Simon Calvert

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Simon Calvert

Simon Calvert

@simonjcalvert

Brentford Fan and London cyclist. Likes democracy not planters. Loves proper infrastructure. Blocks halfwits, mutes the disingenuous & liars.

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Simon Calvert
Simon Calvert@simonjcalvert·
@prj45 Your graph is a bit misleading Paul. The annual mean concentrations do not tell the full story. No2 rose to unprecedented levels during the LTN period. The removal of the LTN saw a drop to 1st lockdown levels until the Deans/Montague LTN was installed.
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Andy
Andy@AndyWandy777·
@georgebernhard @willnorman @Plaistovian @indieHackney I don't care what evidence says. I'm going by lived experience. There is more traffic on certain roads that wasn't there prior to access to other roads was restricted. People who live with it, understand it and suffer it everyday
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Will Norman
Will Norman@willnorman·
One of the many benefits of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods is that they make streets safer for cycling. We're working with boroughs to route bike routes through LTNs - with filters & safe crossings of main roads. Great to see the new Cycleway 37 in Hackney 🚲💚
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Simon Calvert
Simon Calvert@simonjcalvert·
@brentford_daily I was surprised that Donovan did not come on, but Brentford played so much better in the second half. Not sure the team looked exhausted, plenty of running right until the end of the game.
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Brentford Daily 🐝@brentford_daily·
I have no idea why Keith Andrews didn’t make a single sub all game The entire team looked exhausted for the last 20 minutes Donovan or even Nelson definitely could’ve made a difference today Thoughts? 🤔
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Neil Christie
Neil Christie@neilchristiex·
Weird that @SocEnvJustice are still asserting "there is no hard evidence that LTNs cut overall traffic levels" when founder @JohnJohnStewart has recently been citing studies that show the opposite. x.com/neilchristiex/…
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@JohnJohnStewart Hi John. This is exactly the kind of selective use of data you accuse LTN supporters of. You’re cherry-picking bits of these studies while ignoring what they actually conclude. Govt review: boundary road impacts are mixed, with overall effects described as “minimal” 1/3

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Simon Calvert
Simon Calvert@simonjcalvert·
@SocEnvJustice @hackney_cycling @thetimes It’s also a shame that Aldred chose boundary roads that had flow volume regulated by traffic light phasing (SCOOT controlled etc) and did not look at traffic congestion data. Flow volume is not the only indicator of ‘more vehicles’ & can be misleading when determining traffic.
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Social Environmental Justice@SocEnvJustice·
@hackney_cycling @thetimes That is the one study she appears to have glanced at. It's a pity she didn't read the boundary figures in some detail or, indeed, any of the other studies which show there can be considerable increases on boundary rds.
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NFBUK@NFBUK·
‘The tragedy is that visually impaired people are ending up at the bottom of the pile & are designed out of the environment’ Andrews words about a pavement-less bus stop on the new Lea Bridge Road cycle lane in London. @LouHaigh @simonlightwood we need urgent help on this issue.
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Simon Calvert
Simon Calvert@simonjcalvert·
@2wheelsgoodBrum Francesca, another passive aggressive cyclist stirring things up fully knowing that the congestion there is exacerbated by the Bruce Grove Low traffic Neighbourhood. Clearly gets a kick out of winding people up.
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Simon Calvert
Simon Calvert@simonjcalvert·
@harryrose28 @Bernardzno @2wheelsgoodBrum @SusanneReid68 It’s genuinely worrying that he teaches kids to cycle. He seems to take delight in reporting close passes that would not happen if he cycled courteously and according to the Highway Code. As for the woman who hasn’t found a way to detect cars behind her without ‘mirrors’🤦 👀👂
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Simon Calvert
Simon Calvert@simonjcalvert·
@2wheelsgoodBrum @SusanneReid68 The road looks completely clear ahead in this picture. As before, you are clearly an antagonistic cyclist not only on the road but on X.
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Tim on two wheels@2wheelsgoodBrum·
@SusanneReid68 @simonjcalvert Simon tends to that approach in general, Susanne. The road ahead was not clear and it was not safe to overtake (if it had been, I would move to secondary). The driver fails four Highway Code rules. That’s why the police will take action against the driver, and not against me.
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Simon Calvert
Simon Calvert@simonjcalvert·
@EdSaper @JoannaBiddolph However you word it, collisions are not actually down 89%, it’s the odds of collisions, and despite there being more cycle tracks and the odds being lower, the number of collisions have increased. As before, that is the point of Vincents post.
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Simon Calvert
Simon Calvert@simonjcalvert·
@EdSaper @JoannaBiddolph The 89% is the odds of collisions occurring, not actual numbers of collisions reduced which Vincent Stops point.
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Joanna Biddolph
Joanna Biddolph@JoannaBiddolph·
Be alert to manipulated data from the active travel movement ...
Vincent Stops@VincentStops

The only evidence @willnorman has that cycle tracks are safer is a single piece of research produced by Westmister University looking at the injury odds of a collision comparing the tracks in isolation to the intersections. In the real world serious injuries are soaring.

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Simon Calvert@simonjcalvert·
@Westminster_LCC I quite like these and would fall under the ‘non prescribed crossings’ part of the Highway Code. A problem could be that legally, vehicles are not obliged to stop at these crossings so liability could be difficult to prove. They need to be properly included in the Highway Code.
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Westminster Cycling Campaign
Westminster Cycling Campaign@Westminster_LCC·
Here at WCC we’re interested in road safety for ALL, so we were intrigued when a new (and bizarrely contentious) kind of crossing started popping up in our borough: the ‘Side Zebra’! There’s only 11 in London and they’re all in Westminster. So what are they and do they work?
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Simon Calvert@simonjcalvert·
@like2bike_uk @ShimanoSteve You will have to be more precise. There seem to be only walking and cycling statistics combined in the links you sent and I would be surprised if nobody walked or cycled 5 times a week in Bromley.
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Simon Calvert
Simon Calvert@simonjcalvert·
@mitchNcatch @VincentStops @willnorman That is injury risk not actual numbers of casualties. I think Vincent's point is that despite injury risk going down, the number of actual pedal cycle casualties is increasing.
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mitch@mitchNcatch·
@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.
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Vincent Stops
Vincent Stops@VincentStops·
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’!
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