digital, startups, active travel and other chat. London Cycling Campaign's Climate Safe Streets Champion for the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames
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Great evening meeting councillors to ask for safe streets for cycling, walking and wheeling in Richmond Borough @LBRUT
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🚶♀️🚴CHALKER'S CORNER WALKING, CYCLING & WHEELING SURVEY 👩🦽
Join us and @RichmondCycling this Sat 9th July at our Chalker's Corner event!
We will be surveying cyclists, pedestrians & wheelchair users about action needed to improve safety and active travel at this junction 🛑🚸🚘
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Lovely to be visited by @LBRUTMayor @juliacambridge1 and Transport Lead @AlexanderEhmann at the fair, where we worked with @RichmondStreets to get the walking, cycling, wheeling message out!
It was a joy to attend the @stmargaretsfair today. What a fantastic event - and it was an honour to help judge the dog show! Thank you so much to everyone involved.
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Why are these Londoners cycling more & using cars less?
We spoke to ordinary Londoners about #ClimateSafeStreets & "those little sticks" popping up all over. Watch our video then demand more action in your borough today: lcc.org.uk/climate
youtu.be/gufyAgd4qQw
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For a better world, we don't lack space in our cities.
We lack imagination!
~Rosenbergplatz, Stuttgart
(by @jan_kamensky #FlyingCarmovement)
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When this scheme in Orford Road #WFMiniHolland 1st opened, folks marched a coffin here predicting death of trade on this street. Several businesses here said losing parking out front would end them. That was 8 years ago. This was a mild March Sunday. Change is hard but worth it. – at Walthamstow, London
ALT Lots of people walking, sitting and milling about on Orford Road in Walthamstow including sitting outside a pub and cafés. A sign says no motor vehicles in the foreground.
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And to think that all these customers could be replaced with parked cars. Shop owners must be suffering.
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"Make a difference — give a bike"
Denmark asks citizens to donate bicycles to Ukrainian refugees — volunteer intermediaries to collect bikes registered online and pair them with new arrivals
road.cc/291105 #cycling
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Never underestimate the added value of removing just 1.5 car parking spaces to add one parklet. Great for business, great for the community, great for aesthetics, great for conversation. We need more @hackneycouncil #wiltonway
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📢#London2022 candidates, we need to clean up transport to meet London's clean air & climate targets!
Civil society groups - large & small - are signing our #CleanAirWins declaration to put the positive and upbeat case for action! Get in touch if your group want to be involved🍃
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MEDIA RELEASE: London boroughs failing to use "most effective tool" at their disposal to reduce carbon emissions and pollution - and it's free.
cprelondon.org.uk/news/media…
CPRE London is calling on London boroughs to urgently re-assess parking policy
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27% of UK emissions are transport related. 55% of these are from private cars. Nearly 60% of journeys under 5 miles are driven. On #COP26 #TransportDay policy makers should be focusing on embracing the best tools for a healthier planet. For short journeys, #BikeIsBest
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Diagram for transport day at #COP26, where electric cars are the main focus of the agenda.
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So, what are you afraid of?
Number of people killed by animals per year put in perspective.
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Places I’m going to keep wearing my mask 👇🏾
Public transport
Shops
Queues
Indoor crowded spaces
Why? Because face masks work, and this pandemic isn’t over. Please do whatever you can to protect yourself, and those around you.
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Bikes, E-bikes; and E-cargo bikes are the change we need.
Let's stop pissing around trying to make moving an 80kg human in a 1500kg motor efficient.
A simple, practical solution already exists.
The answer is bikes.
(and bikes + trains for longer journeys)
Obsessing over electric cars is slowing down the race to net zero, according to @UniofOxford's @_chris_brand_. Active travel can contribute to tackling the climate emergency must faster, and with wider benefits too.
research.ox.ac.uk/article/20…
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Check this out fellow London Cyclists;
youtu.be/_DNNIB_PdaA @London_Cycling @JamesNonchalant @theJeremyVine @RantyHighwayman @RBourchier @EalingCyclists @RuthMayorcas
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Gas is increasingly expensive in Australia & though it has lower emissions than coal, "'not quite as bad’ as something else isn’t a terribly good pitch for a fuel" by Guy Dundas of @Grattan
RT Inst zcu.io/aCi2?amp=1 #NetZero
#EcosaveANZ #NEEC20 #gas #energyefficiency
