Sam Wakeling
@samwake.bsky.social
Loves streets. Make them safe. Set them free. Sheffield. Abolition.
Works at Living Streets.
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Works at Living Streets.
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Sam Wakeling
@samwake.bsky.social
· Jan 4
What do you dream of your local streets being like?
For me it is making them welcoming public spaces for everyone to enjoy and move in without fear from traffic (including the remaining vehicles which are there).
I drew this of my local South Road, Sheffield.
For me it is making them welcoming public spaces for everyone to enjoy and move in without fear from traffic (including the remaining vehicles which are there).
I drew this of my local South Road, Sheffield.
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"This is your chance to recognise the deep challenges we face in #Sheffield and beyond, and be part of responding to them together"
We've got the full low-down on this year's @sheffieldtransformed.org, which returns to South Yorkshire later this month.
✍️ @sammgreg.bsky.social
We've got the full low-down on this year's @sheffieldtransformed.org, which returns to South Yorkshire later this month.
✍️ @sammgreg.bsky.social
Sheffield Transformed - Sheffield Transformed reveal line-up for 2025 festival, with organisers promising “bigger and more diverse” programme
The annual festival of left-wing politics features sessions on anti far-right organising and clean energy transitions, as well as zine-making, poetry writing and folk singing.
nowthenmagazine.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:44 AM
"This is your chance to recognise the deep challenges we face in #Sheffield and beyond, and be part of responding to them together"
We've got the full low-down on this year's @sheffieldtransformed.org, which returns to South Yorkshire later this month.
✍️ @sammgreg.bsky.social
We've got the full low-down on this year's @sheffieldtransformed.org, which returns to South Yorkshire later this month.
✍️ @sammgreg.bsky.social
Look behind you?
“Taxpayers shouldn’t be footing the bill for luxury leisure.” Says govt source.
Will that apply to the £4bn a year in fuel duty freeze costs, which go to drivers on the highest incomes the most?
“Taxpayers shouldn’t be footing the bill for luxury leisure.” Says govt source.
Will that apply to the £4bn a year in fuel duty freeze costs, which go to drivers on the highest incomes the most?
November 13, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Look behind you?
“Taxpayers shouldn’t be footing the bill for luxury leisure.” Says govt source.
Will that apply to the £4bn a year in fuel duty freeze costs, which go to drivers on the highest incomes the most?
“Taxpayers shouldn’t be footing the bill for luxury leisure.” Says govt source.
Will that apply to the £4bn a year in fuel duty freeze costs, which go to drivers on the highest incomes the most?
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Next Tuesday, @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social will be joining forces with @robertweetman.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy at the @activetravelcaf.bsky.social to talk about their work on side road junction design.
More here:
www.linkedin.com/posts/markph...
More here:
www.linkedin.com/posts/markph...
I'll be back at the Active Travel Cafe next Tuesday (18th), but it won't be for my irregular "The Good, The Bad & The Interesting" slot; instead I will be joined by Robert Weetma...
I'll be back at the Active Travel Cafe next Tuesday (18th), but it won't be for my irregular "The Good, The Bad & The Interesting" slot; instead I will be joined by Robert Weetman and we are the main ...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Next Tuesday, @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social will be joining forces with @robertweetman.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy at the @activetravelcaf.bsky.social to talk about their work on side road junction design.
More here:
www.linkedin.com/posts/markph...
More here:
www.linkedin.com/posts/markph...
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Wonderful thread
Personal note: London has been home for a very, very long time, but as of today, I am also officially a Brit - that is to say, a British citizen. I feel relieved and I feel grateful - but not, perhaps, in the forelock-tugging way GB News/Starmer expect a new immigrant to be.
November 12, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Wonderful thread
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You pay fuel duty. Why don’t billionaires?
This week, we launched WeWingAnyCar.com to help you qualify for the same tax breaks that private jets get.
Because tax loopholes shouldn’t just be for billionaires.
They’re for everyone.
This week, we launched WeWingAnyCar.com to help you qualify for the same tax breaks that private jets get.
Because tax loopholes shouldn’t just be for billionaires.
They’re for everyone.
November 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
You pay fuel duty. Why don’t billionaires?
This week, we launched WeWingAnyCar.com to help you qualify for the same tax breaks that private jets get.
Because tax loopholes shouldn’t just be for billionaires.
They’re for everyone.
This week, we launched WeWingAnyCar.com to help you qualify for the same tax breaks that private jets get.
Because tax loopholes shouldn’t just be for billionaires.
They’re for everyone.
Adding wings to my car so I pay less tax
YouTube video by Oli Frost
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
As Cop30 again talks about 1.5C, here in Sheffield we haven’t failed to meet this “ambitious goal”.
Our decision makers refuse to even try.
When declaring an emergency, they did not set any target to meet 1.5C.
Our much more destructive carbon budget pathway is also being increasingly missed.
Our decision makers refuse to even try.
When declaring an emergency, they did not set any target to meet 1.5C.
Our much more destructive carbon budget pathway is also being increasingly missed.
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
As Cop30 again talks about 1.5C, here in Sheffield we haven’t failed to meet this “ambitious goal”.
Our decision makers refuse to even try.
When declaring an emergency, they did not set any target to meet 1.5C.
Our much more destructive carbon budget pathway is also being increasingly missed.
Our decision makers refuse to even try.
When declaring an emergency, they did not set any target to meet 1.5C.
Our much more destructive carbon budget pathway is also being increasingly missed.
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Brilliant new ad campaign I just spotted at the Southwark tube station in London.
November 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Brilliant new ad campaign I just spotted at the Southwark tube station in London.
Clocks changing for winter is sometimes thought to be better for children having light to go to school in the mornings.
Perhaps it would be more valuable to keep better light in evenings. Children don’t just go straight to and from school. They play and get injured by traffic after school.
Perhaps it would be more valuable to keep better light in evenings. Children don’t just go straight to and from school. They play and get injured by traffic after school.
October 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Clocks changing for winter is sometimes thought to be better for children having light to go to school in the mornings.
Perhaps it would be more valuable to keep better light in evenings. Children don’t just go straight to and from school. They play and get injured by traffic after school.
Perhaps it would be more valuable to keep better light in evenings. Children don’t just go straight to and from school. They play and get injured by traffic after school.
Good to see Cardiff getting the Tank Tax started.
I’d hope this is a starting point for regulating many unsafe large and overpowered vehicles off our streets.
I’d hope this is a starting point for regulating many unsafe large and overpowered vehicles off our streets.
Cardiff Council is set to become the first local authority in the UK to introduce higher parking charges for SUVs and other heavy vehicles, in a move campaigners say will make city streets safer and fairer
Cardiff set to tackle SUV 'carspreading' in UK first
Cardiff Council is set to become the first local authority in the UK to introduce higher parking charges for SUVs and other heavy vehicles, in a move campaigners say will make city streets safer and f...
nation.cymru
October 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Good to see Cardiff getting the Tank Tax started.
I’d hope this is a starting point for regulating many unsafe large and overpowered vehicles off our streets.
I’d hope this is a starting point for regulating many unsafe large and overpowered vehicles off our streets.
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Really good to see this House of Commons research briefing on Children, Young People & the Built Environment, by Louise Whitley, following the LUHC inquiry last year.
It covers a huge of academic and policy evidence, from all sorts of angles, from the UK and beyond.
It covers a huge of academic and policy evidence, from all sorts of angles, from the UK and beyond.
Children, young people and the built environment
The children, young people and the built environment briefing sets out the challenges facing children and young people in accessing formal and informal play spaces. It highlights the opportunities off...
commonslibrary.parliament.uk
October 15, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Really good to see this House of Commons research briefing on Children, Young People & the Built Environment, by Louise Whitley, following the LUHC inquiry last year.
It covers a huge of academic and policy evidence, from all sorts of angles, from the UK and beyond.
It covers a huge of academic and policy evidence, from all sorts of angles, from the UK and beyond.
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Seen in a hospital.
Possibly a parable in here somewhere.
What do we plug into essential or non essential?
Possibly a parable in here somewhere.
What do we plug into essential or non essential?
October 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Seen in a hospital.
Possibly a parable in here somewhere.
What do we plug into essential or non essential?
Possibly a parable in here somewhere.
What do we plug into essential or non essential?
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Nothing less than freedom, justice and self-determination!
Palestinian civil society reacts to the Trump-Netanyahu genocidal plan with 5 fundamental points.
Read more ⬇️ loom.ly/KStXm2A
Palestinian civil society reacts to the Trump-Netanyahu genocidal plan with 5 fundamental points.
Read more ⬇️ loom.ly/KStXm2A
Palestinian civil society reacts to the Trump-Netanyahu genocidal plan
Nothing less than freedom, justice and self-determination!
loom.ly
October 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Nothing less than freedom, justice and self-determination!
Palestinian civil society reacts to the Trump-Netanyahu genocidal plan with 5 fundamental points.
Read more ⬇️ loom.ly/KStXm2A
Palestinian civil society reacts to the Trump-Netanyahu genocidal plan with 5 fundamental points.
Read more ⬇️ loom.ly/KStXm2A
How would our aims for our streets and transport change if we needed over half of car use (and more in dense areas) to disappear? Within years?
How much extra space, time and money would we have to put to good uses?
Could the demands of real climate action help liberate us from a hopeless normal?
How much extra space, time and money would we have to put to good uses?
Could the demands of real climate action help liberate us from a hopeless normal?
Bracing analysis:
- need to reduce car kms by “at least 50%”
- biggest chunk (69%) of passenger emissions are longer, mainly leisure, car trips (over 50km) not daily urban
- NL cycles lots but doesn’t limit its huge car use
- little gain from promoting public transport
- potential for e-bikes
- need to reduce car kms by “at least 50%”
- biggest chunk (69%) of passenger emissions are longer, mainly leisure, car trips (over 50km) not daily urban
- NL cycles lots but doesn’t limit its huge car use
- little gain from promoting public transport
- potential for e-bikes
Latest paper from our upcoming Progressive Review issue.
An essential read by @jilliananable.bsky.social on our failing approach to transport decarbonisation, the scale of the challenge we face in the second half of the decade and where to focus efforts to achieve the UK's 2030 climate target👇
An essential read by @jilliananable.bsky.social on our failing approach to transport decarbonisation, the scale of the challenge we face in the second half of the decade and where to focus efforts to achieve the UK's 2030 climate target👇
October 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
How would our aims for our streets and transport change if we needed over half of car use (and more in dense areas) to disappear? Within years?
How much extra space, time and money would we have to put to good uses?
Could the demands of real climate action help liberate us from a hopeless normal?
How much extra space, time and money would we have to put to good uses?
Could the demands of real climate action help liberate us from a hopeless normal?
Reposted by Sam Wakeling
Bracing analysis:
- need to reduce car kms by “at least 50%”
- biggest chunk (69%) of passenger emissions are longer, mainly leisure, car trips (over 50km) not daily urban
- NL cycles lots but doesn’t limit its huge car use
- little gain from promoting public transport
- potential for e-bikes
- need to reduce car kms by “at least 50%”
- biggest chunk (69%) of passenger emissions are longer, mainly leisure, car trips (over 50km) not daily urban
- NL cycles lots but doesn’t limit its huge car use
- little gain from promoting public transport
- potential for e-bikes
Latest paper from our upcoming Progressive Review issue.
An essential read by @jilliananable.bsky.social on our failing approach to transport decarbonisation, the scale of the challenge we face in the second half of the decade and where to focus efforts to achieve the UK's 2030 climate target👇
An essential read by @jilliananable.bsky.social on our failing approach to transport decarbonisation, the scale of the challenge we face in the second half of the decade and where to focus efforts to achieve the UK's 2030 climate target👇
Decarbonisation pathways for UK transport
Click on the article title to read more.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 18, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Bracing analysis:
- need to reduce car kms by “at least 50%”
- biggest chunk (69%) of passenger emissions are longer, mainly leisure, car trips (over 50km) not daily urban
- NL cycles lots but doesn’t limit its huge car use
- little gain from promoting public transport
- potential for e-bikes
- need to reduce car kms by “at least 50%”
- biggest chunk (69%) of passenger emissions are longer, mainly leisure, car trips (over 50km) not daily urban
- NL cycles lots but doesn’t limit its huge car use
- little gain from promoting public transport
- potential for e-bikes
📕 With all that’s going on, I just want to share this act of craft and care.
A second-hand book seller seems to have made a one-off perfect easy-open wrapper by turning an old box of cat food pouches inside-out and shaping it around the book.
A second-hand book seller seems to have made a one-off perfect easy-open wrapper by turning an old box of cat food pouches inside-out and shaping it around the book.
October 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
📕 With all that’s going on, I just want to share this act of craft and care.
A second-hand book seller seems to have made a one-off perfect easy-open wrapper by turning an old box of cat food pouches inside-out and shaping it around the book.
A second-hand book seller seems to have made a one-off perfect easy-open wrapper by turning an old box of cat food pouches inside-out and shaping it around the book.
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I know Jane Goodall was revered by many in the environment movement, but it is pretty clear that she also harboured many seriously problematic colonial attitudes.
The 'overpopulation' stuff in particular was pretty bad, and as a concept the conduit of plenty of serious wrongdoing over the years
The 'overpopulation' stuff in particular was pretty bad, and as a concept the conduit of plenty of serious wrongdoing over the years
This is from a very prominent conservationist from Kenya
October 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I know Jane Goodall was revered by many in the environment movement, but it is pretty clear that she also harboured many seriously problematic colonial attitudes.
The 'overpopulation' stuff in particular was pretty bad, and as a concept the conduit of plenty of serious wrongdoing over the years
The 'overpopulation' stuff in particular was pretty bad, and as a concept the conduit of plenty of serious wrongdoing over the years
Tyne folks, how is the closure of the flyover working out with traffic? I heard it was a worry before it happened but can’t see much comment since?
@carltonreid.com @tynetom.bsky.social @alisonstenning.bsky.social
@carltonreid.com @tynetom.bsky.social @alisonstenning.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Tyne folks, how is the closure of the flyover working out with traffic? I heard it was a worry before it happened but can’t see much comment since?
@carltonreid.com @tynetom.bsky.social @alisonstenning.bsky.social
@carltonreid.com @tynetom.bsky.social @alisonstenning.bsky.social
Very few kids cycle to our school. Mine do, and they love it.
This morning another school parent said that seeing them riding each day brings her joy.
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This morning another school parent said that seeing them riding each day brings her joy.
🥹
October 7, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Very few kids cycle to our school. Mine do, and they love it.
This morning another school parent said that seeing them riding each day brings her joy.
🥹
This morning another school parent said that seeing them riding each day brings her joy.
🥹
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"The single most important behaviour, design or regulation for creating streets conducive to walking and cycling, was physical separation between the modes"
We've got a new study out, learning from a broad mixture of street users, planners and designers
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We've got a new study out, learning from a broad mixture of street users, planners and designers
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 7, 2025 at 7:18 AM
"The single most important behaviour, design or regulation for creating streets conducive to walking and cycling, was physical separation between the modes"
We've got a new study out, learning from a broad mixture of street users, planners and designers
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We've got a new study out, learning from a broad mixture of street users, planners and designers
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Getting a 20mph limit on a road where someone has been killed would be a dramatic improvement on current policies.
People being killed with vehicles is most likely on roads where traffic speed is deemed too important to consider for 20mph safety treatment.
People being killed with vehicles is most likely on roads where traffic speed is deemed too important to consider for 20mph safety treatment.
In the Q&A, Holden is asked if 20mph zones should only be put on roads where there has been a fatality. Holden says he thinks it’s a bit much to expect someone to die before you get a 20 limit - but then complains a lot about their general use.
October 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Getting a 20mph limit on a road where someone has been killed would be a dramatic improvement on current policies.
People being killed with vehicles is most likely on roads where traffic speed is deemed too important to consider for 20mph safety treatment.
People being killed with vehicles is most likely on roads where traffic speed is deemed too important to consider for 20mph safety treatment.
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While the Tory party's energy & climate policy grows increasingly detached from reality, worth reflecting on a remarkable, under-reported event at Labour conference: the launch of Climate Jobs UK, a campaign by GMB, Prospect & other TUs focused on the creation of good jobs in the energy transition
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October 6, 2025 at 9:49 AM
While the Tory party's energy & climate policy grows increasingly detached from reality, worth reflecting on a remarkable, under-reported event at Labour conference: the launch of Climate Jobs UK, a campaign by GMB, Prospect & other TUs focused on the creation of good jobs in the energy transition
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Quite a contrast between the British walk to school and the one in Czech Republic.
What differences do you notice?
What differences do you notice?
October 6, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Quite a contrast between the British walk to school and the one in Czech Republic.
What differences do you notice?
What differences do you notice?