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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 3h

Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 3h

A definition of "anyone" a great many planners and road engineers go by, it seems.

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 7h

For those unfamiliar with what it's like to ride a bike on Hagley Road, here's one view:

Birmingham by Bike - Democratizing Hagley Road

YouTube video by John Munro - University of Birmingham

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 7h

Hagley Road's current design is an announcement that if you don't own a car in Birmimgham, you deserve neither safety nor dignity as you move around your city.

But some changes are planned that acknowledge that car owners aren't the only ones who might use this corridor.

Have your say here:

Hagley Road

Have your say around improving transport on Hagley Road.

hagleyroad.commonplace.is

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 19h

Pedestrianize ICE streets!

Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 21h

This is what Democratic mayors should be doing to the streets in front of ICE facilities. Can't have a facility if no one can bring a car into it!

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 23h

Just openly cheering the destruction of any representation of gay people in public space. They think their power is totally unrestricted, and the entire country will support them rolling back society to the 1950s, or maybe the 1850s

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 21h

That we share this planet with people brave enough to join an unarmed flotilla attempting to get aid into Gaza but also with cowards as craven as these guys is really something of a wonder to behold.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 1d

For those wanting more information about who the police deem worthy of an escort in this city.....

Kings Heath United Against Racism @khuar.bsky.social · 1d

Birmingham 'Raise the Flags' founder was at Solihull asylum hotels protest

The businessmen behind a Raise the Colours organisation have come under fire from anti racists concerned about the 'divisive' role of the flags now lining city streets

www.birminghammail.co.uk

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

would you like to live multi-modally?

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 1d

20 seconds guaranteed to brighten your day - even if you live in a city where leaders refuse to take any steps in such an egalitarian direction.

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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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 1d

An adult driver angry at a child they hit with their car.

Our car culture summed up in one video.

Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 1d

Police in Airdrie, Alberta (just north of Calgary) say this driver hit a 17-year-old girl in a marked crosswalk, got out of the vehicle, and appeared to get upset at the teenager before driving away.

They released this video and are now trying to identify the driver.

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Urban History Association (the official account) @urbanhistorya.bsky.social · 2d

The road has long been tumultuous for Latinos in places like California, as a site where the private space of the automobile and the public space of the street meet. @drgenacarpio.bsky.social on CA car insurance and the cultural history of race, redlining, and risk assessment.

California’s Invisible Infrastructure: What Auto Insurance Tells Us about Race, Risk, and Responsibility

By Genevieve Carpio Being a historian often means living with the contradictions of the present. As an Angeleno, I see my city in pain. There is resilience and courage too, but the suffering caused…

themetropole.blog

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 2d

To be fair, discerning the difference between the Onion and #UKCarCulture requires constant vigilance.

Sarah Goodyear @sgoodyear.bsky.social · 2d

not the Onion

Owen Massey @bookllyfr.bsky.social · 2d

A parish council in Oxford has refused to install a bench on a quiet side street in case people sit on it and get hit by a car

www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/2552131...

#motonormativity

@apiln.bsky.social

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Nathan Cardon @ncardon.bsky.social · 2d

Low speeds save lives; asking for higher speeds is a pro-death position, especially for your children and elderly family.

John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 2d

In light of the clear evidence that introducing reasonable speed limits means less people killed and seriously injured, politicians threatening to reverse these improvements should be worried about getting sued for knowingly putting people in harm's way.

Graph indicating an immediate drop in road casualties in Wales after speed limits were lowered.

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 2d

In Birmingham, car owners are begged not to idle their engines outside schools.

In Paris, meanwhile, hundreds of school streets have been pedestrianized.

Mum says 'just don't' as she warns parents of three problems on school run

Chelmsley Wood mum opens up on her son's health issues as she urged parents to be aware of 'toxic air' amid struggles walking to school

www.birminghammail.co.uk

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine what your city might be like if you had a mayor who behaved like this.

Nicholas Riehle, MUPP @nicholasriehle.bsky.social · Aug 7

Zohran’s citibike numbers make me feel like we need to start demanding bike share stats from our politicians in the same way we demand tax returns

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Birmingham Climate Justice Coalition @brumcjc.bsky.social · 9d

Can you help us to make November's Cardboard Carnival hosted by www.frictionarts.com a success?

Please come along to our planning meeting

on Wednesday 8 October at 7pm

at The Edge, 79-81 Cheapside, Birmingham. B12 0QH

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📣🌱🐝🌎🪧🦭🌳

Come and find out more about our Cardboard Carnival and help us to plan it!

Planning Meeting

Wednesday 8 October @ 7pm
The Edge, 79-81 Cheapside. B12 0QH

To coincide with the COP30 international climate conference in Belém, Brazil in November, climate activists and youth groups in Birmingham are coming together to hold a ‘Cardboard Carnival’ with arts, crafts, music, dancing, vegan food, and a live link up with youth groups in Europe and South America.

The event will be hosted by Friction Arts at The Edge arts and community space near the City Centre.

It will be youth led but all ages are welcome. To coincide with the COP30 international climate conference in Belém, Brazil in November, climate activists and youth groups in Birmingham are coming together to hold a ‘Cardboard Carnival’ with arts, crafts, music, dancing, vegan food, and a live link up with youth groups in Europe and South America.

The event will be hosted by Friction Arts at The Edge arts and community space near the City Centre.

It will be youth led but all ages are welcome.

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 2d

Sure, but this might mean that those who possess the private property of cars might end up having to share some of the public space or our roads.

And surely such an infringement on liberty, just to improve safety and dignity for those who don't even own a car, must be prevented at all costs.

Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 2d

"The single most important behaviour, design or regulation for creating streets conducive to walking and cycling, was physical separation between the modes"

We've got a new study out, learning from a broad mixture of street users, planners and designers

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Highlights
For marginalised street users mode separation is the key to human-scale movement.
Streets conducive to walking and cycling have functional, safe and accessible design.
Professionals must approach street design, regulation and user behaviour holistically.
Combinations of influencing factors persuade people to either use or avoid a street.
There are no easy fixes to the public realm that will work for all non-drivers.

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 2d

In light of the clear evidence that introducing reasonable speed limits means less people killed and seriously injured, politicians threatening to reverse these improvements should be worried about getting sued for knowingly putting people in harm's way.

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Better Streets for Birmingham @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org · 5d

Brilliant effort from the Circle the City riders last night. 🌧💨 It was chucking it down and blowing a gale, but that didn’t stop them pedalling on. 💪
#CircleTheCity #KeepPedalling #TogetherWeRide #RainOrShine

A group of cyclists smiling in the rain during an evening ride through the city. Riders are wearing helmets, bright jackets, and waterproofs, with bikes of all sizes including children’s. Wet streets and umbrellas in the background show the rainy weather.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4d

This is grim & dangerous over reach.

This is a government that have lost the moral argument & are still selling arms to Israel. Now further cracking down on dissent.

Absolutely the opposite of what they should be doing - so of course this is what the Labour Government choose.

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.

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Francesca Fiorentini @franifio.bsky.social · 4d

Not a single Greta hater could do what she has done, face what she's faced, bear abuse and humiliation at the hands of the most psychotic and genocidal army. They haven't an ounce of her bravery and that's what drives them crazy. Free Greta, free Palestine🇵🇸

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 4d

My takeaway from One Battle After Another is that it's time for one of the great filmmakers to tackle Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d

Andor, season 2, episode 8

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4d

WHOA: DHS says that their officers were “rammed and blocked in” in Chicago and got out of their cars and shot an U.S. citizen who reportedly also had a gun and who had been tracking ICE raids. They are blaming the shooting on her, and say they were already tracking her socials. More details to come.

Tricia McLaughlin • @TriciaOhio
X.com
This morning, during routine patrolling in Broadview, in the same area of Chicago that law enforcement were assaulted yesterday, our brave law enforcement officers were rammed by vehicles and boxed in by 10 cars.
Agents were unable to move their vehicles and exited the car. One of the drivers who rammed the law enforcement vehicle was armed with a semi-automatic weapon. Law enforcement was forced to deploy their weapons and fire defensive shots at an armed US citizen who drove herself to the hospital to get care for wounds.
The armed woman was named in a @CBP intelligence bulletin last week for doxing agents and posting online 'Hey to all my gang let's fuck those mother fuckers up, don't let them take anyone.'

Thankfully, no law enforcement officers were seriously injured in this attack.
Pritzker's Chicago Police Department is leaving the shooting scene and refuses to assist us in securing the area. There is a growing crowd and we are deploying special operations to control the scene.
This is an evolving situation and we will give more information as soon as it becomes available.
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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 5d

Also:

How is this anything other than a police escort?

What conclusion can the people of Birmingham - including the great many of us feeling intimidated by the politics these particular flag deployments represent - draw here beyond police support for well-funded, xenophobic nationalism?

Shivaji Shiva @shivajishivalaw.bsky.social · 5d

Can Simon Foster or @alcarns.bsky.social explain the legal and practical basis for the police approach here?

Kings Heath United Against Racism @khuar.bsky.social · 6d

Flags went up in Stirchley a few days ago & were taken down by local residents the same evening.

The men returned with a cherry picker and coned off parts of the road with police accompanying them as they put up new flags along the High Street.

Residents who object have been met with verbal abuse.

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