Better Ealing Streets
@betterealing.bsky.social
Our campaigning goals go hand in hand:
Make our streets safer and easier to get around by walking, cycling, or wheeling.
Reduce reliance on private cars by making alternatives more appealing and practical.
👉 https://www.betterealingstreets.org.uk/
Make our streets safer and easier to get around by walking, cycling, or wheeling.
Reduce reliance on private cars by making alternatives more appealing and practical.
👉 https://www.betterealingstreets.org.uk/
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You can't argue with the data - LTNs are officially saving lives
It’s a truth many struggle to accept, but in London cars have become killers.
www.standard.co.uk
LTNs save lives. A lack of LTNs, or removal of them, means a higher rate of injuries and lives lost, and lives and families damaged irreparably.
www.standard.co.uk/comment/ltns...
www.standard.co.uk/comment/ltns...
November 14, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Money "spent" to help people use cycles to get around is shown again and again to be an investment with big returns.
IMPORTANT: The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility.
Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it.
#CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com
Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it.
#CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com
November 1, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Money "spent" to help people use cycles to get around is shown again and again to be an investment with big returns.
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”Perhaps the most comprehensive study of the real-world impact of cycle lanes, found businesses on streets with separated bike routes grew on average more quickly than those without.”
Remember, bike-lanes mean business.
10 WRONG Myths about Bike-Lanes.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Remember, bike-lanes mean business.
10 WRONG Myths about Bike-Lanes.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Ten common myths about bike lanes – and why they're wrong
From congestion to cost, there are many entirely misguided arguments in circulation
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2025 at 2:40 AM
”Perhaps the most comprehensive study of the real-world impact of cycle lanes, found businesses on streets with separated bike routes grew on average more quickly than those without.”
Remember, bike-lanes mean business.
10 WRONG Myths about Bike-Lanes.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Remember, bike-lanes mean business.
10 WRONG Myths about Bike-Lanes.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
September 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
As our kids go #BackToSchool, never forget that we ARE the traffic that we’re afraid of. If more kids walked, biked or rode transit to school, it would erase a massive number of car trips each day, and our kids would be safer, healthier and better at school. HT Ian Lockwood.
Spread the word.
Spread the word.
August 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Any update of the Lido Junction in West Ealing Will?
It's horrific and poses serious dangers to vulnerable road users.
ealing.news/news/campaig...
@betterealing.bsky.social @ealingcouncil.bsky.social
It's horrific and poses serious dangers to vulnerable road users.
ealing.news/news/campaig...
@betterealing.bsky.social @ealingcouncil.bsky.social
Campaigners challenge Ealing Council over not doing enough for road safety in West Ealing - EALING.NEWS - The Voice of Ealing's 7 towns - Acton, Ealing, Greenford, Hanwell, Northolt, Perivale, Southal...
Road safety campaigners have challenged Ealing Council, active travel charity Sustrans and Transport for London over its proposals in a public consultation to improve West Ealing saying some of them a...
ealing.news
August 20, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Any update of the Lido Junction in West Ealing Will?
It's horrific and poses serious dangers to vulnerable road users.
ealing.news/news/campaig...
@betterealing.bsky.social @ealingcouncil.bsky.social
It's horrific and poses serious dangers to vulnerable road users.
ealing.news/news/campaig...
@betterealing.bsky.social @ealingcouncil.bsky.social
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Physical inactivity is estimated to cost the UK £7.4 billion annually (including £0.9 billion to the NHS alone).
Active travel is one of the best return on investment decisions governments can make.
Yet people are still having to campaign for better infrastructure and funding.
Active travel is one of the best return on investment decisions governments can make.
Yet people are still having to campaign for better infrastructure and funding.
August 19, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Physical inactivity is estimated to cost the UK £7.4 billion annually (including £0.9 billion to the NHS alone).
Active travel is one of the best return on investment decisions governments can make.
Yet people are still having to campaign for better infrastructure and funding.
Active travel is one of the best return on investment decisions governments can make.
Yet people are still having to campaign for better infrastructure and funding.
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It's not a 'war on motorists', it's a war against needless deaths.
It is perplexing to me that the same commentators who want a smaller state also want Whitehall to decide whether a few bollards can be placed in Birmingham.
Opinion piece by me in The Standard 👇
www.standard.co.uk/comment/low-...
It is perplexing to me that the same commentators who want a smaller state also want Whitehall to decide whether a few bollards can be placed in Birmingham.
Opinion piece by me in The Standard 👇
www.standard.co.uk/comment/low-...
Low Traffic Neighbourhoods save lives, it’s time to stop pretending otherwise
The news that Labour have decided not to proceed with the previous Conservative Government’s “Plan For Drivers” should be welcomed, but should also hardly be a surprise.
www.standard.co.uk
August 19, 2025 at 11:44 AM
It's not a 'war on motorists', it's a war against needless deaths.
It is perplexing to me that the same commentators who want a smaller state also want Whitehall to decide whether a few bollards can be placed in Birmingham.
Opinion piece by me in The Standard 👇
www.standard.co.uk/comment/low-...
It is perplexing to me that the same commentators who want a smaller state also want Whitehall to decide whether a few bollards can be placed in Birmingham.
Opinion piece by me in The Standard 👇
www.standard.co.uk/comment/low-...
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Excellent thread which echoes the concerns we have in @hounslowcouncil.bsky.social regarding cross pavement charging. Our EV charging strategy focuses instead on delivering an additional 2,000 charge points across the borough and we are not allowing the installation of charging gullies at this time
Here's why we will not be doing cross pavement charging in the City of Westminster
1️⃣ We would become responsible for the safety of EV cables without the ability to verify this safety, for one because we can't know how they're connected to a domestic supply.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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1️⃣ We would become responsible for the safety of EV cables without the ability to verify this safety, for one because we can't know how they're connected to a domestic supply.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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English councils urged to install pavement gullies for home charging of electric cars
Scheme aims to stop cables trailing across pavements and encourage drivers to switch to electric vehicles
www.theguardian.com
July 24, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Excellent thread which echoes the concerns we have in @hounslowcouncil.bsky.social regarding cross pavement charging. Our EV charging strategy focuses instead on delivering an additional 2,000 charge points across the borough and we are not allowing the installation of charging gullies at this time
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What would safer streets mean to you? 🙋
Living Streets and The Bikeability Trust have outlined key policies that the Gov's upcoming Road Safety Strategy should adopt.
Please write to your MP today, urging them to call on the Government to hear us. act.livingstreets.org.uk/page/174678/...
Living Streets and The Bikeability Trust have outlined key policies that the Gov's upcoming Road Safety Strategy should adopt.
Please write to your MP today, urging them to call on the Government to hear us. act.livingstreets.org.uk/page/174678/...
Support a once-in-a-generation opportunity to create Safer Streets for All
Far too often, people walking, wheeling or cycling experience avoidable danger. Write to your MP today, urging them to call on the Government to adopt Living Streets and The Bikeability Trust's five k...
act.livingstreets.org.uk
July 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
What would safer streets mean to you? 🙋
Living Streets and The Bikeability Trust have outlined key policies that the Gov's upcoming Road Safety Strategy should adopt.
Please write to your MP today, urging them to call on the Government to hear us. act.livingstreets.org.uk/page/174678/...
Living Streets and The Bikeability Trust have outlined key policies that the Gov's upcoming Road Safety Strategy should adopt.
Please write to your MP today, urging them to call on the Government to hear us. act.livingstreets.org.uk/page/174678/...
LTNs save lives. A lack of LTNs, or removal of them, means a higher rate of injuries and lives lost, and lives and families damaged irreparably.
www.standard.co.uk/comment/ltns...
www.standard.co.uk/comment/ltns...
You can't argue with the data - LTNs are officially saving lives
It’s a truth many struggle to accept, but in London cars have become killers.
www.standard.co.uk
July 14, 2025 at 11:49 AM
LTNs save lives. A lack of LTNs, or removal of them, means a higher rate of injuries and lives lost, and lives and families damaged irreparably.
www.standard.co.uk/comment/ltns...
www.standard.co.uk/comment/ltns...
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Here’s some common sense for you. If you want or need to drive in cities, your problem isn’t people choosing walking, biking & public transit because of smart, safe infrastructure. It’s all those people being forced to drive big cars instead, stuck in traffic in front of you. #TheTRUTHaboutTraffic
July 6, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Here’s some common sense for you. If you want or need to drive in cities, your problem isn’t people choosing walking, biking & public transit because of smart, safe infrastructure. It’s all those people being forced to drive big cars instead, stuck in traffic in front of you. #TheTRUTHaboutTraffic
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Lambeth steaming along with another Healthy Neighbourhood.
Stockwell Gardens provisional design has been published following the engagement process that's been going on over the last 2 years.
haveyoursay.lambeth.gov.uk/en-GB/folder...
Stockwell Gardens provisional design has been published following the engagement process that's been going on over the last 2 years.
haveyoursay.lambeth.gov.uk/en-GB/folder...
April 22, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Lambeth steaming along with another Healthy Neighbourhood.
Stockwell Gardens provisional design has been published following the engagement process that's been going on over the last 2 years.
haveyoursay.lambeth.gov.uk/en-GB/folder...
Stockwell Gardens provisional design has been published following the engagement process that's been going on over the last 2 years.
haveyoursay.lambeth.gov.uk/en-GB/folder...
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“The efficacy of the measure can no longer be credibly questioned, so it’s time we started implementing them across London and at pace. With so many lives at stake we cannot afford not to.”
#LTNsAreGoodActually Chapter 847
#LTNsAreGoodActually Chapter 847
You can't argue with the data - LTNs are officially saving lives
It’s a truth many struggle to accept, but in London cars have become killers.
www.standard.co.uk
July 12, 2025 at 7:07 AM
“The efficacy of the measure can no longer be credibly questioned, so it’s time we started implementing them across London and at pace. With so many lives at stake we cannot afford not to.”
#LTNsAreGoodActually Chapter 847
#LTNsAreGoodActually Chapter 847
We're really chuffed to be alongside these amazing groups on this leaflet.
For more inspiration and practical guidance, @mumsforlungs.bsky.social have brilliant advice on how to get one started in your area
www.mumsforlungs.org/about-school...
For more inspiration and practical guidance, @mumsforlungs.bsky.social have brilliant advice on how to get one started in your area
www.mumsforlungs.org/about-school...
July 12, 2025 at 8:19 AM
We're really chuffed to be alongside these amazing groups on this leaflet.
For more inspiration and practical guidance, @mumsforlungs.bsky.social have brilliant advice on how to get one started in your area
www.mumsforlungs.org/about-school...
For more inspiration and practical guidance, @mumsforlungs.bsky.social have brilliant advice on how to get one started in your area
www.mumsforlungs.org/about-school...
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When Hidalgo steps down next year, she'll have left an inspiring legacy: 350 km of protected bike lanes, 130,000 bike parking spaces, 300 school streets, 145,000 trees, 45 km of parks, and 140,000 fewer car parking spaces. Largely thanks to a light, quick, cheap experiment started 20 years earlier.🔚
July 9, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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“The best way to avoid being physically inactive is not join to a gym, but to begin with the radical act of walking. The good news is a well-designed city can give us all the regular physical activity we need, without access to expensive equipment and trainers. It’s all about the built environment.”
July 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Ever-rising height of car bonnets a ‘clear threat’ to children, report says
Ever-rising height of car bonnets a ‘clear threat’ to children, report says
High-fronted SUVs are more likely to kill and are on the rise in Europe with the UK an extreme example
The bonnet height of new cars in the UK and Europe is rising relentlessly, a report has found, bringing a “clear and growing threat to public safety, especially for children”.
Higher fronts on cars significantly increase the death rate when pedestrians are struck. The analysis also found that drivers in the tallest cars could not see children as old as nine at all when they were directly in front of the vehicle. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
June 11, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Ever-rising height of car bonnets a ‘clear threat’ to children, report says
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The aggregate effect of rainwater gardens, swales, and street trees on biodiversity, heatwave mitigation, and surface water absorption, and mental health and wellbeing is enormous.
Getting them into every city, town, & village in the U.K should be a strategic national priority.
Getting them into every city, town, & village in the U.K should be a strategic national priority.
July 2, 2025 at 3:14 AM
The aggregate effect of rainwater gardens, swales, and street trees on biodiversity, heatwave mitigation, and surface water absorption, and mental health and wellbeing is enormous.
Getting them into every city, town, & village in the U.K should be a strategic national priority.
Getting them into every city, town, & village in the U.K should be a strategic national priority.
In short, 20mph speed limits and more school streets have improved Ealing's score but infrastructure is lacking.
www.healthystreetsscorecard.london/results/your...
www.healthystreetsscorecard.london/results/your...
Ealing – Healthy Streets Scorecard
www.healthystreetsscorecard.london
July 8, 2025 at 8:55 AM
In short, 20mph speed limits and more school streets have improved Ealing's score but infrastructure is lacking.
www.healthystreetsscorecard.london/results/your...
www.healthystreetsscorecard.london/results/your...
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@ealingcouncil.bsky.social
@betterealing.bsky.social
@ealing.greenparty.org.uk
We could do with something similar out west
@betterealing.bsky.social
@ealing.greenparty.org.uk
We could do with something similar out west
Lambeth’s kerbside strategy is one of my favourite transport policies of the last few years. They aim for 25% of the kerbside to be used for climate resilience - either reducing emissions or addressing impacts of extreme weather. Their 1st progress report describes what this looks like in practice.
July 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
@ealingcouncil.bsky.social
@betterealing.bsky.social
@ealing.greenparty.org.uk
We could do with something similar out west
@betterealing.bsky.social
@ealing.greenparty.org.uk
We could do with something similar out west
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“LTNs have led to considerable reductions in road traffic injuries inside their boundaries for all road users – from pedestrians and cyclists to drivers [while] concerns about nearby main roads becoming more dangerous aren’t supported by the evidence.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
London’s low-traffic zones ‘cut deaths and injuries by more than a third’
Exclusive: Study also finds no change in number of casualties on roads just outside low-traffic neighbourhoods
www.theguardian.com
July 7, 2025 at 1:27 PM
“LTNs have led to considerable reductions in road traffic injuries inside their boundaries for all road users – from pedestrians and cyclists to drivers [while] concerns about nearby main roads becoming more dangerous aren’t supported by the evidence.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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NEW: Big study of low-traffic neighbourhoods in London suggest they cut road injuries and deaths by more than a third within their boundaries with no apparent negative safety effect on nearby roads. This feels a *major* boost for proponents of such schemes.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
London’s low-traffic zones ‘cut deaths and injuries by more than a third’
Exclusive: Study also finds no change in number of casualties on roads just outside low-traffic neighbourhoods
www.theguardian.com
July 7, 2025 at 1:11 PM
NEW: Big study of low-traffic neighbourhoods in London suggest they cut road injuries and deaths by more than a third within their boundaries with no apparent negative safety effect on nearby roads. This feels a *major* boost for proponents of such schemes.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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The report's authors calculate that creating the LTNs prevented more than 600 road injuries that would have otherwise taken place, including 100 involving death or serious injury. These are quite hard statistics to argue against.
July 7, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The report's authors calculate that creating the LTNs prevented more than 600 road injuries that would have otherwise taken place, including 100 involving death or serious injury. These are quite hard statistics to argue against.
Antidotes to misinformation and disinformation surrounding LTNs and other schemes to help mitigate negative impacts of motor traffic on people are coming in thick and fast.
NEW: Big study of low-traffic neighbourhoods in London suggest they cut road injuries and deaths by more than a third within their boundaries with no apparent negative safety effect on nearby roads. This feels a *major* boost for proponents of such schemes.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
London’s low-traffic zones ‘cut deaths and injuries by more than a third’
Exclusive: Study also finds no change in number of casualties on roads just outside low-traffic neighbourhoods
www.theguardian.com
July 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Antidotes to misinformation and disinformation surrounding LTNs and other schemes to help mitigate negative impacts of motor traffic on people are coming in thick and fast.