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Nathan Ley @nathanley.com · 17h

This being Britain, you know we'd do the tax giveaway (back to millionaires) and the not do the other half of the bargain. So keep it as is.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 19h

Without one I just couldn’t balance work/kids and would have given in and bought a car. The biggest challenge for mass take-up is everyone’s buying them through regressive Cycle to Work tax dodge. So a £5k bike costs 12 x £241 monthly payments if you’re high earner or 12 x £416 if you’re in poverty.

Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 1d

Electric cargo bikes can replace many everyday car trips for the average family and “reshape suburban family mobility”, say Oxford University researchers. 49 British households were loaned e-cargo bikes for school runs, shopping trips, family outings and other day-to-day use.

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Nathan Ley @nathanley.com · 17h

🪏🏗️ How else would you want to spend your lunch hour?! 😉

#onsite #lodgehill #moretocome #watchthisspace

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Nathan Ley @nathanley.com · 3d

I made a detailed explainer video (with Q&A) for the proposed new junction in Abingdon to prioritise walking, cycling, wheeling, and generally make it a more pleasant town centre

It won't work on the hardcore antis but I couldn't bear the lies going around!

youtu.be/9k4VjunZhqQ?...

Abingdon Town Centre Junction: A Redesign to Prioritise Cycling, Walking, and Active Travel (NCN5)

YouTube video by Cllr Nathan Ley

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Nathan Ley @nathanley.com · 1d

It was in all the cabinet papers and communications on the subject?

The carrots were always there, some people are just blinkered and prone to knee jerk reactions!

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Nathan Ley @nathanley.com · 1d

Amazing what you can do when you show some bottle and introduce a tough policy which reaps a dividend later (rather than folding under the slightest pressure, like Oxford East's MP)

Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 1d

Park & Ride bus journeys will be free when Oxford’s congestion charge comes into effect on 29 October. Holders of P&R parking tickets will be entitled to catch any Stagecoach or Oxford Bus Co service from the sites, not just the P&R-branded ones. news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/free-park-an...

Free park and ride bus travel with temporary congestion charge

Oxfordshire County Council is providing free park and ride bus journeys in Oxford for an initial period of three months from 29 October, when the city’s temporary congestion charge scheme starts. The ...

news.oxfordshire.gov.uk

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Nathan Ley @nathanley.com · 2d

Yes please. Especially the toxic kind which has undue influence with boomers in online spaces, and influences government (including local)

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Nathan Ley @nathanley.com · 2d

And yet this is the sort of thing they're putting in their exhibition hall?

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Nathan Ley @nathanley.com · 2d

I'll start listening again when the Kingdom of Guthrum-centricity lessens ;-)

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fredfelt.bsky.social @fredfelt.bsky.social · 2d

An excellent explainer about improvements planned for Abingdon town centre.

Improvements for pedestrian access to Market Square.

The proposed changes also connect the missing link in NCN5, meaning that you'll now be able to cycle along this stretch of the national cycle route!

Nathan Ley @nathanley.com · 3d

I made a detailed explainer video (with Q&A) for the proposed new junction in Abingdon to prioritise walking, cycling, wheeling, and generally make it a more pleasant town centre

It won't work on the hardcore antis but I couldn't bear the lies going around!

youtu.be/9k4VjunZhqQ?...

Abingdon Town Centre Junction: A Redesign to Prioritise Cycling, Walking, and Active Travel (NCN5)

YouTube video by Cllr Nathan Ley

youtu.be

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Nathan Ley @nathanley.com · 2d

I took a few more! Just wanted to put on record that I got yesterday in two, so 'every dog has it's day' is still a thing :-)

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Paula Surridge @psurridge.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe the answer to political apathy, trust, and populism is for everyone to be a local councillor for a few weeks.

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 3d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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Nathan Ley @nathanley.com · 3d

Thanks much appreciated 🙏

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Nathan Ley @nathanley.com · 3d

I made a detailed explainer video (with Q&A) for the proposed new junction in Abingdon to prioritise walking, cycling, wheeling, and generally make it a more pleasant town centre

It won't work on the hardcore antis but I couldn't bear the lies going around!

youtu.be/9k4VjunZhqQ?...

Abingdon Town Centre Junction: A Redesign to Prioritise Cycling, Walking, and Active Travel (NCN5)

YouTube video by Cllr Nathan Ley

youtu.be

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Nathan Ley @nathanley.com · 3d

Happy Invincibles Day to all who celebrate #invinciblesday #neverrepeated @arsenalfc.bsky.social

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Nathan Ley @nathanley.com · 3d

Cheering so much I can hardly keep up...

Olly, Calum, Freddie, Charlie....I think you might be safe for another election or three

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 4d

Yet again, a distant but heartfelt cheer can be heard from Lib Dem activists in Blue Wall seats.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 3d

Quite. I expect headlines like this will be on every LD leaflet in S England seats - how can the Tories not realise that mass deportation is not a popular policy, even with migration sceptics?

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 4d

Yet again, a distant but heartfelt cheer can be heard from Lib Dem activists in Blue Wall seats.

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Nathan Ley @nathanley.com · 4d

Well, I guess that's what I thought. Back when culture warring over two wheels wasn't as much of a thing

Nathan Ley @nathanley.com · 4d

They were even there when I was at university there (a while now!), was it maybe a Boris initiative?!

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Nathan Ley @nathanley.com · 4d

It's been fine for me, and I'm not aware of any incidents or overblown social media hysteria either!

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Nathan Ley @nathanley.com · 4d

(pic of existing section of contraflow now posted..)

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Nathan Ley @nathanley.com · 4d

Thanks yep had that a few times. it’s this weekend’s reading :-)

Then to distill it into a simple rebuttal when someone says “I don’t care, I just don’t feel it’s safe!!”

Also, I forgot we already had this contra beauty a few yards down the road :-D

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Nathan Ley @nathanley.com · 5d

Perfection, thank you

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Nathan Ley @nathanley.com · 5d

The plans show some parking is being removed

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Nathan Ley @nathanley.com · 5d

Thanks for asking. It's rare-ish around here

I suppose what I'm asking for is: "how do you convey to people who don't know about cycle infrastructure that it's actually OK to have something coming towards you on the red line"

We both know why it's fine, but instinctively the general public doesn't

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