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Support upgrading the A38 cycle lane from Selly Oak to Northfield and Longbridge - Sign the Petition! chng.it/D9pN7RcR via @UKChange

Today’s powerful front page of the Birmingham Mail. These crashes are not one-off isolated incidents. Together, the faces of those who have lost their lives on our roads, show us the city needs to urgently change; reminding us of the scale of hurt for families and communities.

Fantastic article by @asmitasarkar30 @BhamWorld_ about how car excess impacts people in Hay Mills. 30 mph is a great start from @BhamCityCouncil but to truly prioritise the safety of residents more road space must be reclaimed for this community. birminghamworld.uk/news/birmingha…

@manzanotti The volume and speed of motor traffic is key - which is why the proposals in the consultation are poor as they don’t eliminate rat-running cars. If highways engineers identify risks for contra-flow cycling, they ought to be asking how they can remove the cars, not the people.

@pushbikesbcc Yeah, that's what I was hoping to see in the paper, as I'm not convinced that contraflow cycling is safe on streets narrowed by parked cars. By safe, I'm using my standard measure for cycling infrastructure; would you feel safe with a five year old child riding with you.

Birmingham City Council are consulting on 2 schemes in Handsworth that have the aim of reducing rat-running motor traffic on some residential streets. We don’t think the proposals will work - details and consultation links in our article: pushbikes.org.uk/blog/twin-cons…

@manzanotti Regarding street width, contra-flow cycling is used on very narrow streets in other countries. Presumably the vehicles have to come to a stop and negotiate their way around each other in the same way as on single lane country roads. Not sure if the Tait paper covers that though.

@pushbikesbcc Agree that the proposals are poor, and will likely make those roads less safe. One question about the Tait paper; have I missed them accounting for available road space?

@Microlambert These aren’t last resort designs - they are quite common. But the conditions on the road matter. The speed of the motor traffic must be below a certain level and the volume of motor traffic must be low too. Would British drivers understand the road layout though?

I think it's a kind of design of last resort for the Dutch, for what they call 'grey roads', and they'd rather just route cyclists elsewhere. But it strikes me we have quite a lot of such roads in the UK, and the visual signal this design sends might be useful

Question for #cycling Twitter: for UK main roads that are too narrow for protected cycle lanes, would these Dutch designs work? The central traffic path is narrower than two standard lanes, and has no centre line; drivers may use the cycle lanes when passing oncoming vehicles

West Midlands Police have started feeding back on reports using cycle cameras. This is an important development. I can now be reassured about my judgement to report, and we can build confidence in this vital tool of road crime prevention. @davidcox65 @pushbikesbcc @adamtranter

@SaskiaMasaun_ Hi Saskia, we have very sophisticated counting data for the cycleway which would be a better overview than anecdotes. These are the average counts per weekday of users this year (1st January to 11th July 2023). So far in 2023, the Binley cycleway has seen 75,298 cycling trips.

Every day we stray further from god’s light.

It was a great day in Manchester today for the Clean Air Campaigner Conference. Thank you to everyone who attended and shared their lived experiences. You were all so inspiring!

Loads of energy, motivation and commitment at the @asthmalunguk campaigner conference in #Manchester. Honoured to represent @CleanAirJustice and speak about the importance of lobbying decision makers to tackle the inequity in air inequality.

💥💥💥💥 OBR: cost of NOT hitting net zero as much as DOUBLE the cost of achieving the climate target

How social media can distort perception of ‘opposition’ - study from @imperialcollege looking at 3 low traffic neighbourhoods - seemed high level anti on Twitter - but accounts anti measures had v few followers + sentiment not translated into election results #CycleCounty2023

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Every 94 seconds we found a motorist using their phone behind the wheel, just metres from where 12-year-old Azaan Khan was killed while crossing the A45. Join us at 12pm this Sunday on the corner of Deakins Road - Coventry Road to show enough is enough. birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-…

Looking to talk to a GP or GP practice manager about the cash announcements for the government’s walking and cycling prescription trials. Story live after midnight.

Tweets less than 24 hours apart from libertarian economist @RichardWellings In his worldview, buses are for the “relatively few” and flights are for the “general public.” Actually, 15% of Brits take 70% of all flights, and buses are egalitarian and non-elitist.

We're at Kings Heath Farmers Market today. With the Better Streets' cargo bike. Free shopping delivery home (Ts and Cs apply 😁) Promoting all things sustainable-travel. 💚🧑‍🦼🚶‍♀️🚲💚

The Bournville and Cotteridge Places for People consultation finishes on July 2nd. Robert has written a detailed response for us: pushbikes.org.uk/blog/bournvill… Please take a few minutes to respond - the link is in the 1st paragraph of our article. We need to push BCC to aim higher.