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Hackney Cyclist

@hackneycyclist.bsky.social

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Hackney-based. Advocating for cycling that’s as safe, convenient, and comfortable as it is in the Netherlands. I share my own media of Dutch street life, hoping to inspire more liveable communities everywhere.

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Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · Mar 11

Right in the heart of the city what would be car parking in the UK is instead space for bike parking, greenery, and outdoor dining. When you make city centres safe and welcoming with cycle routes in every direction, you don't need endless car parks. Cities thrive when places are built for people.

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Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 11h

Zeedijk, Amsterdam in 1980 and today.

In 1980 the road is open to cars, is wide and has cars parked on it. Today there are rising bollards preventing driving on this street and all car parking removed, replaced by outdoor seating outside a pub

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Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 1d

Frans Halsstraat, Amsterdam in 1983 and today

There are no trees in 1983 and the road is tarmac. Today it is paved and very green. A young girls cycles on her bike

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Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 1d

What bike infrastructure?

Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 1d

A Hackney "Cycleway". Paint a few bike symbols on tarmac and let motor traffic dominate. An embarrassing mess ten years ago, an even worse mess today. hackneycyclist.blogspot.com/2016/09/a-lo...

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Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 2d

As was mine!

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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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Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 2d

a woman in a blue and white dress with a braided ponytail

ALT: a woman in a blue and white dress with a braided ponytail

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Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 2d

Just trying to "open up conversations"!

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Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 2d

And of course you fail to mention the huge amount of comments on Linkedin that disagreed with yours and Alex's "creativity" and were deleted to only show this in a positive light. An awful lot of people took offence to you putting this crap out there, for very good reason.

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Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · Apr 28

A timewarp video of me cycling from the east of Amsterdam to the west, via Centraal, this morning. Just imagine if your city had cycle infrastructure like this!

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Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 2d

Perhaps instead be "creative" by targeting infrastructure. Here I am cycling across a Dutch city, along with thousands of other "cyclists" (or "people" as they're know in the Netherlands), stopping just a few times at traffic lights. That's how you solve it.

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Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 2d

I would suggest you read this by @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social, along with the comments www.linkedin.com/posts/markph...

Here's a post from Alex Robson which a fuels long-running narrative against a group of people who share nothing in common other than their mode of transport, and of course everyone is multi-modal....

Here's a post from Alex Robson which a fuels long-running narrative against a group of people who share nothing in common other than their mode of transport, and of course everyone is multi-modal. I a...

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Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 2d

This isn't creative, it's just shit and further fuels the hateful narrative towards people like me, who just want to be able to safelt cycle to school with my daughter. It's not funny, it's not creative and I really don't care what 4,000 "cyclists" think of it.

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Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 2d

No idea what your agency is or who "Andy" is, never mentioned any of them. You're right, the data doesn't back that up, which is why anecdotal nonsense about bikes should be ignored in any studies or campaigns.

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Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, I know. Still doesn't make the post wrong though

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Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 3d

Kloveniersburgwal, Amsterdam in 1980 and today. Canal side car parking replaced by canal side dining

In 1980 there is car parking alongside the canal, today this has been replaced with cafe outdoor seating

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Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 3d

I've been standing on street corners in Amsterdam again so time for the "then and now" daily photos to make a come back I think....

Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 3d

Just had a teams catch up with a colleague this morning following their 52 week maternity leave

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Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 5d

Absolutely!

Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 5d

Literally the worst thing I've ever seen on LinkedIn, and that's saying something

Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 5d

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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Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 6d

It's glorious on a sunny day

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Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 7d

Unfortunately not!

Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 7d

The long cycle bridge over the river Waal attached to the side of a railway bridge in Nijmegen, it runs for 2 kilometres from Nijmegen Station to Nijmegen Lent station.

Cycle bridge attached to a railway bridge

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Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 9d

My daughter's Miffy collection continues to grow

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