Sarah
@sarahroweb.bsky.social
Climate/air pollution/transport. Mostly banging on about walking and cycling in Gtr Manchester.
Cares about other stuff too.
Cares about other stuff too.
Good, because my experience this morning of trying to travel between Manchester and Leeds is that our transport network needs serious investment 🫠
Government has confirmed that England’s mayors will be able to invest in transport (and infrastructure and tourism) through a new levy on overnight stays.
This is a welcome move, and something we have called for as part of local revenue raising powers.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
This is a welcome move, and something we have called for as part of local revenue raising powers.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Levy on overnight trips will help mayors invest in local growth
England’s mayors will be able to invest in transport, infrastructure, and the visitor economy through a new levy on overnight stays.
www.gov.uk
November 26, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Good, because my experience this morning of trying to travel between Manchester and Leeds is that our transport network needs serious investment 🫠
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If you're at this event, I'd love to know what's said on transport. It's the single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions, and frankly Stockport's approach to this area is extremely weak.
We’re kicking off with the launch of the CAN Strategy 2025-30! Hear from Cllr Mark Roberts, Cllr Jake Austin, Nick Leslie, and Emma Curle about Stockport’s vision for climate and nature. #CANStrategy
November 4, 2025 at 10:45 AM
If you're at this event, I'd love to know what's said on transport. It's the single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions, and frankly Stockport's approach to this area is extremely weak.
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After all the bluff and bluster of the last few days online, this is a personal and quietly moving piece on life in North Mancheter.
More quality writing from @manchestermill.bsky.social
More quality writing from @manchestermill.bsky.social
Jews and Muslims in North Manchester: A personal story
‘We thought we were the luckiest people in the world to be born in Manchester’
manchestermill.co.uk
October 5, 2025 at 12:26 PM
After all the bluff and bluster of the last few days online, this is a personal and quietly moving piece on life in North Mancheter.
More quality writing from @manchestermill.bsky.social
More quality writing from @manchestermill.bsky.social
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Quaker statement in response to Manchester synagogue attacks on Yom Kippur.
We offer our love, support and solidarity with the Jewish community, in Manchester and beyond, following the horrifying antisemitic attack on a Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.
We offer our love, support and solidarity with the Jewish community, in Manchester and beyond, following the horrifying antisemitic attack on a Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.
October 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Quaker statement in response to Manchester synagogue attacks on Yom Kippur.
We offer our love, support and solidarity with the Jewish community, in Manchester and beyond, following the horrifying antisemitic attack on a Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.
We offer our love, support and solidarity with the Jewish community, in Manchester and beyond, following the horrifying antisemitic attack on a Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.
This is what happens when a mayor is committed to clean air! This isn't just abstract figures about toxin levels....it means there will be kids not hospitalised, it means there will be lives not ruined by pollution, it means money saved to the NHS. All things we want in Greater Manchester too, eh?
City Hall: Experts at King’s College London estimated that, from when the Mayor came into office in 2016, without additional action it would take 193 years for London to meet legal limits. It has been achieved in nine years.
October 1, 2025 at 9:16 AM
This is what happens when a mayor is committed to clean air! This isn't just abstract figures about toxin levels....it means there will be kids not hospitalised, it means there will be lives not ruined by pollution, it means money saved to the NHS. All things we want in Greater Manchester too, eh?
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Greater Manchester ditching its Clean Air Zone is looking more short-sighted by the day
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Scrapped Greater Manchester Clean Air Zone signs removal begins
Work starts to take down the signs at the cost of about £600,000, paid for by the government.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 30, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Greater Manchester ditching its Clean Air Zone is looking more short-sighted by the day
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Using an (extra wide) family space at the supermarket and you're still way too big for the space?? That's #carspreading!
@cleancitiescampaign.org
@cleancitiescampaign.org
September 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Using an (extra wide) family space at the supermarket and you're still way too big for the space?? That's #carspreading!
@cleancitiescampaign.org
@cleancitiescampaign.org
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On the same day in the Telegraph:
![The Telegraph
Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement
Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty
Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence
[Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday]
Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent
29 August 2025 8:57am BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreihe5mm7nwmwvzhtgadmsafyvsaxhrufuai2d2j2rju5zt6g2lytea@jpeg)
![The Telegraph
Money > Property > Second homes
How to avoid tax on your second home
From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net
[Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto]
Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer
29 August 2025 1:21pm BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreieuwgc2vsmyfcctmf4cnpcqckij2pqdk2gmzajpnihrsqyqmzyr5e@jpeg)
September 5, 2025 at 7:55 AM
On the same day in the Telegraph:
Wonder if we'll ever be as outraged as a nation about rich men and super rich companies dodging tax as we are about a working class woman.
September 5, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Wonder if we'll ever be as outraged as a nation about rich men and super rich companies dodging tax as we are about a working class woman.
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Needed to go to big Asda.
Baby too small for the trike still so we got the bus.
Awful driver.
Then we get off the bus and are greeted by this massive junction without signalled pedestrian crossings.
No wonder people drive ten minute journeys.
Baby too small for the trike still so we got the bus.
Awful driver.
Then we get off the bus and are greeted by this massive junction without signalled pedestrian crossings.
No wonder people drive ten minute journeys.
August 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Needed to go to big Asda.
Baby too small for the trike still so we got the bus.
Awful driver.
Then we get off the bus and are greeted by this massive junction without signalled pedestrian crossings.
No wonder people drive ten minute journeys.
Baby too small for the trike still so we got the bus.
Awful driver.
Then we get off the bus and are greeted by this massive junction without signalled pedestrian crossings.
No wonder people drive ten minute journeys.
Lack of cycling infrastructure that would make it safe to ride a bike with small children is basically a huge time tax on caregivers, particularly those who are unable to drive. Which of course is a group largely dominated by poorer women.
July 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Lack of cycling infrastructure that would make it safe to ride a bike with small children is basically a huge time tax on caregivers, particularly those who are unable to drive. Which of course is a group largely dominated by poorer women.
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Guess which of these stories came first on both the BBC One and Radio 4 bulletins.
June 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Guess which of these stories came first on both the BBC One and Radio 4 bulletins.
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We have also submitted written evidence today. We are extremely concerned about these exclusionary amendments which would make comprehensive safe cycling for children, families & many disabled people impossible.
June 30, 2025 at 5:33 PM
We have also submitted written evidence today. We are extremely concerned about these exclusionary amendments which would make comprehensive safe cycling for children, families & many disabled people impossible.
Bleak story in the @manchestermill.bsky.social briefing about how unsafe the roads are in GM: all 10 boroughs are in the top 20 areas in England and Wales with the highest rates of dangerous driving. So when I said unsafe roads, I guess meant unsafe drivers.
June 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Bleak story in the @manchestermill.bsky.social briefing about how unsafe the roads are in GM: all 10 boroughs are in the top 20 areas in England and Wales with the highest rates of dangerous driving. So when I said unsafe roads, I guess meant unsafe drivers.
Small children are invisible to SUV drivers
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Ever-rising height of car bonnets a ‘clear threat’ to children, report says
High-fronted vehicles are more likely to kill and are on the rise in Europe with the UK an extreme example
www.theguardian.com
June 11, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Small children are invisible to SUV drivers
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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A damning pair of charts.
People on lowest incomes own FIVE TIMES fewer cars than the richest do.
Meanwhile kids in most deprived areas are FIVE TIMES more likely to be injured by cars.
People on lowest incomes own FIVE TIMES fewer cars than the richest do.
Meanwhile kids in most deprived areas are FIVE TIMES more likely to be injured by cars.
June 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
A damning pair of charts.
People on lowest incomes own FIVE TIMES fewer cars than the richest do.
Meanwhile kids in most deprived areas are FIVE TIMES more likely to be injured by cars.
People on lowest incomes own FIVE TIMES fewer cars than the richest do.
Meanwhile kids in most deprived areas are FIVE TIMES more likely to be injured by cars.
Had a few days at Center Parcs.
There are no cars 5 days of the week, a totally pedestrianised centre, everything you need within a 15 minute walk and decent cycling facilities. Bonkers that people want these things for their holidays and don't want to make it a reality for their everyday.
There are no cars 5 days of the week, a totally pedestrianised centre, everything you need within a 15 minute walk and decent cycling facilities. Bonkers that people want these things for their holidays and don't want to make it a reality for their everyday.
June 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Had a few days at Center Parcs.
There are no cars 5 days of the week, a totally pedestrianised centre, everything you need within a 15 minute walk and decent cycling facilities. Bonkers that people want these things for their holidays and don't want to make it a reality for their everyday.
There are no cars 5 days of the week, a totally pedestrianised centre, everything you need within a 15 minute walk and decent cycling facilities. Bonkers that people want these things for their holidays and don't want to make it a reality for their everyday.
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Incredibly powerful investigation in Dutch newspaper NRC: Seven of the world’s leading genocide scholars — including renowned Holocaust experts — describe Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocidal.
And according to them, nearly all of their peers agree.
And according to them, nearly all of their peers agree.
May 15, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Incredibly powerful investigation in Dutch newspaper NRC: Seven of the world’s leading genocide scholars — including renowned Holocaust experts — describe Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocidal.
And according to them, nearly all of their peers agree.
And according to them, nearly all of their peers agree.
Great Trevor Noah episode on the Anxious Generation with a little slot towards the end thinking about how the lack of public space to play affects kids - inc how huge SUVs make parents scared to let their kids play in the street. open.spotify.com/episode/0I7l...
#carspreading
#carspreading
The Anxious Generation with Jonathan Haidt [VIDEO]
What Now? with Trevor Noah · Episode
open.spotify.com
May 29, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Great Trevor Noah episode on the Anxious Generation with a little slot towards the end thinking about how the lack of public space to play affects kids - inc how huge SUVs make parents scared to let their kids play in the street. open.spotify.com/episode/0I7l...
#carspreading
#carspreading
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Western governments say what’s happening is complex and nuanced and that it would wrong to rush to judgement. Meanwhile,
May 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Western governments say what’s happening is complex and nuanced and that it would wrong to rush to judgement. Meanwhile,
If you live in a city and ever think "why can't we have more nice things?" the answer is often because we have too many cars
Ramsgate Marina Art Deco, Seawater Pool, opened in 1935 and closed in 1975. It is now a car park!
May 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
If you live in a city and ever think "why can't we have more nice things?" the answer is often because we have too many cars
Left X months ago but only just made my way here. Hit me with your best bluesky recs! (What do we call tweets round here?)
May 21, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Left X months ago but only just made my way here. Hit me with your best bluesky recs! (What do we call tweets round here?)