Catherine Wykes
@cathybabes.bsky.social
Beer and active travel stuff
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![Advertising poster promoting cycling for transport featuring four people in a row on bikes. At the top the text says, "You'd be better on a bicycle", and then in a bubble it says "Still [emphasized with big, red, italicized letters] the cheapest, handiest, healthiest way of getting about."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7vpdxcialxa6j5s7yh5g5jhf/bafkreihcp247ahol26isqxpjmh54kczqp6ieyycvhakzjug6ysgeqndpb4@jpeg)
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Mayors play a crucial role in addressing the climate crisis.
By reclaiming public space from the private property of cars, mayors can cut pollution, revive civic interaction, enhance public safety, and expand green space.
But only if they're willing to take on entrenched interests.
By reclaiming public space from the private property of cars, mayors can cut pollution, revive civic interaction, enhance public safety, and expand green space.
But only if they're willing to take on entrenched interests.
“Globally, despite extreme heat, floods and devastating wildfires, populist leaders, some sceptical but others in outright denial about the science, are talking up the costs of action rather than the consequences of inaction.”
6 global mayors defying climate denying populists
6 global mayors defying climate denying populists
‘Politicians actually taking action’: six world mayors defying climate-sceptic populist leaders
From Sierra Leone to Milan, cities are crafting their own rules and innovations in the face of rising temperatures
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Mayors play a crucial role in addressing the climate crisis.
By reclaiming public space from the private property of cars, mayors can cut pollution, revive civic interaction, enhance public safety, and expand green space.
But only if they're willing to take on entrenched interests.
By reclaiming public space from the private property of cars, mayors can cut pollution, revive civic interaction, enhance public safety, and expand green space.
But only if they're willing to take on entrenched interests.
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Just preaching my message of "wanting to do less more often" we all have our reasons.
November 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Just preaching my message of "wanting to do less more often" we all have our reasons.
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"Why should our experience at 10 kilometers an hour constrain the laws of nature at 300,000 kilometers a second?"
-Carl Sagan, astronomer, planetary scientist, and science communicator
Happy #BicycleBirthday, Carl Sagan!
November 9 (1934-1996)
-Carl Sagan, astronomer, planetary scientist, and science communicator
Happy #BicycleBirthday, Carl Sagan!
November 9 (1934-1996)
November 9, 2025 at 5:00 AM
"Why should our experience at 10 kilometers an hour constrain the laws of nature at 300,000 kilometers a second?"
-Carl Sagan, astronomer, planetary scientist, and science communicator
Happy #BicycleBirthday, Carl Sagan!
November 9 (1934-1996)
-Carl Sagan, astronomer, planetary scientist, and science communicator
Happy #BicycleBirthday, Carl Sagan!
November 9 (1934-1996)
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If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”
June 2, 2025 at 6:30 AM
If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”
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Today we rode to demand safer streets for women cycling in winter.
Cycling is joyous but many women feel left out of our movement. It's time that changed.
Cycling is joyous but many women feel left out of our movement. It's time that changed.
November 8, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Today we rode to demand safer streets for women cycling in winter.
Cycling is joyous but many women feel left out of our movement. It's time that changed.
Cycling is joyous but many women feel left out of our movement. It's time that changed.
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No women, no safety
Women on bikes are the indicator species of a city’s cycling health.
If you don’t see many of us, it’s not about lack of interest — it’s about safety.
Day 13 of the #carfreechallenge2025
#yegbike
@bikeology.bsky.social
Women on bikes are the indicator species of a city’s cycling health.
If you don’t see many of us, it’s not about lack of interest — it’s about safety.
Day 13 of the #carfreechallenge2025
#yegbike
@bikeology.bsky.social
October 5, 2025 at 5:02 AM
No women, no safety
Women on bikes are the indicator species of a city’s cycling health.
If you don’t see many of us, it’s not about lack of interest — it’s about safety.
Day 13 of the #carfreechallenge2025
#yegbike
@bikeology.bsky.social
Women on bikes are the indicator species of a city’s cycling health.
If you don’t see many of us, it’s not about lack of interest — it’s about safety.
Day 13 of the #carfreechallenge2025
#yegbike
@bikeology.bsky.social
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The WRGM Discord has been so successful that campaigners nationwide have launched a new forum - People Powered Streets.
Tired of how negative social media has become? Join us to connect, share, and learn with others driving change.
discord.com/invite/ayXhs...
Tired of how negative social media has become? Join us to connect, share, and learn with others driving change.
discord.com/invite/ayXhs...
October 16, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The WRGM Discord has been so successful that campaigners nationwide have launched a new forum - People Powered Streets.
Tired of how negative social media has become? Join us to connect, share, and learn with others driving change.
discord.com/invite/ayXhs...
Tired of how negative social media has become? Join us to connect, share, and learn with others driving change.
discord.com/invite/ayXhs...
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If you want to push back against tech's encroachment into every corner of our lives, you have to read books. They're eager to create a future in which most people are illiterate and hooked on slop, a world without imagination or knowledge. Reading is resistance.
October 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
If you want to push back against tech's encroachment into every corner of our lives, you have to read books. They're eager to create a future in which most people are illiterate and hooked on slop, a world without imagination or knowledge. Reading is resistance.
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“Since the bicycle makes little demand on material or energy resources, contributes little to pollution, makes a positive contribution to health and causes little death or injury, it can be regarded as the most benevolent of machines.” Here’s the article by @carltonreid.com HT @sciam.bsky.social
Pedal Power Remains Most Efficient Way To Travel, Confirms Scientific American
Scientific American confirms that human on a bicycle more efficient than salmon, seagulls, or jet planes, updating a piece from 1973.
www.forbes.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:59 PM
“Since the bicycle makes little demand on material or energy resources, contributes little to pollution, makes a positive contribution to health and causes little death or injury, it can be regarded as the most benevolent of machines.” Here’s the article by @carltonreid.com HT @sciam.bsky.social
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“We assume that car use is an incompressible liquid that must be routed somewhere. But it’s more more like a gas that fills whatever space it is given.”
—Ian Lockwood, Harvard Loeb Fellow, transport planner.
—Ian Lockwood, Harvard Loeb Fellow, transport planner.
October 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
“We assume that car use is an incompressible liquid that must be routed somewhere. But it’s more more like a gas that fills whatever space it is given.”
—Ian Lockwood, Harvard Loeb Fellow, transport planner.
—Ian Lockwood, Harvard Loeb Fellow, transport planner.
Dundee folks - light up your bikes and join us for a spooky Halloween #GlowRide #MyRideOurRight on Friday 31 October, followed by our monthly #CriticalMassRide @cyclingukscotland.bsky.social
Family Friendly #GlowRide to Dundee Cycle Hub
Friday 31st October
Meet: 4.30pm, Braw Tea Cafe, Castle Green Broughty Ferry!
Friday 31st October
Meet: 4.30pm, Braw Tea Cafe, Castle Green Broughty Ferry!
October 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Dundee folks - light up your bikes and join us for a spooky Halloween #GlowRide #MyRideOurRight on Friday 31 October, followed by our monthly #CriticalMassRide @cyclingukscotland.bsky.social
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"There's no machine known that is more efficient than a human on a bicycle. Bowl of oatmeal, 30 miles - you can't come close to that."
-Bill Nye, science communicator
Happy #BicycleBirthday, Bill!
#BornOnThisDay November 27, 1955
-Bill Nye, science communicator
Happy #BicycleBirthday, Bill!
#BornOnThisDay November 27, 1955
November 27, 2024 at 5:00 AM
"There's no machine known that is more efficient than a human on a bicycle. Bowl of oatmeal, 30 miles - you can't come close to that."
-Bill Nye, science communicator
Happy #BicycleBirthday, Bill!
#BornOnThisDay November 27, 1955
-Bill Nye, science communicator
Happy #BicycleBirthday, Bill!
#BornOnThisDay November 27, 1955
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Car-free cities are:
✅ thriving cities
✅ healthy cities
✅ care free cities
✅ fun cities
✅ active cities
✅ inclusive cities
✅ free cities
#WorldCarFreeDay
✅ thriving cities
✅ healthy cities
✅ care free cities
✅ fun cities
✅ active cities
✅ inclusive cities
✅ free cities
#WorldCarFreeDay
September 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Car-free cities are:
✅ thriving cities
✅ healthy cities
✅ care free cities
✅ fun cities
✅ active cities
✅ inclusive cities
✅ free cities
#WorldCarFreeDay
✅ thriving cities
✅ healthy cities
✅ care free cities
✅ fun cities
✅ active cities
✅ inclusive cities
✅ free cities
#WorldCarFreeDay
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In this Starter Kit, I'm sharing with you 50 people who are passionate about sustainable urban planning and quality of life
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go.bsky.app/CZhovb2
September 12, 2025 at 9:58 PM
In this Starter Kit, I'm sharing with you 50 people who are passionate about sustainable urban planning and quality of life
go.bsky.app/CZhovb2
go.bsky.app/CZhovb2
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"This is a call to arms to prevent ill health. Cycling is part of prevention: we need ambitious vision, and walking and cycling to be the norm". Jillian Evans of NHS Grampian, highlights the public health issues prevalent in Scotland and the essential role of active travel in tackling this.
September 10, 2025 at 11:23 AM
"This is a call to arms to prevent ill health. Cycling is part of prevention: we need ambitious vision, and walking and cycling to be the norm". Jillian Evans of NHS Grampian, highlights the public health issues prevalent in Scotland and the essential role of active travel in tackling this.
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"Six times more people are killed on the roads in the UK each year than through knife crime. If this was any other area of our lives, we would never tolerate this level of harm."
Rebecca Morris’ impassioned speech calls for more immediate action for safer streets. #CyclingScotlandConf
Rebecca Morris’ impassioned speech calls for more immediate action for safer streets. #CyclingScotlandConf
September 10, 2025 at 11:56 AM
"Six times more people are killed on the roads in the UK each year than through knife crime. If this was any other area of our lives, we would never tolerate this level of harm."
Rebecca Morris’ impassioned speech calls for more immediate action for safer streets. #CyclingScotlandConf
Rebecca Morris’ impassioned speech calls for more immediate action for safer streets. #CyclingScotlandConf
All set up and ready for #CyclingScotlandConf 2025 in a slightly soggy Dundee @dundeecycling.co.uk #DundeeDragons
September 10, 2025 at 8:55 AM
All set up and ready for #CyclingScotlandConf 2025 in a slightly soggy Dundee @dundeecycling.co.uk #DundeeDragons
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EXCLUSIVE: Leaked footage of radical anti-car cyclists at a training camp.
September 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
EXCLUSIVE: Leaked footage of radical anti-car cyclists at a training camp.
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Lifesaving, life-improving: transformed quality of life along a key route that used to be too dangerous for most folks to consider cycling, and horrible for walk/wheel as well. We love the skills, vision, and determination here. World class Camden!
🔔 New Cycle Infra Alert! 🔔
Yesterday, a group of us went to explore a brand new protected cycle lane on York Way near London’s King’s Cross and it’s MAGNIFICENT.
It also has an excellent bus stop bypass, and nearby, a pre - LTN roundabout 👀👀 … 1/12 🧵
Yesterday, a group of us went to explore a brand new protected cycle lane on York Way near London’s King’s Cross and it’s MAGNIFICENT.
It also has an excellent bus stop bypass, and nearby, a pre - LTN roundabout 👀👀 … 1/12 🧵
September 2, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Lifesaving, life-improving: transformed quality of life along a key route that used to be too dangerous for most folks to consider cycling, and horrible for walk/wheel as well. We love the skills, vision, and determination here. World class Camden!
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We joined Scottish Borders Council on Tuesday to celebrate the new Hawick #ActiveTravel Network 🎉
Through 7km of widened shared-use paths, accessible ramps and footbridges, the network opens up opportunities for walking, wheeling and cycling.
More 👉 buff.ly/NqpEgeF
Through 7km of widened shared-use paths, accessible ramps and footbridges, the network opens up opportunities for walking, wheeling and cycling.
More 👉 buff.ly/NqpEgeF
August 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
We joined Scottish Borders Council on Tuesday to celebrate the new Hawick #ActiveTravel Network 🎉
Through 7km of widened shared-use paths, accessible ramps and footbridges, the network opens up opportunities for walking, wheeling and cycling.
More 👉 buff.ly/NqpEgeF
Through 7km of widened shared-use paths, accessible ramps and footbridges, the network opens up opportunities for walking, wheeling and cycling.
More 👉 buff.ly/NqpEgeF
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This Friday 17.30 City Square join us to help make cycling an attractive, inclusive and accessible everyday transport option in Dundee!
August 26, 2025 at 1:06 PM
This Friday 17.30 City Square join us to help make cycling an attractive, inclusive and accessible everyday transport option in Dundee!
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Ghent implemented a circulation plan, in part, BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T HAVE MONEY FOR INFRASTRUCTURE. But the results were rapid: car traffic evaporated and cycling increased by 60%.
August 22, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Ghent implemented a circulation plan, in part, BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T HAVE MONEY FOR INFRASTRUCTURE. But the results were rapid: car traffic evaporated and cycling increased by 60%.
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“No other invention combines the useful with the pleasant as closely as the bicycle.”
- Adam Opel (1837-1895), founder of Adam Opel AG, which originally produced sewing machines and bicycles, and later automobiles
- Adam Opel (1837-1895), founder of Adam Opel AG, which originally produced sewing machines and bicycles, and later automobiles
August 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
“No other invention combines the useful with the pleasant as closely as the bicycle.”
- Adam Opel (1837-1895), founder of Adam Opel AG, which originally produced sewing machines and bicycles, and later automobiles
- Adam Opel (1837-1895), founder of Adam Opel AG, which originally produced sewing machines and bicycles, and later automobiles
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I’ve mulled over posting this for months now. But yesterday it came to a head. And I’m aware that the people who need to see it will either not be here, or will suggest that I’m lying.
I live near an asylum hotel. The reason I didn’t post earlier is that I didn’t want to raise undue attention
I live near an asylum hotel. The reason I didn’t post earlier is that I didn’t want to raise undue attention
August 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
I’ve mulled over posting this for months now. But yesterday it came to a head. And I’m aware that the people who need to see it will either not be here, or will suggest that I’m lying.
I live near an asylum hotel. The reason I didn’t post earlier is that I didn’t want to raise undue attention
I live near an asylum hotel. The reason I didn’t post earlier is that I didn’t want to raise undue attention