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Active Towns @activetowns.bsky.social · 4h

"Paris, once the poster child for car-clogged boulevards and endless honking, is now rewriting the story of urban mobility—on two wheels." momentummag.com/paris-sets-a...

Paris Sets Another Record Logs 21,817 Bicycle Trips in a Single Day on One Route

Paris broke yet another series of cycling records, underscoring what many residents already feel in their daily commute.

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Simon Munk @psimonk.bsky.social · 17h

Think there already has been some discussion. Let me check.

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Simon Munk @psimonk.bsky.social · 3d

The quiet beating heart of the entire film IMO is Del Toro. Absolutely brilliant movie I'm still riffing off more than a week later.

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London Cycling Campaign @londoncycling.bsky.social · 10d

🤝 Becoming an LCC Member is the best way to support our work to make London a world class cycling city!

Join today: bit.ly/3R38Pcd

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Simon Munk @psimonk.bsky.social · 11d

Ah yes, but all roads justice resources should be directed at those evil scofflaw cyclists running down Visually Impaired people at bus stops nonstop everywhere. Or put another way, when law is updated for cycling and driving to match on causing death will killer cyclist sentences go down or up? Hmm

road.cc @roadcc.bsky.social · 12d

Norwich Cycling Campaign claimed the sentence was evidence that "...killing a cyclist through distraction does not carry meaningful consequences."

"Distracted driving is deadly, and sentencing must reflect that reality": Driver who killed cyclist on dual carriageway after "flurry" of phone activity avoids jail

Shayne Hill was given a 12-month suspended jail term and a 12-month driving ban by Judge Anthony Bate after admitted death by careless driving in the 2022 incident that took Cheryl Tye's life

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Simon Munk @psimonk.bsky.social · 13d

Benicio Del Toro's sublime Sensei is the warm, revolutionary heart of the film. He's there to point out a revolutionary path through all of this chaos that 'works' - kindness, calmness, "no fear". That's how you resist 'the man' and build a progressive movement despite one battle after another.

Leonardo DiCaprio's 'Bob' in One Battle After Another, dressed in shades, beany hat and plaid dressing gown clasps his hands in thanks for Benecio Del Toro's Sensei, holding out a music instrument case that conceals a rifle towards Bob.

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Simon Munk @psimonk.bsky.social · 13d

Saw One Battle After Another at IMAX last night. www.youtube.com/watch?v=feOQ... If you liked Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice, it has similarities. It's a spectacularly good film - warm, funny, political, sharp, complex, and incredible cinematography & acting. And I wanted to say one thing...

One Battle After Another - Official Trailer - Warner Bros. UK & Ireland

YouTube video by Warner Bros. UK & Ireland

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Simon Munk @psimonk.bsky.social · 13d

The entire case for HS2, indeed high speed rail in general, is dismissed without any explanation while demanding sympathy & simultaneously ignoring roadbuilding at £10s of bns, Lower Thames Crossing, climate crisis, freight & vehicle volumes & potential for mode shift etc. "Flimsy" pot meet kettle.

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Simon Munk @psimonk.bsky.social · 13d

IMO David's airy rhetoric approach is sadly increasingly common. On one hand, entire teams at newspapers are beavering away clearly trying to find folks who have been impacted significantly by HS2 and even then the piece admits "the valley does also contain pylons and the busy A413". On the other...

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Simon Munk @psimonk.bsky.social · 14d

Also cough cough Susan Hall etc. The piece asked for comment from City Hall Conservative team who stoked anti ULEZ vandals. Strangely enough no comment has been forthcoming.

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Simon Munk @psimonk.bsky.social · 14d

This is what happens when politicians act bravely and deliver progressive change. Notable from the news story where other metro mayors are still deliberating and delaying on such measures, they still have illegal air quality issues. Cough cough Manchester & Andy Burnham, Liverpool & Birmingham...

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 14d

184 years earlier than predicted, London has met the legal limits for toxic NO2 for the first time.

This historic milestone proves that bold action like expanding ULEZ works, protecting children’s health and giving millions cleaner air to breathe.

London Ulez reduced nitrogen dioxide to legal limit, mayor says

The mayor of London says the fall in airborne toxins is due to the Ultra low emission zone expansion.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Simon Munk @psimonk.bsky.social · 14d

Amazing! Just popping over to see how this is going down on that other place... Ah...

a man in a suit and tie is holding a fire extinguisher in his hand .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is holding a fire extinguisher in his hand .

media.tenor.com

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Simon Munk @psimonk.bsky.social · 16d

Back lastly on the idiotic title of this idiocy. Turning a tide is famously something you can't do despite a past English king's attempts. And of course, it's current utterly distasteful rhetoric & pandering to far right racists around small boats & immigration that Labour needs to turn away from.

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Simon Munk @psimonk.bsky.social · 16d

Labour can turn a rising green tide is by not assuming that the sizeable majority of UK voters, who want fairly progressive politics & something done about the climate crisis, are morons with zero memory and nowhere else to put their votes. This kind of Punch & Judy politics needs to get in the sea.

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Simon Munk @psimonk.bsky.social · 16d

Title for this Labour conference session is quite startling. Labour has lurched rightwards in an apparent attempt to stave off Reform. That approach has unsurprisingly failed. Now they want to stop a "rising Green tide" as if it's not OK to want progressive politics or to save planet. The way...

LabourList @labourlist.bsky.social · 17d

Our event ‘Turning the rising Green tide’ in partnership with Hold Fast Labour is starting now in Meeting Room 11a ACC!

Featuring @_karin_c, @johnmcternan, @BellaSankey, @ThangamDebb, and @Scarlett__Mag of @StrategyMerlin.

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Simon Munk @psimonk.bsky.social · 16d

Oops. Outside North America. Sorry folks in US but not in North America.

Simon Munk @psimonk.bsky.social · 16d

Folks outside the USA who do urbanism, active travel etc. including me & @londoncycling.bsky.social. Starter pack of key follows from key follow & top urbanist @brenttoderian.bsky.social.

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 17d

NEW STARTER PACK! This time I’m hoping to encourage and support global urbanists from OUTSIDE North America here on Bluesky, so hopefully this will help! Who’ve I missed? Just joined? Let me know! I’ll keep updating, so please keep checking & sharing this pack! And let’s try using #GlobalUrbanists.

Urbanists OUTSIDE North America Worth Following!

Join the conversation

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Simon Munk @psimonk.bsky.social · 16d

Would be honoured to be added if you think suitable...

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Simon Munk @psimonk.bsky.social · 20d

Politicians, shopkeepers & landowners not getting it.
1. Car parking outside shop serves shop manager. Not shop.
2. More deckchairs < economic conditions. Make structural changes to town.
3. Stuff to 'do' not just 'buy'.
4. No big box chain rivals on outskirts
www.centreforcities.org/publication/...

Checking out: The varying performance of high streets across the country - Centre for Cities

This report identifies four key reasons why high street vacancy rates vary so much from city to city and how to improve their fortunes.

www.centreforcities.org

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Simon Munk @psimonk.bsky.social · 20d

What is your town centre 'for' in this day & age? What does it offer you that the internet can't? And why can't politicians see that if everyone in your town is struggling, the centre will no matter how many giant deckchairs you put out? Town centres aren't a sodding mystery, despite most...

MAREcus 👻/ 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 20d

The thing about Labour levelling up and giving money to ‘smarten up town centres” is that you can paint a shop all you like but if people have no money to spend in a shop because their bills are too high and shopkeepers can’t afford the rent then your town centre will remain desolate

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Simon Munk @psimonk.bsky.social · 21d

The far right from both sides of the pond hates London & our Mayor. Why would that be?
Is it because they're racists who can't stand the way Londoners generally just get on with each other?
Love, tolerance and diversity > racist, fascist hate.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22d

Trump to the UN: "I have to say, I look at London where you have a terrible mayor -- terrible terrible mayor -- and it's been so changed, so changed. Now they want to go to Sharia Law ... both their immigration and their suicidal energy ideas will be the death of Western Europe."

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Simon Munk @psimonk.bsky.social · 21d

That sir, I contend, is a perfectly reasonable question. To which I have no, I tell you, no answer.

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Suzanne Seyghal Buckingham @curlyadventurer.bsky.social · 21d

Cycling really does give you wings! Watching a toddler soar up front whilst a retired tandem duo found their turbo mode was a definite ride highlight. Magical to see bikes bring out the joy in everyone, at every age, on this fun Kingston ride. @londoncycling.bsky.social @kingstoncycling.bsky.social

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Carla Francome @carlafrancome.bsky.social · 24d

Ermygadddd, I’ve been on Oxford Street with my daughter today as it’s been traffic free.

What a total buzz 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

All we could hear was people chatting and laughing, and not ONE engine. It was delicious. And of course people are here in huge numbers. … 1/11

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Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 24d

I’m down at the Oxford Street car free day and I can already tell this is going to be an exceptionally joyous event. I’ll share some highlights!

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