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Bob From Accounts 🚲 @bobfromaccounts.bsky.social · 1d

It's impressive how quickly Paris has transformed car-dominant roads, prioritising more efficient modes of transportation. One lane for drivers on the right side, made to wallow in their own stop-and-start inefficiency, two giant lanes for bikes.

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Bob From Accounts 🚲 @bobfromaccounts.bsky.social · 3d

80000+ cycle journeys in Autumnal weather this week along the Embankment. Tell me cycling is not popular in London. The counter was fixed last week @cs3cs6count.bsky.social

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Bob From Accounts 🚲 @bobfromaccounts.bsky.social · 11d

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Bob From Accounts 🚲 @bobfromaccounts.bsky.social · 11d

After not working for three months, it's been fixed in the last few days. London was well on its way to passing 3 million cycle journeys on this route, a new record, but I guess we will never know now. Until next year, then @cs3cs6count.bsky.social

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Bob From Accounts 🚲 @bobfromaccounts.bsky.social · 17d

There is still a group of Nimbys and taxi drivers who prefer this to the pedestrianisation of Oxford Street, thinking retail will close & crowds disappear. If only Oxford St had at least 6 Tube lines and several stations within walking distance, connecting all of London, then maybe, this might work

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Bob From Accounts 🚲 @bobfromaccounts.bsky.social · 19d

'Another driver paid almost £17,000 to clear 46 warrants'

£575 or £17000? The driver chose the latter. Stupid does as stupid is

Ulez bombshell: TfL owed £800m by drivers who refuse to pay Sadiq's clean air levy

Crackdown on persistent evaders sees more than 530 vehicles seized and sold or crushed since January

www.standard.co.uk

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Bob From Accounts 🚲 @bobfromaccounts.bsky.social · 22d

Saving lives and preventing injury should always take priority over drivers' convenience.

Nearly 900 fewer people injured since 20mph introduction in Wales

Figures show a 25% reduction in the number of injuries on Wales' roads in the past 18 months.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Bob From Accounts 🚲 @bobfromaccounts.bsky.social · 23d

Can't come soon enough.

'The Transport & Environment thinktank has urged the government to use the autumn budget to bring in a levy on the largest vehicles, which it said would reflect the damage they caused to the environment and infrastructure.'

UK could raise nearly £2bn by taxing SUVs in line with European countries, study shows

Thinktank says an ‘SUV loophole’ means UK buyers pay up to 20 times less tax on biggest models than in neighbouring nations

www.theguardian.com

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Bob From Accounts 🚲 @bobfromaccounts.bsky.social · Sep 3

Roads busier this morning in London? The school run is back.

The school run accounts for nearly 30% of morning traffic in London ( 43% in Tower Hamlets)

You may well ask ‘How am I supposed to do the school run with 4 kids without an SUV ?’

Tell me they're not having fun

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Bob From Accounts 🚲 @bobfromaccounts.bsky.social · Aug 29

Waiting for that tipping point when most sensible people realise that transporting a single 80kg person in 2.5 tonnes of SUV was not the height of technical advancement but peak stupidity for the human race.

Tax SUVs out of existence

Safety and space at risk as SUVs reach 30% of car market in English cities, researchers warn

Campaigners call for Paris-style parking charges amid fears big vehicles are taking up excessive public space

www.theguardian.com

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Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · Aug 28

And it's Hackney local derivative... 'There was never any traffic on Graham Road before LTNs'

Graham Road anti traffic protests, 1980s

A picture from Hackney Archive of residents in the 1980s on Graham Road protesting against the levels of traffic.

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Bob From Accounts 🚲 @bobfromaccounts.bsky.social · Aug 28

'There was never any traffic in London before Sadiq Khan and those cycle lanes, it's all manufactured'

London, 1952 and 1926

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Bob From Accounts 🚲 @bobfromaccounts.bsky.social · Aug 26

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Bob From Accounts 🚲 @bobfromaccounts.bsky.social · Aug 25

No. The average speed of traffic in London is 10.6 mph; the primary cause of obstruction to emergency services is traffic and poorly parked vehicles

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Bob From Accounts 🚲 @bobfromaccounts.bsky.social · Aug 25

you are welcome

www.openhouseproducts.com/openhouse-pa...

Also, about the bikes

www.londonambulance.nhs.uk/calling-us/w...

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Bob From Accounts 🚲 @bobfromaccounts.bsky.social · Aug 25

Post this on the other hellsite and the comments inevitably lead to ' where do they fit the patients '

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Bob From Accounts 🚲 @bobfromaccounts.bsky.social · Aug 25

When you need to get somewhere quickly in a city, biking is always the best option. Chapeau London Ambulance E-Bikes

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Bernard the Badger @thebadgerpuncheur.bsky.social · Aug 24

Watched a while ago and really enjoyed it. Getting from A to B doesn’t have to be soul-destroying, stuck in a prison of your own choosing. It can be wind-in-the-hair enjoyable. People look upon bicycles as childish, toy-like. Duh, yeah - toys are fun - being a kid again is fun - hence biking is fun!

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Aug 24

WATCH & SHARE: This is very good. A prominent youtuber is actually giddy (but also very thorough in covering the joys, advantages, issues and challenges) about how trying biking for transportation in London has changed his life.

Easy to watch & more convincing probably than 99% of public campaigns.

I Cycled 2500km in London — Here's How It Changed My Life

YouTube video by Evan Edinger

youtu.be

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Bob From Accounts 🚲 @bobfromaccounts.bsky.social · Aug 22

Ahh the serenity

Bob From Accounts 🚲 @bobfromaccounts.bsky.social · Aug 22

I'll tell you what an eyesore is: limitless and subsidised on-street parking for cars

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

‘A nuisance and an eyesore’: hire ebikes accumulate at London border between rival firms

Chiswick Bridge now frontline of turf war as Lime bikes stop functioning when they cross from Richmond into Hounslow

www.theguardian.com

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Bob From Accounts 🚲 @bobfromaccounts.bsky.social · Aug 14

Private vehicles account for 80% of UK traffic.
There's no benefit for me in that. Tax them for the privilege.

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Bob From Accounts 🚲 @bobfromaccounts.bsky.social · Aug 14

Just to be clear, your driving habit is heavily subsidised. More so for the 46% of London households and the 22% of UK households that don’t own a car.

For every mile driven, taxpayers subsidise 21p outside London, up to £1 inside.

Raise Fuel Duty

A policy that benefited the richest and cost the UK £100bn: it's long past time to end the fuel duty freeze | Larry Elliott

Successive chancellors have steered clear of increasing taxes for motorists for 15 years, but this should be a no-brainer for cash-strapped Rachel Reeves, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott

www.theguardian.com

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Bob From Accounts 🚲 @bobfromaccounts.bsky.social · Aug 13

Absolutely. The difference is that Soho is under the hold of one of London's most notorious NIMBY clubs, the Soho Society.

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Bob From Accounts 🚲 @bobfromaccounts.bsky.social · Aug 13

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Bob From Accounts 🚲 @bobfromaccounts.bsky.social · Aug 13

I love the Strand Aldwych. It used to be four lanes of traffic that cut off St. Mary le Strand Church, but now it's a space for people and plants. Once these changes are made in cities, no one ever wants to revert to the way things were. ♥️ London

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