Alex Ingram
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Also online elsewhere, same username. Nerdery, cycling, old TOTP, politics, grumbles and so on. My tweets are my views, not those of any employer etc. (he/him)
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Sure, vans and cargo cycles are great, but can you carry a life size model giraffe in them?
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We don’t have the right to protest if you can go to jail for five years just for discussing a protest.
Everyone has the right to protest, but no one has the right to break the law.
We welcome this sentencing and hope it acts as a deterrent to those who intend to cause disproportionate disruption to Londoners.
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Good news: cycling costs the same today as it did yesterday.
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To be fair to Dominic Cummings, he did EXACTLY what the app told him to do.
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Here’s my top ten list of cycling cities worldwide:
10 - you
9- can’t
8 - meaningfully
7 - rank
6 - cities
5 - on
4 - how good
3 - they are
2 - to cycle
1 - Utrecht
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Gorgeous map of London rates in 1935-36. Which gives me a million questions.
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I knew that the argument for the Royal Family was often that they brought money into the country, I just didn't realise it was so literal.
EXCLUSIVE: Prince Charles accepted a suitcase containing €1m in cash from "HBJ", the former prime minister of Qatar
Charles received three €1m gifts from sheikh in undisclosed meetings - including one said to be in Fortnum & Mason bags 1/5
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Boris Johnson’s foreword to the new cycling vision document; “Of course you can't deliver a fridge-freezer on a cargo bike”
Meanwhile, Britain’s foremost cycle cargo firm:
A chest freezer on a bike, you ask?
Why yes we can do that....
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Phew. Everyone’s reduced their outdoor activity this morning so we can minimise this pollution episode!
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I see we’re back on the “people not owning a car is a London bubble idea” discourse again. Nonsense, of course.
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If the militant wing of the motoring lobby want to get angry about default green pedestrian crossings which wait for traffic to turn up, and then given them a green light to drive through... perhaps we should make them feel really loved and give them a button to press?
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Where’s my new build home with legally required tram service, eh?
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Old threads revisited again - according to eBay this is a London Underground map fabric.
I can't resist the wrongness of this.
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Amazing scenes as I return home to letter from British Gas who have condemned our induction (electric) hob as an unsafe gas appliance.
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@Curiouslycinna2
I’d say that jailing these people for several years won’t stop people thinking these protests will get coverage.
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GREAT NEWS EVERYONE.
There's now a DfT approved symbol for funicular railways.
(and it sort of has a face)
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So, according to
@CroydonTories
- the Low Traffic Neighbourhood in Croydon is so bad that it’s causing tailbacks in Cape Town, South Africa.
Thanks for the photo, Ameer Martin.
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*starts petition for Boris Johnson to only be interviewed by Eddie Mair again*
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It’s outrageous watching a man who as London Mayor introduced new concessionary fares without funding (60-65) - costing £100m/yr, who wasted £53m not building a garden bridge and who agreed to the loss of £700m/yr grant to make TfL more reliant on fare income blame his successor.
Prime Minister Johnson outrageously and wrongly claiming on news at ten that TfL’s need for a bail out sits with the Mayor. Not my job to stand up for Sadiq but don’t believe a word of what Johnson says about TfL finances. Covid related loss of fares income is not Mayor’s fault.
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Chalk another up for the "actually, changing your behaviour is the goal of the policy, not fining you for things we'd rather there was less of" counter.
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Your reminder that government is telling children to walk or cycle where they can and formally expects half of journeys <2 miles that were on public transport to be walked or cycled.
Think the roads where you live are safe enough for that?
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Would you rather:
- drive to Richmond Park and get stuck in that traffic jam of cars?
OR
- cycle to central London and get stuck in this traffic joy of cycles?
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This is (ironically) also a perfect example of the kind of bike that’s hard to fit into the bike space on a class 80x train.
Bikes going by lorry because we can’t specify trains right OR get a proper national cycle hire scheme going.
Totally ridiculous.
Unfortunately we can no longer accept non-foldable bicycles on board due to capacity issues, however we have partnered with FIRSTLUGGAGE to transport your bike to your destination, please visit for more details.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
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Nobody in power in London seems to have the slightest care that the ability to cycle across the Thames in east London is collapsing before our eyes.
North and South lifts are not working today 😕
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Strava has many issues in being used for cycle planning, but some segment names are useful to highlight hazards.
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New Google maps cycling directions in London are surprisingly bad. It’s now prioritising any cycling provision so much it won’t even route me down relatively quiet minor roads.
Also now won’t suggest a route to my flat from work that doesn’t involve stairs!
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Got a car? Here have £6000 towards a new one.
Got a bike? Here's a £50 voucher for a service.
Can't help but feel people like my housemates with neither car nor bike, in a city, need a better nudge than this!
Why is the Government giving people who already own cars several thousand pounds to ditch theirs and buy a new one. Scrap a car to buy an e-bike maybe BUT it is just weird to lock in car use when we need less car use and more walking and cycling in cities.
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Really glad we got those green number plates so we could tell what the sustainable transport options were.
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Build railways. Build foot and cycle bridges. Build cycling networks. Build homes so people don’t have to commute so far.
There are so many better things to build than roads.
National Highway CEO, Nick Harris is quoted as saying "Looking at our plans for the next road period it's clear that we're going to be challenged very hard on our impact both on the environment and on carbon." and that "building nothing is probably the best solution"
#NoLTC
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They Might Be Giants have put out a soundboard recording of a concert they did in New York in 2015 and...
oh it's EVERYTHING. It's a set of just the two of them. Including THE STICK. And a band set. And just yes, yes yes. Ta,
@tmbg
- you're fixing 2020.
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Not sure why we bother giving motorists an expensive underpass in central london when they don't even use it.
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Let nobody tell you that long cycle commutes in London are a new thing. Some clips from a documentary on transport in London between the wars.
Here Les White describes cycling from Bow to the Hoover factory in Perivale.
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Alright, I’ll bite.
How is nuclear quieter than solar?
Sizewell C nuclear plant has been approved. Nuclear is the quietest form of energy; takes little land-take; and most closely replicates fossil fuels which have done so much to provide the prosperity so many nations now enjoy.
@pwrhungry
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Outer London is basically where the intersection of the gaps between National and London policy become clear.
Every major party agrees Outer Londoners need alternatives to the private car.
Yet a party in government for 13 years has no ideas beyond saying No to ULEZ. Pathetic.
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Hmm, is it the large white vehicles or the small triangular framed vehicles causing congestion in
#KensingtonHighStreet
?
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Extra kudos to Prof Mark Woolhouse on
#r4today
for saying “I didn’t come on to talk about Prof Fergusson, I know no more about it than you do”. Jump past the gossip, focus on the science.
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Yes, even on a cold, snowy day I will tweet about the cycleways.
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Love the fact that you can double taxation on plastic bags, but fuel duty must stay static for over a decade.
Let alone addressing other sources of microplastic pollution like... car tyres!
Plastic bag cost to double within days, in latest crackdown on ocean pollution
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As part of providing alternatives to public transport, TfL have updated their tube map with walking times between stations. This again highlights need for a bridge at Rotherhithe, and walking and cyclign connections from North Greenwich. (yet all we get is Silvertown for motors)
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BREAKING: Simon Calder has the same duvet cover as me and is using it to cover a clothes rail to appear on TV.
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*watches this Owen Jones clip*
Crikey, I'd have walked out after about two minutes.
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Never let it be said I don’t have the patter for online dating.
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Meanwhile - away from vitriolic articles in the press - this cycle lane is still busier at 9:45AM than the road beside it.
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Been working all day and watching quite a few incredible takes on ULEZ on the timeline today.
Though none as bizarre as a Labour MP speaking against the ULEZ then revealing they've been diagnosed with asthma.
Anyway, a few points on TfL funding deals...
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Was all set to give up on dating sites completely then someone sent me an extremely well written 600 word message about a bollard.
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Royal London Hospital in central london complaining that it gets more visitors since the Elizabeth Line opened nearby at Whitechapel.
Maybe we just need better public transport to all hospitals, even in London? And less blather about free parking…
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On the left, the road leaving a new estate.
On the right, the footpath.
It’s weird how we can give people walking a narrowing and a chicane but not people driving...
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I don't have a Soundcloud, but I did work as a researcher on this report with some ideas from
@ZackPolanski
on how to cut carbon emissions in London by enabling more people to cycle.
All Londoners deserve to breathe cleaner air not just people living in the centre.
Today I'm launching a new report which demonstrates how one of the key solutions to achieving net zero is supporting more Londoners to get out of cars & on to bikes. 🚴♀️
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Hey
@DirectLine_UK
- if you’re looking for the ludicrous 4x4 you parked on my street for advertisement purposes it’s been taken to the pound for non-payment of vehicle excuse duty.
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Daily Mail have today run a story that London’s £913m cycle superhighway plan is a disaster because cycles now travel faster than cars…
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125 years since Blackwall tunnel opened: “Some 15,000 people were walking through the tunnel in the days after it opened, and a newspaper report that it was “extensively” used by cyclists”
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Conservative devolution is where the government can cut the rail service without your local council or Mayor having a say.
But the second we try to reduce car pollution they panic about democracy.
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Just ten days since the prime minister launched his ten point green plan.
Point 5: “Public transport, cycling and walking: Making cycling and walking more attractive ways to travel and investing in zero-emission public transport of the future.”
Confirmation that the cycle lane on Kensington High Street, that led to a doubling in the number of cyclists within a matter of weeks, is to be removed within the next few days.
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Iain Gray of Labour says SNP haven’t said where money for an oil fund would come from. Swinney’s reaction priceless
http://t.co/UnBP1fYjSL
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This is a really nice piece of design from Argentina, particularly because Lisandro can cycle with his hands from his wheelchair.
(pity the video has poor language though e.g. "wheelchair bound".)
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Yes, of course you can have a map of every speed bump in London as well.
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Local sainsbury’s isn’t messing about. Now got a member of staff on the door just handing face masks to anyone who walks in without one. 👍
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Who among us hasn't tried to get our dad a knighthood after resigning from a job we were completely unsuitable for?
Cry me some more about the “constitutional impropriety” of the Sue Gray appointment.
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Cutting rail investment whilst going full steam with new roads and extra runways doesn’t scream “we take transport decarbonisation seriously”, does it?
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My favourite thing at this stage of lockdown are people commenting on photos of streets in Soho busy with people drinking and eating saying "but how did the food and drink get there?!".
Pedestrianisation with carefully timed deliveries seems to blow some people's minds.
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“The man at the front […] asked me which petrol station I was going to," he said.
"When I said I wasn't, he asked me 'Why not?' and when I said I wasn't carrying petrol, he actually said 'You could have stopped and told us you weren't a petrol tanker.'”
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Professional driver with 12 points on their license allowed to continue to drive by magistrates due to a hardship plea. Now sentenced to 9 years for killing a woman by dangerous driving because he watched tv in his lap rather than the road ahead. Awful.
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If there’s congestion relief on the Jubilee line from the Elizabeth Line it’s pretty short lived.
Maybe we should build some kind of bridge to move some of these journeys to active travel?
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Nice one from
@BethRigby
to ask if Alok Sharma agrees with prime minister that “phase down” and “phase out” are equivalent.
Alok’s defence is that you “phase down” on the path to “phase out”. Which presumably is what Boris Johnson was briefed to say and couldn’t remember…
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It's not just Blackfriars, y'know. Here's Kennington Oval this morning.
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Looking forward to the summer when The KLF burn all £23 they’ll have earned from pitiful streaming rates.
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Oh my word. Free parking as a response to climate resilience is … incredible.
The next few days it’s going to be hotter than hell across New York — so we’re making admission and parking free at all our State Parks, pools, and beaches tomorrow and Thursday!
Take your families to beat the heat, and enjoy it on us ☀️🌊
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If we’re a nation of car drivers why is the amenity the greatest number of people expect to have local to them a bus stop?
15 minute neighbourhoods - here's what amenities do Britons want within a 15 min walk from their home:
Bus stop: 90%
Post box: 87%
Pharmacy: 85%
GP surgery: 83%
Park: 81%
Primary school: 74%
Convenience store: 70%
Nursery: 67%
Supermarket: 59%
Bank: 55%
More in chart 👇
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@BorisJohnson
it's awful when people make meaningless pledges, isn't it?
http://t.co/vipBrtRnUF
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Your reminder that the original objection by
@RBKC
to a cycle superhighway on Kensington High Street was that coloured paint on this road would detract from the streetscape...
Love the first of
#kensingtonhighst
#creative
#artcrossings
. Thank you to
@japanhouseldn
for such an inspired idea and we look forward to more being unveiled over coming months... Watch out for
@DesignMuseum
next!
#welovew8
@RBKCculture
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Motor traffic reduction is popular.
Let’s get on with it.
A majority of 55% back a reduction in the number of motor vehicles on Britain’s roads. That actually rises to 57% of Conservative voters, alongside 55% of Labour supporters
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"relatively minor offences such as running red lights" - there's a phrase to cut out and keep for the next cycling article in the Mail...
WEDNESDAY'S DAILY MAIL: "Drivers used as £1bn cash cows"
#tomorrowspaperstoday
#bbcpapers
(via
@hendopolis
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Ludgate Circus queue setting off at green last night. Note line of feet on kerb. People wait when it's comfortable.
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Astounding how easy it is to find British Cycling messaging from just a few years back that wouldn't really work with their new sponsor, Shell.
If you really want to tackle climate change and improve air quality, we’d suggest the bottom one ⬇️
#FutureOfTransport
#GreenNumberPlates
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Things Alex is utterly sick of today: having a lifetime of living in London, pushing for a decent cycle route to the office... getting lovely new cycle routes built... and then winding up working in a different office/living in a new home with a terrible cycle commute.
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Millionaire fixed his own road and becomes legally liable for any consequences is one story.
Millionaire pays no more to his local council to fix the roads he uses than anyone else despite owning a Ferrari is another…
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"Despairing shopkeepers and restaurant owners based on either side of the crippled Hammersmith Bridge today spoke of how trade had collapsed by as much as half since it was closed to pedestrians and cyclists last month"
Not best way to learn, but walking & cycling means business
Businesses either side of Hammersmith Bridge have seen their trade collapse by as much as half since it was closed
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There's just an avalanche of bad tweets in response to today's cycle lane protest. My particular favourite is the cabbie account complaining about people cycling stopping at a red light.
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People come from all over the world to be photographed by this cycleway.
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Ever heard of a cycleway blocked due to a broken down cycle?
One lane is closed on the M25 clockwise on the QE2 bridge in Essex due to a broken down vehicle, with queues back to J29. Anticlockwise also slow to the Dartford Tunnel in Kent from J3, not helped by a broken down car between J3 and J2
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I was joking when I remarked the SNP needed to use the Hydro in Glasgow for their meetings. Now Sturgeon's booked it.
http://t.co/n9vFLFpNU2
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Can I suggest that if a local party in London can’t actually find an image of congestion that’s in the same city, country or continent (though I grant you it is the same time zone) - maybe this isn’t really about local concerns?
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Kensington and Chelsea councillors unveil new alternative plan for key East-West cycle route.
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Parking space in Kensington and Chelsea for sale for £58,000
Something makes me think that support for driving in that borough is not some amazingly egalitarian enterprise...
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