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@JohnJohnStewart @francesca_kms LTNs shift rat-running back to high-capacity roads built for volume. The trade-off? Minor for main roads, but life-changing for the safety and quiet of our neighborhoods. Those living on main roads can benefit from LTNs when travelling. I live on a main road, it's not unfair.

@francesca_kms By relocating traffic onto other people's roads. That is why they are inherently unfair.

Spring has sprung 🌷 LTNs aren’t just about reducing cars, they’re about giving streets back to people. They cut air pollution, make roads safer for kids, and create quieter, more connected communities where walking and cycling become the easy choice.

@BobFromAccounts As someone who lives near here, Kingsland road was also down to 1 lane for what looked like potentially emergency works.

20 people in private cars latest

@RobLeigh588402 @FidelUK @Heidi_Labour @LDN_gov @SadiqKhan @transportgovuk This is just not true at all.

@FidelUK @Heidi_Labour @LDN_gov @SadiqKhan @transportgovuk Being as most of Active Travel is funded from VED payments this is the right thing to do. When you weigh up how much is spent on Active Travel against how much Active Travel users pay in taxes they do not contribute enough. VED needs to once again be assigned to roads again.

Plan for new 'Potholes Fund' using money intended for active travel would be 'a disaster' say campaigners Actually, it would be the most logical thing to do! ⁦@Heidi_Labour⁩ ⁦@LDN_gov⁩ ⁦@SadiqKhan⁩ ⁦@transportgovuk⁩ edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/plan-for-…

@IslingtonResid3 @LJRyder16 @melimoonshine @EdPlowden @TristanCorkPost @BristolLive @SocEnvJustice @LittleNinjaUK @BBCBristol While it might not change much, you really shouldn't be comparing casualties over over multiple years by miles driven per 1 year. Also Islington has 7x the pop. density with much more vulnerable users on the road so that stat does not really tell the whole story.

@mitchNcatch @LJRyder16 @melimoonshine @EdPlowden @TristanCorkPost @BristolLive @SocEnvJustice @LittleNinjaUK @BBCBristol Much more driving going on in Bromley vs Islington. Miles driven per borough in 2024: Islington: 225.2bn Bromley: 891.3bn Looking at casualties (2017-2025)/bn miles driven in 2024, Bromley is much much safer.

London Borough Bromley has ZERO LTNS Its the London Borough with the LOWEST numbers of fatalities/collisions Compare this with LB Islington below & reach your own conclusions @melimoonshine @EdPlowden @TristanCorkPost @BristolLive @SocEnvJustice @LittleNinjaUK @BBCBristol

@SimonFawthrop_1 @MAGUKCentral The point is that SUVs are more likely to kill because of physics, it's basic shit really. The fact you can't grasp that is truly shocking. The people on 2 wheels dying is usually a result of larger vehicles hitting them, not because they are more likely to crash.

This is exactly the point, where is the scientific evidence showing that SUVs are involved in a greater number of accidents than any other class of vehicle. On the whole 2 wheels is more dangerous. Banning 2 wheels would reduce accidents considerably, but that doesn't fit the narrative.

TfL has published Vision Zero Action Plan 2, its blueprint for eliminating road deaths in London by 2041. VZAP2’s own data records that London motorcyclists represent 4% of road mileage but 22% of KSIs but offers no substantive solution. mag-uk.org/tfls-new-road-…

@BespokeEB @DailyMail And I don't see much traffic in those photos as well. Not to mention, too many cars cause traffic not cycle lanes.

@DailyMail Your endless 'culture war' output never lets up. You say 'no one uses it' and then have a photo where a cyclist is. Why such an obvious social media error ?

The £17million 'white elephant' cycle lane everyone loves to hate: Council builds 11ft-wide track with just three problems - it causes traffic jams, looks ugly and no one uses it trib.al/IKTxyYH

@simonjcalvert @VincentStops @willnorman That's Santander hire which is completely different and is suffering do to the rise of dockless. This has also resulted in more trips by cycling see here: standard.co.uk/news/transport…

@mitchNcatch @VincentStops @willnorman There does not appear to be a rise in cycle popularity though.

Can you think why @willnorman uses 2010 to 2014 as a baseline to promote the notion that cycling is getting safer! Both absolute numbers and risk per journey is increasing since he was appointed. Or in his language serious cycling injuries are ‘soaring’!

@simonjcalvert @VincentStops @willnorman I do acknowledge that serious injuries has been on an increase, and that needs to be addressed, but as I said before, the trend for that appears to start increasing with the rise of cycle hire popularity.

@mitchNcatch @VincentStops @willnorman TfL’s data does not suggest that total injuries are declining, in fact it suggests that cycle injuries are the only ones on the increase in London. Just asking where you are getting your information from that suggests that total injuries are declining?

@simonjcalvert @VincentStops @willnorman The PowerBI link that Vincent is using for his data shows a downward from 2021 to 2025, and a downward trend since 2010 as far as risk goes when you look at all casualty severities.

@simonjcalvert @VincentStops @willnorman The total injuries have been on a steady decline suggesting improvements are working. The spike in series injuries is likely a result of Lime becoming popular and having a lot more inexperienced riders on the road incentives to get to their destinations faster due to costs.

@VincentStops @mitchNcatch @willnorman I was asking Mitch where the data was that suggested that the rate of increases has outpaced total KSIs. As far as I am aware, no data has been specifically collated for annual average cycle mileage in Greater London (at least from DfT). Perhaps he has some data he could share?

@simonjcalvert @VincentStops @willnorman london.gov.uk/sites/default/… app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjo… Have at it

@HelenaHandcart0 @Flyleafinvest @BobFromAccounts Well according to their account, they live in Scotland so I doubt it.

@mitchNcatch @Flyleafinvest @BobFromAccounts He might work in London.

About time, tax these anti-social monsters off the street. They have no place in cities. 'Adults walking or cycling are 14% more likely to die in a collision when the car involved is an SUV; children are 77% more likely' theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/m…

@Flyleafinvest @BobFromAccounts Well then, seeing as you don't live in London, this won't really impact you. Try again.

@BobFromAccounts I live in a forest. No public transport. Try again

@NFBUK @MayorofLondon Do you complain about the lack of accessibility in the Westfield's? You can't drive up to shops there, yet I see plenty of disabled people there. You can create accessible spaces without being serviced by general traffic. You seem to doubt disabled people's capabilities a lot.

.@MayorofLondon excluding buses, black cabs, taxis from Oxford Street will not create a fully accessible Oxford Street and will actively exclude those people who rely on these to get to and from the shops and services on offer.

@OpenChiswickW4 I wonder what they would be blaming if they removed all LTNs and cycle lanes and the traffic was still awful (which it would be).

I think I can see why this tradesperson is stuck in traffic ….

@TheFSGModel @VincentStops Where does TfL say this?

@mitchNcatch @VincentStops TfL. I don't really care what you're 'calling'.

When you next hear the cycle lobby tell you how important floating bus stops are for cycle safety remind them of this government answer to an MPs question. To paraphrase: “There are so few cyclist injuries associated with bus stops, nobody has ever counted them..”

@VincentStops @TheFSGModel I don't think you are interpreting it correctly. It shows there were 6 casualties (with 2 being serious) at all 164 floating bus stops in a 3 year span. It then puts that into context saying that 11,400 pedestrians were injured by motor vehicles over the same period.

@mitchNcatch @TheFSGModel That statistic makes no sense. They compared injuries at a small number of bus stops and compared that to the injuries across the whole London road network.

@TheFSGModel @VincentStops Where are you getting this figure from? I'm calling BS. The only reported figures out there are from a report stating that over a 3 year period, there were only 2 serious injuries recorded at a BSB and those were at locations that were not designed to the published guidelines.

@mitchNcatch @VincentStops You're four times more likely to be ksi’d by a cyclist if your journey involves a floating bus stop vs if it doesn't.