Safe Streets Now
@safestreetsnow.bsky.social
We’re encouraging everyone that can to help an action, run a ride, organise a demo, have a play street, write a letter :) this May.
#safestreetsnow #playstreets #kidicalmass
#safestreetsnow #playstreets #kidicalmass
April 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
We’re encouraging everyone that can to help an action, run a ride, organise a demo, have a play street, write a letter :) this May.
#safestreetsnow #playstreets #kidicalmass
#safestreetsnow #playstreets #kidicalmass
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Britain once led the world in road safety.
Road collisions cost the country about £40bn ($50bn, or 1.5% of GDP) each year.
In 2011, the government dropped its road safety targets altogether. The new government promises a strategy, but will it be enough?
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
Road collisions cost the country about £40bn ($50bn, or 1.5% of GDP) each year.
In 2011, the government dropped its road safety targets altogether. The new government promises a strategy, but will it be enough?
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
Why Britain has fallen behind on road safety
More than 1,600 people still die each year in road collisions
www.economist.com
February 3, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Britain once led the world in road safety.
Road collisions cost the country about £40bn ($50bn, or 1.5% of GDP) each year.
In 2011, the government dropped its road safety targets altogether. The new government promises a strategy, but will it be enough?
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
Road collisions cost the country about £40bn ($50bn, or 1.5% of GDP) each year.
In 2011, the government dropped its road safety targets altogether. The new government promises a strategy, but will it be enough?
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
Some positive news to start our days: www.gov.uk/government/n...
Almost £300 million to gear up new walking, wheeling and cycling schemes
We are making sure local authorities can provide high-quality and easily accessible active travel schemes across England.
www.gov.uk
February 12, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Some positive news to start our days: www.gov.uk/government/n...
Brilliant news
Today, @richardparkerwm.bsky.social has appointed his commissioners. Mat MacDonald becomes Road Safety Commissioner and Beccy Marston becomes Active Travel Commissioner.
January 27, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Brilliant news
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Great to see the North East Combined Authority have set up a consultation survey for the Local Travel Plan designed especially for young people. Please share with the children and young people you know!
shout.mindofmyown.org.uk/s/NorthEastLTP
shout.mindofmyown.org.uk/s/NorthEastLTP
North East Transport Plan Consultation
Please take the time to complete our survey. Your feedback is important.
shout.mindofmyown.org.uk
January 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Great to see the North East Combined Authority have set up a consultation survey for the Local Travel Plan designed especially for young people. Please share with the children and young people you know!
shout.mindofmyown.org.uk/s/NorthEastLTP
shout.mindofmyown.org.uk/s/NorthEastLTP
Is road rage getting worse? This short piece by GCN looks at why all types of road users get angry and the impact groups like #KidicalMass are having changing that. @saskiaheijltjes.bsky.social captures why these rides matter brilliantly.
What’s your experience?
youtu.be/wmUP8OH50E0?...
What’s your experience?
youtu.be/wmUP8OH50E0?...
Road Rage Is Getting Worse. Here’s What To Do About It
YouTube video by Global Cycling Network
youtu.be
December 15, 2024 at 12:03 PM
Is road rage getting worse? This short piece by GCN looks at why all types of road users get angry and the impact groups like #KidicalMass are having changing that. @saskiaheijltjes.bsky.social captures why these rides matter brilliantly.
What’s your experience?
youtu.be/wmUP8OH50E0?...
What’s your experience?
youtu.be/wmUP8OH50E0?...
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Everyone benefits from enabling safe cycling for teenagers.
Everyone benefits from enabling safe cycling for teenagers.
With 60% of trips by bike, teens are the age group that cycle the most in the Netherlands—over 2,000 km. per capita per year.
Rather than spend these years depending on parents and waiting for a driver’s license, they experience the autonomy promised by the car without its stress, danger, and cost.
Rather than spend these years depending on parents and waiting for a driver’s license, they experience the autonomy promised by the car without its stress, danger, and cost.
December 4, 2024 at 8:09 AM
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Everyone benefits from enabling safe cycling for teenagers.
Everyone benefits from enabling safe cycling for teenagers.
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#SafeStreetsNow worldwide!
Inspiring work from the people of Toronto. Do check out the thread - and great video …
@safestreetsnow.bsky.social
Inspiring work from the people of Toronto. Do check out the thread - and great video …
@safestreetsnow.bsky.social
November 30, 2024 at 12:03 PM
#SafeStreetsNow worldwide!
Inspiring work from the people of Toronto. Do check out the thread - and great video …
@safestreetsnow.bsky.social
Inspiring work from the people of Toronto. Do check out the thread - and great video …
@safestreetsnow.bsky.social
Does your school do #bikeability? If not ask them to do it. It’s funded so there’s literally no excuse not to help keep our kids safe.
Research on the impact it has here:
roadsafetygb.org.uk/news/researc...
#safestreets #streetsforeveryone #activetravel
Research on the impact it has here:
roadsafetygb.org.uk/news/researc...
#safestreets #streetsforeveryone #activetravel
Research highlights the ‘critical’ role of Bikeability cycle training
roadsafetygb.org.uk
November 25, 2024 at 3:22 PM
Does your school do #bikeability? If not ask them to do it. It’s funded so there’s literally no excuse not to help keep our kids safe.
Research on the impact it has here:
roadsafetygb.org.uk/news/researc...
#safestreets #streetsforeveryone #activetravel
Research on the impact it has here:
roadsafetygb.org.uk/news/researc...
#safestreets #streetsforeveryone #activetravel
There’s an all parliamentry group asking for evidence on active travel and social justice.
Please take the time to respond either individually or from your groups to help.
appgcw.org/2024/11/12/a...
#safestreets
Please take the time to respond either individually or from your groups to help.
appgcw.org/2024/11/12/a...
#safestreets
Active Travel and Social Justice inquiry - All Party Parliamentary Group for Cycling & Walking
Call for evidence deadline is 16th December 2024
appgcw.org
November 21, 2024 at 5:31 PM
There’s an all parliamentry group asking for evidence on active travel and social justice.
Please take the time to respond either individually or from your groups to help.
appgcw.org/2024/11/12/a...
#safestreets
Please take the time to respond either individually or from your groups to help.
appgcw.org/2024/11/12/a...
#safestreets
Positive article from #Bath
Kids need safe streets, wherever they live!
'Safer streets for young cyclists plea issued'
👉 buff.ly/3NzdPUn
#KidicalMass #SafeStreetsNow #StreetsforEveryone #StreetsforKids #StreetsForAll #SchoolStreets #SafeRoutesToSchool #FamilyCycling #HealthyHabits
Kids need safe streets, wherever they live!
'Safer streets for young cyclists plea issued'
👉 buff.ly/3NzdPUn
#KidicalMass #SafeStreetsNow #StreetsforEveryone #StreetsforKids #StreetsForAll #SchoolStreets #SafeRoutesToSchool #FamilyCycling #HealthyHabits
Safer streets for young cyclists plea issued
With thousands of speeding reports in Bath, can change finally happen
buff.ly
October 30, 2024 at 7:37 PM
Positive article from #Bath
Kids need safe streets, wherever they live!
'Safer streets for young cyclists plea issued'
👉 buff.ly/3NzdPUn
#KidicalMass #SafeStreetsNow #StreetsforEveryone #StreetsforKids #StreetsForAll #SchoolStreets #SafeRoutesToSchool #FamilyCycling #HealthyHabits
Kids need safe streets, wherever they live!
'Safer streets for young cyclists plea issued'
👉 buff.ly/3NzdPUn
#KidicalMass #SafeStreetsNow #StreetsforEveryone #StreetsforKids #StreetsForAll #SchoolStreets #SafeRoutesToSchool #FamilyCycling #HealthyHabits
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Us 🙋♀️ Glow Ride 20 November 7pm outside Thames Lido in Reading
October 27, 2024 at 11:48 AM
Us 🙋♀️ Glow Ride 20 November 7pm outside Thames Lido in Reading
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📖 NEW ARTICLE | More Homes, Less Motor Traffic: Can We Have Both?
Roger Geffen lays out how the government can encourage building at gentle densities to discourage car use while meeting their housing goals
redbrickblog.co.uk/2024/10/more...
Roger Geffen lays out how the government can encourage building at gentle densities to discourage car use while meeting their housing goals
redbrickblog.co.uk/2024/10/more...
More Homes, Less Motor Traffic: Can We Have Both? - Red Brick
Roger Geffen lays out how the government can encourage building at gentle densities to discourage car use while meeting their housing goals
redbrickblog.co.uk
October 18, 2024 at 12:54 PM
📖 NEW ARTICLE | More Homes, Less Motor Traffic: Can We Have Both?
Roger Geffen lays out how the government can encourage building at gentle densities to discourage car use while meeting their housing goals
redbrickblog.co.uk/2024/10/more...
Roger Geffen lays out how the government can encourage building at gentle densities to discourage car use while meeting their housing goals
redbrickblog.co.uk/2024/10/more...
Safe streets include inclusive design that women are willing to cycle in the dark. It shouldn’t be a choose between multi lane traffic and dark, isolated ride.
Are you organising a #glowride or #beatthedark ride? Share below and let’s get as many people out as possible.
Are you organising a #glowride or #beatthedark ride? Share below and let’s get as many people out as possible.
October 24, 2024 at 6:09 PM
Safe streets include inclusive design that women are willing to cycle in the dark. It shouldn’t be a choose between multi lane traffic and dark, isolated ride.
Are you organising a #glowride or #beatthedark ride? Share below and let’s get as many people out as possible.
Are you organising a #glowride or #beatthedark ride? Share below and let’s get as many people out as possible.
We want to encourage everyone to sign this petition to introduce a graduated drivers licence to help reduce deaths and serious injuries in young drivers.
Almost 5,000 people are killed or seriously injured by a driver aged 25 and under every year.
www.change.org/p/safer-driv...
Almost 5,000 people are killed or seriously injured by a driver aged 25 and under every year.
www.change.org/p/safer-driv...
Sign the Petition
Safer Driving Licensing for Newly Qualified 17-19 Year Olds
www.change.org
October 24, 2024 at 4:23 PM
We want to encourage everyone to sign this petition to introduce a graduated drivers licence to help reduce deaths and serious injuries in young drivers.
Almost 5,000 people are killed or seriously injured by a driver aged 25 and under every year.
www.change.org/p/safer-driv...
Almost 5,000 people are killed or seriously injured by a driver aged 25 and under every year.
www.change.org/p/safer-driv...
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Hard to believe it’s a over a year since our @for-birmingham.bsky.social, @safestreetsnow.bsky.social action in Erdington.
A year on, concerted campaigning has led Birmingham City Council to acknowledge we have a road safety emergency but the issues persist and the pace of change painfully slow.
A year on, concerted campaigning has led Birmingham City Council to acknowledge we have a road safety emergency but the issues persist and the pace of change painfully slow.
October 20, 2024 at 5:13 PM
Hard to believe it’s a over a year since our @for-birmingham.bsky.social, @safestreetsnow.bsky.social action in Erdington.
A year on, concerted campaigning has led Birmingham City Council to acknowledge we have a road safety emergency but the issues persist and the pace of change painfully slow.
A year on, concerted campaigning has led Birmingham City Council to acknowledge we have a road safety emergency but the issues persist and the pace of change painfully slow.
The AA estimated that introducing a graduated driving licence (GDL) would save at least 58 lives and prevent 934 people being seriously injured in road crashes each year.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
AA calls for ban on new drivers under 21 carrying passengers of similar age in UK
Motoring organisation estimates introduction of graduated driving licences would save at least 58 lives a year
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2024 at 7:18 AM
The AA estimated that introducing a graduated driving licence (GDL) would save at least 58 lives and prevent 934 people being seriously injured in road crashes each year.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
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And this is, of course, the result of decades (centuries!) of building transport infrastructure by and for men -
Work commutes represent just 16% of journeys, yet our entire transport system is designed around them.
The real potential for cycling lies in the other 84%—shorter trips within our neighborhoods to local shops, cafes, restaurants, doctor’s, friend’s, transit, sports, and school.
The real potential for cycling lies in the other 84%—shorter trips within our neighborhoods to local shops, cafes, restaurants, doctor’s, friend’s, transit, sports, and school.
October 5, 2024 at 5:28 PM
And this is, of course, the result of decades (centuries!) of building transport infrastructure by and for men -
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In the debate over whether shopping strips should be directly accessible by cars, importantly, vehicular access can still occur, but priority is given to pedestrians, cyclists and public transport. Cars are given access as a guest, or subject to everyone else’s safety. #activetravel #copenhagen
January 8, 2024 at 10:40 AM
In the debate over whether shopping strips should be directly accessible by cars, importantly, vehicular access can still occur, but priority is given to pedestrians, cyclists and public transport. Cars are given access as a guest, or subject to everyone else’s safety. #activetravel #copenhagen
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The lack of any charges yet is disturbing. I know the system is to blame, that there never should have been four lanes of cars speeding right next to a sidewalk of pedestrians, cyclists and babies in strollers.
But there needs to be some kind of accountability for drivers who KILL people.
But there needs to be some kind of accountability for drivers who KILL people.
September 29, 2024 at 11:04 AM
The lack of any charges yet is disturbing. I know the system is to blame, that there never should have been four lanes of cars speeding right next to a sidewalk of pedestrians, cyclists and babies in strollers.
But there needs to be some kind of accountability for drivers who KILL people.
But there needs to be some kind of accountability for drivers who KILL people.
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Shocking graphic from Cambridgeshire Sustainable Travel Alliance of child casualties on Cambridge's roads. Should be at the forefront of current debate about extending 20mph limits.
September 24, 2024 at 10:32 AM
Shocking graphic from Cambridgeshire Sustainable Travel Alliance of child casualties on Cambridge's roads. Should be at the forefront of current debate about extending 20mph limits.
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There was a stunned silence and numerous double takes when #ChrisBoardman spoke at @activetravelcaf.bsky.social yesterday evening. A wake up call for Highways Authorities and councillors everywhere.
@brenttoderian.bsky.social @thewaroncars.bsky.social @safestreetsnow.bsky.social
#murderstrips
@brenttoderian.bsky.social @thewaroncars.bsky.social @safestreetsnow.bsky.social
#murderstrips
September 18, 2024 at 9:55 AM
There was a stunned silence and numerous double takes when #ChrisBoardman spoke at @activetravelcaf.bsky.social yesterday evening. A wake up call for Highways Authorities and councillors everywhere.
@brenttoderian.bsky.social @thewaroncars.bsky.social @safestreetsnow.bsky.social
#murderstrips
@brenttoderian.bsky.social @thewaroncars.bsky.social @safestreetsnow.bsky.social
#murderstrips
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This Sunday is #WorldCarFreeDay and @safestreetsnow.bsky.social have called another Day of Action.
September 18, 2024 at 11:17 AM
This Sunday is #WorldCarFreeDay and @safestreetsnow.bsky.social have called another Day of Action.