Tad Piesakowski #FBPE #alsoacyclist
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Cycling in London makes me feel alive...until the day it kills me. Other modes of transport also available - please use responsibly.
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Joined May 2012
Why is it that every measure designed to improve road safety gets described as 'confusing for motorists' 🤔
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Yes they're both dropping off their precious cargos to school 🙄. Me standing alongside in hi viz clearly isn't enough of a deterrent. £200 fine and 3 points hopefully will be
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What 'til they hear about cars & lorries 🙄
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Tell me we live in a car-centric society without telling me we live in a car-centric society 🙄
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@arvidsfar @TerribleMaps It's not dissing Poles - it's dissing the incumbent government of Poland. And doing so very accurately.
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@ASimpleDough Both were discharging passengers on white zigzags - a criminal offense. Both will be submitted to Met Police AS VIDEOS and both will v. likely receive NIPs. Both will be richly deserved. Please tell me you don't hold a driving license.
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Ah yes, a "debate", because the rules of the Highway Code are up for debate 🙄.
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@CraigMount4 @Macmeltus @St3v3ns1 @cristo_radio @theJeremyVine Isn't it strange how the REAL experts on the subject - you know the ones who personally have to deal with the aftermath of collisions on an almost daily basis - have a completely different take 🤔
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38 previous driving offenses. Judge described him as a "danger to the public with no prospect of rehabilitation". But thanks to #motonormativity, that paints driving as a 'right', his driving ban will for just 31 months 😩.
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@NathanP3333 @MikeyCycling Just one (of many) examples of why the @tfl "See their side" advert didn't deserve airing 😔.
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So @Morrisons Brentford. Great to see bike racks are back. Not so good seeing LOTs of disposable BBQs on sale. Have you not been hearing the fire brigades' pleas to stop selling them?
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@Southwark_News ". a car collided. " . @herbie_russell I know it's a big ask, but any chance you could read these collision reporting guidelines and adopt them?.
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@ASPRoadSafety Strange how the usual kickballers aren't responding with their usual heckle of "Grass!"
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Bus driver fired for 'using bus as weapon' against cyclist loses appeal.
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@IlminsterSteve @cadencechris In a car-centric society it seems the use of a car as the weapon seems to inextricably 'soften the blow' 😔
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@ZambeziOutpost Not: why are drivers endangering others at a zebra crossing outside a school?. Warped perspective . Luckily, as the numerous resulting NIPs are proving, the police take a more rational view. Oh, and because the Saturday school has asked me to (after all other approaches failed).
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@Wankpanzer 13 yrs of Tory cuts have left us with too few police but will folks please THINK OF THE RANGE RIVER DRIVERS! 🙄
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@ChristineEasda1 Hey Christine, just a thought: Any chance you could ACTUALLY apply your strapline of "think for yourself" and do a bit of research on:.1. How roads are paid for. 2. Why bicycles aren't registered. 3. How much is spent on cycling infra compared to roads.
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@TVP_WestOxon Congrats on going straight the low-hanging fruit. @AndyCoxDCS any training courses you can recommend they go on?
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@2wheelsnot4 Our ingrained obsession with car culture wins out again. If someone has a 'momentary lapse of concentration' with a gun they'd likley lose their gun license for good and face a custodial, but because the weapon was a car it's just accepted as 'one of those things' 😫
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An unexpected story during #BlackHistoryMonth and very humbling to read #WarsawUprising.@SilenceInPolish @policies4poland.@polskieserce @KresySiberia @polishodyssey @PolishIICorps @londyn_my.
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@Robbeddall141 Just wondering: do you say the same about folks calling for stricter gun controls in America in the wake of yet another school shooting? 🤔. #Motonormativity #CarBlind.#CarCulture #VisionZero.
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@SayedMetwali @WorldBollard Crumple zone, airbags, seatbelt, seat - the only thing liable to be hurt is their sense of entitlement.
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Stolen Specialized Tricross.@EalingCyclists I was relieved of my workhouse by two middle Eastern gents whilst cycling back from a @HounslowCycling meeting last night 😟.Reported to police & @bikeregister but truthfully, fellow cyclists diligence is the best chance for recovery 🙏
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@carlafrancome ERM, I'd also say NO to painted 'cycle lanes'. Time and time again such 'murder strips' are interpreted by drivers as negating the need for them to pass wide.
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After a gap of 1,251 days it's nice to be an EU citizen again, all the benefits and opportunities it will return to me and more importantly provide my children.
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<Sigh> 😔. 7th week of enforcement (sanctioned by the Saturday school trustees) and some parents STILL continue to chance it. Cue pleading "but I swear this is a first time!" once she realised it had been caught on film and that dozens of others had recently got fined + 3 points
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@ViaTowerBridge FFS 😫. If the same judge were handling a sexual assault case would they be questioning whether the victim was dressed 'provocatively'?. #BictimBlaming #Motonormativity.
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@iambrianjones @hackneycouncil LOCKING UP A BROMPTON?. OUTDOORS?. IN CENTRAL LONDON? 😬. Do they get comission from the bike thieves or something?.
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Some entitled drivers will only learn the hard way it seems 🙄. Last week: spoken to & explained he was illegally and dangerously stopped on white zig-zags at school pickup. NIP now confirmed. Cue this Saturday. Found parked up in exactly the same spot 🤷. NIP #2 HERE WE COME!
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Dear @RoyalMail you might want to make a note of this reg as it WILL be getting a parking ticket. No, van wasn't on a delivery. @YPLAC
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@NicholasHellen @SuptAndyCox @PACTS @Brakecharity Nicola I fix your headline:. "Police rightly giving cyclists an easier time". I recommend you print off the following iconic tweet & stick it somewhere prominently by your screen.
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@biking_viking @TaffMet I've bookmarked the original tweet for when some police force rund the inevitable "wear hi viz" 'safety' campaign on twitter.
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@ShaunBaileyUK @SadiqKhan All these vehicle charges. and you're STILL not paying anywhere near the true cost of the convenience of motoring
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@YPLAC @pavements4ppl EVERY house on this road has a drive with room for at least 2 cars (the black car in the background was driving in). Bonnet checked - cold. Calling 101 was an endless list of options. Life's too short. Letting down a tyre is quicker. So I did.
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Because, as you know: when Mike is driving, cyclists go too slow, but when he's walking, they go too fast 🤷.
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Police: "We have noticed an increase in those who quote this type of material".
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@247Stefan @UKChange Read and TRY and understand 🙄. Oh, and does the full stop not work on your keyboard?
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@seatsixtyone presume you've heard - & already visited? .Is Europe's ghostliest train station about to rise again? -
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@AdamBronkhorst @RowanPelling don't like cycling submitting "incriminating. footage"?. Maybe encourage drivers to stop providing it. Ever wondered why dash-cams are so prevalent? 🤔. Your anti Go Pro stance is at awkward odds with the police's stance.
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@gow_derek @GeorgeMonbiot Those Polish beavers coming over here, stemming our flooding. This isn't the Brexit I voted for! 😏.
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@Grahamthecabbie @TfL Shall we see what the REAL professionals have to say about this "plague of lotuses"?
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Thank you @ealingparking & the out of hours team @EalingCouncil in quickly tackling this @yplac. @NorthfieldsAve @P_DriscollW5W13 @fayblock @David_Millican
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@phg38 @1woman2wheels @LNER @BCCletts And if I remember rightly, this sh*te was specified by the DoT and not the franchise operators.
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@londonbeyond123 @bobbyinbelfast Naturally the driver then cut up the cyclist by turning left, without even bothering to indicate
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@yeahbutcyclists @islingtongztte Ah, but that's because in our culture car ownership & driving is largely still perceived as a basic right - much like gun ownership in the US. 😕.
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You've got to wonder: what will it take for the rest? 😕
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The Daily Wail doing a stirling job of making sure a car, much less a driver, gets mentioned in the headline 🙄
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@cyclingjudy @ldnparks After their speeches every single one of them scooted onto the payment, clearly fearful of venturing onto a road with traffic 🙄.
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Here we go again 🙄. 8 point on driving license already. Now facing up to 81 points, but guess what?. ". McPherson is hoping to keep his licence by arguing that a disqualification would cause “exceptional hardship”." 😖.
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@westcountrytim When are @ASA_UK going to ban this false advertising?. You can no longer promote that smoking is cool, or that alcohol makes you popular, but yet somehow you're still allowed to peddle the 'freedom of the open road' 😫.
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Important enough for @theroyalparks but not it seems, for @EalingCouncil and @EalingLabour 😔.@WarrenFarmNR.
If you’re walking your dog an you enter a field where you see one of these signs, then please put your dog on a short lead. #Skylarks #RichmondPark #BushyPark more info:
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@NIRoadPolicing Have you given up on expecting other motorists to exercise 'due care and attention' then?. L O W H A N G I N G F R U I T 😩
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@pedaldancer123 @CarFreeRoutes @allpartycycling Because our society believes everyone has a 'right' to own this lethal weapon 😔
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@wankpanzer using a former #LTN as a convenient cut through. whilst chatting on a mobile 😫. But yeah @EalingCouncil let's give away 1,000 bikes. That'll fix everything 🙄. @psimonk
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@willcolumbine "Never in the field of highway conflict was so much, blamed on so many, by the actions of so few"
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