Sam Wakeling
@samwake.bsky.social
Loves streets. Make them safe. Set them free. Sheffield. Abolition.
Works at Living Streets.
Free free 🍉
🔗 sam.wakeling.me
Works at Living Streets.
Free free 🍉
🔗 sam.wakeling.me
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?
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.
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.
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?
📕 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.
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?
Whose streets? Their streets.
October 1, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Whose streets? Their streets.
Great interview on how little children’s needs and play are considered in govt.
I’m reminded of the council playgrounds near us having the swings removed during lockdown. Some didn’t return for months or years.
While car parking which obstructed social distancing was barely touched.
I’m reminded of the council playgrounds near us having the swings removed during lockdown. Some didn’t return for months or years.
While car parking which obstructed social distancing was barely touched.
October 1, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Great interview on how little children’s needs and play are considered in govt.
I’m reminded of the council playgrounds near us having the swings removed during lockdown. Some didn’t return for months or years.
While car parking which obstructed social distancing was barely touched.
I’m reminded of the council playgrounds near us having the swings removed during lockdown. Some didn’t return for months or years.
While car parking which obstructed social distancing was barely touched.
2024 road crash data is out and I looked at child injuries in Sheffield.
56 children were seriously injured on Sheffield roads last year, higher than other recent years.
maps.dft.gov.uk/road-casualt...
56 children were seriously injured on Sheffield roads last year, higher than other recent years.
maps.dft.gov.uk/road-casualt...
September 29, 2025 at 9:35 AM
2024 road crash data is out and I looked at child injuries in Sheffield.
56 children were seriously injured on Sheffield roads last year, higher than other recent years.
maps.dft.gov.uk/road-casualt...
56 children were seriously injured on Sheffield roads last year, higher than other recent years.
maps.dft.gov.uk/road-casualt...
I visited Dudley and crossed this large junction, designed as hostile to human life (30mph, no crossings, many lanes, barriers), I felt very unsafe.
Later I learned that in 2023 a “woman in her 70s” (no other public reporting) was killed crossing here.
It’s still just the same.
Who’s next?
Later I learned that in 2023 a “woman in her 70s” (no other public reporting) was killed crossing here.
It’s still just the same.
Who’s next?
September 23, 2025 at 9:04 AM
I visited Dudley and crossed this large junction, designed as hostile to human life (30mph, no crossings, many lanes, barriers), I felt very unsafe.
Later I learned that in 2023 a “woman in her 70s” (no other public reporting) was killed crossing here.
It’s still just the same.
Who’s next?
Later I learned that in 2023 a “woman in her 70s” (no other public reporting) was killed crossing here.
It’s still just the same.
Who’s next?
More detail and updates to 2025 are here:
ourworldindata.org/grapher/date...
ourworldindata.org/grapher/date...
September 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
More detail and updates to 2025 are here:
ourworldindata.org/grapher/date...
ourworldindata.org/grapher/date...
I wrote about the place of our streets in conflict and making peace.
World day of peace is 21 Sept.
sam.wakeling.me/posts/peace-...
World day of peace is 21 Sept.
sam.wakeling.me/posts/peace-...
September 20, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I wrote about the place of our streets in conflict and making peace.
World day of peace is 21 Sept.
sam.wakeling.me/posts/peace-...
World day of peace is 21 Sept.
sam.wakeling.me/posts/peace-...
Congratulations to Lena Freimuth and Timo Hirschmann for breaking both the women’s and men’s unicycle 24 hour distance records. Lena did 424km and Timo 526.8km!
As a former holder of the men’s, I’m delighted it has gone over 500km at last.
unicyclist.com/t/new-24hr-u...
As a former holder of the men’s, I’m delighted it has gone over 500km at last.
unicyclist.com/t/new-24hr-u...
September 11, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Congratulations to Lena Freimuth and Timo Hirschmann for breaking both the women’s and men’s unicycle 24 hour distance records. Lena did 424km and Timo 526.8km!
As a former holder of the men’s, I’m delighted it has gone over 500km at last.
unicyclist.com/t/new-24hr-u...
As a former holder of the men’s, I’m delighted it has gone over 500km at last.
unicyclist.com/t/new-24hr-u...
Did Britain fight WW2 because fascism is bad, or to stop foreigners coming over here?
(“Or you’d be speaking German now…”)
If the latter then there is a bit less dissonance with many things since.
(“Or you’d be speaking German now…”)
If the latter then there is a bit less dissonance with many things since.
September 10, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Did Britain fight WW2 because fascism is bad, or to stop foreigners coming over here?
(“Or you’d be speaking German now…”)
If the latter then there is a bit less dissonance with many things since.
(“Or you’d be speaking German now…”)
If the latter then there is a bit less dissonance with many things since.
Agree we need policy to move to sufficiency. We clearly already have consumption determined mostly by individual budgets - just financial not carbon, and wildly unequal. But most people are limited in that way now.
I’d love to have discussion of what policy would level this slope:
I’d love to have discussion of what policy would level this slope:
September 9, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Agree we need policy to move to sufficiency. We clearly already have consumption determined mostly by individual budgets - just financial not carbon, and wildly unequal. But most people are limited in that way now.
I’d love to have discussion of what policy would level this slope:
I’d love to have discussion of what policy would level this slope:
September 3, 2025 at 10:08 PM
New National Travel Survey data shows more than twice the proportion of cycle trips (31%) are for commuting than car trips (13%).
Many people who are cycling are relying on it to get to work.
www.gov.uk/government/s...
Many people who are cycling are relying on it to get to work.
www.gov.uk/government/s...
August 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
New National Travel Survey data shows more than twice the proportion of cycle trips (31%) are for commuting than car trips (13%).
Many people who are cycling are relying on it to get to work.
www.gov.uk/government/s...
Many people who are cycling are relying on it to get to work.
www.gov.uk/government/s...
How children get to school in England has been virtually constant for 22 years.
Primary age about 51% walk.
Small change in secondary from private bus to car since start of covid.
New 2024 data:
www.gov.uk/government/s...
Primary age about 51% walk.
Small change in secondary from private bus to car since start of covid.
New 2024 data:
www.gov.uk/government/s...
August 27, 2025 at 6:43 PM
How children get to school in England has been virtually constant for 22 years.
Primary age about 51% walk.
Small change in secondary from private bus to car since start of covid.
New 2024 data:
www.gov.uk/government/s...
Primary age about 51% walk.
Small change in secondary from private bus to car since start of covid.
New 2024 data:
www.gov.uk/government/s...
Some street planting in Crookes, Sheffield 🌱
August 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Some street planting in Crookes, Sheffield 🌱
Had a good day in Birmingham speaking with people in Tyseley about their streets.
And while the far-right may be trying to flex, there are also signs in the streets of solidarity and humanity.
And while the far-right may be trying to flex, there are also signs in the streets of solidarity and humanity.
August 22, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Had a good day in Birmingham speaking with people in Tyseley about their streets.
And while the far-right may be trying to flex, there are also signs in the streets of solidarity and humanity.
And while the far-right may be trying to flex, there are also signs in the streets of solidarity and humanity.
“U turn if you want to”
August 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
“U turn if you want to”
“Installed”… to replace much the same one that has been there for at least 16 years.
August 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM
“Installed”… to replace much the same one that has been there for at least 16 years.
THINK!
Do the combination of signs here give a clue what might be a problem here?
Maybe, just maybe, it might not be the lack of thought from the people using the roundabout.
Do the combination of signs here give a clue what might be a problem here?
Maybe, just maybe, it might not be the lack of thought from the people using the roundabout.
August 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM
THINK!
Do the combination of signs here give a clue what might be a problem here?
Maybe, just maybe, it might not be the lack of thought from the people using the roundabout.
Do the combination of signs here give a clue what might be a problem here?
Maybe, just maybe, it might not be the lack of thought from the people using the roundabout.