Simon Munk
@psimonk.bsky.social
Head of Campaigns & Community Development, London Cycling Campaign. #ActiveTravel #HipHop #Veggie #Dad If I'm an idiot here, it's my fault.
This www.transportxtra.com/publications... by The Car Expert ed made me so angry I replied: www.transportxtra.com/publications...
I'm fed up of rhetoric from gov & motoring 'lobby' that we must never unfairly hurt poor drivers in pocket. That reducing "running costs for ordinary families" means...
I'm fed up of rhetoric from gov & motoring 'lobby' that we must never unfairly hurt poor drivers in pocket. That reducing "running costs for ordinary families" means...
Cutting the cost of motoring is expensive for communities
It's rare I'm ever incensed enough to write in to the august pages of respected publications such as TransportXtra, but Stewart Masson's opinion piece on t
www.transportxtra.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:49 AM
This www.transportxtra.com/publications... by The Car Expert ed made me so angry I replied: www.transportxtra.com/publications...
I'm fed up of rhetoric from gov & motoring 'lobby' that we must never unfairly hurt poor drivers in pocket. That reducing "running costs for ordinary families" means...
I'm fed up of rhetoric from gov & motoring 'lobby' that we must never unfairly hurt poor drivers in pocket. That reducing "running costs for ordinary families" means...
A true mega-city for cycling? London's doing it baby. BUT... outer London... Mayoral boldness... TfL 'business as usual' approach... appropriate funding levels? London still has some real issues and a long way to go. But this is great news!
Our @psimonk.bsky.social got rather excited about news London now seeing average 1.5 million journeys cycled daily this morning: bsky.app/profile/lond....
Now here's his slightly calmer & more detailed analysis: lcc.org.uk/news/1-5-mil... covering funding case, outer v inner London & a lot more.
Now here's his slightly calmer & more detailed analysis: lcc.org.uk/news/1-5-mil... covering funding case, outer v inner London & a lot more.
November 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
A true mega-city for cycling? London's doing it baby. BUT... outer London... Mayoral boldness... TfL 'business as usual' approach... appropriate funding levels? London still has some real issues and a long way to go. But this is great news!
The Thames & London deserves a lot better. Must read horrific investigation by @andrewkersley.bsky.social for @londonermag.bsky.social into @londonportauth.bsky.social. Lays bare literally 'toxic' culture in org. I've had couple of work encounters w PLA officers. Not a constructive experience IMO.
In August, 25,000 kilograms of ‘toxic’ tar was spilled in the Thames. Why was no-one told?
This is a saga of broken valves, anonymous whistleblowers and hundreds of undisclosed oil spills.
My investigation for @londonermag.bsky.social
www.the-londoner.co.uk/how-25-000-k...
This is a saga of broken valves, anonymous whistleblowers and hundreds of undisclosed oil spills.
My investigation for @londonermag.bsky.social
www.the-londoner.co.uk/how-25-000-k...
How 25,000 kilograms of ‘toxic’ tar was spilled in the Thames
'You start to think: hang on, if that’s floating in the water, what's that giving off?'
www.the-londoner.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The Thames & London deserves a lot better. Must read horrific investigation by @andrewkersley.bsky.social for @londonermag.bsky.social into @londonportauth.bsky.social. Lays bare literally 'toxic' culture in org. I've had couple of work encounters w PLA officers. Not a constructive experience IMO.
Lack of political will in London is perhaps most starkly visible in inaction around London's most #DangerousJunctions
1. We have 3 years in a row highlighted ratrun cluster in Wandsworth as the most dangerous in London, where ratruns cross main road cycle tracks. The same Cycle Superhighway, CS7...
1. We have 3 years in a row highlighted ratrun cluster in Wandsworth as the most dangerous in London, where ratruns cross main road cycle tracks. The same Cycle Superhighway, CS7...
NEW: INACTION CONTINUES ON DANGEROUS JUNCTIONS
📊The latest data published today, shows a picture of inaction from @mayoroflondon.bsky.social, TfL and local councils, when it comes to making junctions safe for cycling...
🧑💻 Email the mayor and demand action: bit.ly/47QcmUF
📊The latest data published today, shows a picture of inaction from @mayoroflondon.bsky.social, TfL and local councils, when it comes to making junctions safe for cycling...
🧑💻 Email the mayor and demand action: bit.ly/47QcmUF
November 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Lack of political will in London is perhaps most starkly visible in inaction around London's most #DangerousJunctions
1. We have 3 years in a row highlighted ratrun cluster in Wandsworth as the most dangerous in London, where ratruns cross main road cycle tracks. The same Cycle Superhighway, CS7...
1. We have 3 years in a row highlighted ratrun cluster in Wandsworth as the most dangerous in London, where ratruns cross main road cycle tracks. The same Cycle Superhighway, CS7...
This. This right here is years of long hard campaigning by @londoncycling.bsky.social that saved lives. Huge kudos to ex staffer Charlie Lloyd and current staffer Tom Bogdanowicz for their work instigating and maintaining this campaign through to now and beyond. #EndLorryDanger #RoadSafetyWeek
👏 Some great news to start of #RoadSafetyWeek!
🪧 Two decades of LCC campaigning helped bring in this life saving legislation to reduce blind spots in HGVs: bit.ly/4oKn05f
Safer lorries mean safer cycling for everyone on London's roads 🚲
🪧 Two decades of LCC campaigning helped bring in this life saving legislation to reduce blind spots in HGVs: bit.ly/4oKn05f
Safer lorries mean safer cycling for everyone on London's roads 🚲
New data shows that since @mayoroflondon.bsky.social
launched the Direct Vision Standard lorry safety scheme in London we've seen:
📉a 50% fall in people killed & seriously injured by HGVs
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️six fewer fatalities every year
tinyurl.com/j3475ua3
launched the Direct Vision Standard lorry safety scheme in London we've seen:
📉a 50% fall in people killed & seriously injured by HGVs
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️six fewer fatalities every year
tinyurl.com/j3475ua3
November 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
This. This right here is years of long hard campaigning by @londoncycling.bsky.social that saved lives. Huge kudos to ex staffer Charlie Lloyd and current staffer Tom Bogdanowicz for their work instigating and maintaining this campaign through to now and beyond. #EndLorryDanger #RoadSafetyWeek
This is an absolutely shockingly powerful simple read: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Reform's rhetoric on immigration is hateful, shameful. Seeing Labour effectively follow it almost as much so. Far too many Britons are chosing hate over hope, selfishness over collective society.
Reform's rhetoric on immigration is hateful, shameful. Seeing Labour effectively follow it almost as much so. Far too many Britons are chosing hate over hope, selfishness over collective society.
‘Death by a thousand cuts’: the people who could face deportation under Reform
As party’s rise fuels fears over future visa rules, people share how the lives they have built are in jeopardy
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is an absolutely shockingly powerful simple read: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Reform's rhetoric on immigration is hateful, shameful. Seeing Labour effectively follow it almost as much so. Far too many Britons are chosing hate over hope, selfishness over collective society.
Reform's rhetoric on immigration is hateful, shameful. Seeing Labour effectively follow it almost as much so. Far too many Britons are chosing hate over hope, selfishness over collective society.
This cracking commentary by @francesryan.bsky.social nails my views on politics of hopelessness. When people feel their lives, hopes, dreams are just getting worse & worse, they turn to authoritarian, populist, fascist leaders. Reform & billionaire media owners thrive off this downward spiral...
“Policies that favour the interests of the working class are disregarded as a fantasy, whereas those that push wealth and power towards the rich are seen as a realistic status quo.”
My col. on a politics and media that normalises Reform and dismisses the Greens. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My col. on a politics and media that normalises Reform and dismisses the Greens. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour’s rebuttal to the Green party this week sums up the double standard that dogs our politics | Frances Ryan
Why is it that the politics of hope offered up by the left is dismissed as naive, while the policies of the centre and right are portrayed as all that is possible? asks Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:47 AM
This cracking commentary by @francesryan.bsky.social nails my views on politics of hopelessness. When people feel their lives, hopes, dreams are just getting worse & worse, they turn to authoritarian, populist, fascist leaders. Reform & billionaire media owners thrive off this downward spiral...
Top 100 baby! Or, put another way, hugely honoured and humbled to be named in Zag Daily's 2nd annual Zag List as one of 100 "mobility changemakers" zagdaily.com/featured/the...
Not sure how "tireless" I feel right now, but we'll keep London moving forward @londoncycling.bsky.social!
Not sure how "tireless" I feel right now, but we'll keep London moving forward @londoncycling.bsky.social!
The Zag List: 100 Mobility Changemakers
In the 2nd annual edition of The Zag List, we are recognising 100 trailblazers driving the global shift toward cleaner, safer and more connected mobility worldwide.
zagdaily.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Top 100 baby! Or, put another way, hugely honoured and humbled to be named in Zag Daily's 2nd annual Zag List as one of 100 "mobility changemakers" zagdaily.com/featured/the...
Not sure how "tireless" I feel right now, but we'll keep London moving forward @londoncycling.bsky.social!
Not sure how "tireless" I feel right now, but we'll keep London moving forward @londoncycling.bsky.social!
Not sure I agree these 16 'critical safety issues' for designing for active travel all as stringent as needed, particularly vehicle speed only kicking in when 85% of vehicles on road doing 30+mph But glad @ategov.bsky.social rounded these up & updated them: www.gov.uk/government/p... Very helpful.
November 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Not sure I agree these 16 'critical safety issues' for designing for active travel all as stringent as needed, particularly vehicle speed only kicking in when 85% of vehicles on road doing 30+mph But glad @ategov.bsky.social rounded these up & updated them: www.gov.uk/government/p... Very helpful.
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🎉 Camden's new plans for Holborn are mind-blowingly good: bit.ly/4qOtVMg
Major changes for Theobalds Rd, Southampton Row, Kingsway, High Holborn & further afield. New Oxford Street & Great Ormond Street plans look like big changes for better!
Kudos Cllr @adamdkharrison.bsky.social 👏
Major changes for Theobalds Rd, Southampton Row, Kingsway, High Holborn & further afield. New Oxford Street & Great Ormond Street plans look like big changes for better!
Kudos Cllr @adamdkharrison.bsky.social 👏
November 7, 2025 at 2:36 PM
🎉 Camden's new plans for Holborn are mind-blowingly good: bit.ly/4qOtVMg
Major changes for Theobalds Rd, Southampton Row, Kingsway, High Holborn & further afield. New Oxford Street & Great Ormond Street plans look like big changes for better!
Kudos Cllr @adamdkharrison.bsky.social 👏
Major changes for Theobalds Rd, Southampton Row, Kingsway, High Holborn & further afield. New Oxford Street & Great Ormond Street plans look like big changes for better!
Kudos Cllr @adamdkharrison.bsky.social 👏
HT to @bearlypolitics.co.uk who I've been reading for a while now via Substack & rate as absolutely excellent on political analysis for summarising this absolute dunk on X/Twitter/Musk. Also huge HT to @news.sky.com for this in-depth, data-driven investigation into X/Twitter's biased algorithm...
November 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
HT to @bearlypolitics.co.uk who I've been reading for a while now via Substack & rate as absolutely excellent on political analysis for summarising this absolute dunk on X/Twitter/Musk. Also huge HT to @news.sky.com for this in-depth, data-driven investigation into X/Twitter's biased algorithm...
How did I not know this vital information?!
It occurs to me that some of you will not have seen Zohran Mamdani’s quite good 2019 rap video “Nani” which features the great Madhur Jaffrey in a starring role:
Mr. Cardamom - Nani (starring Madhur Jaffrey)
YouTube video by Mr. Cardamom
www.youtube.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
How did I not know this vital information?!
The far right anger of Reform folks, the bitterness of their pound shop racism, the idea what little we have needs protecting from folks like my parents, who came here as refugees & built lives here, the idea London & England has fallen rather than grown. They deserve contempt & ridicule...
Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.
October 25, 2025 at 8:47 AM
The far right anger of Reform folks, the bitterness of their pound shop racism, the idea what little we have needs protecting from folks like my parents, who came here as refugees & built lives here, the idea London & England has fallen rather than grown. They deserve contempt & ridicule...
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Kudos again to @labourstone.bsky.social & Waltham Forest for more & more active travel in outer London. Latest: Chingford Road corridor from north circular to central Walthamstow: talk.walthamforest.gov.uk/chingford-ro... and check out the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkK7... We love to see it!
Chingford Road corridor proposals
YouTube video by Waltham Forest Council
www.youtube.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Kudos again to @labourstone.bsky.social & Waltham Forest for more & more active travel in outer London. Latest: Chingford Road corridor from north circular to central Walthamstow: talk.walthamforest.gov.uk/chingford-ro... and check out the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkK7... We love to see it!
WTAF? Some enforcement and some filtering please Camden. HT @cycleoptic.bsky.social
Why don't people who choose to cycle, use the infrastructure provided ? #C50 Randolf Street, Camden, contraflow @camdencouncil.bsky.social @camdencyclists.bsky.social
@londoncycling.bsky.social
@londoncycling.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 12:24 PM
WTAF? Some enforcement and some filtering please Camden. HT @cycleoptic.bsky.social
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"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.
momentummag.com
October 15, 2025 at 11:21 AM
"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...
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🤝 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
Join today: bit.ly/3R38Pcd
October 5, 2025 at 10:15 AM
🤝 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
Join today: bit.ly/3R38Pcd
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
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
road.cc
October 4, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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
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
www.youtube.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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...
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...
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.
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
October 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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...
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...
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.
Featuring @_karin_c, @johnmcternan, @BellaSankey, @ThangamDebb, and @Scarlett__Mag of @StrategyMerlin.
September 29, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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...
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.
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
go.bsky.app
September 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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.
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...
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
September 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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...
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.
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.
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."
September 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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.
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.
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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
September 23, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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