Prestwich Pootler
@prestwichpootler.bsky.social
Nick Hubble, bearded gobshite on a bike from Manchester, UK.
youtube.com/@bangingonaboutbikes for fun films of bikey stuff.
youtube.com/@bangingonaboutbikes for fun films of bikey stuff.
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On Thursday after work, we're celebrating the opening of Deansgate with a celebration ride.
Come along and cycle Deansgate to Chorlton on protected cycle lanes for the first time 🚲
Come along and cycle Deansgate to Chorlton on protected cycle lanes for the first time 🚲
April 7, 2025 at 9:08 AM
On Thursday after work, we're celebrating the opening of Deansgate with a celebration ride.
Come along and cycle Deansgate to Chorlton on protected cycle lanes for the first time 🚲
Come along and cycle Deansgate to Chorlton on protected cycle lanes for the first time 🚲
Gonna be racing the Brompton in that London in the summer. Promises to be a bonkers weekend, if far from a victorious one given I've never raced a bike before, let alone one as absurd as the Brompton 😂
April 4, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Gonna be racing the Brompton in that London in the summer. Promises to be a bonkers weekend, if far from a victorious one given I've never raced a bike before, let alone one as absurd as the Brompton 😂
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Women put off cycling by safety fears and intimidating drivers – study
Women put off cycling by safety fears and intimidating drivers – study
Research by Cycling UK finds female cyclists report more threatening incidents, as well as a lack of infrastructure
Intimidating behaviour from drivers, poor infrastructure and fears over safety are deterring more women in the UK from cycling compared with men, research has found, while bike sales continue to fall after the “Covid boom”.
The barriers to cycling have widened between men and women “across every measure in the past seven years”, according to research by Cycling UK, a charitable membership organisation. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
March 31, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Women put off cycling by safety fears and intimidating drivers – study
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✨🚲 My Ride. Our Right. 🚲✨
Women cycle half as often as men, often held back by poor infrastructure, imagine if every ride felt like the image on the right. Our right.
Today we launch #MyRideOurRight because safer cycling for women means safer cycling for all. Join us: cyclinguk.org/myrideourright
Women cycle half as often as men, often held back by poor infrastructure, imagine if every ride felt like the image on the right. Our right.
Today we launch #MyRideOurRight because safer cycling for women means safer cycling for all. Join us: cyclinguk.org/myrideourright
March 31, 2025 at 10:18 AM
✨🚲 My Ride. Our Right. 🚲✨
Women cycle half as often as men, often held back by poor infrastructure, imagine if every ride felt like the image on the right. Our right.
Today we launch #MyRideOurRight because safer cycling for women means safer cycling for all. Join us: cyclinguk.org/myrideourright
Women cycle half as often as men, often held back by poor infrastructure, imagine if every ride felt like the image on the right. Our right.
Today we launch #MyRideOurRight because safer cycling for women means safer cycling for all. Join us: cyclinguk.org/myrideourright
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Wonderful to see two of the new Deansgate walking and cycling junctions open today
March 27, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Wonderful to see two of the new Deansgate walking and cycling junctions open today
The MEN always fails to join the dots:
"He said people still heavily rely on their cars in the borough - where heavy traffic congestion is still a problem."
More cars = more congestion. More bikes = fewer cars = less congestion. Not rocket surgery.
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...
"He said people still heavily rely on their cars in the borough - where heavy traffic congestion is still a problem."
More cars = more congestion. More bikes = fewer cars = less congestion. Not rocket surgery.
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...
Active travel schemes are 'squeezing out motorists in favour of cyclists'
A fierce debate erupted over active travel schemes in the borough
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
March 21, 2025 at 11:12 AM
The MEN always fails to join the dots:
"He said people still heavily rely on their cars in the borough - where heavy traffic congestion is still a problem."
More cars = more congestion. More bikes = fewer cars = less congestion. Not rocket surgery.
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...
"He said people still heavily rely on their cars in the borough - where heavy traffic congestion is still a problem."
More cars = more congestion. More bikes = fewer cars = less congestion. Not rocket surgery.
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...
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This country is awash with money. The very rich are rich beyond imagination. So when Starmer wants to stay within his arbitrary fiscal rules, who does he decide to take money from? The very rich? No, from people with disabilities who depend on benefits for the bare minimum of a decent life.
March 18, 2025 at 6:36 AM
This country is awash with money. The very rich are rich beyond imagination. So when Starmer wants to stay within his arbitrary fiscal rules, who does he decide to take money from? The very rich? No, from people with disabilities who depend on benefits for the bare minimum of a decent life.
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“Illegal immigrant” was their first success.
Now comes
“Illegal boycott”
“Illegal protest”
“Illegal votes”
“Illegal posts”
Until the “illegal” is you. #3E
Now comes
“Illegal boycott”
“Illegal protest”
“Illegal votes”
“Illegal posts”
Until the “illegal” is you. #3E
March 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
“Illegal immigrant” was their first success.
Now comes
“Illegal boycott”
“Illegal protest”
“Illegal votes”
“Illegal posts”
Until the “illegal” is you. #3E
Now comes
“Illegal boycott”
“Illegal protest”
“Illegal votes”
“Illegal posts”
Until the “illegal” is you. #3E
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Tesla has seen $800 billion of company value wiped out in just three months
March 12, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Tesla has seen $800 billion of company value wiped out in just three months
Re. her comments after the Ed Miliband interview, could @peterwalker99.bsky.social have a word with @pippacrerar.bsky.social about what makes cycling safe (not helmets!) and that ebikes definitely are not cheating! (That's cars!)
March 11, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Re. her comments after the Ed Miliband interview, could @peterwalker99.bsky.social have a word with @pippacrerar.bsky.social about what makes cycling safe (not helmets!) and that ebikes definitely are not cheating! (That's cars!)
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If you’re drawn to a politician because they promise to be cruel to Muslims or Jews or immigrants or gays or transgender people etc, the least you should do - the absolute, bare bones, still morally vacuous least - is ask yourself whether they’re likely to stop at the group you want to see targeted.
March 8, 2025 at 8:59 AM
If you’re drawn to a politician because they promise to be cruel to Muslims or Jews or immigrants or gays or transgender people etc, the least you should do - the absolute, bare bones, still morally vacuous least - is ask yourself whether they’re likely to stop at the group you want to see targeted.
March 8, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Strength, solidarity and down with the patriarchy on this International Women's Day (always seems odd to me to wish a "happy" one of given what it represents).
March 8, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Strength, solidarity and down with the patriarchy on this International Women's Day (always seems odd to me to wish a "happy" one of given what it represents).
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While I often find myself personally inconvenienced by them, I am generally pro e-scooter. Isn't it amazing that so many people have voluntarily chosen small electric vehicles for everyday travel? I saw a builder heading to site with his toolbox balanced on one yesterday. It's replaced a whole van!
March 2, 2025 at 9:42 AM
While I often find myself personally inconvenienced by them, I am generally pro e-scooter. Isn't it amazing that so many people have voluntarily chosen small electric vehicles for everyday travel? I saw a builder heading to site with his toolbox balanced on one yesterday. It's replaced a whole van!
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Would you just look at that 😍 Wonderful wand-protected cycle lane on the A56 with bus stop bypasses. Almost 5 years on from when the cones went in, well worth the wait.
March 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Would you just look at that 😍 Wonderful wand-protected cycle lane on the A56 with bus stop bypasses. Almost 5 years on from when the cones went in, well worth the wait.
"It says thank you for the military aid or else it gets the hose again." What an utterly repugnant, abusive, toxic, victim-blaming thug.
March 1, 2025 at 8:58 AM
"It says thank you for the military aid or else it gets the hose again." What an utterly repugnant, abusive, toxic, victim-blaming thug.
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Ever wanted to know what council leaders think about active travel?
We sat down with Trafford Council leader @tomwross.bsky.social and his Exec for Climate Aidan Williams to discus taking home the Best Council award and their determination to continue delivery in the borough.
Listen now👇🏻
We sat down with Trafford Council leader @tomwross.bsky.social and his Exec for Climate Aidan Williams to discus taking home the Best Council award and their determination to continue delivery in the borough.
Listen now👇🏻
February 25, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Ever wanted to know what council leaders think about active travel?
We sat down with Trafford Council leader @tomwross.bsky.social and his Exec for Climate Aidan Williams to discus taking home the Best Council award and their determination to continue delivery in the borough.
Listen now👇🏻
We sat down with Trafford Council leader @tomwross.bsky.social and his Exec for Climate Aidan Williams to discus taking home the Best Council award and their determination to continue delivery in the borough.
Listen now👇🏻
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Four weeks this morning, GM will have achieved its long-held ambition of integrated public transport by uniting bus and tram in a single payment system.
People will be able to make journeys using a combination of both and never pay more than the daily cap. Rail added from 2026.
#ChangeDay
People will be able to make journeys using a combination of both and never pay more than the daily cap. Rail added from 2026.
#ChangeDay
February 24, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Four weeks this morning, GM will have achieved its long-held ambition of integrated public transport by uniting bus and tram in a single payment system.
People will be able to make journeys using a combination of both and never pay more than the daily cap. Rail added from 2026.
#ChangeDay
People will be able to make journeys using a combination of both and never pay more than the daily cap. Rail added from 2026.
#ChangeDay
Mirroring my invitation of a cycle ride made the day the revelations broke as aired on Radio 5 Live, to which I'm still awaiting a response. Perhaps WRGM will be luckier?
Walk Ride GM has today invited Andrew Gwynne MP to join a cycle ride in his constituency, Gorton and Denton.
He would experience first-hand the benefits of travelling by cycling and also appreciate why improved provision is urgently needed.
He would experience first-hand the benefits of travelling by cycling and also appreciate why improved provision is urgently needed.
February 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Mirroring my invitation of a cycle ride made the day the revelations broke as aired on Radio 5 Live, to which I'm still awaiting a response. Perhaps WRGM will be luckier?
Or any of our urban centres, Andy, but this is a good start.
“We should not be thinking about traffic going right through the heart of the city"
Andy Burnham issues verdict on Deansgate changes after backlash
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
February 21, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Or any of our urban centres, Andy, but this is a good start.
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Like his pal Putin, Trump's favoured governing style is mafioso thuggery. What's on the table for Ukraine is a protection racket. The logical result of wittingly putting a convicted felon in power.
February 20, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Like his pal Putin, Trump's favoured governing style is mafioso thuggery. What's on the table for Ukraine is a protection racket. The logical result of wittingly putting a convicted felon in power.
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History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I *am* the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me."
Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.
Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.
February 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM
History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I *am* the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me."
Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.
Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.