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Max Sullivan

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Labour Councillor, Bayswater, Westminster City Council (London, UK) Cabinet Member for Streets Liveable cities - walking, cycling, public transport, density Work in advertising 🇮🇪 in 🇬🇧

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Max Sullivan @maxsullivan.bsky.social · Jun 11

We've installed another three new simple zebra crossings, this time near Edgware Road.

Without them drivers yield to pedestrians around 40% of the time. With them, it's around 80%.

(Based on monitoring results from our first 4 sites)

Junction of Chapel and Cabbell Streets. Two simple side road zebras without Belisha beacons can be seen with pedestrians crossing and a driver yielding. Edgware Road underground station entrance visible in the background.

North junction of Chapel and Cabbell Streets. One simple side road zebras without Belisha beacons can be seen with pedestrians crossing. Edgware Road underground station entrance is visible.

Junction of Transept and Chapel Streets looking West with three pedestrians crossing a simple side road zebra without Belisha beacons.

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Oliver Lord @olord.bsky.social · 8h

And here's SCAFFOLDERS using a fully electric vehicle in Camden - nice to see HSS helping to #ElectrifyLondon 👏

@adamdkharrison.bsky.social @maxsullivan.bsky.social @metecoban92.bsky.social @zakbond.bsky.social

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Max Sullivan @maxsullivan.bsky.social · 3d

One of their replies to me said they wanted to start a conversation. Well, so much for that having deleted the part of the conversation that didn't make them look good. It's a shame because Lucky Generals are an excellent ad agency and @andynairn.bsky.social seems good egg.

Max Sullivan @maxsullivan.bsky.social · 3d

Is this Linkedin post still there? Are my comments visible? They initially seemed to engage with criticism but I can't see it any more so maybe I've been blocked.

Max Sullivan @maxsullivan.bsky.social · 4d

WHO is putting these BREAD BIN BIKE BUNKERS on every street?
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Alan Kinsella @electionlit.bsky.social · 9d

"Bringing the DART to Dingle", "Bringing the Olympics to Termonfeckin"

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Active Transportation Alliance @atalliance.bsky.social · 10d

"The solution to pedestrian deaths isn't "defensive walking," as NPR says, but investment in public transit. Don't give us advice on how best to play Frogger on roads full of texting drivers, give us buses that give those drivers a safer place to text."

Read More: www.jalopnik.com/1979666/defe...

No, Defensive Walking Isn't The Solution For Road Deaths - Jalopnik

It's victim-blaming, it's bull, and it's not the solution we need.

www.jalopnik.com

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 11d

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 12d

There’s an even bigger conspiracy and it goes even deeper. It turns out that well over half of Parliament and thousands of councillors around the country are all members of a leftist organisation called “The Labour Party”.

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Keith Irving @keithirving.bsky.social · 13d

Road Casualties data for 2024 in Great Britain published this week: www.gov.uk/government/s...

Thanks to @pactsuk.bsky.social, there is an important new chart on the vehicles involved in fatal crashes:

Chart showing road fatalities by road user involved in collision. Data for Great Britain in 2024

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Max Sullivan @maxsullivan.bsky.social · 17d

Very exciting to see big vehicles going electric. I hope it's got top Direct Vision Standard rating too so the drivers of it are less likely to maim and kill other people.

Oliver Lord @olord.bsky.social · 17d

Ok poor pic but had to quickly snap this fully electric CONCRETE MIXER in London - great to see businesses like Tarmac leading the way!

Change is possible @adamdkharrison.bsky.social @maxsullivan.bsky.social @metecoban92.bsky.social @zakbond.bsky.social

Deets: www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/tarmac-...

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Adam Harrison @adamdkharrison.bsky.social · 18d

So I hear there's something happening down on Oxford St... But good to see Heath St in Hampstead part of #CarFreeDay. Attended by mayor & deputy mayor of Camden Eddie and Tricia & mayoral charity I Can Dance; assisted by the Everyman who showed an Attenborough film; & organised by local cllr Linda 🌿

Selfie on Heath Street showing the road behind and people gathered in it

Selfie of Adam and Linda Chung on Heath Street

Photo showing mayor Camden Eddie Hanson with Adam Harrison and people from the I Can Dance charity

Photo of people gathered under the Everyman cinema passageway with the words Hampstead Elemental Festival displayed above

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Max Sullivan @maxsullivan.bsky.social · 18d

Here's the link: www.mylondon.news/news/transpo...

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New Central London cycleway expected to be started within weeks

Cycleway 43 (Section B) is to be installed along George Street in Marylebone

www.mylondon.news

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Max Sullivan @maxsullivan.bsky.social · 18d

Wheely good news for this part of central London. The decision to implement Cycleway 43 has been published. This administration is delivering safer, more pleasant walking and cycling that will give more transport freedom and choice to people including families of all abilities

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Max Sullivan @maxsullivan.bsky.social · 19d

For motor vehicles, there will be no changes to movements or access on George Street, and the resulting street width will be similar to many other two-way streets in Central London, including Mortimer Street."

Me, in My London about Cycleway 43.

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Max Sullivan @maxsullivan.bsky.social · 19d

"Safer pedestrian crossings and the protected cycle track will make it a safer environment for all road users."

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Max Sullivan @maxsullivan.bsky.social · 19d

"Regardless of whether residents supported it or not, all feedback has been carefully considered and used to improve the final design."

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Max Sullivan @maxsullivan.bsky.social · 19d

"This [Labour] council was elected on a platform of making walking and cycling safer and more pleasant.

We value the feedback of Westminster residents, the majority of whom supported this scheme in consultation.

www.mylondon.news/news/transpo...

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New Central London cycleway expected to be started within weeks

Cycleway 43 (Section B) is to be installed along George Street in Marylebone

www.mylondon.news

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Councillor Adam Hug @adamhug.bsky.social · 25d

Our city is far stronger than those who seek to divide it. Our tolerance, diversity & energy unsettles some but we’re not going to bow & scrape to appease those who don’t understand true patriotism-pride in our place, community & country that is so much more than they imagine

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 24d

Ed Milliband on Elon Musk on LBC, "Just because you're a billionaire doesn't give you the right to tell us how to run our country"

"This guy is a publicity seeking narcissist, who is inciting violence on our streets"

"As the Americans would say: butt out of our politics"

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Max Sullivan @maxsullivan.bsky.social · 24d

This is very worrying.
Also, a red cross on a green cycle hangar is closer to the flag of Nottinghamshire than of England.

Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 25d

Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them.

This is getting very dark, very quick.

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Max Sullivan @maxsullivan.bsky.social · 25d

Why empty cycle lanes are a symbol of efficiency.

Max Sullivan @maxsullivan.bsky.social · 27d

Details here: www.westminsterlabour.org.uk/issues/stree...

Westminster Labour doubles investment in maintaining pavements and roads - Westminster Labour Councillors - Westminster Labour

Labour-run Westminster City Council has doubled investment in repairing and maintaining our roads and pavements, compared to the previous Conservative Council administration. In addition, the Labour G...

www.westminsterlabour.org.uk

Max Sullivan @maxsullivan.bsky.social · 27d

Fresh paving from a London Labour council? Maybe the capital isn't the hellscape some would have you believe!

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Max Sullivan @maxsullivan.bsky.social · 29d

Pretty sure I replied at the time saying the info on sign ordering was corrected by info that the underlying traffic order doesn't actually restrict eastbound traffic from NOS, and that I committed to address that through our OS scheme. Which, you might be aware, was shelved due to Mayor's plans.

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Melissa Bowman @dtkmelissa.bsky.social · Sep 7

"Approximately 20% of drivers were engaged in distracting or impatient driving, with one in ten drivers being engaged in unlawful behaviours involving the use of handheld devices while driving. Drivers of larger vehicles also exhibited more dangerous driving." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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An observational study investigated distracted and impatient driving in school zones.
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20% of all drivers was engaged in risky behaviours.
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One in ten motorists used handheld devices when driving.
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Distraction was more frequent among drivers of larger vehicles.
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Risky driving was more common in warmer months.

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