Rich
@hoxtonrich.bsky.social
Mostly active travel | climate | politics | utility cycling | environmental-health/pollution | LTNs | tradeunion | Occasional ultra-running | A smattering of lower-league-football food beers & other random stuff | Chartered EHP | Personal account
I’m hearing Lutfur Rahman is very close to achieving his manifesto pledge to create 1000 new car parking spaces in Tower Hamlets. Some have even come by taking space directly from the pavement. Unbelievable in this day and age.
November 11, 2025 at 6:58 AM
I’m hearing Lutfur Rahman is very close to achieving his manifesto pledge to create 1000 new car parking spaces in Tower Hamlets. Some have even come by taking space directly from the pavement. Unbelievable in this day and age.
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Worried about the increasing %age of cars that are SUVs? You should be!
Take a look at this BMJ Editorial www.bmj.com/content/391/....
Also check out the SUV Alliance, which RDRF is a member of.
Take a look at this BMJ Editorial www.bmj.com/content/391/....
Also check out the SUV Alliance, which RDRF is a member of.
Reducing the harms from ever larger cars
Parking policy, taxation, and regulation could help curb sales and health risks
Sports utility vehicles (SUVs) are passenger cars that have a chassis with extra ground clearance and are generally tal...
www.bmj.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Worried about the increasing %age of cars that are SUVs? You should be!
Take a look at this BMJ Editorial www.bmj.com/content/391/....
Also check out the SUV Alliance, which RDRF is a member of.
Take a look at this BMJ Editorial www.bmj.com/content/391/....
Also check out the SUV Alliance, which RDRF is a member of.
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Too many city plans are still using language like “balancing competing priorities” because at some point, we city planners decided that the word balance made us sound reasonable and less scary. But let’s be clear — in most cases balance has been a myth, and is often NOT the correct goal or approach.
November 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Too many city plans are still using language like “balancing competing priorities” because at some point, we city planners decided that the word balance made us sound reasonable and less scary. But let’s be clear — in most cases balance has been a myth, and is often NOT the correct goal or approach.
My ride to school with the kids today… vehicles going through filters and a car pulling up to drop off on the school street nearly dooring a family traveling by bike. Enforcement?
November 6, 2025 at 8:50 AM
My ride to school with the kids today… vehicles going through filters and a car pulling up to drop off on the school street nearly dooring a family traveling by bike. Enforcement?
Crucial to establish this principle but it needs to apply to ICE as well as EV to stop incentives against cleaner vehicles. Also needs to be a variable rate for vehicle size.
Thursday's TELEGRAPH: Pay per mile tax to hit drivers in Budget #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 6, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Crucial to establish this principle but it needs to apply to ICE as well as EV to stop incentives against cleaner vehicles. Also needs to be a variable rate for vehicle size.
I know weather isn’t climate etc but 17 degrees on Bonfire Night in England? This isn’t normal. 🤯
November 5, 2025 at 6:42 AM
I know weather isn’t climate etc but 17 degrees on Bonfire Night in England? This isn’t normal. 🤯
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Hackney Council in 2020: "Floating bus stops are an essential element of separating cycling from motor traffic on through routes, for comfort and safety"
Hackney Council in 2025: "Let's not bother building floating bus stops and propose dangerous designs instead"
Hackney Council in 2025: "Let's not bother building floating bus stops and propose dangerous designs instead"
November 4, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Hackney Council in 2020: "Floating bus stops are an essential element of separating cycling from motor traffic on through routes, for comfort and safety"
Hackney Council in 2025: "Let's not bother building floating bus stops and propose dangerous designs instead"
Hackney Council in 2025: "Let's not bother building floating bus stops and propose dangerous designs instead"
Is this good enough? Discuss…
November 4, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Is this good enough? Discuss…
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London's Ringways are a whole network of unbuilt urban motorways threaded through the capital. There's never been a complete map of them,not even one made by their designers, until now. Today we're publishing the Ringways Map from @roads.org.uk to let you see in the city that London nearly became.
November 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
London's Ringways are a whole network of unbuilt urban motorways threaded through the capital. There's never been a complete map of them,not even one made by their designers, until now. Today we're publishing the Ringways Map from @roads.org.uk to let you see in the city that London nearly became.
Whilst I do appreciate the effort to make this street more inviting, the new hopscotch on Downham Road is just no substitute for a scheme that would’ve eliminated traffic or enabled safe cycling. We need to be much more ambitious.
November 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Whilst I do appreciate the effort to make this street more inviting, the new hopscotch on Downham Road is just no substitute for a scheme that would’ve eliminated traffic or enabled safe cycling. We need to be much more ambitious.
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Many of Britain’s 6,116 villages and small communities have an A-Road running through them. Fast roads like these are slicing British villages in two, creating Highway Halves. So, how do we fix it?
October 31, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Many of Britain’s 6,116 villages and small communities have an A-Road running through them. Fast roads like these are slicing British villages in two, creating Highway Halves. So, how do we fix it?
This report is worth reading 👇. These solutions are not revolutionary but sadly most UK towns and villages are absolutely failing on these basics.
Many of Britain’s 6,116 villages and small communities have an A-Road running through them. Fast roads like these are slicing British villages in two, creating Highway Halves. So, how do we fix it?
November 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This report is worth reading 👇. These solutions are not revolutionary but sadly most UK towns and villages are absolutely failing on these basics.
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The government have very little of a positive story to tell so far but the green power stuff and net zero is a real strength that is very popular with the British public. But they don’t like talking about that 🤷♂️
But it does once again beg the question as to why the government is not making more of what is arguably its flagship and most popular policy?
October 30, 2025 at 7:05 AM
The government have very little of a positive story to tell so far but the green power stuff and net zero is a real strength that is very popular with the British public. But they don’t like talking about that 🤷♂️
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2 great Halloween rides coming up on Saturday…
Columbia Road Day of the Dead ride / Kidical Mass with @thwheelers.bsky.social
&
@ibikelondon.bsky.social Halloweeny Ride. Respect to anyone who makes both!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/londons-da...
www.ticketsource.co.uk/ibikelondon/...
Columbia Road Day of the Dead ride / Kidical Mass with @thwheelers.bsky.social
&
@ibikelondon.bsky.social Halloweeny Ride. Respect to anyone who makes both!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/londons-da...
www.ticketsource.co.uk/ibikelondon/...
London's Day of the Dead 2025 – cycle ride
Eventbrite - Juliette presents London's Day of the Dead 2025 – cycle ride - Saturday, November 1, 2025 at Columbia Primary School, London, England. Find event and ticket information.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 9:38 PM
2 great Halloween rides coming up on Saturday…
Columbia Road Day of the Dead ride / Kidical Mass with @thwheelers.bsky.social
&
@ibikelondon.bsky.social Halloweeny Ride. Respect to anyone who makes both!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/londons-da...
www.ticketsource.co.uk/ibikelondon/...
Columbia Road Day of the Dead ride / Kidical Mass with @thwheelers.bsky.social
&
@ibikelondon.bsky.social Halloweeny Ride. Respect to anyone who makes both!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/londons-da...
www.ticketsource.co.uk/ibikelondon/...
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Reflection on on how cycleways materialise mundane pedestrian infrastructure.
This is a bus stop on the newish Chorlton cycleway.
I've seen so many posts about it on social media. Largely around accessibility concerns.
So here's my thoughts:
1/
This is a bus stop on the newish Chorlton cycleway.
I've seen so many posts about it on social media. Largely around accessibility concerns.
So here's my thoughts:
1/
October 29, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Reflection on on how cycleways materialise mundane pedestrian infrastructure.
This is a bus stop on the newish Chorlton cycleway.
I've seen so many posts about it on social media. Largely around accessibility concerns.
So here's my thoughts:
1/
This is a bus stop on the newish Chorlton cycleway.
I've seen so many posts about it on social media. Largely around accessibility concerns.
So here's my thoughts:
1/
It seems odd the usual vehicular cyclists are also so vocally against dockless hire bikes… until you realise their opposition was never just protected lanes, it is ‘mass cycling’ itself. They want an elite activity not an ‘infantilising’ inclusive mass travel mode.
October 28, 2025 at 8:22 AM
It seems odd the usual vehicular cyclists are also so vocally against dockless hire bikes… until you realise their opposition was never just protected lanes, it is ‘mass cycling’ itself. They want an elite activity not an ‘infantilising’ inclusive mass travel mode.
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Yeah, bus stop bypasses are a menace.
October 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Yeah, bus stop bypasses are a menace.
‘London’s Finest’ (TM) showing off their skills in Dalston this evening
October 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
‘London’s Finest’ (TM) showing off their skills in Dalston this evening
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So they close the car park on the very days people come into town to shop? Yet I'll bet if you proposed getting rid of the parking permanently you'd be told it'd kill the towns shops
October 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
So they close the car park on the very days people come into town to shop? Yet I'll bet if you proposed getting rid of the parking permanently you'd be told it'd kill the towns shops
I’m in Bury St Edmond’s where of course a pretty town square is… a big car park.
October 26, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I’m in Bury St Edmond’s where of course a pretty town square is… a big car park.
A good concept but here’s an even more radical idea: How about we just make the places people live safe & attractive for everyone to walk wheel & cycle as part of their normal lives. Imagine what that could do for population health. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Offer cancer patients exercise on NHS, major charity urges
Maggie’s says embedding activities such as yoga, tai chi and Nordic walking into care could boost chances of survival
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 11:55 AM
A good concept but here’s an even more radical idea: How about we just make the places people live safe & attractive for everyone to walk wheel & cycle as part of their normal lives. Imagine what that could do for population health. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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The far right anger of Reform folks, the bitterness of their pound shop racism, the idea what little we have needs protecting from folks like my parents, who came here as refugees & built lives here, the idea London & England has fallen rather than grown. They deserve contempt & ridicule...
Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.
October 25, 2025 at 8:47 AM
The far right anger of Reform folks, the bitterness of their pound shop racism, the idea what little we have needs protecting from folks like my parents, who came here as refugees & built lives here, the idea London & England has fallen rather than grown. They deserve contempt & ridicule...
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There's a wider point here that good planning - building for the next ten, 20, 30 years - is like aiming at a moving target. Aim ahead or you're certain to miss the mark.
That's climate at +2.0⁰c, today's fifteen year olds at 35, and all the rest that implies.
Something the UK is terrible at.
That's climate at +2.0⁰c, today's fifteen year olds at 35, and all the rest that implies.
Something the UK is terrible at.
Hackney’s Transport Strategy Consultation seems to have made all the usual mistakes. Not asked car ownership/access question (instead asked less helpful ‘modes used’ & 47.8% said car) so the sample likely heavily skewed towards ‘disaffected drivers’. consultation.hackney.gov.uk/streetscene/...
October 25, 2025 at 8:07 AM
There's a wider point here that good planning - building for the next ten, 20, 30 years - is like aiming at a moving target. Aim ahead or you're certain to miss the mark.
That's climate at +2.0⁰c, today's fifteen year olds at 35, and all the rest that implies.
Something the UK is terrible at.
That's climate at +2.0⁰c, today's fifteen year olds at 35, and all the rest that implies.
Something the UK is terrible at.
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Definitely. The consultation process on transport and streets is broken in most of the UK. It's a mess because nobody wants to talk about the widest issues.
October 25, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Definitely. The consultation process on transport and streets is broken in most of the UK. It's a mess because nobody wants to talk about the widest issues.
Hackney’s Transport Strategy Consultation seems to have made all the usual mistakes. Not asked car ownership/access question (instead asked less helpful ‘modes used’ & 47.8% said car) so the sample likely heavily skewed towards ‘disaffected drivers’. consultation.hackney.gov.uk/streetscene/...
October 25, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Hackney’s Transport Strategy Consultation seems to have made all the usual mistakes. Not asked car ownership/access question (instead asked less helpful ‘modes used’ & 47.8% said car) so the sample likely heavily skewed towards ‘disaffected drivers’. consultation.hackney.gov.uk/streetscene/...