Simon Munk

No scheme is perfect, don't expect them to be. Listen to engineers, they are experts. Look for good evidence, don't dismiss it. And wait for trial schemes to bed in. My advice on when your roads change in @HamandHigh @london_cycling hamhigh.co.uk/news/ham-high-…

@LordWalney As many have already pointed out, there is little difference between PA activists, Filton 24 & Suffragettes, Greenham Common protests, Labour movement & many others who have protested unjust laws & action using methods beyond simple marches. But sure, Nelson Mandela & all. Sigh.

@LordWalney You forced me back to this cesspit platform to point out the horror of your idiocy. PA should not be proscribed. Hallmark of a good democracy is coping with direct action protest & dissenting passionate voices. If the issue is direct action, criminal law already available. Duh...

The government must agree to create a new category of Extreme Criminal Protest Group to make it easier to ban groups like Palestine Action without necessarily labelling them as terrorists. Ministers should accept my amendment in the House of Lords.

Done with X. Really done. Find me on BSky. I won't deactivate account as I will keep checking on certain accounts etc. But it's such a toxic cesspit. No more posts or comments from me I don't think.

@SocEnvJustice @HolywoodCyclist @OpenChiswickW4 Here again you seem keen to abusively point the finger at others while ignoring the abusive way you treat others all the time. Honestly, you lot spend all your time being abusive to others, including attacking academics. Then get all personal if anyone calls you on it. Shameful.

@HolywoodCyclist @OpenChiswickW4 @ediz1975 Don't excuse Munk in that way. Hundreds of people have had trouble with him.

Can you imagine how appalled @SocEnvJustice would be if they ever stumbled across @ediz1975 timeline on X ?

@SocEnvJustice @gdennigan Yet you seem quite content to tweet abuse about others individually and collectively nigh on nonstop. A tad hypocritical no?

@gdennigan @andrewellson Have you met ANY of us? Doubt it. Or you wouldn't tweet in the way you do about us.

Low Traffic Neighbourhoods cause more pollution not less bit.ly/49iebJp analysis finds.

📅 It's been a record-breaking year for cycling in London, with the capital showing it's well on its way to becoming a city that runs on two wheels! 🚴 From hitting 1.5 million daily journeys, to the cycle networks expansion, here's our wrap up of 2025: bit.ly/4jgbeh5

@carlafrancome @Westminster_LCC @CityWestminster @London_Cycling @SmithiesMark @maxpsullivan @leader_wcc Absolute scenes! Side road zebras, a bunch of schemes in construction including first ever Westminster designed, delivered cycle tracks & lots more to come. A real shift in approach for the borough. Overdue but hugely welcome!

@Westminster_LCC @CityWestminster @London_Cycling @SmithiesMark I felt really emotional seeing @CityWestminster on the board as being highly commended at the LCC awards. Has this ever happened before @psimonk do you know? Huge well done to @maxpsullivan and @leader_wcc for such trailblazing. Wonderful!

With so much good work to trumpet @CityWestminster was commended by @London_Cycling and our own @SmithiesMark won an award 🎉🥳🙌... We EVEN spotted this CYCLING ELF doing a victory lap in the city! Feels like Christmas has come early - bring on 2026!!!

I want to say something many will hate but it needs to be said. I have met Nigel Farage. I do not know him well but I know the world he moves in. We move in similar circles sometimes. The kind of private rooms and members clubs that most people in Britain will never see. I know how the rich speak about ordinary people. They laugh. They joke about how easy it is to wind you up. They know exactly which buttons to press. They know you are angry and tired and struggling and they know you want someone to blame. That is why they point at boats while they pick your pockets. I did not grow up rich. I did not grow up in privilege. I understand struggle and the real world. But my life changed and now I see both sides. I sit with billionaires and politicians and decision makers and I hear conversations you never will. I know the truth. They do not care about you. They do not care about your future. They care about profit and control. They see ordinary people as tools or distractions. I am telling you this because I am tired of watching good people being manipulated. Look at your life before Brexit and look at it now. Look at your shopping bills. Look at what food costs in Europe right now. Look at how much tax you pay on imports. Look at your wages and energy prices and mortgages. Look at the 10,000 NHS staff we lost when freedom of movement ended. Look at the ambulances that do not arrive. Look at nurses and teachers using food banks. Tell me honestly. Are you better off? Nigel helped build the crisis you are living in. Then he pointed at immigrants and told you to blame them. That is the con. He pulled the UK out of the Dublin III agreement which means we cannot return asylum seekers to Europe anymore. He created the boat chaos then told you to panic about it. Someone who worked in immigration for more than ten years told me they saw it coming. It was planned. It is a strategy. And you are falling for it. Now he wants austerity again. He wants to cut wages for young people. He wants to rip up workers rights. He wants private health insurance and a French style NHS where the rich get treated first and the poor get nothing. He wants you fighting each other so you never see who is robbing you. If you vote for him you are voting to destroy your own life. Not mine. Yours. None of this affects me personally. I drink champagne with the people who control the money. I will be fine no matter what. Reform will not hurt me. Reform will hurt you. It will hurt your children. Your parents. Your future. I am telling you because I care. If I did not care I would stay silent and watch you suffer. You think I am your enemy because I make you uncomfortable. I am not. Your enemy is the one who lies to you and blames the vulnerable while he empties your pockets. Reform will not save you. Reform will finish you. Think. Before they take everything. 💷🇬🇧☕️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🫖

💚 We're pleased to reveal the latest 19 groups to receive funding through Share the Joy, in partnership with @limebike and @LoudMobility! Each will get a share of over £50k, to go towards growing cycling in their area 🚲 For all the info: bit.ly/48w6I9g

@drewsnx @CHAIRRDRF @GreenJennyJones I blocked him long ago & Stops. Cos really who needs to argue with cranky old buffers who aren't going to change their minds now they have made them up. No doubt this will be screenshotted & tweeted by them both shortly. I guess it's a life of sorts. Not my idea of a good hobby.

@drewsnx @CHAIRRDRF @GreenJennyJones We clashed early in his anti LTN conversion. Since then he has become obsessed with me, trying to prove me wrong, attacking me constantly. He, like Vincent Stops, appears to be a man of a certain age, class & attitude who cannot bear to be told he's wrong & argued back against...

@GreenJennyJones @CHAIRRDRF What on Earth has happened to once well renowned transport campaigner John Stewart? Now openly anti-cycling and just.. rude. He has gone from personally recommending the introduction of LTNs to attacking the whole concept.

Our Head of Campaigns @psimonk quoted in this 👇 New stats on soaring cycle trips are great, but... “Until every borough gets with the programme, cycling’s potential in London will remain ...restricted to the fast, fit and fearless" zagdaily.com/places/cycle-j…

A true mega-city for cycling? London's doing it baby. BUT... outer London... Mayoral boldness... TfL 'business as usual' approach... appropriate funding levels? London still has some real issues and a long way to go. But this is great news!

@veronica_humble @BrixtonHatter @AaronBastani Yes

@BrixtonHatter @AaronBastani Are they taking cars off the roads? Or people off public transport?

I genuinely had no idea the taxpayer was subsiding £10,000 Pinarello bikes until yesterday. A policy written by, and for, senior civil servants living in Surrey - with ambitions of completing the Giro D’italia on retirement. The most London-brained thing I’ve ever seen.

@let_crash @AldredKeith @PutneyFleur @MayorofLondon x.com/OpenChiswickW4… The reality is that traffic in the area and across other bridges is down not up. Given the evidence it's hard to understand why you or Fleur or anyone would seek a return to more overall traffic?

🎆 My November 2025 newsletter is out! It’s been a busy month with: 🚫 banning plastic in wet wipes 🏠 Alton estate regeneration 🚗 tackling Putney traffic …and so much more! 👇 🔗 mailchi.mp/fleuranderson.…

HT @BearlyPolitics who I read via @substack & rate as excellent on political analysis for summarising this absolute slam dunk on X/Twitter's bias. Why I'm not here any more. Also HT to @SkyNews for this in-depth, data-driven investigation into X's algorithm. Read & ditch X...

@joncstone From the 25, #19.68/51.4844589/-0.1755856" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">bikedata.cyclestreets.net/collisions:fie… suggests 5 cyclist slights, 4 serious - ie 9 total. 2 pedestrial collisions total, 1 serious. 2 more serious were motorbike. So vast bulk of serious collisions people cycling. Good to see x-ing upgrade but RBKC really hates cycling, basically.

RBKC thought about fixing this dangerous junction four years ago but drivers kicked up a fuss about a banned turn so they didn't... and in the intervening period there have been 25 (!) casualties there consult.rbkc.gov.uk/communities/ki…

@RichmondCycling @theJeremyVine Are they going to put in secure keyfob access or will anyone still be able to just wander in? (Understand there is CCTV but given recent stories on BTP that alone isn't exactly reassuring!)

@theJeremyVine Members from @RichmondCycling met councillors and SWR at the station yesterday to discuss our disappointment. Hopefully improvements are going to be made to a number of areas, though that’s unlikely to include a lift.

I refuse to believe this

@Thejpbee @theJeremyVine I understand there's CCTV but you can walk right into the bike area, no key fob access. It works for all the cars in the car park this store has been repurposed in part of, so it obviously will be just fine for bikes. Doh.

@theJeremyVine I wonder what the security is like given the apparent lack of planning re access ...

@ColdWarCliff @EllaRobertaFdn @OpenChiswickW4 @metecoban92 @MayorofLondon Boosting culture war to slow progress and make it more difficult. The threats & noise Sadiq had to endure over ULEZ in part came from folks like SocEnvJustice and Little Ninja, who nigh-on conspiracy theorise about LTNs and other progressive schemes & boost others. Shameful IMO.

@ColdWarCliff @EllaRobertaFdn @OpenChiswickW4 @metecoban92 @MayorofLondon Little Ninja and the others dragged into this conversation repeatedly, if they lived in Paris, would clearly have opposed their LTN-a-like central limited traffic zone and all the low or no traffic streets Paris has implemented. These folks are directly IMO responsible for...

New Study Shows How Paris Pedaled Its Way to a Cycling Revolution | Momentum Mag shar.es/agz2Ld Time to get on the @EurostarUK @metecoban92 @MayorofLondon