Replying to @BrixtonHatter
Or she could have waited behind the bus.
John Stewart
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John Stewart
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Transport and Noise campaigner. Tweets in a personal capacity. [email protected]
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Joined December 2020
- The sheer joy of this is infectious. Children cycling to school in Barcelona.
00:00 - This is potentially a significant move. From yesterday all new cars in EU will have speed limiters that it will be hard to switch off. Likely to come into the UK because of the international nature of the car market:
- This very big breaking news from France. Plans to build a 4th terminal at Charles de Gaulle Airport have been dropped because they are 'inconsistent with the objectives of combating climate change & protecting the environment.'
- London’s transport prices are now the highest in the world. TFL’s ticket prices will rise from today, making London’s Tube network the most expensive public transport system across the globe.
- Times are a'changing. Leeds, former motorway capital of Britain, is consulting on a transport strategy to become city without the need for a car: yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/politics/…
- BREAKING NEWS: The judge in the West Dulwich case. Just announced judge has refused to allow Lambeth to appeal. Judgment still stands. LTN quashed with immediate effect. Council to pay up to £35k in legal costs.
- MORE BREAKING NEWS: And more good news South London council scraps planned LTN after huge outcry from residents uk.style.yahoo.com/south-london-c…
- In today’s Sunday Times Ben Fogle makes a strong case that a 60mph speed limit is too high for rural villages: “Like many small villages, we have no pavements. So for all of us the road is also our footpath, cycleway and bridleway. It is our arterial road used by ducks, dogs,
- Just published in the Times. The bus took 11 minutes before LTNs — now it takes 45 Cycle lanes and low-traffic zones have been blamed for making bus travel a misery. Mutinous drivers are on the verge of strikes. Read full article by @andrewellson below. Bus drivers in London are
- Caught on video: The academic appointed by Government to head up a review of LTNs caught on video tearing down anti-LTN poster in local shop.
- I'm all for adding colour, originality and difference to our cities. But surely road safety requires standardisation. Transport for All coordinated a letter of disability groups opposing these crossings. To cut road danger, keep it simple, keep it safe, keep it the same.
00:00 - Never before seen. And of course each bus tells a human story. Of children late home. Of appointments missed. Of shift workers stressed out. And of course of bus drivers breathing in pollution and fumes.
- This is brave, funny and couldn't highlight more clearly how pavements get taken away from pedestrians.....
