@ColdWarCliff

Drinking beer, riding bikes and fixing stuff. https://xitter.cf/t.co/LG68w5HosP

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It seems the ban on links on here has been lifted. You’ll find me from now on at bsky.app/profile/coldwarclif…
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RBKC councillor claiming that the borough has completed "hundreds of additional tracks and lanes" Does anyone know where they are? The @SafeCycleLDN map still shows that the borough is devoid of any cycle friendly streets. Zero protected lane and no low traffic LTN areas.
Cllr Marc Goldfinger@marcgoldfinger_Aug 24
Replying to @betterstreetskc
Thank uou for sharing a 4 year old plan. This is a great example of the work we have done in the past 4 years. All pink lanes have been completed in addition to hundreds of additional tracks and lanes. Cycle lanes that I use daily. We have also approved 2 more lanes this month.
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This post covers the 'pink' supposed cycleway. I've ridden it and theres basically nothing there on the ground - no reduction in traffic, no protection https://lastnotlost.wordpresstreetview_cars_busstop_trees_aug2025s.com/tag/quietway/
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And what about the blue lines in the south of the borough. This is Oakly Street - that doesn't look like a Quietway in any sense at all.
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It's Simon, yeah? retweeted
It's Simon, yeah?@ColdWarCliff23 Nov 2024
Shared space with buses is not cycle infra. It's marginally better than nothing and lets people cycling safely bypass queues of other vehicles. But people on bikes sharing space with 12 ton buses is neither safe nor inclusive and even wide bus lanes do not allow safe passes.
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Tom Kearney@comadadAug 10
Replying to @comadad @ColdWarCliff @backborwick @LondonAssembly @TfL @_TheLondoner @MayorofLondon @KeithPrinceAM @BBCLondonNews
If you want to read an error-free and much less political piece about @TfL "institutionally unsafe" franchised Bus Operation in the @_TheLondoner, I highly recommend @kareninagarden report from January 2025. I encourage her to publish more about buses! 😉 the-londoner.co.uk/londons-b…

London’s buses are the envy of the country. But are they unsafe?

Plus: Laksa, lordships and London Zoo lemurs

the-londoner.co.uk
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It’s a whole new level of delusion and gaslighting to blame the poor safety record of London buses on the person who has done the most to publicise it @comadad xitter.cf/comadad/status/2083088…
Tom Kearney@comadadJul 31
Gaslighter of the Decade Award goes to @TfL Chair @MayorofLondon who has ignored 10 years of Bus Drivers’ @LondonAssembly @KeithPrinceAM @NeilGarratt relentless reporting of Unsafe Working Conditions that make London’s Bus Operation among the Least Safe of its ‘World City’ Peers.
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Danger to cyclists is the fault of the people who campaign for safer cycling Danger from buses is the fault of the people campaigning for bus safety. Madder than mad jack mcmad.
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And the irony of him calling for a data led response rather than a campaign led one when he does the opposite with floating bus stops - which studies repeatedly show to be safe, and DO NOT show that people are excluded. (FFS electric cars, and Cabs, are silent)
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Yes, the correct approach to these 'modern day full kit cyclists' riding considerately on the pavement alongside busy A10, which has no safe space for cycling, is to block their way and shout at them. Attached: Police guidance on enforcing against pavement cycling. Charlatan
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The latest 2025 Inrix (out a month earlier) didn't have London top. And there many criticisms of Inrix methodology from different angles - where it's data comes from, what it measures, the economic values it attributes. Compact, walkable, cities like London score badly.
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NO surveys put London top globally. ONE survey put London top in Europe in some years but NOT in their latest. And that is widely criticised. I can't find any others.
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What has changed in London since the introduction of main road cycleways, LTNs and dockless hire bikes is that cycling is definitely no longer dominated by 'youngish professional men' (if it ever really was).
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John Stewart (anti-active travel and Noise campaigner) has written another blog! Lets have a look... Here we go - the intro paragraph is true. Nothing to argue with here.
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But it's alright, we've got uncoated, unfunded, unevidenced and caveated proposals. Replacing cars with buses isn't going to reduce noise (have you heard how loud buses can be?) Bold decisions are needed (but duck the one - road user pricing - that will actually work)
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And of course, what is recommended in the European report that was at the start of this is - separating residential areas from noise sources / paces to foster human interaction (LTNs?) - promotion of active travel Oxygen is wasted on the man.
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It's Simon, yeah? retweeted
Politics UK
@PolitlcsUKJun 15
🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer has officially announced a social media ban for under-16s in the UK
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