Vincent Stops
@vincentstops.bsky.social
20 years working in the politics & policy of streets. 16 years chairing Hackney’s planning comm. Committed to saving London’s bus services & better streets.
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Vincent Stops
@vincentstops.bsky.social
· Nov 17
One of the frauds the cycle lobby perpetrates is that 70% of people don’t cycle because of fear of motors. That’s because they ask multiple choice questions with more than one answer counted. If you do as the DfT do & ask for the main reason, the answer is entirely different. 1/2
A partially sighted women asked @citywestminster.bsky.social Cllr @maxsullivan.bsky.social how she would get to Portland Place when they take away the accessible bus stop on the street and route bike tracks through the pavement. He didn’t answer!
November 17, 2025 at 4:39 PM
A partially sighted women asked @citywestminster.bsky.social Cllr @maxsullivan.bsky.social how she would get to Portland Place when they take away the accessible bus stop on the street and route bike tracks through the pavement. He didn’t answer!
It isn’t true to imply that London is safer by bike. The Mayor’s own data shows the risk per journey trending up since 2015.
October 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
It isn’t true to imply that London is safer by bike. The Mayor’s own data shows the risk per journey trending up since 2015.
@sebdance.bsky.social Hey Seb, Did you see TfL published its finalised road safety data for 2024. Have you any comment for an article I am writing about the risk index you have? Risk looks to be flat lining or rising.
October 5, 2025 at 7:50 AM
@sebdance.bsky.social Hey Seb, Did you see TfL published its finalised road safety data for 2024. Have you any comment for an article I am writing about the risk index you have? Risk looks to be flat lining or rising.
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What do we want?
To walk ten metres without bumping into a Lime Bike, stray wheelie bin, or cafe A-board in the middle of the pavement.
When do we want it?
Whenever you’ve got a sec to pop out and move them.
To walk ten metres without bumping into a Lime Bike, stray wheelie bin, or cafe A-board in the middle of the pavement.
When do we want it?
Whenever you’ve got a sec to pop out and move them.
May 6, 2025 at 8:02 AM
What do we want?
To walk ten metres without bumping into a Lime Bike, stray wheelie bin, or cafe A-board in the middle of the pavement.
When do we want it?
Whenever you’ve got a sec to pop out and move them.
To walk ten metres without bumping into a Lime Bike, stray wheelie bin, or cafe A-board in the middle of the pavement.
When do we want it?
Whenever you’ve got a sec to pop out and move them.
I wrote to @LonTravelWatch pointing out @greateranglia’s misunderstanding of boundary zone extension tickets. Their knowledgeable casework team sorted it out within days. Well done LTW.
This past 12 months, we have spoken up for the travelling public in many ways; through our research and campaigns, holding service providers to account, and helping passengers with their appeals. Find out more in our annual review. www.londontravelwatch.org.uk/london-trave...
May 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
I wrote to @LonTravelWatch pointing out @greateranglia’s misunderstanding of boundary zone extension tickets. Their knowledgeable casework team sorted it out within days. Well done LTW.
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This past 12 months, we have spoken up for the travelling public in many ways; through our research and campaigns, holding service providers to account, and helping passengers with their appeals. Find out more in our annual review. www.londontravelwatch.org.uk/london-trave...
May 6, 2025 at 9:39 AM
This past 12 months, we have spoken up for the travelling public in many ways; through our research and campaigns, holding service providers to account, and helping passengers with their appeals. Find out more in our annual review. www.londontravelwatch.org.uk/london-trave...
Clearly City Hall doesn’t understand how planning policy and decision making works. The 50% does trip a viability assessment, but viability is material and so if 50% in unviable a lesser figure can be policy compliant and thereby approved. Well done Wandsworth.
Sadiq Khan's City Hall is at odds with Labour-run Wandsworth Council over its planning and housing policies. What's the disagreement all about? Read on: www.onlondon.co.uk/wandsworth-i.... #houing #london #planning
Ideology meets maths as City Hall rebukes Labour council
The Labour-run council wants to change borough planning policies in ways that displease the London Mayor
www.onlondon.co.uk
March 17, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Clearly City Hall doesn’t understand how planning policy and decision making works. The 50% does trip a viability assessment, but viability is material and so if 50% in unviable a lesser figure can be policy compliant and thereby approved. Well done Wandsworth.
My final piece in Local Transport Today, Let’s put more and safer cycling in the mix with better buses and great streets for walking too
: tapas.network/72/stops.php
: tapas.network/72/stops.php
Let’s put more and safer cycling in the mix with better buses and great streets for walking too d5-20241016-1taster
tapas.network
January 14, 2025 at 8:13 AM
My final piece in Local Transport Today, Let’s put more and safer cycling in the mix with better buses and great streets for walking too
: tapas.network/72/stops.php
: tapas.network/72/stops.php
This seems extraordinarily brave journalism. Thank you Steve.
I asked Vladimir Putin: “25 years ago Yeltsin handed you power & told you 'Take care of Russia.’ Do you think you have? In light of significant losses in Ukraine, Ukrainian troops in Kursk region, sanctions, inflation…” Here’s his reply. Producer
@lizashuvalova.bsky.social @bentavener.bsky.social
@lizashuvalova.bsky.social @bentavener.bsky.social
I ask Putin: "Yeltsin told you to 'Take Care of Russia.' Have you?"
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
youtu.be
December 19, 2024 at 9:32 PM
This seems extraordinarily brave journalism. Thank you Steve.
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I asked Vladimir Putin: “25 years ago Yeltsin handed you power & told you 'Take care of Russia.’ Do you think you have? In light of significant losses in Ukraine, Ukrainian troops in Kursk region, sanctions, inflation…” Here’s his reply. Producer
@lizashuvalova.bsky.social @bentavener.bsky.social
@lizashuvalova.bsky.social @bentavener.bsky.social
I ask Putin: "Yeltsin told you to 'Take Care of Russia.' Have you?"
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
youtu.be
December 19, 2024 at 6:41 PM
I asked Vladimir Putin: “25 years ago Yeltsin handed you power & told you 'Take care of Russia.’ Do you think you have? In light of significant losses in Ukraine, Ukrainian troops in Kursk region, sanctions, inflation…” Here’s his reply. Producer
@lizashuvalova.bsky.social @bentavener.bsky.social
@lizashuvalova.bsky.social @bentavener.bsky.social
This is the best series we have as @willnorman changed the longstanding measure of trips to boost the numbers. To also remind serious cycle casualties rose between 2019 and 23 by 20% on all that safe infra!
December 16, 2024 at 8:52 AM
This is the best series we have as @willnorman changed the longstanding measure of trips to boost the numbers. To also remind serious cycle casualties rose between 2019 and 23 by 20% on all that safe infra!
In which Deputy Mayor for Transport, @SebDance tells the London Assembly of a 25% increase in cycling delivered by safe cycle infrastructure, but not that serious cyclist injuries rose by more than 20% on that safe infrastructure in the same time frame!
webcasts.london.gov.uk/Assembly/Eve...
webcasts.london.gov.uk/Assembly/Eve...
December 15, 2024 at 9:51 AM
In which Deputy Mayor for Transport, @SebDance tells the London Assembly of a 25% increase in cycling delivered by safe cycle infrastructure, but not that serious cyclist injuries rose by more than 20% on that safe infrastructure in the same time frame!
webcasts.london.gov.uk/Assembly/Eve...
webcasts.london.gov.uk/Assembly/Eve...
A development plan is fundamental to planning. The Tories allowed local
authorities to avoid having them.
authorities to avoid having them.
***ALL*** Local Planning Authorities must produce an updated Local Development Scheme (LDS) for their Local Plan by 6 March 2025. This is a big deal and a tight timetable - LDSs usually have to be approved by a Cabinet decision www.gov.uk/guidance/pla...
Planning guidance: letters to chief planning officers
Guidance on various aspects of the planning system, given in letters to chief planning officers of local planning authorities.
www.gov.uk
December 13, 2024 at 9:00 PM
A development plan is fundamental to planning. The Tories allowed local
authorities to avoid having them.
authorities to avoid having them.
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I went to Bexleyheath to interview Daniel Francis, a GE winner I dismally failed to predict. I think he's a bit special. And his insights into what his constituents want from #Labour are instructive: www.onlondon.co.uk/interview-da.... @danfrancis02.bsky.social @deborahmattinson.bsky.social
Interview: Daniel Francis MP on Bexleyheath & Crayford and what the seat's voters want from Labour - OnLondon
I apologised to Daniel Francis, Labour MP for Bexleyheath & Crayford, when we met. My predictions for July’s general election contained a number of duff calls, but so blithely had I assumed that his s...
www.onlondon.co.uk
December 8, 2024 at 5:21 PM
I went to Bexleyheath to interview Daniel Francis, a GE winner I dismally failed to predict. I think he's a bit special. And his insights into what his constituents want from #Labour are instructive: www.onlondon.co.uk/interview-da.... @danfrancis02.bsky.social @deborahmattinson.bsky.social
Ten years ago Royal College Street won @London_Cycling’s ‘Best Space for Cycling’ award. Last month it came 8th on their list of London’s most dangerous junctions. What a hoot!
December 4, 2024 at 9:05 AM
Ten years ago Royal College Street won @London_Cycling’s ‘Best Space for Cycling’ award. Last month it came 8th on their list of London’s most dangerous junctions. What a hoot!
Today is the UN day for People with Disabilities. I’ll be in Parliament with the National Federation of the Blind, @NFBUK asking for Article 9 to be enforced: the right to access bus services. A right being lost to blind people in London.
December 3, 2024 at 9:15 AM
Today is the UN day for People with Disabilities. I’ll be in Parliament with the National Federation of the Blind, @NFBUK asking for Article 9 to be enforced: the right to access bus services. A right being lost to blind people in London.
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We’re also calling for a system to report incidents, accessible to people with sight loss, monitored by operators and the Department for Transport.
We’re working with the Department for Transport, local authorities, and e-scooter and dockless bike companies, pressing for urgent action. 4/4
We’re working with the Department for Transport, local authorities, and e-scooter and dockless bike companies, pressing for urgent action. 4/4
November 28, 2024 at 9:39 AM
We’re also calling for a system to report incidents, accessible to people with sight loss, monitored by operators and the Department for Transport.
We’re working with the Department for Transport, local authorities, and e-scooter and dockless bike companies, pressing for urgent action. 4/4
We’re working with the Department for Transport, local authorities, and e-scooter and dockless bike companies, pressing for urgent action. 4/4
Look at Will Norman’s latest chart. They recalculated how they measured cycling journeys in 2023 and it’s up from 1% in 2000, on the same trend as when Ken was Mayor! No change since the spent a billion £.
November 28, 2024 at 10:10 AM
Look at Will Norman’s latest chart. They recalculated how they measured cycling journeys in 2023 and it’s up from 1% in 2000, on the same trend as when Ken was Mayor! No change since the spent a billion £.
Good that finally the @mayoroflondon.bsky.social is to act against the dockless e-bike companies and what an irony. They will be using the same legislation to clear up dumped e-bikes as to clean up ‘dung’. I give you Highways Act 1980, S148!
November 27, 2024 at 9:09 AM
Good that finally the @mayoroflondon.bsky.social is to act against the dockless e-bike companies and what an irony. They will be using the same legislation to clear up dumped e-bikes as to clean up ‘dung’. I give you Highways Act 1980, S148!
These guys spent years worrying about bus stops where no one gets injured and ignored junctions where most get injured, indeed many junctions will now be worse because of the lanes they demanded.
🙏This weekend we held a vigil to remember Dean Jones who was killed earlier this month, hit by an HGV while cycling in Putney 🚴💐
This month Wandsworth has seen two people cycling killed within days, both at junctions. It's not good enough.
Wandsworth news: membership.lcc.org.uk/local-group-...
This month Wandsworth has seen two people cycling killed within days, both at junctions. It's not good enough.
Wandsworth news: membership.lcc.org.uk/local-group-...
November 25, 2024 at 4:39 PM
These guys spent years worrying about bus stops where no one gets injured and ignored junctions where most get injured, indeed many junctions will now be worse because of the lanes they demanded.
Four of the most dangerous junctions, including the top one, are associated with ‘protected’ cycle tracks. One has 14 of 19 collisions between two cycles on cycle tracks through Hyde Park. Go figure that out!
November 24, 2024 at 10:30 AM
Four of the most dangerous junctions, including the top one, are associated with ‘protected’ cycle tracks. One has 14 of 19 collisions between two cycles on cycle tracks through Hyde Park. Go figure that out!
The most dangerous cycle lane in London with 19 collisions. 14 of them cycle on cycle!
November 24, 2024 at 10:24 AM
The most dangerous cycle lane in London with 19 collisions. 14 of them cycle on cycle!
.@London_cycling identifies the 6th most dangerous cycle junction in latest campaign. It’s South Carriageway bike lane at Albert Gate. 14 of 19 reported involving TWO CYCLES between 2019 and 2023. Also with thanks to @TfL collision mapping.
November 22, 2024 at 8:56 AM
.@London_cycling identifies the 6th most dangerous cycle junction in latest campaign. It’s South Carriageway bike lane at Albert Gate. 14 of 19 reported involving TWO CYCLES between 2019 and 2023. Also with thanks to @TfL collision mapping.
My memory of John Prescott will always be when I rode new bus route 31 to Bridport from Weymouth. a rural area that benefited from bus grant. The kids at a stop were ecstatic when I told them that they could travel after 3:15 in the afternoon to and from Weymouth on a Saturday!
November 21, 2024 at 12:39 PM
My memory of John Prescott will always be when I rode new bus route 31 to Bridport from Weymouth. a rural area that benefited from bus grant. The kids at a stop were ecstatic when I told them that they could travel after 3:15 in the afternoon to and from Weymouth on a Saturday!