James Stafford
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Cycling and everyday cycling advocate. Interested in sustainable transport, cycling infrastructure, environmentalism & BJJ purple belt.
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I made a video suggesting some alternative modes of transport to beating 45 minutes of car traffic in a city. I got hundreds of responses along the lines.. 'well of course people need to drive, what if it is raining, cold or they need to get to the supermarket.'
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The European mind can't comprehend this cycle commute.
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This is for all those drivers that claim you couldn't possibly transport goal posts via e-scooters.
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2012 vs 2020 What a transformation. Highlighting the inefficiency of the automobile as means of transporting people.
@Anne_Hidalgo
2014 vision of re-engineering the city's roads and Junctions to be less car centric has really paid off. Less pollution, congestion & more cycling
Croisement Rue de Rivoli - Rue de la Coutellerie à l’instant. C’est géré au sifflet pour augmenter le débit de passage des voitures.
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"This is a private road sunshine, it belongs to Horsham District Council"
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It's interesting watching how they deal with illegally parked cars elsewhere.
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How to avoid traffic & car parking stress in the Peak District.
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Imagine how much HS2 would've cost if we just built most of it at ground level.
Words fail me. Here's HS2 being built at Chipping Campden.
Anyone bellyaching about why HS1 costs so much, look at this and then just shut up and go away.
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Completed cycling 453km around the Netherlands with my 10 year old daughter in a week from the Hook of Holland. Lots of cycling in the dunes, along dykes & cycle paths. We'd see how far we get each day and at around 4-5pm find a local campsite.
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It's a mystery how the high powered BMW ended up down there from Snake Pass? 🤔
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How are drivers getting on obeying the Highway code?
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Shame, there are no alternative ways of getting around in London.
Driving in London is a joke. Hour and 38mins to drive 11miles???? I will scream.
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Why would bicycling do this.
Good morning from Institute Road, the Kings Heath M25.
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We need to switch parking fines in the UK to a % of people's income.
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The land in front of the fence & the land above the fenced tree line, sheep are reared. The land in the middle is part of a military base, left to grow wild. Interesting to see what the hills should look like.
@GeorgeMonbiot
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@BBCWorld
Can't have young people going to Europe learning languages, participating in other societies & cultural life. Observing how people live, where many EU countries have better transport systems, better public spaces & welfare systems etc. No keep them here, keep them ignorant.
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@StanCollymore
Some England fans make it hard for people to get behind England. I was on train last night and had to witness '10 German bombers' and England fans harassing passengers. It's no wonder no other country wants England to do well. Zero class & awful 'banter'
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With fewer cars on the road, I am seeing way more families and leisure cyclists on the road. I recorded this within a few minutes. Never seen anything like this where I live. The people will cycle, if they believe and know the roads & infrastructure are safer.
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All bus lanes should be 24/7 and never allow parking.
Do you ever get the impression leaders just aren’t serious about bus priority?
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Some climate change progress. Time to admit we have reached peak new road building in the UK, should be moving to maintenance only.
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NQ, this is good. Well done
@ManCityCouncil
. I always pictured NQ like this without the cars. I am enjoying the table service in pubs, am I in Berlin or somewhere.
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@I_amMukhtar
@MikeyCycling
It's a shame his family doesn't have lots of spare rooms and land. Else he could have looked at putting him up.
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"Sheffield Council has revealed plans for a pavement parking ban covering the the city centre.
The proposed Traffic Regulation Order (TRO) will make it illegal to stop at any time on a path or verge around most streets in the centre of the city."
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If you ever see a unreadable dirty numberplate and you've got a tissue spare, give it a wipe. The owners will appreciate it 👍
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I asked a driver to stop engine idling. His response 'why should I? What's the problem'?' Had to explain the issue of air pollution, how much he emits. Driver 'fair enough' and turned his engine off. Big problem is people don't even know it's wrong. Needs a national campaign.
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Please don't ever cycle in the door zone cycle lane.
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Whenever I see this, I remember E-bikes limited to 15.5mph for safety. It boggles my mind.
McLaren 570 seen driving in excess of 100mph on the M6 close to Wigan. It's a shame he didn't spot the unmarked police car behind him! Vehicle stopped and driver reported.
#Fatal5
#XJ
#SCIU
#GMPTRAFFIC
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Has a cycle lane turned Chorlton into a ghost town?
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What the 15 minute city protestors in Oxford are protesting against vs what they want
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Mini Planters for sale £15, will post. Made in Manchester by Stephanie. 10% of money raised goes to Rescue Kitties.
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Don't trust your local Facebook group. What I found cycling in London would shake their belief system to the ground.
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They were only doing what the Ads suggested.
Don’t try to use
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#heatonchapel
#stockport
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#levenshulme
#burnage
#manchester
#flood
#floods
#flooding
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Saw my first Citroen Ami in the wild today while cycling in Cheshire.
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Is there a different type of low traffic neighbourhood in the UK that is less controversial? The holiday park.
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This is possibly one reason Scotland has much better gravel tracks for cycling than England. When wind farm gets built, they require service roads which can create 100kms of gravel tracks for walking, running and cycling.
Your periodic reminder that England, a windswept nation with more potential for onshore wind power than almost anywhere else in the world (other than Scotland), banned new onshore wind farms in 2017.
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Gov could stop speeding like this if they wanted with technology. Car manufacturers sell something they know is unnecessarily capable of speeding. Doubly they sell them on the basis of their performance. (watch most adverts) Car industry & gov both irresponsible.
It doesn’t matter how good a driver you think you are, at these speeds you’re not even slightly in control.
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There is absolutely no way you would know there was a bus gate here.
'Unsuspecting motorists' hit with an 'incredible' 27,000 fines in 12 months
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Shared Users pavements that give way should be made illegal. Not fit for purpose, more dangerous, constantly having to give way at junctions. They also create resentment. This video was captioned "£1000s spent on cycle lanes and they don't use them"
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Signs e-bikes are a game changer? seen my first late 70-80s women flying up the road out of Kettleshulme on an e-bike to the top of the Brickworks. Then I saw another older lady on an e-bike at the top of Cowlow Lane, which is here:
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UK Council: There is no way we could give one lane of the dual carriageway to a bi directional cycle lane, it would cause traffic chaos and delay the buses.
Dual carriageways in urban areas up and down the UK:
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Paid my Road Tax (vehicle excise duty) A generous contribution to the up keep and maintenance of the roads. The right to complain about cyclists has been granted, they don't pay road tax, therefore have have no right to be on the road or have the cheek to ask for their own lanes
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Glasgow to get city wide 20mph zone. Green are to become 20mph streets, Blue are existing 20mph streets and Red are to stay 30mph streets.
To encourage more walking, wheeling and cycling, the speed limit on almost 4,000 Glasgow streets is set to be lowered to 20mph.
These proposed changes support national strategy to roll out this safer speed limit in built up areas across Scotland.
More 👉
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Just imagine crawling through the centre of Manchester in a car on a warm day, being overtaken by pedestrians. People put themselves through this nightmare.
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@Rachel_Mantell
When you opposed to LTNs, traffic calming and safer streets and your sides doing this.
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@OutOfCycling
Got to be honest, I always cycle a bit faster when someone is chasing me with a chainsaw too.
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This is exactly what we want to see, streets safe enough kids can play out on them. Where motorists drive slowly, respectfully and cautiously. The only problem here is the driver.
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I wish the mostly single occupancy drivers would stop attempting to drive two seats a breast, slowing the cyclists, getting them frustrated. They should be made to drive single file. They're just stopped in the middle of the road not moving, it's awful. Council should sort it.
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@_chrisdeleon
@RachSalv
@GeorgeMonbiot
Most of the Snowdonia, Lake District & The Pennies should be rain forests. They are instead lands ravaged by intensive sheep farming
The land in front of the fence & the land above the fenced tree line, sheep are reared. The land in the middle is part of a military base, left to grow wild. Interesting to see what the hills should look like.
@GeorgeMonbiot
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@BrentToderian
@EmmanuelSPV
I found footage from the same road in 2012. The difference is stark.
2012 vs 2020 What a transformation. Highlighting the inefficiency of the automobile as means of transporting people.
@Anne_Hidalgo
2014 vision of re-engineering the city's roads and Junctions to be less car centric has really paid off. Less pollution, congestion & more cycling
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@LiamThorpECHO
@davelostdave
You could help by persuading your paper not to take the editorial line of not presenting cycle lanes as 'controversial' & 'row' so much. They should be treated as standard infrastructure like roads and pavements, all main roads should have them like in the Netherlands etc
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@adamtowler2
Nope, I suggested an alternative to beating 45 minutes because someone was complaining about being stuck in car traffic, they weren't happy with it. That's when I got all the...what if it's raining
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Great turnout on the A6 through Levenshulme. Cross section of people, families to brand new people on bikes. Asking for safe protected cycle lanes on the A6, so they don't have share the same road space as HGVs and heavy traffic.
@StockportMBC
@ManCityCouncil
You can do this.
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Went to visit the new Lombard Street style walking/cycling path & bridge over the M8 in Glasgow to the new Sighthill housing development.
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If someone had intentionally shot someone with a shotgun, would we give them their gun license back after a 20 month suspension?
@DominicRaab
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There is room for a bi-directional cycle path on Bramhall Lane South,
@WalkRideStocky
. Shouldn't have to cycle in the central hatching to avoid the traffic.
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@liambillington
Active travel barely exists in Tameside. Their 'tantrums' are probably out of desperation for safety. If you built a network of quality protected cycle lanes, which should be basic infrastructure like pavements & roads. You would probably never hear from people who ride bikes.
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Car Parking in a major city center is expensive shocker. If you park in the centre of Amsterdam etc you can expect to pay 6 euros an hour.
Erm Manchester what fresh car parking hell is this? £34.95 for SIX HOURS!! Feel sorry for anyone stung by this one heading to the city for a day out. It’s the NCP at Spinningfields
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The radicalisation that goes on in anti 20mph FB groups is astounding.
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@fredcolon
That sounds like poor driving, should be giving way to people starting to cross.
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@dibbeke1
Try it in a city, at best you are going to get 8km in Amsterdam, before you hit the centre.
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@WelshConserv
Seems you misunderstood what a 20mph speed limit on urban roads are about, I've put it in picture terms for you.
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@andrewellson
3 people, even the trolley alone wasn't enough, hence the need for a back pack too. If it was 5 people, I'd be tempted to get a cart like the below.
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Someone on a local FB posted dash cam footage of a car going through a red light. I can't see the people reacting this way if it were a person on a bike.
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Cycled up and down the A56 with my 8 year old. Thank you
@TraffordCouncil
@AndrewHWestern
We would not have been able to do this before. Great addition to safe cycling infrastructure in GM. Saw lots more cycling on it as well, will get more popular.
@Chris_Boardman
@onetrafford
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@__Raff
@greenday761
I own a car, but I want to end car dependency, fewer cars in cities and more alternative options for people to travel around. If that makes me anti-car then so be it.
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A pick up truck to return a smoke alarm.
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Why do some cyclists, cycle on the pavement and not the road? I've used the A6 through Stockport as an example.
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Complaining about things is worthwhile. Well done
@StockportMBC
This gets worse every time I am in Stockport. Is this a public square or a car park now? How is this fair on those who legitimately pay to park in Stockport?
@StockportMBC
@cllrmattwynne
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When you get back from spending a week cycling in the Netherlands......
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The South City Way is good. No way I'd be cycling this route with a child if the protected cycle lane and crossing did not exist.
@FietserGlasgow
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@WorldBollard
At 23 seconds you see a massive car safely passing through the width filter. All these crashes are down to terrible driving, no excuses.
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@gmpolice
Drunk drivers shouldn't be on the road. Cars shouldn't be driving on the pavement. The example given could have easily been a pedestrian. No amount of hi-viz is going to save you from a drunk driver. Please tackle the source of danger, i.e. dangerous drivers & poor behaviour
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@Tony_Devenish
@SadiqKhan
Park Lane was Chaos 8 years ago. If you choose to travel by one of the slowest, most space inefficient forms of transport in a city, expect to encounter traffic. Removing the faster, space efficient alternative would be crazy, everyone shouldn't have to suffer
@cyclegaz
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@official_fgd
Can you have a word with what I believe is your employee Liam Thomas (as your trucks feature in his TL) Using a phone while driving 32 tonne truck & professing a desire to murder people on bicycles falls well below the standards of a professional driver.
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Do pedestrianisation properly and you get this. Stockport have done an excellent job around the market place.
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2 years later drivers are still not giving way to pedestrians on these minor side streets. Flow of pedestrians far greater than drivers, doesn't give good first time impression for visitors off the train walking to the centre. Action please.
@ManCityCouncil
@Piccadilly_Lab
@ManCityCouncil
@Piccadilly_Lab
Ducie Street is fantastic now, did a great job & it's safe place to walk. Please can you look at closing Lena & Paton street to cars. Once you've passed Ducie Street, you have to contend with them. Some cars were not giving way to pedestrians.
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The offshore windfarm will have about 140 turbines and can potentially power up to 1.2 million homes. The substation (something like the below) will take up a couple of fields. Ignore the NIMBYs and build the infrastructure we need.
“The implementation [of wind farm substations] is destructive”
Actor Ralph Fiennes discusses his campaign against plans to install renewable energy substations on greenfield sites
#BBCLauraK
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@theeyecollector
@LewisFinney18
This surely is a story, it's now 3 people dead since the Bolton Conservatives celebrated removing the protected cycle lanes and abandoning the full scheme. It's a total dereliction of duty to at least attempt to keep people safe.
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Women and a kid on a cargo bike through Stockport. Really need some protected cycle lanes on A6, there is the room, you can see effectively 6 lanes here.
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Park in prime location on spring gardens, Manchester. Can afford a very expensive Ranger Rover, but can't afford the release fee for well overstaying your timed parking. Entitled.
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Never apologise for driving legally and responsibly.
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Ahhh I remember it like yesterday when Andy Burnham aged 2, introduced The local government act 1972 to parliament.
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Sign this. A local man is currently in prison for killing a second person for dangerous driving. Shouldn't have been allowed to drive again after killing the first, a child
Petition: Lifetime driving ban if convicted of causing death by dangerous driving
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@GeorgeMonbiot
It's not just motorbikes, sports cars and modified exhausts are just as bad. There are many local dual carriage ways near me that become race tracks at night & you can hear the roar of the engines at 2 am. It needs tougher gov restrictions and noise cameras.
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@AyoCaesar
I am getting screamed at on Tiktok for suggesting people could walk/cycle to avoid 45 mins of car traffic on a 2km drive? Apparently all the drivers are transporting fridges, washing machines to the tip, it could get chilly or it might rain.
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