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Dan Kelly

@deekinstow.bsky.social

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I've spent the last decade banging on about the connections between how we travel and healthier, happier lives. An edgelands regular with Sustrans since 2019.

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Dan Kelly @deekinstow.bsky.social · Dec 8

#Pavementparking is a bad habit and drivers need help quitting.

Apologists will have you believe it's about lack of space. It's not.

A white van driver has parked van partially blocking a footway, on top of double yellow lines. Immediately opposite, some 2 metres away, are parking bays with enough length to accommodate 3-4 cars. On the right are terraced homes with tiny front yards. On the left are low rise flats. The road surface is wet. The sky is grey/white.

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Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve spoken to TfL workers who are terrified.

One worker told me he can’t sleep, he doesn’t know what to say to his family. Another, pregnant with her first child, fears she’ll be deported before giving birth.

You can watch my exchange with the Mayor here ⬇️

youtu.be/qxy2YbCWdWU

Loss of skilled workers in London | Caroline Russell

YouTube video by Caroline Russell

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Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 1d

I raised the devastating impact of sudden visa rule changes with the Mayor – over 200 TfL workers are at risk of deportation.

These are people who trusted the system, built lives here and are now left in limbo.

I'm glad the Mayor has committed to lobby the Government and support these workers.

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Dan Kelly @deekinstow.bsky.social · 2d

a large building is being demolished with smoke coming from it

ALT: a large building is being demolished with smoke coming from it

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Dan Kelly @deekinstow.bsky.social · 2d

Fantastic indeed.

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Accessible Streets @accessiblestreets.bsky.social · 3d

🎉🎉SUCCESS🎉🎉

New dropped kerbs installed here means that people who use a wheelchair are now able to cross this entrance way 🙌

#AccessibleStreets 🧑‍🦽🧑‍🦼🧑‍🦯

Newly installed dropped kerbs on both sides of an entrance way which interrupts the pavement

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 3d

We ask everyone outside of the car to be safe so that drivers can be dangerous.

That’s the entirety of our approach to road safety.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 3d

So the business model is dependent on theft.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Accessible Streets @accessiblestreets.bsky.social · 2d

🎉🎉SUCCESS🎉🎉

A dropped kerb with yellow tactile paving is now in place! 🙌

#AccessibleStreets 🧑‍🦽🧑‍🦼🧑‍🦯

On the far side of the junction, a new dropped kerb with yellow tactile paving has been installed for access to the pavement

On both sides of the junction, there are dropped kerbs with yellow tactile paving.

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Dan Kelly @deekinstow.bsky.social · 2d

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Dan Kelly @deekinstow.bsky.social · 2d

It has become impossible for everyday folk to divest from tech like Microsoft. A plan realised. Like motordom.

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Dan Kelly @deekinstow.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, Happy City started me on the pathway to career change. Might be time re-read it.

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚 @emilykerr36.bsky.social · 2d

Am teaching primary school ids cycling today AND saw some street art happening as I took them out. It’s like the dream!

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 2d

Table For One Please.

Happy to hear this billboard is still up in Vancouver, was a pleasure to work with @visionzerovancouver.ca.

side of a building with a billboard that says smoking tables next to non-smoking tables used to be normal too and picture of child biking beside a truck on painted bike lane

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Dan Kelly @deekinstow.bsky.social · 2d

Thought leaders at Hackney are moving in the opposite direction to filtering. I have evidence in writing from officers.

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Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 2d

The situation on cycleway 1 at Whitmore Road is just completely unworkable and it is a travesty the Hoxton LTN hasn’t been designed to fix this. There is *far* too much motor traffic for these cycle flows. Someone is going to get hurt. @sarahwoodberrydown.bsky.social @hackneylcc.bsky.social

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Active Towns @activetowns.bsky.social · 2d

“Paris is an incredible example of how a city can transform when political will meets smart data,” says one of the report’s lead authors. “We wanted to understand exactly which factors made this happen.”
momentummag.com/new-study-pa...

New Study Shows How Paris Pedaled Its Way to a Cycling Revolution

Cycling through central Paris meant weaving between buses and scooters—a bold choice reserved for the fearless few.

momentummag.com

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Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 6d

Thousands of road deaths a year caused by motor vehicles, speeding almost completely ignored by authorities, drink and drug driving at record highs and this is how you choose to spend your time, boasting about your stupid stunt and your shit marketing company on LinkedIn. Pathetic.

Idiot marketing knumskulls on LinkedIn putting boards up at traffic lights about cyclists jumping red lights

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Dan Kelly @deekinstow.bsky.social · 2d

Good spot.

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Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 2d

Eerste Sweelinckstraat, Amsterdam in 1986 and today

Then and now photo showing how the road was open to cars and had car parking on both sides, now it is a pedestrianised street with bollards stopping motor traffic from using it

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Dan Kelly @deekinstow.bsky.social · 3d

Ergh, Microsoft, reminds me of that silly film with the lumbering mobile cities with bits and people falling off whilst they crush the landscape.

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 4d

Electric cargo bikes can replace many everyday car trips for the average family and “reshape suburban family mobility”, say Oxford University researchers. 49 British households were loaned e-cargo bikes for school runs, shopping trips, family outings and other day-to-day use.

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Dan Kelly @deekinstow.bsky.social · 3d

Not US car culture. Car culture full stop.

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walkwheelcyclet.bsky.social @walkwheelcyclet.bsky.social · 10d

We are Walk Wheel Cycle Trust, formerly known as Sustrans. We’ve been making change since 1977. We have a bold new strategy, and fresh new look 👀

We make it possible for everyone to walk, wheel and cycle.

Because it changes everything. Our health. Our wellbeing. Our world. 🌍

Graphic showing a picture of a person walking and a person on a bike. They are on a path in an urban area with greenery around them. Text reads: cleaner safer stronger

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Gary Outram @kentridergaz.bsky.social · 3d

Fantastic chance to join the Walk Wheel Cycle Trust, working within the Active Journeys team as our new Project Officer.

London, East and Southeast.

#Vacancy #ActiveTravel

environmentjob.co.uk/jobs/107682-...

Project Officer - Active Journeys

In this varied role, you will be responsible for planning and delivering practical activities for young people in schools, supporting the implementation of School Streets to create safer and healthier...

environmentjob.co.uk

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Dan Kelly @deekinstow.bsky.social · 3d

IMO Middleton has too many difficult home owners and their motors. They will absorb the design costs into the engagement and pm budget and leave the scheme wanting. I'd like to do it somewhere a bit more ordinary like one of Newham's neughbourhoods.