Shady streets, protected cycle tracks, good public transit, local shops and amenities.
The answer to our problems is here. Just need much, much more of it.
A few years ago, this cycle track didn't exist. It was fought against vociferously by many people. Yet it's now used by tens of thousands of Londoners a day. Cities change.
Getting families and children cycling is a political choice. If you want to enable it, you need to change your roads. This street is now an LTN, and it shows.
@HighburyLtn
Well, there we are.
The good people of Hackney and Islington have roundly backed measures to make our streets more healthy. They have absolutely rejected those who fought against this.
At what point
@mikehakata
do we stop and think, is this really what a beautiful community park is for?
Not NIMBYism, but the deliberate destruction of green space for a brand is pretty shameful.
@HaringeyLabour
If you want to see kids cycling to school, you need fewer cars. It's that simple. The time for traffic calming is over. Every new scheme should aim to take car journeys off the road.
If you're wondering how seriously
@Ford
are taking the climate emergency, maybe this will help?
Makes a total mockery of
@RideLondon
sponsorship and
@MayorofLondon
for accepting it.
Next week I shall step down as coordinator of
@hackney_cycling
.
7 years ago I took on the role as I felt the campaign was consistently missing opportunities to create a better environment for all ability cycling.
@RichardBurgon
@HackneyAbbott
Charlie was killed by a man driving a van on the wrong side of the road. This petition is victim blaming, despite being organized by his parents.
We've had 1% average rain in April and none set for the week. So we filled up the cargobike with 100litres and watered all our new street trees.
#hackneyspirit
Really big turnout tonight at the
@London_Cycling
protest ride. Dangerous junctions across the city need urgent change. Enough stalling from
@tfl
and
@grantshapps
needs to settle the long term funding now.
This is what anti-Low Traffic campaigns are actually fighting against. Older (and much younger) people being able to walk and cycle in their communities.
People 65 to 75 cycle more than any adult group in the Netherlands.
Not because they’re super-human, but because of the traffic-calmed streets and segregated cycle networks. These environments allow them to participate in society far longer into old age.
Was going to tweet some super wholesome Hackney content. Me riding my bike with some new solar panels past new trees. But I've just been hit by a driver on Evering Road.
Two million bike journeys on cycle super highway 3!
That’s two million fewer tube, bus or car journeys ... which benefits us all.
Congrats to
@willnorman
,
@SadiqKhan
and the team.
#cleanair
#cs3
Time is running out to stop
@SadiqKhan
‘s congestion charge hike on businesses and key workers.
Londoners are being forced to pay the price for the Mayor's financial mismanagement.
It's wrong.
Together we can stop him. 30,000 have signed up so far. 👇🏾
I'm fine. Driver tried to make off before I caught up with him. I was holding the lane but that doesn't stop a driver undertaking before cutting straight across my bow. I ride super defensively and yet am still hit.
I just want to get around safely.
Little moment of personal satisfaction. At my first
@hackney_cycling
meeting 9 years ago I proposed tracks on Green Lanes. I was told by fellow members that this wasnt possible or wanted. Follow your dreams people.
The planet is in the midst of a full climate emergency. Ealing Council have responded by making it easier to drive.
Pretty shameful stuff
@EalingLabour
Seven LTNs are being removed from tomorrow, 6 October. Activity to remove them will take place from 10am-3pm to avoid disruption to school pick up/drop off - more details :
Opponents to low traffic neighbourhoods in Islington should remember we've been doing this for decades. No plans to remove these filters to improve traffic on Holloway road
Tomorrow's bill to crack down on protests would mean
#stopthekilling
protests would never have taken place. Without them London would have never built the cycle lanes which stop people being killed.
Tomorrow, the Home Secretary seeks to give police *more powers* to break up *any* peaceful protests. The plan was to dress it up as a populist pushback against Black Lives Matter. I imagine she’ll crack on even after last night. Please have a read of this.
If your school has a problem with too many cars at pick up and drop off, then you need School Streets. Here is what they are and how they work. See video...
@citycyclists
the risk of being in a car accident or catching the flu is now higher than Covid-19 for schoolchildren. so no excuses not to get them back in the classroom
Would creating registration numbers for cyclists and having them display them on high-vis vests really do anything to improve the state of our roads?
We're told it would demonstrate you're insured and responsible. But if so, shouldn't everyone don one of these jackets?
Really looking forward to seeing support for the cycle track on a main road in Kensington from all the 'One' accounts. Or anyone who advocates for main road action before LTNs. 🧐
Quite extraordinary response by ex cllr here. Hackney cycling campaign pushed for cycle tracks or a filter for Whiston Road in 2017 when Hackney spent £600k of cycling budget here. We were ignored and a young mum has been killed.
This is a scene from Haringey, just to the North. There are no LTNs here, but still roads jammed with low occupancy cars. Doing nothing is not an option.
@hackneycouncil
@HackneyLabour
I’m gutted that this was our school gate this morning. The pollution from these cars is damaging the lungs of our kids and nothing has been done to protect them
@HaringeyLiving
It's been 5years since Stephanie Turner was killed. The NHS physio was run over right here in Hackney. Still no cycle lane despite promises made by
@tfl
and
@MayorofLondon
in 2016.
This is a quick snapshot of Kensington high street from last year. Pre-covid and pre-cycle lanes. Readers, it was bad news then.
@RBKC
know this yet pretend otherwise.
@Tony_Devenish
This is how to transform a community. Ban cars from outside a school and watch it come alive. 2nd of 5 launched in Hackney today. Bravo
@feryaldemirci
and
@ClaudiaDraper2
I've watched in dismay as the world has gently slid back toward the same catastrophic, unhealthy way we used to live. It is brilliant to see a council get on the front foot, and be bold.
#BuildBackBetter
#ActNow
Well done
@IslingtonBC
Thank you also to my family and friends who have supported this collective endeavor. We have made Hackney a safer healthier borough. More to do, but lots done. ✅
The growth of sat-nav means there is no such thing as main roads or side roads anymore. Any route that shaves seconds off a journey no matter what, is open.
Attempt to pop over the road at 6pm to see a neighbour thwarted by this: endless queue of impatient rat-runners, blocking safe access.Dangerous traffic cutting thru residential areas even more of a threat in dark winter months.
@TfL
@EnfieldCouncil
#LowTrafficNeighbourhood
4Bowes
To raise money to spend in the park, but at the same time trash the park for months? Where are people going to have their picnics on the May bank holiday?
@haringeycouncil
Your events team have lost all site of their remit and are totally at odds with the council's policy.
This is the real deal. Developed by a huge team of residents the
#HackneyVision
will transform our borough for the better. Accelerated by Covid, this is actually a proper response to the
#ClimateEmergency
We have spent the last few months mapping every street in Hackney. We have created a vision for cycling and walking to be the default modes for journeys in the borough.
#HackneyVision
We don't have to accept roads that get people killed. It's a decision. We could have bridges for walking and cycling. But we need bold leadership to do it.
Devastating news. Thoughts with friends & family of woman killed while cycling on Battersea Bridge
We need Vision Zero, eliminating the risk of being killed on London streets
Known collision hotspots like this need to be tackled with greater urgency