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@KemiBadenoch @RicHolden The same Conservative party that gave us the active travel policy Gear Change has now lost the plot. The ideas and words they use here feel out of touch.

Vote Conservative tomorrow to end Keir Starmer’s War on Drivers.

@HFConsCllrs @msinclairHFC How are you going to make the road safer for everyone?

‼️ No ifs, no buts: if we win on May 7th, the WBR parklets are gone on day one. Support our campaign and sign the petition here.👇 hfconservatives.org.uk/campaigns/dema…

@MonkEmma Thank you!

For more detail and all the links and sources, as well as couple of debunks of posts on this subject, feel free to go to my substack: monkdebunks.substack.com/p/no-oxford-is… Free to subscribe! And if anyone is that way inclined, buymeacoffee.com/MonkDebunks, really helps support my work! 25/25

Ok, let’s do this🙄 We’ll start with an explainer covering: 🕒What is a 15-minute city 🏫What on Earth is going on with Oxford 👽Where the conspiracy theories have come from And then we’ll look at the Telegraph article 🧵 1/25

This will flush out the bus concern trolls with measures to prioritise bus journeys over private car use. 😊 TfL unveils ambitious five-year plan to cut congestion and transform London's road network for the future - Transport for London. tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media…

After 2+ years of legal battles, the Court of Appeal has ruled in our favour. Tower Hamlets cannot lawfully remove our safer streets. A huge precedent for London. Evening Standard covers the news here: standard.co.uk/news/london/lo…

@EdSaper @OpenChiswickW4 And increasing ridership doesn't mean people switching away from cars. It is just that people already likely to use public transport will use it more and convert some active travel into public transport. If I'm tracking it's: lose-lose-lose-lose

@OpenChiswickW4 UK Bus revenue is ~£3.4bn pa. Halving fares costs ~£1.2bn, assuming 27.5% higher ridership. Invest another £300m to double London’s bus lanes. Introduce road pricing & reduce the £10-20bn annual car subsidy to pay for it. Why wait for the long term to invest in mass transit?

We can only be thankful that old boomers like John no longer hold any positions of influence in British society. And that younger women like Heidi Alexander, Claire Holland, Rezina Chowdury, Katherine Dunne and Una O’Halloran are leading the way in making London streets safer

I just found a great research paper on biases in transport. It goes into some of the known biased we have and applies them to transport. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Detailed analysis of the behavior of Renee Good and Jonathan Ross prior to her death. WATCH: #DemsUnited

@JohnJohnStewart @neilchristiex @LornaBlane @andrewellson @EvanDriscoll10 We all select evidence to evidence our points. If we consider that we all believe what we believe, then shouldn't the discussion be about the presented evidence and not the person?

@jchermier @neilchristiex @LornaBlane @andrewellson @EvanDriscoll10 I've countered Neil's selective evidence time and again. I'm weary of doing so. His approach is neither transparent nor honest. I'm done with it.

Is this the barmiest LTN yet? The detour required after the closure of a single road in Islington's new Mildmay LTN is set to result in: - More than a million extra miles being driven each year - 400,000 kg of extra CO2 being released Yet the council labelled it as "green" 🧵

@JohnJohnStewart @neilchristiex @LornaBlane @andrewellson @EvanDriscoll10 Hi John. The way to counter an evidenced argument is not to attack the person. It is to provide a better argument. Aren't we all in the business of knowing true things?

@neilchristiex @LornaBlane @andrewellson @EvanDriscoll10 Nobody's listening Neil. Your honesty has long been shot to pieces.

@goSHIFTscheme @ediz1975 Hi, did you get a resolution on this? All vehicles are counted, even in slow traffic, but it is the classification of vehicles that gets less accurate. More here: wearepossible.org/latest-news/yo…

@ediz1975 Sharing the data does matter. The data (including your observations) are the facts. All you’re sharing is your conclusions about LA data. It’s difficult to swallow this as facts.

LTN increased congestion here by over 101% excluding slow moving vehicles. This residential road has a number of schools surrounding it. LTN advocates called the increased harming of children here a success in the name of LTNs …. Harming children here for a hobby is deemed as acceptable by groups like the LCC…

@EdSaper @andrewellson Well put. Have a quick look, similar idea: #d1e301" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

@andrewellson By now I really shouldn’t be surprised at car lobbyists using eco arguments (reducing pollution & CO2) to justify their efforts to remove any impediment to using their cars (filters, pedestrianisation, bike lanes, bus lanes & gates) which emit all the pollution in the 1st place.

Alexander Stubb - President of Finland gave a very empassioned speech about Ukraine which I think we should all listen to.

@frontlinekit Amazing speech.

@OpenChiswickW4 Apparently smooth enough for rollerblading

@jchermier I fucking love this cycle lane

Just me and fit young men in Lycra on Cycleway 9 in Chiswick this evening. As usual 🤬

@unentschieden85 @JamesSurowiecki Hi. The OP is right though. The formula on your link is equivalent to the one presented here. You can do the Maths for yourself and confirm.

Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us. So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is.

"Making driving more appealing leads to more driving". Logical and uncontroversial. Yet people opposing traffic-calming measures like LTNs dance around that fact. Why? Because they know this to be true and often just try to find excuses for their habits or that of others.

@Antni_b @_wearepossible Probably. They should work on all cars designs and be serious about the safety of all road users.

@jchermier @_wearepossible They should probably concentrate more on the design of vans if that is the case. The bonnet on my van is far higher than both

SUVs are clogging our cities, wasting fuel, and putting lives at risk. We need higher taxes and charges to be levied on these oversized cars if we want to create a safer, cleaner future. It's time to take action. gbnews.com/lifestyle/cars…