Jon Usher

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@Toby_Wells @WestofEnglandCA Does it update in real time?

I like @WestofEnglandCA's new passenger information design department

@tricyclemayor Ridgeway Playing Fields? 😉

We're looking for case study traffic-free routes where we can monitor pre- & post-barrier removal. If you're a local Cllr or work in a transport team & are interested in a local traffic-free route being in the study, email h.larringtonspencer@westminster.ac.uk Pls RT 2/

Delighted to be awarded @Motability funding for my 3-year project 'Monitoring access control removal on traffic-free routes'. Using Vivacity sensors, interviews & surveys, we'll monitor the impacts of barrier removal on intended & antisocial use. 1/

Just spent a few mins watching the new 🚶‍♀️🚴 crossing from Castle Park to Baldwin Street. This single set of lights replaces the redundant traffic light system that covered the whole junction. You used to have to wait several minutes to be able to cross here!

@bricycle @street_space_ I'm sure @BenBowskill or @ZoeBanksGross would be able to connect you to the relevant team. Here's example from Ashton Gate Road installed Oct 2011 looking a bit warm now! maps.app.goo.gl/Fu3GHfQVtN5KUq…

@street_space_ I bet @jonusher knows. That will save me a call on Monday

@bricycle Hey! Quite a while back you shared this fab eg from Bristol.. we'd love to do something similar on a project in #Bradford & would love to connect the relevant highways officers to share tips on getting over delivery hurdles/fears, can you help with who made this happen?

@bricycle @street_space_ Think it was the urban design team at @BristolCouncil - part of the Old City pedestrianisation scheme. There's actually a lot of history of patterned road markings around Bristol. Highways team are pretty relaxed about it. Earliest examples from 2011.

This is bold stuff by @sgloscouncil - I was worried they would water down this scheme but they've held firm. Several miles of fully segregated cycle track along a semi-rural A road, with priority over side roads, extensive use of dutch entrance kerbs. a38andbswactivetravel.commonplace.is

@WestofEnglandCA What does success look like? If you're massively oversubscribed, what happens to those that don't get a hanger? Are they automatically added to a waiting list for the roll-out programme I hope you have up your sleeves? I hope you won't come back in another 6 months to ask again?

A successful first week of our cycle hangar consultation! We've been awarded funding to support the installation of 80 new cycle hangars, and we want your help in selecting the perfect locations! Use our interactive map to nominate a location👉 bit.ly/3Fa4VIF

@Catherinewith11 I'm not sure about illegal, but I would report to the Health and Safety Executive. If you're holding the camera and they've driven past you with the equipment running you're surely within an unsafe operating zone?

@BristolDon @bristolgreen During transport board meetings BCC officers were clear that the evidence showed the majority of car traffic on Glos Rd was local access only (short trips), not through traffic. Now some of these officers are at WECA they're implementing those workable proposals.

I’d like to hear more detail on this in @bristolgreen party’s manifesto or even before. How could there be permanently restricted access for delivery trucks and other vehicles on Gloucester Road, not to mention the years of closure for construction? On a main city artery?

On the day where national policy is inexcusably scaled back, I'm proud that @UWEBristol is stepping forward. I'm part of our new Climate Education course - enabling students to understand the #ClimateCrisis, feel empowered and act to make a difference. bristol247.com/climate/news-c…

Bristol #SafeStreetsNow 30th Sept - please join us on East St, BS3 to call for safe streets for children, older people and everyone in all neighbourhoods across the city.

@aliceplayingout @beardedjourno @BristolCycling @ZoeBanksGross @EdPlowden I can't make the 30th, but happy to spread the word! In a way it's unfortunate it's on a Saturday as it would be good to do it outside a school!

Ok Bristol, who’s in? Are you fed up with streets that don’t feel safe for our children - or anyone not in a car? We just need to pick a location and show up. @beardedjourno @jonusher @BristolCycling @ZoeBanksGross @EdPlowden #SafeStreetsNow

@RobBryher It was briefly during the pandemic, but then opened again shortly after again the traders objected. Very similar to St. Marks Road really. The Optibus office is just off Brick Lane!

@PeteWri71368222 @ASPolice @BristolDon But I wasn't cycling, I was walking. So don't have '2 minutes pre and post' incident footage. I heard him coming and filmed a few seconds of him speeding up the street.

@jonusher @ASPolice @BristolDon Must be an issue with @aspolice. Wet yorks police queue very keen to follow up on cyclists' complaints if supported by video evidence

Hi @ASPolice how do pedestrians report this kind of driving behaviour, in a 20mph limit at school pick up time? Someone needs to speak to him before he causes a collision or kills a vulnerable road user. I've reported the same driver for a separate incident in June @BristolDon

@KirstendeVos @ASPolice @BristolDon Thanks I've filled the steps, now I have to wait 21 days!

@BugBrand @ASPolice @BristolDon @ASPRoadSafety It makes you feel utterly powerless!

@jonusher @ASPolice @BristolDon Speeding is, unfortunately, a hard one for the public to deal with (but it is SO rife). If you DM me, I could put you on to the team who come to our local road for speed checks. Otherwise consider vid subs to @ASPRoadSafety (though can't do for speeding!) avonandsomerset.police.uk/forms/ior/

It's a failure of policing and a failure of politics to get to grips with the dominance of cars in our society.

The previous incident was on the same road and involved me, my wife and 2 kids while we were all on bikes cycling up the hill. I won't let my kids cycle on our local streets any more - it's not worth the risk while people can drive like this as they please.