Max Sullivan
@maxsullivan.bsky.social
Labour Councillor, Bayswater, Westminster City Council (London, UK)
Cabinet Member for Streets
Liveable cities - walking, cycling, public transport, density
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Cabinet Member for Streets
Liveable cities - walking, cycling, public transport, density
Work in advertising
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These bits are pavement kerb build outs next to the drop off point for buses at the nearby school, but it's all good news for walking and cycling 🥳
November 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
These bits are pavement kerb build outs next to the drop off point for buses at the nearby school, but it's all good news for walking and cycling 🥳
WHO is putting these BREAD BIN BIKE BUNKERS on every street?
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October 5, 2025 at 10:01 AM
WHO is putting these BREAD BIN BIKE BUNKERS on every street?
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Wheely good news for this part of central London. The decision to implement Cycleway 43 has been published. This administration is delivering safer, more pleasant walking and cycling that will give more transport freedom and choice to people including families of all abilities
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September 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Wheely good news for this part of central London. The decision to implement Cycleway 43 has been published. This administration is delivering safer, more pleasant walking and cycling that will give more transport freedom and choice to people including families of all abilities
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Why empty cycle lanes are a symbol of efficiency.
September 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Why empty cycle lanes are a symbol of efficiency.
Fresh paving from a London Labour council? Maybe the capital isn't the hellscape some would have you believe!
September 12, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Fresh paving from a London Labour council? Maybe the capital isn't the hellscape some would have you believe!
As of 11am on Friday, al fresco dining has come to St Martin's Lane in the West End, with Rupert Street market arriving in Soho later that day. It's a huge step towards making our city more people-friendly. This street is now free of general motor traffic 11am-11pm daily until end of October
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August 23, 2025 at 8:56 AM
As of 11am on Friday, al fresco dining has come to St Martin's Lane in the West End, with Rupert Street market arriving in Soho later that day. It's a huge step towards making our city more people-friendly. This street is now free of general motor traffic 11am-11pm daily until end of October
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Start somewhere. Gloucester Tce residents told me drivers speed like they're already on the A40. Design contributed. The street had been surrendered to highway infrastructure
Then v now
🌲Tree pruned
🚧No more temp traffic management kit
🛣️Signs have been raised
🦓4 zebra crossings connect all corners
Then v now
🌲Tree pruned
🚧No more temp traffic management kit
🛣️Signs have been raised
🦓4 zebra crossings connect all corners
August 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Start somewhere. Gloucester Tce residents told me drivers speed like they're already on the A40. Design contributed. The street had been surrendered to highway infrastructure
Then v now
🌲Tree pruned
🚧No more temp traffic management kit
🛣️Signs have been raised
🦓4 zebra crossings connect all corners
Then v now
🌲Tree pruned
🚧No more temp traffic management kit
🛣️Signs have been raised
🦓4 zebra crossings connect all corners
How did this happen?
Two cycle hire docking stations installed in 2023/24
As Lime & Forest use was growing fast
These stations are at the edge of the network
Yet with 50+ trips/day they are more popular than 1/3 of Westminster stations many of which have been in place 15 years & are more central
Two cycle hire docking stations installed in 2023/24
As Lime & Forest use was growing fast
These stations are at the edge of the network
Yet with 50+ trips/day they are more popular than 1/3 of Westminster stations many of which have been in place 15 years & are more central
August 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
How did this happen?
Two cycle hire docking stations installed in 2023/24
As Lime & Forest use was growing fast
These stations are at the edge of the network
Yet with 50+ trips/day they are more popular than 1/3 of Westminster stations many of which have been in place 15 years & are more central
Two cycle hire docking stations installed in 2023/24
As Lime & Forest use was growing fast
These stations are at the edge of the network
Yet with 50+ trips/day they are more popular than 1/3 of Westminster stations many of which have been in place 15 years & are more central
Until recently, parking a bike in a hangar (📷Left) for a year was £72 more expensive than parking a 4L petrol/electric hybrid SUV (📷Right)
Now the bike is £83 cheaper to park than the hybrid SUV
And £331 cheaper than the most polluting diesel vehicles
How are your local politicians doing on this?
Now the bike is £83 cheaper to park than the hybrid SUV
And £331 cheaper than the most polluting diesel vehicles
How are your local politicians doing on this?
August 3, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Until recently, parking a bike in a hangar (📷Left) for a year was £72 more expensive than parking a 4L petrol/electric hybrid SUV (📷Right)
Now the bike is £83 cheaper to park than the hybrid SUV
And £331 cheaper than the most polluting diesel vehicles
How are your local politicians doing on this?
Now the bike is £83 cheaper to park than the hybrid SUV
And £331 cheaper than the most polluting diesel vehicles
How are your local politicians doing on this?
↕️ Go with (+ against) the flow
We're adding contra-flow cycling to 15 more one-way streets
Caroline Tait studied 500+ such streets over 22+ years. Better for cycling. No rise in the rate of crashes:
www.leeds.ac.uk/news-environ...
We're adding contra-flow cycling to 15 more one-way streets
Caroline Tait studied 500+ such streets over 22+ years. Better for cycling. No rise in the rate of crashes:
www.leeds.ac.uk/news-environ...
August 2, 2025 at 9:04 AM
↕️ Go with (+ against) the flow
We're adding contra-flow cycling to 15 more one-way streets
Caroline Tait studied 500+ such streets over 22+ years. Better for cycling. No rise in the rate of crashes:
www.leeds.ac.uk/news-environ...
We're adding contra-flow cycling to 15 more one-way streets
Caroline Tait studied 500+ such streets over 22+ years. Better for cycling. No rise in the rate of crashes:
www.leeds.ac.uk/news-environ...
Because half of bike share users are first time cyclists or cycling after a break of a year or more (COMOUK)
And nearly half of Londoners aged 18-34 use Lime bikes every week
So happy birthday TfL Cycle hire here's to the next 15!
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And nearly half of Londoners aged 18-34 use Lime bikes every week
So happy birthday TfL Cycle hire here's to the next 15!
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July 30, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Because half of bike share users are first time cyclists or cycling after a break of a year or more (COMOUK)
And nearly half of Londoners aged 18-34 use Lime bikes every week
So happy birthday TfL Cycle hire here's to the next 15!
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And nearly half of Londoners aged 18-34 use Lime bikes every week
So happy birthday TfL Cycle hire here's to the next 15!
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Have Lime bikes killed Sadiq's cycles just as they turn 15?🧁💩
Well... No, it's growing, with over 850K trips in June. And my hunch is Dockless bikes are helping because they help to create new cyclists.
Why? Well...
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Well... No, it's growing, with over 850K trips in June. And my hunch is Dockless bikes are helping because they help to create new cyclists.
Why? Well...
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July 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Have Lime bikes killed Sadiq's cycles just as they turn 15?🧁💩
Well... No, it's growing, with over 850K trips in June. And my hunch is Dockless bikes are helping because they help to create new cyclists.
Why? Well...
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Well... No, it's growing, with over 850K trips in June. And my hunch is Dockless bikes are helping because they help to create new cyclists.
Why? Well...
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When all the people and goods who can go by sustainable transport modes, do
Then there's less congestion for the buses, black cabs, ambulances and... taxiambu... Ambucab... I'm sorry what is that vehicle?
Then there's less congestion for the buses, black cabs, ambulances and... taxiambu... Ambucab... I'm sorry what is that vehicle?
July 29, 2025 at 8:25 PM
When all the people and goods who can go by sustainable transport modes, do
Then there's less congestion for the buses, black cabs, ambulances and... taxiambu... Ambucab... I'm sorry what is that vehicle?
Then there's less congestion for the buses, black cabs, ambulances and... taxiambu... Ambucab... I'm sorry what is that vehicle?
In 2024/25 Westminster Council is laying new paving in over 30 locations (+ reactive repairs)
We've doubled the budget for our planned preventative maintenance program compared to the previous administration
Good for🚶➡️👩🏽🦽➡️👨🏾🦼➡️🛴
We've doubled the budget for our planned preventative maintenance program compared to the previous administration
Good for🚶➡️👩🏽🦽➡️👨🏾🦼➡️🛴
July 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
In 2024/25 Westminster Council is laying new paving in over 30 locations (+ reactive repairs)
We've doubled the budget for our planned preventative maintenance program compared to the previous administration
Good for🚶➡️👩🏽🦽➡️👨🏾🦼➡️🛴
We've doubled the budget for our planned preventative maintenance program compared to the previous administration
Good for🚶➡️👩🏽🦽➡️👨🏾🦼➡️🛴
This is the better layout of echelon parking in action.
July 27, 2025 at 9:57 PM
This is the better layout of echelon parking in action.
Our cycle hangars are now available in echelon flavour.
Unfortunately the echelon parking design is not ideal. A safer layout is one that forces cars to reverse in: therantyhighwayman.blogspot.com/2020/02/park...
Unfortunately the echelon parking design is not ideal. A safer layout is one that forces cars to reverse in: therantyhighwayman.blogspot.com/2020/02/park...
July 27, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Our cycle hangars are now available in echelon flavour.
Unfortunately the echelon parking design is not ideal. A safer layout is one that forces cars to reverse in: therantyhighwayman.blogspot.com/2020/02/park...
Unfortunately the echelon parking design is not ideal. A safer layout is one that forces cars to reverse in: therantyhighwayman.blogspot.com/2020/02/park...
Repost if you think it's time to rip out this unused cycle lane.
July 26, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Repost if you think it's time to rip out this unused cycle lane.
Is this a contender for worst pavement obstruction? Can something in your camera roll beat it?
(Reported to the highways team who swiftly sorted with the contractor)
📍Brewer St, Soho earlier this summer
(Reported to the highways team who swiftly sorted with the contractor)
📍Brewer St, Soho earlier this summer
July 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Is this a contender for worst pavement obstruction? Can something in your camera roll beat it?
(Reported to the highways team who swiftly sorted with the contractor)
📍Brewer St, Soho earlier this summer
(Reported to the highways team who swiftly sorted with the contractor)
📍Brewer St, Soho earlier this summer
Wrong, we are seeing, unnaturally due to subsidies and infrastructure for them, more vehicles on the road in the UK
GB vehicles miles are nearly back to the pre-pandemic all time high (pictured)
UK number of licensed vehicles at all time high (year after year after year) - 2024 was 41.7m vehicles
GB vehicles miles are nearly back to the pre-pandemic all time high (pictured)
UK number of licensed vehicles at all time high (year after year after year) - 2024 was 41.7m vehicles
July 24, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Wrong, we are seeing, unnaturally due to subsidies and infrastructure for them, more vehicles on the road in the UK
GB vehicles miles are nearly back to the pre-pandemic all time high (pictured)
UK number of licensed vehicles at all time high (year after year after year) - 2024 was 41.7m vehicles
GB vehicles miles are nearly back to the pre-pandemic all time high (pictured)
UK number of licensed vehicles at all time high (year after year after year) - 2024 was 41.7m vehicles
London's Latest Pedestrian Space?
No, not that one
Following a local petition we're using NCIL contributions from developers to fund a feasibility design of pedestrianisation on Formosa Street, Little Venice
www.westminsterlabour.org.uk/ward-news/ch...
No, not that one
Following a local petition we're using NCIL contributions from developers to fund a feasibility design of pedestrianisation on Formosa Street, Little Venice
www.westminsterlabour.org.uk/ward-news/ch...
July 24, 2025 at 7:14 AM
London's Latest Pedestrian Space?
No, not that one
Following a local petition we're using NCIL contributions from developers to fund a feasibility design of pedestrianisation on Formosa Street, Little Venice
www.westminsterlabour.org.uk/ward-news/ch...
No, not that one
Following a local petition we're using NCIL contributions from developers to fund a feasibility design of pedestrianisation on Formosa Street, Little Venice
www.westminsterlabour.org.uk/ward-news/ch...
A moving morning about moving people and things in London with less death and injury.
Excellent contributions from victims, families of those killed on London streets, campaigners, transport professionals, bus drivers. And a good report from @carolinerussell.bsky.social
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Excellent contributions from victims, families of those killed on London streets, campaigners, transport professionals, bus drivers. And a good report from @carolinerussell.bsky.social
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July 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
A moving morning about moving people and things in London with less death and injury.
Excellent contributions from victims, families of those killed on London streets, campaigners, transport professionals, bus drivers. And a good report from @carolinerussell.bsky.social
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Excellent contributions from victims, families of those killed on London streets, campaigners, transport professionals, bus drivers. And a good report from @carolinerussell.bsky.social
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Lots (of hangers) done, more to do
May 2022
819 spaces provided and rented
1300 residents waiting for a space
July 2025
1,507 spaces (+84%)
807 waiting (-38%)
May 2022
819 spaces provided and rented
1300 residents waiting for a space
July 2025
1,507 spaces (+84%)
807 waiting (-38%)
July 11, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Lots (of hangers) done, more to do
May 2022
819 spaces provided and rented
1300 residents waiting for a space
July 2025
1,507 spaces (+84%)
807 waiting (-38%)
May 2022
819 spaces provided and rented
1300 residents waiting for a space
July 2025
1,507 spaces (+84%)
807 waiting (-38%)
Map apps are good BUT
Free, beautifully illustrated, printed maps are great
Delighted to launch the @citywestminster.bsky.social sponsored Footways Map of Westminster 👟
Which you can pick up at Westminster libraries, leisure centres, housing offices and community centres
Free, beautifully illustrated, printed maps are great
Delighted to launch the @citywestminster.bsky.social sponsored Footways Map of Westminster 👟
Which you can pick up at Westminster libraries, leisure centres, housing offices and community centres
July 4, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Map apps are good BUT
Free, beautifully illustrated, printed maps are great
Delighted to launch the @citywestminster.bsky.social sponsored Footways Map of Westminster 👟
Which you can pick up at Westminster libraries, leisure centres, housing offices and community centres
Free, beautifully illustrated, printed maps are great
Delighted to launch the @citywestminster.bsky.social sponsored Footways Map of Westminster 👟
Which you can pick up at Westminster libraries, leisure centres, housing offices and community centres
We've installed another three new simple zebra crossings, this time near Edgware Road.
Without them drivers yield to pedestrians around 40% of the time. With them, it's around 80%.
(Based on monitoring results from our first 4 sites)
Without them drivers yield to pedestrians around 40% of the time. With them, it's around 80%.
(Based on monitoring results from our first 4 sites)
June 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
We've installed another three new simple zebra crossings, this time near Edgware Road.
Without them drivers yield to pedestrians around 40% of the time. With them, it's around 80%.
(Based on monitoring results from our first 4 sites)
Without them drivers yield to pedestrians around 40% of the time. With them, it's around 80%.
(Based on monitoring results from our first 4 sites)