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Mark Strong

@ibikebrighton.bsky.social

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#ActiveTravel professional @transport-initiatives.com Data ✅ stories 🙂 Transport & Public Realm rep www.communityworks.org.uk Co-optee @brighton-hove.gov.uk Place Overview & Scrutiny Cttee Travel by🚶🚲🚍🚄🚗 Son of ✡️ #refugee Born #Scouser #YNWA now #Brighton

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Mark Strong @ibikebrighton.bsky.social · Nov 13

I've just created a #StarterPack with #Brighton & #Hove people & organisations I've found on #BlueSky. I'm not claiming this is comprehensive though! #BrightonSky go.bsky.app/PE2SxZ3

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Mark Strong @ibikebrighton.bsky.social · 19h

Great to join loads of local people young & older at (re) opening of #Brighton Youth Centre #BYC www.brightonyouthcentre.org.uk

Me with hat & sunglasses in front of crowd at opening of BYC

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Cycle Advocacy Network - South East England @canseengland.bsky.social · 1d

Attempts to return bikes to their owners after police find large haul in #Brighton.
www.sussex.police.uk/news/sussex/...

Attempts ongoing to return bikes to their rightful owners!

Have you had your bike stolen in Brighton?

www.sussex.police.uk

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Mark Strong @ibikebrighton.bsky.social · 2d

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Albion Life @albionlife.bsky.social · 4d

Meet your local councillor! Friday 10.30am Thornsdale Hub

#Brighton #QueensPark

Photo shows Councillor Marina Ladermacher against the backdrop of Thornsdale flats

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Brighton and Hove LDR @bhdemocracynews.bsky.social · 5d

Feedback wanted on outdoor events including #Brighton Pride as public meetings planned next week
#LDreporter
www.theargus.co.uk/news/2555785...

People encouraged to give feedback on Brighton Pride street party

People encouraged to give feedback on Brighton Pride's street party.

www.theargus.co.uk

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Mark Strong @ibikebrighton.bsky.social · 5d

I spent a lot of time in my childhood waiting for my psychic powers to break out!

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Mark Strong @ibikebrighton.bsky.social · 9d

Actually I now see somebody did submit a question in time

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Mark Strong @ibikebrighton.bsky.social · 10d

You have to submit public questions a *week* before the meeting (I'm asking one on something else). Not sure if any cllrs are down to speak on that issue either.

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Camcycle @camcycle.bsky.social · 10d

Have you signed our Mill Road petition yet? Add your name at tinyurl.com/walkmillroad

We're working with Cambridge Living Streets, Mill Road For People and Cambridgeshire Families for Sustainable Travel to call for a better street for pedestrians from wider pavements to safer crossings.

Image shows two people from the waist down. They are walking on a Mill Road pavement past a wheely bin. The kerbs are cracked.

Text reads: Let's make it easier to Walk Mill Road. Sign the petition now. tinyurl.com/walkmillroad

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Mark Strong @ibikebrighton.bsky.social · 10d

Me too!

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Cllr Emma Garnett @greenpartyemma.bsky.social · 11d

Fellow Greens - please do sign the below.
We didn't have time to debate this emergency motion - on the Yom Kippur murders at a synagogue in Manchester and the arson attach at a mosque in Peacehaven - and I really wish we had.

Sam Alston @moosealston.bsky.social · 13d

For Green members: following demand from multiple members been asked to turn the emergency conference motion around the hate crimes that happened last week into an open letter for Greens to show their unified opposition. Please sign and share widely:

Green party open letter on Manchester Yom Kippur killings and Peacehaven attacks

Green Party open letter on Manchester Yom Kippur killings and Peacehaven arson To Whom It may Concern, Subject: Yom Kippur killings in Manchester and arson attack in Peacehaven. On 2nd October 2025 t...

docs.google.com

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Mark Strong @ibikebrighton.bsky.social · 11d

I assume @albionlife.bsky.social have already been informed?

Mark Strong @ibikebrighton.bsky.social · 11d

I'll do my best to keep my contributions short so you can get home on time (though with the Local Transport Plan on the agenda, that'll be a challenge 🤣)

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East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service @eastsussexfrs.bsky.social · 11d

We are carrying out some training and filming today at Thornsdale, Albion Hill #Brighton today 14 October.

Please don’t be alarmed if you see lots firefighters and fire engines in the area.

#TrainingExercise #EmergencyPreparedness #KeepingCommunitiesSafe

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DJW @djwbrighton.bsky.social · 12d

You are invited to attend the next Outdoor Events community engagement meeting for Valley Gardens and the Level on 28th at Ironworks studio Cheapside BN1 4GD 5-7pm

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Mark Strong @ibikebrighton.bsky.social · 12d

Amazingly, having had almost nothing to do with #BEAP, this is the second mention I've had of it *today* 🙂. So (asking for a friend) how effective is it?

Mark Strong @ibikebrighton.bsky.social · 12d

Public? No. But #JANET existed for students & academics en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JANET. If you're talking about public #WorldWideWeb then yes, that's only been around for just over 30 years (my first real use was to find out results from the 1994 #WorldCup😀)

JANET - Wikipedia

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Mark Strong @ibikebrighton.bsky.social · 12d

40 years in my case🤣 But my main point is that the council's Annual Parking Report is an *award-winning* published public document! So using a public question to get a cabinet member to just read out bits of it might not be the best use of time...

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Mark Strong @ibikebrighton.bsky.social · 12d

I keep telling friends & colleagues that - their response is "we need to stay there as long as lots of other people do" 😱

Mark Strong @ibikebrighton.bsky.social · 12d

Not sure why this really needed to be a public question to @trevmu10.bsky.social! It literally took me less than 10 seconds to find the details for the last 3 years on @brighton-hove.gov.uk website 🙂 www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/parking/park...

Table of BHCC parking income (excludes cost of operations)

Table of BHCC surplus income showing £9.6million in 2023/24 for concessionary fares

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Mark Strong @ibikebrighton.bsky.social · 13d

Well, as you're the 2nd & 3rd people this week I've heard say how good it is (the 1st being @psimonk.bsky.social) I guess I better go to see it!

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Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 14d

Absolutely superb effort by all those who voted for this, many of whom are now dead.

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Mark Strong @ibikebrighton.bsky.social · 13d

Well, as nobody got it right... It was #Abyss & I timed it just right as it was their 4th birthday. And of course I had the birthday beer #TropicalThunder 🍻🎉

Mr in green t shirt holding a pint of beer in front of brewery

Mark Strong @ibikebrighton.bsky.social · 14d

Nope, not #Beak (though Hum is one of my top 10 IPAs). There's another brewery in #Lewes that's a lot easier to get to!

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Mark Strong @ibikebrighton.bsky.social · 14d

What?! 😱 Not even "Since you've been gone"? open.spotify.com/track/6xq5Dx.... @metalprofessor.bsky.social is this acceptable?