Cllr Emily Kerr 💚
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Green Party Cllr, Oxford. Loves active travel, sustainable fashion, EVs, car-sharing. Founded @shareourcars , don’t own car.
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My kids primary school has gone quietly vegetarian 2 days a week. This means that just 3 of the 15 weekly main meal options now contain meat or fish. Many vegan options. No complaints from parents, they have been doing it nearly a year. Institutions can drive important changes.
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An extremely long thread on visiting Paris by me: someone interested in cycle infrastructure and making public spaces better.
The last decade’s change is so positive and has been huge: what have they done and how have they done it?
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A Friday pic of Beyoncé on a bike (there are loads!). She loves cycling:
“It’s amazing how I’m able to ride around on a bike. People kind of see me but since I’m on a bike, they think, ‘No, it’s not her.’ And by the time they realize it’s me, I’m already gone.”
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Well hello, German / Danish footrests and rails at bike traffic lights.
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I am very into the Welsh lorry drivers who are allegedly going to show their opposition to the new 20mph speed limit in towns and villages… by driving at 19mph.
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I’ve been speaking to older cyclists this week. Pictured is Alec, 94. He uses his ebike every day and cycles all over Oxford. “My bike is… well it’s my liberty. I can’t walk very well any more. So it’s how I get around and go shopping and visit friends. It keeps me healthy” 🧵🪡
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…motivating way. Also hasnt appointed any members of his family to the Lords yet.
I mean yes all deffo good practice, and very standard in business, but the fact that it seems so novel is such an indictment of just how bad Tory gov’t actually were. (2/2)
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Interesting that so many political commentators seem to be almost weeping with joy that Starmer has done some basic stuff like have a top team ready, have them with competence in the relevant areas, and got them to speak to their Civil Service teams in a vaguely…. (1/2)
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OK so I really just want everyone to be able to cycle safely to dinner two miles away wearing high heels & a nice dress, as I did this evening. The easiest mode of transport, as it should be.
#lovecycling
#lovemybike
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Well this is depressing. Labour have pulled all support for their fabulous candidate standing against Nigel Farage whilst pouring resource into Bristol and Brighton to oppose Greens.
To quote a member "If they can’t put up a fight up against Farage, who are they fighting for?"
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So there’s a primary school I know who got so fed up of the constant stress of dangerous cars at the school gates that a few weeks before the holidays, the head & Deputy just stood outside in hi viz vests and asked car drivers politely to stop at the top of the hill 1/2
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A reminder of Appleyard’s classic study that shows how heavy traffic reduces the number of neighbourhood interactions and social cohesion. Through traffic imposes huge costs on local communities.
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This machine at Paddington is to taps what flying cars are to bicycles: a significantly more expensive, techy, yet rubbish solution. Takes 8 clicks, 3x as long, and you can’t half fill a water bottle - only does 500ml so overflows. Taps: working brilliantly since Roman times.
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The active travel shift we’ve seen in the last 2 years at my primary school since LTNs has been incredible. This is just the YR and Y1 bikes which kids cycle themselves to the school on.
There are also tons of cargo bikes, trailers, bike seats AND many kids walk.
#LTN
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Fascinatingly, the 16th arrondissement, Paris’ most wealthy - like Kensington & Chelsea - now feels poor and rubbish. They’ve not got on board as want to protect their right to drive everywhere and as a consequence it’s noisy, dirty, and ugly public space. And drivers hooted!
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I’m following Tower Hamlets because it’s one of the very few places ripping out safer streets.
I just saw that the ENTIRE CABINET IS MALE?!!!
Is this even allowed?
Aligns with my view that safe streets are a gender issue: men drive, women and kids die (1/3)
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Private schools are now on holiday: look at the transformation of traffic on our streets.
A reminder that congestion is caused by too many, and too large, cars. Bigger cars create more congestion.
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Reminder that Oxford roads weren’t built for cars but for bicycles and buses
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Truly shocking - nearly half a ton of extra weight on the average passenger car in just 7 years. More likely to kill kids, higher emissions, take up more space, cause more damage. We urgently need to reverse the super-size trend.
🚙 The increased size and weight of new cars is a problem.
🚸 They are more dangerous to other road users, create more pollution (even EVs) and take up more space on our roads.
🛑 Those with bigger cars currently aren't paying the true cost to society and this needs addressing.
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Things they’ve done:
1. Reallocated space to people. Classic Paris boulevard now: generous two way cycle lane, one way lane for private cars, one way lane for buses & taxis.
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As a female politician did I enjoy raging men in huge cars threatening me because I was protecting the school run at Mag Rd LTN this am? No. Did it convince me that these angry men should be allowed illegally through to threaten the tiny kids going to nursery on bikes? Also no.
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This is a Dutch Entrance Kerb. We should all care about them and ask councils to use them as they make the walking experience a lot better than sloping pavements. I had previously thought just to improve for wheelchairs & buggies, but today I had a chat with a lady who 1/2
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And what’s it like? Well I used to live there and the transformation is epic. It is so quiet! So peaceful. You can hear the birds as you cycle along - listen! No one is hooting any longer. Streets are one way. Things are calm.
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Today I went into two Oxford schools and spoke to about 40 teenagers who cycle to school about what we needed to change on their routes. They marked specific dangers up on A1 maps. I’ve just finished reviewing them. A 🧵
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A neighbour tells me this is the fourth car which has flipped near their house since they’ve been living in my ward. Each year on Oxfordshire’s roads there are 30,000 accidents.
Let’s face it, dangerous driving is the real risk on our roads, not escooters or cyclists.
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2. Really greened it up: urban forests! SUDS! New trees! Beautiful pedestrianisation.
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I'm in Oxford, where we've recently had marches by the national far-right protesting our local traffic reduction measures. Lots of people have asked me how it's been. The answer is it's been fine - because they represent a very small proportion of our residents. (1/4)
From the last 18 months working on LTNs, if there's one message I could share with any local govt candidate or councillor, it would be this👇
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Had a v civilised exchange just now with someone opposed to the LTNs. He said “Infact they’re so annoying that I’ve stopped driving to work”Then he looked at me and we both laughed. “I suppose that makes you happy doesn’t it?”
Me: “Well it doesn’t exactly make me sad…”
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Here’s why Green votes matter even outside these 4 seats:
💚Pulls Labour left
💚Better scrutiny
💚More funding for our party
💚Helps us decide where to prioritise
💚Path to PR
Labour will win a landslide. Help us stand up for the climate & a more equal society.
#VoteGreen
🚨 NEW: Britain Elects is predicting Greens will win a record FOUR seats 😮
🟢 Brighton Pavilion (HOLD)
🟢 Bristol Central (GAIN from Lab)
🟢 North Herefordshire (GAIN from Con)
🟢 Waveney Valley (GAIN from Con)
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In Croatia. Completely obsessed with all the car-free village and town centres. Have seen 3 today. Barriers give residents access, but no parking so they just drive in to drop stuff and then drive outside to park. Golf buggies and mobility scooters for disabled people.
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Caught sight of myself in a mirror and realised my outfit has the potential to trigger anti-LGBTQ+, anti-maskers AND climate-change deniers all in one go.
#probablynotaterribletimetostartwearingamaskagain
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So despite all the people claiming that Oxford is ‘closed’ and ‘dead’ because of Broad Street parking going and our new LTNs, City Centre footfall has actually grown at 15% vs UK average of 0% and our vacancy rate is 6% vs S. England rate of 13%.
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Just had an aggressive van driver shout at me for cycling on the pavement with 3 young kids for about 8 foot to get to a zebra crossing.
It's worth recapping the Home Office 2014 guidance on pavement cycling, which is clear that it's OK if considerately, esp if child. (1/3)
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Today’s school bike racks for those who asked me to “post photos of them again on a cold wet day in December and see if children are still cycling then.”
Looks like they are, tbh.
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Spoke to a resident in the new East Oxford LTN last night. He said that he’d slept properly for the first time, without being woken up in the middle of the night by speeding cars zooming past. This is a benefit which hadn’t even occurred to me before.
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I’ve spoken to two people this week who live in the East Oxford LTNs and have sold their 2nd cars since the LTNs introduced. One bought a cargo bike instead. I’ve never seen so many bikes & trailers at my kids schools (one school inside, one just outside new LTN).
#modalshift
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Concerned about climate change? Some thoughts on some actions you can take and what the good news is: a thread
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And here you have Tory travel policy in a nutshell: absolutely zero concern about pedestrians or road safety, as demonstrated by van parking on the pavement next to an actual parking space.
Good of them to remind everyone it’s 20mph though, that’s useful.
@AndrewRTDavies
You might want to tell them to stop blocking the pavement Andy.
Have some thought for the visually impaired and those using wheelchairs and pushchairs.
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3. Tackled the really big flagship emblematic projects. Rue de Rivoli! The Seine! Place de La Concorde! All now hugely skewed for pedestrians and cyclists. Contraflow cyling on ALL 30kph roads. (!).
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Cycle commute this morning.
Anyone else absolutely love being overtaken by grannies sailing past on ebikes?
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Fascinated by all the energy going into trying to prove to me that bikes are more expensive than cars to buy. I mean - check the internet!?! 2nd hand bike, £50; car £1k. At the top end, Lamborghini bike £20k; Lambo car, £200k.
And then there's the running costs...
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Me and my mum, in her 80s. This is the route we use to get the shopping. I live in Oxford close to safe, segregated cycle infrastructure and nearby to a Low Traffic Neighbourhood. We need better connectivity across the City to enable older people who don’t drive to get around.
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There’s loads of water around to fill your water bottle. As this one says “water. It’s a public service”
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Just saw three teenagers cycling home on Magdalen Rd - now safe and legal to do this.
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Oxford’s pride crossing just updated for Pride Month. Love to see it! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️💚
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Oxford has the school with the UK’s highest cycling rates, at 58% of kids.
It’s a secondary called
@CherwellSchool
They do great activation work (see next tweet for link), but also this is how you get to them from much of the catchment.
THE INFRASTRUCTURE IS KEY (1/2)
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4. Got a lot of the smaller things right: great bike parking everywhere. Hire / Lime bikes, but none littering the pavement cos of great bike parking. Lots of car sharing. Bike size traffic lights at all intersections. Car-free days.
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Have just been to Wales, staying in one of the 6 trial “20mph” villages. The locals I’ve spoken to are loving it. Kids now cycling to school, better community, feels safer.
#20isPlenty
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Guess what? People support LTNs. It's theoretically possible that all of these surveys by credible firms are wrong... but it's much more likely that most people like LTNs.
I put together this summary of all of the representative polling surveys I could find on LTNs.
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Had a chat with an outside-LTN local resident who said she’d decided to stop complaining about them. After being stuck in traffic on Fri she’d got out her bike and decided to give it a go instead. She was also convinced by all the benefits the new LTN residents were loving. 😍🚲
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This morning a mum from school shouted at me as I went past, asking if I could take her son as she had to wait in for washing machine repair man. So her son jumper in the cargo bike with us.
THIS is the community safe streets enables: we live outside a new LTN & school in it.
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Car-free Rovinj was amazing: Croatia’s largest pedestrian zone at around 10km squared. I stayed with a local friend who runs a hotel there and I spoke to a number of locals about it. It was done around 20 years ago and met the usual protests at first. A thread on what I learned.
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This is BIG.
High level: the TH mayor wants to rip out all the LTNs implemented by his predecessor. And he was sure that residents supported him, so he commissioned a survey which was, unlike most, difficult to game.
But 75% of residents support the existing LTNs! (1/6)
The Council has released the results of the Bethnal Green Liveable Streets consultations! Let's get into them... 🧵
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Two interesting stats: we heard that emergency service response times are now below 7min for the first time in decades, due to traffic changes.
And Rue de Rivoli has seen increased revenue post removal of motor traffic.
@rivovasta
I don’t suppose you can easily give source?
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One of the things I find interesting about no longer owning a car as a family with young kids is the positive adjacencies. So for example, we spend a lot more time in Oxford, which means firstly we spend a lot less money and that which we do is spent more locally. (1/3)
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I am excited to be proposing that
@OxfordCity
should look at size & weight based parking charges in our City Council owned car parks.
All cars are not equal, big cars clearly take up more parking space - and create more other externalities.
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Went to a second primary school in our local LTN area to look at bike racks this morning. They need more. Our LTNs are causing a huge shift in the way kids get to school.
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A couple of people have asked me recently about whether driving at 20mph is worse for emissions than 30mph. IT ISN'T! It's better for emissions.
People drive more smoothly at 20mph, so less braking and accelerating, so fewer particles generated
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Private schools: please can you help be part of the solution rather than the problem? I think you are creating up to 70% of Oxford’s school run traffic, and you need to help your parents with alternatives to driving huge cars through our congested streets at peak hours (1/8).
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Here is an amazing thing I’ve just been shown: Bicester Blue Line. It is a 5km long painted blue line loop on a walkable route linking parks and quiet streets. You can join it at any point and walk or run a loop. Apparently £18 back in public health for every £1 invested. Wow!
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I’ve been thinking about cohort / generational change. Both schools in my local LTN area have just contacted me about needing more bike racks. Anecdotally this is because now we have a new year group, they’ve all started coming to school walking and cycling. Or… (1/3)
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I went to a great conference on Vision Zero last week. We had a lot of speakers with different perspectives which was great. However, I noticed a trend: women on vulnerable forms of transport (pedestrian, cycle, horse, motorbike) asking not to be killed… (1/2)
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There’s huge variation across Paris. And it’s really complicated politically, the police have veto powers on certain main roads. And what’s done locally depends on the political will of the 20 mayors, one for each arrondissement. The main roads are Anne Hidalgo and they’re great
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Absolutely huge news: Cllrs have just voted to refuse planning, 7:2. This is genuinely a massive example of a council turning down a road scheme as it does not meet policy objectives.
It was a very lengthy meeting, with a huge amount of consideration. My hope is (1/2)
Oxfordshire County Council is deciding this afternoon on the £300m road scheme from Didcot, over a new Thames bridge, to Clifton Hampden – the biggest new road in Oxfordshire since the M40 in 1991. The planning meeting is getting underway with over 20 people planning to speak.
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Can confirm that Bath’s new emissions based parking charges are easy to use and seem to work as planned: you just put your numberplate into the machine and it calculates it for you.
@SaskiaHeijltjes
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Tiffany, Dawn & Nichola, dinner ladies at my primary school, collecting their ebikes so they can cycle to work from Blackbird Leys. They usually share a car but told me they’d love to try ebikes instead so we got them a loan - tx wheels4all! (1/2)
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They like a bollard in Paris - chonky ones to stop cars entering the banks of the Siene, skinny elegant ones elsewhere, and plastic ones which can only be temporary otherwise the prefects in charge of keeping Paris nice can veto them. Stuff is therefore well built and beautiful
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So this is why
#cyclingtwitter
rocks. I posted saying I was thinking of buying a trailer, and
@RobOnABike
said he was in Oxford and I could just borrow his as he wasn’t using it atm. I went to his house and he fitted it for me. Cheap, eco, community solution. Thanks Rob. 😍🚲
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Feel like I should add to this that I had nothing to do with it, I’m just a parent. I have only noticed fairly recently - they send us menus. Schools have to meet stringent nutritional requirements for all meals.
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Like everyone else it seems, I’m doing a Dutch / Belgian train & cycling infrastructure tour. I’m with my 7yo. Just great, clean trains, loads of cycle parking, lovely clean air in cities and general cycling joy. Loved the water bottle refilling stations. (1/3)
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Also for those of you who somehow misread the above tweet as saying that all children are only allowed vegan food (!!), please note that they have meat options twice a week plus fish once a week. That’s not exactly vegan, is it?! And it’s vegetarian food, not vegan.
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Yesterday I met H from Blackbird Leys, one of the most deprived bits of Oxford: “I had never ridden a bicycle before March, and now I don’t want to go anywhere without mine. I used to hate the LTNs and now I’m like ‘Close more roads! Close all the roads!’ because I’ve seen…
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At Warlands this afternoon. They’ve been selling cargo bikes for 2 decades and they said that this year’s back to school was the first they’ve seen a “run” on them. Things are changing.
Now can we have a
#CargoBikeEmoji
please?
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EXCITING: Oxford school transforms staff car park into kids playground!
I had the immense pleasure today of visiting
@CathedralSchool
, a small music focused city-centre school with around 65 staff and now just 9 parking spaces. Here's how.. (1/13)
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BREAKING: Oxfordshire County Cabinet decides to keep and make permanent the LTNs in my ward of St. Mary’s.
Story linked below by
@carltonreid
and a 🪡🧵by me (1/10)
Council Votes To Keep Oxford’s LTN Which Conspiracy Theorists Confuse With 15-Minute City Plans. Click pic for story:
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Oxford’s Broad street. 6 weeks ago it was a car park, this evening it’s a bustling night market. I love the new space.
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👇 it’s cars
A remarkable image comparing four generations of 8 year old children and the decline in how far they were allowed to roam on their own. From 6 miles in 1919 to 300 yards today. Has the world got more dangerous, or is it that our fears have grown?
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This is Paris’ newest cycle lane.
@christianwolmar
went to bed on Thu night with roadworks outside and woke up to this on Fri morning. It is being heavily used already. As I say, pace of change is immense.
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These are good! Fully pedestrianised smaller roads. The one below carried 6,000 cars until a couple of months ago (!£ and was used as a rat run to the ring road.
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So the exciting news for me is that my youngest child just learned to cycle.
They are completely obsessed with it and want to cycle all the time. Children find such joy in independent mobility.
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This was what first made me realise how great it would be if we had fewer cars driving through our streets: a local street party. Kids playing outside and adults chatting. Teenagers skidding down the hill on someone’s go kart. This was today’s version, amazing afternoon. 🎉💚💃
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It was a truly epic trip. Massive thanks to
@eilidhmurray3
and
@London_Cycling
for letting me come along and
@ParisEnSelle
for an insightful & incredible tour.
Only problem was I couldn’t bring any of my unexploded WW2 weaponry on the Eurostar. Oh well, next time. 🇫🇷💖
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I’ve been car-free with 3 kids under 7 for nearly a year now. Here are some thoughts on how we have done it. First, I live in a city and we don’t need a car to commute. True for most car owners, but obvs if not true for you, it’s v. tricky.
#carfree
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Was asked to post a pic of my primary school bike racks “in rainy November”. So here they are. Yes, lots and lots of children are still cycling.
Do I mind if some kids need to be driven more in winter? Dear Reader, I do not. All journeys switched are good, even if seasonal. 💖
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Rather than driving down it to the school gates. A sort of de facto School Streets. It has been completely transformative. The kids enter school way, way more calm. Most kids come by active travel anyway. Those who have to drive are now encouraged to drive in a one way loop 2/2
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This photo was taken about 4 years ago. People used to stop me all the time asking me about the strange bike I was using to carry my kids. That hasn’t happened for ages, because cargo bikes and trailers are now so common in Oxford. We are making progress, people. 💖🚲🌳
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I found it funny last week that people thought it impossible that a mum friend had called out to me when I cycled past and asked me to take her child to school with mine on my bike.
So I thought I’d tell you it happened again today with diff child - took a photo this time. 🚲
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I came to Waltham Forest (famously one of the UK’s leading walking and cycling boroughs) for a fancy-dress party so naturally I wanted to tag on a tour of interesting street design beforehand.
@deekinstow
showed me around. This is what I saw, a 🧵🪡
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88% of adults can cycle, but only 74% of UK adults have a drivers license (76% of white adults, 53% of black adults).
Let's be clear, not everyone can cycle but way more adults can cycle than can drive.
Source: (2015-2019); BHF 2017
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One MILLION car trips disappeared in and around the Cowley LTNs since their launch just over 500 days ago (-2k car trips/day net). Traffic evaporation works.
Data from p48 & 53 of , extrapolated over full 500 days. Chart my own.
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It’s taking a bit of senior management time, in that it’s 3 teachers for 15-20 mins at peak time. But they get to greet many of the kids coming in, and apparently the difference in calm transition and stress reduction for the kids has made it worth it 4/5
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Feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. Anyway - geography of school means this is possible, not for everyone, but wanted to share! School had been on list for school streets for more than a year but wasn’t happening so just cracked on. 5/5
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This regressive proposal benefits the richest, who drive more and bigger cars. Instead, why not do something transformative like fund free buses across England (£2.5Bn) or dedicate all fuel duty (£25bn) to improving walking, cycling, & public transport?
Across the country, people are reliant on their cars to get to work.
But the Tories want to raise fuel duty in the midst of a cost of living crisis.
Labour is calling on the government to rule out a fuel duty rise at the next Budget.
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