Harry Gray
@HarryHamishGray
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Dense housing, cycle lanes, walkable cities and public realm. 🌳🚴🛴🏙️🚶♀️🌳🧑🦽 Steering @WalkRideGM. Co-host Moving Up North
Joined May 2009
Myself and @will_in_mcr sat down with @TomWRoss, leader of @TraffordCouncil to discuss how Trafford is leading the way with Active Travel.
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Has a single tweet ever foreshadowed a worse period in human history?.
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Greater Manchester is Tory free for the first time in it's history
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The bus lane is empty because all the busses and their passengers have already reached their destination.
Welcome to Bath! One empty bus lane and one gridlocked mess crawling into the city. Well done @bathnesld @Wera_Hobhouse squeezing us onto fewer roads is a disaster for business and residents. @FreeBathStreets
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Some of the richest men in Britain now have to pay inheritance tax on land they bought to avoid paying inheritance tax.
Jeremy Clarkson got rattled when it was put to him that he bought a farm to avoid inheritance tax.
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Bro 'needs' a 3 tonne car to carry 100kg of soil
Um, I strongly suspect that 8 bags of soil could fit in the back of a smart car.
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Hope this catches on outside the US!.
Can’t overstate how easy it is to pay for a subway or bus ride in New York now. Tap your phone or a credit card. That’s it.
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What the Elizabeth Line would look like across the North of England, connecting Liverpool, Manchester and Leeds or Sheffield. Imagine the potential we could untap if the Government invested just a fraction of what London gets . Credit: @undertheraedar
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5 minute city!!.
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A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation
It's not a 'problem', it's a good thing. In poorer countries people depend on public transport & bikes. When they get richer they want cars because they bring freedom. Public transport will *never* be good enough for a free people to move around on.
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How to turn a road into a street . Salford 2016 vs 2024. Incredible
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I feel like people are being purposefully terminally online about this. Imagine having this outside your window. It's insane.
Who could possibly say what planners and local politicians objected to
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Your reminder that this tree stump could be someone's child walking down the pavement . If you cannot see it then you are not fit to drive.
'Everyone is getting sick of it' - Tree stump in North Tyneside is causing 'thousands' in car damages
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Big scandal brewing. Loads of people are getting prosecuted by @northernassist for using 'Anytime Singles' at peak times with 16-25 railcards, which makes the ticket invalid. This information is buried in the small print by Northern so people never see it.@AndyBurnhamGM @LouHaigh.
So, this afternoon I got home to find a lovely letter from @northernassist telling me about how they wanted to prosecute me for using the below ticket to travel on the specified route at a peak time. I paid £1.90 less than the fare they say I should have paid. A thread 🧵
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This is the story of we managed to sting a bike thief and send him off cuffed in the back of a police car . A THREAD
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15 minute cities have gone too far.
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Mark my words someone will die at Euston station in the coming years . A dangerous, overcrowded and mismanaged hell hole.
Always thought if you die and go to hell your final stop is Euston station
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I'm convinced that half the nation are just miserable sods.
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>Builds skyscraper .>Moves into skyscraper .>Skyscraper planned next door.>Objects to new skyscraper nextdoor . NIMBYs are wild man
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Was just driving down the road and someone cut me off . Why do people think an indicator gives them the right to change lane without looking?
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Hard not to feel utterly despondent about the strange rise of non-secular politics in the UK.
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Just a small business owner using my cargo bike to skip the rush hour traffic as I deliver my parcels.
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Imagine conflating these two activities as the same thing.
Use your head. Wear a helmet every time you cycle. 🧠. Together with our partner @lazersport, we are raising awareness of the importance of wearing a helmet with a goal to increase helmet use. #useyourhead #parisroubaix.
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Staying up until 6am to watch Liz Truss lose her seat
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Spoons regularly clean their tap lines, give you a matching glass and the food comes quickly. All for 1/2 the price of a normal pub. What's not to love.
JD Wetherspoon – few companies in Britain are so successful, yet so divisive. What's its secret? How come 21.4 million visited a Spoons over the last 6 months? But why have people campaigned to stop one opening in their town?.I spent 24 hours in one to find out. 🍺🧵
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This is a REAL wheelbarrow
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Sheffield is building medium density, mixed used development like no where else in Britain.
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Bonus photo of me in the situation room whilst all this was happening
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I've cycled over 400km across Belgium entirely off road. Most of the paths are of this standard or higher. The interncity network here is incredible
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The fastest driver on the planet is choosing a bike to get about . Cars are so over.
Nothing to see here, just Charles Leclerc cycling home after winning the Monaco Grand Prix 😅🚴♂️. (via @sharr__leclerc)
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Best new build in England vs average new build in The Netherlands
On my way to Labour Party Conference. VERY excited to see our Zero Bills home - which was built in *two days* on site within the secure zone
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We defeated the tyrant of Stagecoach.
The last stagecoach buses have departed. now Bee Network take over, please direct any enquiries to @beenetwork . Goodnight from Stagecoach.
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People who voted green have got a party leader opposing wind farms. People who voted labour have got the ban on onshore win lifted.
Wow, that was quick. The effective ban on onshore wind farms in England has been lifted, just a few days after Labour took power. Planning barriers cut, so "onshore wind applications will be treated in the same way as other energy development proposals".
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The misconception around the British palette in America is insane.
I regret to inform everyone that Old El Paso made salsa for people in the UK and Australia and they went 'mild is too spicy' so they needed a level called "extra mild" to satiate their delicate palates
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Kerbs are the most underrated part of our active travel revolution. When used well, they give an incredible amount of priority to walkers and cyclists at every junction
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Step 1: Fly on plane to Manchester. Step 2: Close all roads in Manchester city centre for conference . Step 3: Leak cancellation of Manchester HS2 leg. Step 4: Fly back to London . Step 5: Never think about Manchester again.
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Please tell me again how guard rail is designed to protect pedestrians 🥴
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This is the next Post Office scandal. How many people now have a criminal record for buying an 'Anytime Single' ticket which was not valid before 10am. Countless examples of unsuspecting victims are being unearthed by @jackfifield.
Big scandal brewing. Loads of people are getting prosecuted by @northernassist for using 'Anytime Singles' at peak times with 16-25 railcards, which makes the ticket invalid. This information is buried in the small print by Northern so people never see it.@AndyBurnhamGM @LouHaigh.
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Today I saw something I've waited so many years to see in Manchester. So many kids were cycling independently to school. Change can happen!
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Tweets in 1830s:. 'Why do all new urban developments in the UK look like this?'
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The end of a monster?. HMRC just closed a massive loophole causing pollution and danger on our streets. From 1st July 2024 tax for pickup trucks will increase from £60 to £291 per month for 20% rate tax payers and up from £120 to £582 for 40% rate tax payers as a company car
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What happens when you dig up Manchester's most historic street?. You find tram tracks from one hundred years ago!
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Preston is leading the way in urban regeneration, setting itself apart from other post-industrial towns in the north of England.
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This is the future YIMBYs want. A new housing estate in Weesp, Netherlands
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Time to start ripping out some of those empty car lanes!.
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Train etiquette is a hill I will die on. No you cannot get on the train before others have disembarked. No you cannot listen to tiktoks out loud in the quiet carriage.
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Kinda crazy they just solved congestion with road pricing.
congestion pricing has accomplished what highway widenings never could: it has almost completely fixed New Jersey traffic approaching NYC. and it actually *raises* billions in revenue instead of costing billions
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I'm cycling from Manchester to London today. I'm 100km in - stopping in Burton for some food. Here's what sunrise in the Peak District looked like
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Nice to see this graphic in the Telegraph
This is much welcomed and absolutely necessary
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If this building was built in your city would you live there?
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This must be the start of the end for SUV tanks in urban settings .
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Hundreds of kids taking over the streets of Manchester!
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UPDATE. The 'Anytime Ticket Scandal' has been brought up in Parliament by @AyoubKhanMP . Answer due next Tuesday . @LouHaigh
Big scandal brewing. Loads of people are getting prosecuted by @northernassist for using 'Anytime Singles' at peak times with 16-25 railcards, which makes the ticket invalid. This information is buried in the small print by Northern so people never see it.@AndyBurnhamGM @LouHaigh.
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Tax the shit out of SUVs so they become impossible to own. They kill kids.They kill cyclists.They kill the planet.
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So, I’ve been eating this for breakfast every morning in England for about nine days and I’ve lost 3 pounds. The food in America is just poison.
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Another erosion of driving etiquette is stopping for pedestrians on zebra crossings. When did we let this happen in society?
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This is what it's like to cross the road from my work to the coop
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35k likes on tiktok of a video complaining about someone literally just cycling down the road
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"A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation."
"A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation."
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My daily commute involves a small stretch next to the motorway with just a painted line for protection! . This is a vital link for many people, links segregated infrastructure in Salford to Manchester, yet there are no plans to add protection
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People who still drive in London given the incredible mix of alternatives are increasingly annoying.
Driving in London is a joke. Hour and 38mins to drive 11miles???? I will scream.
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My friend managed to take a photo of the room the bikes were in. We nailed it. Geoguesser level detective work to nail this criminal. What a thrill
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Tech bros with 2,000kg Tesla's worrying about micro-plastic in their fridge
Glass containers with wooden lids 🪵. It’s the little things that make the difference when you’re avoiding micro-plastics.
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People learning that murder is legal when you use a car.
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Petition to throw every HS2 hater into this pit for 24 hours to re-evaluate.
Euston is straight up dangerous. What is the logic of only showing trains on one board when you HAVE THREE? Then there is a terrifying crush once platforms announced last minute (rugby train has changed twice). It's the fucking hellmouth @TfL
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You learn something quite interesting when you cycle outside every day to work. It doesn't actually rain as much as you'd expect.
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Sheffield has built the UKs 2nd Dutch Roundabout - and it's fantastic.
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Incredible to think cities in the UK pretend this sort of radical transformation is impossible or delusional.
In Paris, just 4.3% -- 4.3%!! -- of the trips within the colored areas now occur in private cars. Source:
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STATEMENT. After two years of legal proceedings, the driver who ran me over has been found liable for damages of £4,170.04.
I've been knocked off my bike by a driver . I took primary position to stop any overtaking as it narrowed here and he went straight into the back of me. He shouted at me as I led at the side of the road, awful experience. Police took me to hospital
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Your reminder that the £22m given to Greater Manchester to survive in Tier 3 is 63 times less money than a roundabout in Bedford. SIXTY THREE.
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A stark contrast between well proportioned Victorian terrace houses and the modern bile we produce today
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First time visiting Altrincham in a while and completely blown away by the towns public realm
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If you consume too much Daily Mail your brain will turn into boomer goo
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Apparently I can't ride a cargo bike, because I need a car to tow a caravan with my 82 year old in laws, one with advanced Parkinson's and one with a wheel chair
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Tech bros won't stop until they solve problems we already have the solution to
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One of these maps is useful for understanding car ownership and the other isn't. Guess which one is being used to prove that 'poor people drive'
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They said London couldn't be a cycling city and now it is the cycling capital of Europe
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Just days after the election lefties in London have turned it into a massive Low Traffic Neighbourhood
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One of these vehicles has a battery 120 times less efficient than the other - yet both are used to take one person and their belongings 5km to work every day. Which do you think people believe will save the planet?
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Can you imagine any other western country that would cancel the only high speed rail between its three largest cities?.
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