: ‘helping families’.
Cycle to Work: ‘subsidising leisure’.
And yet cycling delivers TEN TIMES the impact of electric cars for reaching net zero. It’s almost like narrative, not data, is driving policy.
£3,750 EV grant on a £35k car: ‘helping families’.
Cycle to Work: ‘subsidising leisure’.
And yet cycling delivers TEN TIMES the impact of electric cars for reaching net zero. It’s almost like narrative, not data, is driving policy.
November 21, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Compare and contrast the Government language.
£3,750 EV grant on a £35k car: ‘helping families’.
Cycle to Work: ‘subsidising leisure’.
And yet cycling delivers TEN TIMES the impact of electric cars for reaching net zero. It’s almost like narrative, not data, is driving policy.
£3,750 EV grant on a £35k car: ‘helping families’.
Cycle to Work: ‘subsidising leisure’.
And yet cycling delivers TEN TIMES the impact of electric cars for reaching net zero. It’s almost like narrative, not data, is driving policy.
Hammersmith Bridge
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Hammersmith Bridge
Where did 25,000 vehicles go?
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November 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Hammersmith Bridge
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COP30: Global health leaders demand life-saving world transition away from fossil fuels
We need to take urgent #ClimateAction right now to avoid the worst of Climate Change!
Read on: www.downtoearth.org.in/clim...
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COP30: Global health leaders demand life-saving world transition away from fossil fuels
We need to take urgent #ClimateAction right now to avoid the worst of Climate Change!
Read on: www.downtoearth.org.in/clim...
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COP30: Global health leaders demand life-saving world transition away from fossil fuels
Health and medical leaders representing millions of doctors, nurses, and students worldwide used the ongoing 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) to the
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November 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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COP30: Global health leaders demand life-saving world transition away from fossil fuels
We need to take urgent #ClimateAction right now to avoid the worst of Climate Change!
Read on: www.downtoearth.org.in/clim...
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COP30: Global health leaders demand life-saving world transition away from fossil fuels
We need to take urgent #ClimateAction right now to avoid the worst of Climate Change!
Read on: www.downtoearth.org.in/clim...
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