It's easy to get all uppity and point out that speed control is being applied to among the least dangerous and destructive modes of mobility. But what if, instead, we used this moment to (re)launch a conversation on using technology to regulate the speed of all vehicles.

Cars are taking ever more public space: Join the movement to stop cars spreading all over our streets:

I wonder whether London is moving towards Dutch levels of cycling (👏) but without building Dutch levels of parking infrastructure. If we want to future proof share bikes/cycling in the daily life of Londoners, the key is secure bike parking. Lots of it.

Reader: on this question, they really don't.

'Woke' ridicule. I'll give you some 'woke' ridicule: maybe this space-grabbing, child-menacing monster should be banned from all built-up environments?!

The real headline, of course, is that our streets and roads are being filled with monster SUVs, which represent a danger to everyone but particularly the most vulnerable road users (kids, pedestrians, cyclists). But sure let's talk about whether Jaguar's rebranding will work

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And they claim to be the Party that will keep you safe 🤔

Potholes are the banal material meeting point of climate breakdown and heavier vehicles. If you build for a future where more people have the option to get around safely by bike, you will have also addressed the pothole problem!

As we wrap up a brilliant Labour conference, @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social articulated 4 asks from government that would help local leaders roll out active travel schemes

Are bridges, filters and indicators not on the list 🤔

Cllr Forde woke up and chose violence!!

Our local paper is known as the Oxford Fail, the toxic clickbait factory of Osney Mead (due to be regenerated). The penultimate paragraph is why. The hospitals are well away from traffic filters. Needless to say, the lazy hack didn’t bother checking his facts before fabricating disinformation.

Does getting them to fold injury and death on the road into their operative sense of public safety count 😉

Time for your regular reminder that ‘A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation’ Gustavo Petro