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Super proud of my daughter Alice Murray Seifert appointed as Colorectal Consultant Surgeon at University College London Hospital.The only woman in whole of north central London out of > 20 male colorectal surgeons UCLH, Whittington and Royal Free!
@rcsnews
@wins
@uclh
@ashishkja
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Amazing transformation. Until recently Alfred Place, just off Tottenham Court Road, was a two-way street and parking lot and now it’s a park
@LDADesign
@CamdenCouncil
#westendproject
@DSDHA
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Ludgate Hill this morning. One light change. C.130 cyclists. 5 cars. We need even greater reallocation of road space. New Mayor take note!
@willnorman
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Very pleased to show charismatic Mayor of Manila, Isko Moreno Domagoso
@IskoMoreno
around
@kingscrossN1C
and
@CoalDropsYard
- as well as the
@nlalondon
model - discussing public space and urban planning
@londonpartners
@ukinphilippines
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Easter present. A couple of years ago this was one of the most polluted and congested streets in London. Now it is a public space for people
#aldwych
@BrentToderian
@SophieJThompson
@PrimeraLondon
@SomersetHouse
@TheCourtauld
@KingsCollegeLon
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I did this sketch of Old Crompton Street if you gave over the pavements to bars and cafes and the street to cyclists and pedestrians
@DeborahSaunt
@bricycle
@benjamin_nla
@tokyobikelondon
@andymatthews
@Chris_Boardman
@London_Cycling
@cityofwestminster
@theJeremyVine
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Canaletto's painting 'Looking Towards Westminster from near York Water Gate' of 1746. Was Renzo Piano aware of this painting when he designed The Shard I wonder?
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Today, as part of the London Festival of Architecture, we launch an international design competition to find more elegant solutions to light protection for cyclists than wands and plastic barriers
@LFArchitecture
Download the competition brief
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Cycleway 9 King Street Hammersmith. One piece of the jig saw complete. Thanks
@willnorman
@W_Bradley
@LBHF
Next up
@LBofHounslow
Come on
@RBKC
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Here's another great new public space in London - Princes Circus at the top of Shaftesbury Avenue. It used to be really sh**ty, now it's great spot to sit out in the sunshine
@SophieJThompson
@LDADesign
@DSDHA
nearly 20 years since Ken Livingstone launched 100 Public Spaces
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This is what Cheapside in the City of London could look like as a shared space for pedestrians, wheelchairs, penny farthings and cargo bikes
@CheapsideBA
@cityoflondon
@thejeremyvine
@pedalmeapp
@bricycle
@sustranslondon
@MattWinfield2
@London_Cycling
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Entrances are so important and often downplayed these days. I really like this one on the Meakin Estate in Southwark. Pity about the bollards.
@createstreets
@WorldBollard
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This so great. Devonshire Road, Chiswick. Let’s hope these pandemic street improvements are made permanent.
@HanifKhan_1
@LBofHounslow
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Bank Junction this morning. Enjoy it while you can. Visitors and workers in a public space that was once a deadly junction. On June 20th the Corporation might roll back the clock. City residents write to your councillors
@sgaventa
@carocomms
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Regent's Park this morning. Protester Caspar Hughes D-locked by the neck to the park gates on Euston Road. Now is the time to stop London's parks being used a rat runs!
@RPcyclists
@countcaspargh
@theroyalparks
@willnorman
@W_Bradley
@Heidi_LDN
#closethegates
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On June 20 the City of London votes on whether current restrictions on Bank Junction should remain. Black cabs have been lobbying hard. They cite the benefits for the disabled. But disabled users don't agree. Watch this video of wheelchair user Ben Foley
@citypolicychair
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I drew this picture of a pedestrianised Soho a month ago and here it is. Sadly no cycling, although last night was too crowded.Central areas have got to do more of this to continue to attract visitors - streets for people not cars
@leannetritton
@createstreets
@london_cycling
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Enjoying a coffee outside 1 Lombard Street- only possible because of widened pavements as part of the excellent Bank Junction improvements
@citypolicychair
@cityoflondon
@brucemcvean
@psimonk
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There have been some comments on my tweet about Aldwych that this space looks rather empty. It was. I took it at 7.45am on Easter Sunday, inspired by the sunny morning light and emerging cherry blossoms. Critics might like to know that the roads were empty at that time as well!
Easter present. A couple of years ago this was one of the most polluted and congested streets in London. Now it is a public space for people
#aldwych
@BrentToderian
@SophieJThompson
@PrimeraLondon
@SomersetHouse
@TheCourtauld
@KingsCollegeLon
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We need to get our act together in this country as far as mass timber/CLT - hard to imagine something as good as this happening
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View of St Paul's Cathedral dome and the Walkie Talkie from Fetter Lane. This is the first time I have seen this astonishing juxtaposition
@ejngee
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NLA’s amazing London model in its new meanwhile home at Coal Drops Yard at Kings Cross
@nlalondon
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All over 65s should take up cycling, so they will be healthier and less of a burden to the NHS in the years to come. Electric bikes mean everyone can do it
@BromptonBicycle
UK’s age concern - the proportion of people aged 85 and over is projected to almost double over the next 25 years. Population projected to increase by 3 million over next decade, to 69.4m - ONS
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Best
#ActiveTravel
quote:
@Chris_Boardman
on
@BBCr4today
- asked why more people weren't cycling on a new unjoined-up cycleway - "It's like building a bridge and not putting roads at either side and saying no one is using the bridge"
@RBKC
please note re
#kensingtonhighstreet
We’re encouraging more people to cycle and walk through a new Executive Agency body,
#ActiveTravel
England. 🚴 🚶
@Chris_Boardman
will be leading the new body as the first interim national Active Travel Commissioner.
Find out more about our plans here 👉
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Went to a wonderful Tosca at the Royal Opera House, then walked under the beautiful Bridge of Aspiration by Wilkinson Eyre and took this photo thinking of Chris Wilkinson and what a huge loss his death is to the world of architecture
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I'm sure there are sometimes good reasons for facade retention, but this surely is a joke? Grade ll US Embassy by Eero Saarinen completed 1960 using precast sections. Photo in June 2018 (left) and today (right) Conversion to hotel by David Chipperfield for Qatari Diar.
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A neighbour just returned from New Zealand where everyone wears masks & gloves in the street, shoppers have to use hand gel, baskets & trolleys are regularly disinfected. Arrivals in NZ must quarantine 14 days. They arrived at Heathrow - no health checks at all. NZ 11. UK 15,500
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Awesome piece of infrastructure stitching C9 cycleway thru Hammersmith Broadway one of London's most complex and dangerous gyratories
@LBHF
@TfL
@StephenCowan
On July 24
@BedPkBicyclists
will try this out on ride to Canary Wharf
#VideoTweet
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At least
@ExtinctionR
#ExtinctionRebellionLondon
managed to pedestrianise Oxford Street for a bit to show how much Londoners are missing
@MayorofLondon
@Westminster_LCC
@CityWestminster
- and the air was better too!
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A friend cycled to the American Bar at the Savoy. He wondered What will they do with my Brompton? As soon as he arrived the commissionaire politely took his bike and helmet and stored it in a locker. He said the lockers are full of Bromptons. That’s service! Take note
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This is very worrying. Next week's Court of Common Council in the
@CityofLondon
is voting on a motion to permit E-W and W-E access to Bank Junction for licensed Hackney Carriages at all times, 7 days a week
@Emily_Benn
@LDN_LS
@London_Cycling
@carfreedayLDN
@Chris_Boardman
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Chiswick to Limehouse. Great bike ride this morning. Cable Street, Embankment, Olympia and now Chiswick High Road all segregated - except Kensington High Street. Thank you
@mragilligan
@willnorman
@HanifKhan_1
No thanks to
@rbkc
@BedPkBicyclists
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Great messages from
@BromptonBicycle
Land is scarce in London, why do we waste it like this?
@willnorman
@Will_Brompton
@carfreedayLDN
@velo_citymag
@RideLondon
@Farrells
@wsp
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I can only presume he doesn't want to get elected. The majority of Londoners are in favour of LTNs.
Sadiq Khan imposed Low Traffic Neighbourhoods without consultation or consideration for the traffic and pollution they would cause.
And they stop emergency services getting to the people who need them quickly.
As Mayor, I'll scrap unwanted LTN schemes.
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It's like rush hour right across London - here's Parliament Square
@willnorman
Loads of people cycling today on the new family cycle lane, C9, on Chiswick High Road. Wonderful to see this — already less pollution, already a safer environment for all.
#C9
@London_Cycling
@Jo_Earlsfield
@HounslowCycling
@RonnieMushiso
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Reducing through-traffic in Bank Junction will create a public space in the centre of the Square Mile that will be the envy of major cities around the world. Surely the historic City of London deserves better than a deadly junction at its heart
#returntothecity
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If
@MayorofLondon
is to meet greening targets set out in new London Plan we should be building more towers like Bosco Verticale in Milan by Stefano Boeri
@nlalondon
#nlatallbuildings
@PaulWellman_EG
@CTBUH
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We owe him so much.
The Design Museum mourns the loss of its founder, design visionary, Sir Terence Conran. The designer, philanthropist and businessman sadly passed away today, at 88 years old. He had a big impact on British life and revolutionised everyday living.
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Sixth finger. Going back to work? Avoid the virus! You need one of these for buttons - street crossing, lifts, bells, train doors etc Easier than using your elbow. I turned this from old hawthorn branch
@woodworkers
#COVID19
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The Opening of the Gates ceremony marked the return of Temple Bar to civic use as an education centre and as the home of the Architects' Company
@RoyalFamily
@cityoflondon
@citylordmayor
@citypolicychair
@CW_Architect
@ChrisDysonArch
@AndrewC_Marsden
@MarthaGrekos
@smithgrant
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Finishing touches to elegant new pedestrian bridge at Kings Cross by Moxon Architects and Arup creating a new route to Coal Drops Yard and NLA's new residency space - showing DMI exhibition and London Model
@kingscrossN1C
@moxonarchitects
@ArupGroup
@CoalDropsYard
@nlalondon
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Hurrah! City of London’s Planning and Transport Committee recommends no change at Bank Junction prior to the debate about allowing taxis through the improved space at a future meeting of the Court of Common Council.
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City of London report: Bank Junction improvements have made it safer, less polluted & do not unreasonably impact on traffic flow
@london_cycling
@DaveHill
@psimonk
@livingstreets
@CPA_London
@theJeremyVine
@RossLydall
@BBCTomEdwards
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Hi
@willnorman
this needs sorting out. The Mall totally closed to cyclists because of the Marathon. No advance signage, no alternative routes, big detours. I understood it for the funeral, but for a sporting event they need to plan their logistics better.
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This new tree-lined stretch of C9 from Goldhawk Road to Chiswick Lane is particularly pleasant. It wends its way through greenery and bus stops with junctions designed to mitigate the problems of di-directional routes
@willnorman
@BedPkBicyclists
@bricycle
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Here's my letter to The Times today about a 3D computer model for London
@mayoroflondon
@nlalondon
@caro
@carocomms
@GIAupdates
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@financialtimes
How about balancing negative reporting on
#mipim
with news about
@clubpeloton
cycle to Cannes? Half a million or more raised for
@coram
- biggest single donor since William Hogarth!
@velo_citymag
@LGIM
#CycletoMIPIM
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#LSESadiq
"I'm not against tall buildings but the skyline belongs to Londoners and I am the guardian of that skyline"
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Dean Street, Frith Street, Greek Street, Bateman Street and Old Compton Street will all have timed closures to permit outdoor dining.
Does anyone know of a list of restaurants that are re-opening in Soho next week?
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We shouldn't forget the Duke of Edinburgh was a great champion of contemporary design through the Designer's Prize run by the
@designcouncil
from 1959-2011 - Andrew Ritchie won it in 2009 for
@BromptonBicycle
@Will_Brompton
@DesignMuseum
@MaxFordhamLLP
won it in 2008
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Bank Junction. The proclamation. Such an important public space. It needs a better name. How about Elizabeth Square, a fitting entry to Victoria Street
@cityoflondon
?
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TfL and Hounslow have published data showing that the C9 cycle lane in Chiswick has led to a significant increase in the number of people cycling as well as an improvement in air quality
@BedPkBicyclists
@theJeremyVine
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Our current obsession with health & wellbeing is nothing new, these instructions to tenants of Bournville Village, begun in 1893 to 'alleviate the evils of modern, more cramped living conditions' are, in the main, what the wellbeing industry promotes today
@gilliandarley
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Eh? What's happening here?
@KingstonCycling
Looks like pretty new installation on Surbiton Road
#crapcycleways
#miniholland
Who did this?
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Jaime Lerner "The car is the cigarette of the future. People used to think they could not exist without one"
#urbanist
@ben_derbyshire
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I'm leading a ride around City of London looking at new cycling infrastructure on Thursday as part of
@carfreedayLDN
#CarFreeDay
@livingstreets
@LDN_LS
@London_Cycling
@bricycle
@brucemcvean
@CultureMileLDN
@BedPkBicyclists
@RuthMayorcas
Register here:
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Sometimes I feel rather proud.
@ClubPeloton
@LGIM
#CycletoMIPIM
@Coram
#cycling
leaving for
@MIPIM
@LondonatMIPIM
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"Free chips from the Dolphin" Listening to
@Chris_Boardman
Desert Island Discs podcast; cycling on C9 protected cycleway; kids, scooters, lycra. Bright, sunny day. Brilliant! Thank you
@HanifKhan_1
And no car jams!
@BedPkBicyclists
#whenyouknowyouvemadeit
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This is such good news! The new hierarchy of priority gets a step closer to adoption in the Highway Code.
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The case for better conditions for pedestrians in the City of London. Traffic in the City 2018 reports taxis & cars take 53% of the space & move 19% of people. Peds take up 9% of space and move 51%
#bankjunction
@The_CityCentre
@cityoflondon
@bricycle
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This morning I picked up my Hornbeam sapling as part of Hounslow Resident's tree Giveaway Scheme - 500 trees for local people to plant. Great idea.
@CllrSteveCurran
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The transformation of streets into places for people rather than as mere conduits for traffic was one of the few good things to come out of the pandemic. It's so important that we hold on to the positives and not return to bad old habits.
@jfglobemaker
@CarolineRussell
@CityWestminster
What
@jfglobemaker
says 👆
This is what Soho Streets for People are calling for, alongside
@WestminsterSts
&
@LDN_LS
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Sir Peter Hendy announces that Network Rail will be bringing back the Margaret Calvert-designed Rail Alphabet - the design strategy will be launched at an exhibition in the
@DesignMuseum
in October
@Patrick_Myles
@danielhwright
@nlalondon
@dezeen
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How can we create safer, healthier & more beautiful streets? This design competition aims to find more elegant solutions than wands and plastic barriers. Judges include
@willnorman
@theJeremyVine
and
@DBtodomundo
Download the competition brief
@BikeBubl
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The view from Waterloo Bridge compared June 2015 and June 2018
#changingfaceoflondon
@londonsoc
@DaveHill
@nlalondon
@cityoflondon
#canaletto
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"Cycle deaths up 40 per cent in a year despite quieter roads" shocking headline in
@thetimes
today. Highlights need for more protection
@theJeremyVine
@bricycle
@willnorman
@W_Bradley
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It was 8 years ago that I and a small group of cyclists rode 6000 km from Portland Oregon to Portland Place in London, studying cycling conditions in cities as they went. This vid shows the last leg from Windsor when over a hundred other riders accompanied us home
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Warning to
@BromptonBicycle
owners, you're not allowed in the Lightroom building where the Hockney show is being held. You're told to go Kings Cross station and leave it there. This is shocking for a recently fitted-out building at a time when active travel is so important.
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A great example of all those boomers who tell me they have no way of getting to the shops unless they get in their car
This is Jim, he is 91, he is a
#Manchester
artist and he loves his tricycle. ❤️
#StreetsforAll
#SafeStreetsSaveLives
#KeepGMMoving
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That's great to hear Tom. Yes, that's me. David Pearce, Secretary of SPAB, did the drawings and text. He also did Spot the Fireplace and Spot the Furniture. We sold thousands of them at 50p each through National Trust shops
@edwinheathcote
This is the book that switched me on to architecture, aged 6 and a half or something. I just noticed the back: was this published by YOU
@PGSMurray
??
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Come and picnic at Bank Junction on Sunday to celebrate the new public spaces created by the City of London and highlight dangers of backsliding by the Court of Common Council meeting on June 20th by agreeing to allow more through traffic
@RantyHighwayman
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Bank Junction improvements are coming on - if rather slowly - but it's really beginning to look like a place rather than a conduit for vehicles. Well done
@cityoflondon
@citypolicychair
@ShravanJoshi
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@SirPeterHendy
- "This morning buses were at 60% of pre-covid capacity, rail at 35% and road traffic at 93 per cent." A car-led recovery is not the answer. "There is no greater solution to this than charging people for roadspace." Hear! Hear!
@ben_rog
#UrbanAgeDebates
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Are these more elegant than plastic wands? They are by
@sarisofficial
and installed in number of US and Canadian cities. Could you design something better?
@createstreets
@cyclehoop
@bricycle
Enter the Light Protection Design Competition
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Great local turn out for Sophie Ellis-Bextor for Chiswick High Road Christmas Tree Lighting. Well done
@ChiswickFlowers
@kareninagarden
Complete with slight technical hitch
@SophieEB
and excellent security
@_Dermatologist
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The start of the Summer of Streets: Chiswick Flower Market turns a car park into a place for people
@CllrSteveCurran
@ChiswickHighRd
@BetterChiswick
@ChiswickFlowers
@alliesmorrison
#ChiswickCentre
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Peter Barber wins the first Building Beautiful Awards with McGrath Road in Newham
@PpeterPeter
#buildingbeautiful
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This GLA map shows areas of increase in home working. As far as my bit of West London is concerned more WFH seemed to equate with greater antagonism from motorists to low traffic neighbourhoods while local retail did well. What was their problem? Driving to the shops?
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London needs to do more of this, and quickly
@willnorman
Cities around the world are creating temporary improvements to permit physical distancing. Will that have a long-term effect on our streets?
Read Peter Murray's piece on life after lockdown:
#newlondonweekly
@PGSMurray
#NLAfuturestreets
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East Beach Cafe by Heatherwick Studio. The starting point of my
#RoundBritainbyBrompton
ride
@EastBeachCafe
@BromptonBicycle
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I was passing Stockwell Bus Garage (Adie Button & Parners 1953) and the door was open. 59m span. Awesome!
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Not true. all the data shows that if you make streets better, people will come.
@PGSMurray
@HanifKhan_1
@LBofHounslow
Many business will suffer from their customers being unable to park nearby.
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This is crazy. Turnham Green Terrace. Nice local shopping street. Has restricted access. Signs totally ignored. Rammed with cars.
@HounslowCycling
@LBofHounslow
@BedPkBicyclists
@willnorman
#enforcement
#StreetspaceLDN
@theJeremyVine
How much is this lot worth in fines?
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“Cycling should be for the many, not the brave” Ruth Cadbury (Lab. Brentford) speaking at Brompton Bicycle’s Active Travel Hustings
@BromptonBicycle
@willnorman
@W_Bradley
@Will_Brompton
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This is really important otherwise we will see a massive rise in car use in cities as people avoid crowded public transport as we emerge from lockdown
BREAKING: In a BIG move of national leadership, the
@jacindaardern
@JulieAnneGenter
New Zealand Govt will fund 90% of the cost to local councils of pop-up cycleways & footpath extensions for safe & healthy
#PhysicalDistancing
during
#COVID19
!
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Landlords should have some responsibility for maintaining the integrity of high streets even when their buildings are empty. Such desolate frontages as this
#chiswickhighroad
spread doom and gloom and impact on neighbouring businesses.
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Annual Parliamentary Bike Ride took place this morning complete with new Active Travel England CE Danny Williams
@RuthCadbury
@allpartycycling
@SelaineSaxby
@NLinUK
@tier_mobility
@London_Cycling
@activetraveleng
@bricycle
@cityoflondon
#bankjunction
@pedalmeapp
@citycyclists
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This is what this view should look like
As part of the
@MayorofLondon
#StreetspaceLDN
Plan, we’re creating one of the worlds largest car free areas in Central London to enable millions more people to safely walk and cycle. Some streets will be for walking & cycling only. Others will be bus, walking and cycling only.
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This is what Cheapside in the City of London could look like as a shared space for pedestrians, wheelchairs, penny farthings and cargo bikes
@willnorman
@W_Bradley
@brucemcvean
@alastairmmoss
@carfreedayLDN
#bankonsafety
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If
@theroyalparks
can't sort out the cars maybe it's time to put in protected cycleways
@loydgrossman
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Hurrah! "We will build first hundreds, then thousands, of miles of segregated cycle lane and create more low-traffic neighbourhoods to stop rat-running and allow people to walk and cycle. We will expand school streets, which have caused dramatic falls in pollution around schools"
Here's the detail document for the 10-point green plan we announced today. Lots more buses, bike lanes and low-traffic neighbourhoods.
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I went out on a bike ride today and realised that as levels of walking and cycling increase in our cities post-lock down all of us - cyclists, pedestrians, dog-walkers, joggers and motorists have got to improve our game, be more considerate and careful.
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