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💀 1,200 children are killed/injured within 500 metres of a school…
every month*
in the UK 😱
💀 Time to ban the motorised school run & prioritise active modes
#UnacknowledgedEverydayMotoringTerrorism
#StopDeKindermoord
@EricEatsPickles
🙏🏾
@fietsprofessor
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"Every time I get on it, I’m blown away
It’s amazing”😀
London plumber Shane Topley hired an Ebike during COVID to cut
#AirPollution
Not about sacrifice or "doing right thing"
But logical tool for job!
I expected to do 50–60% by bicycle but
it’s 95%😃
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We gathered today at Number 10 to say it's time to halt the new road-building.
The funding for these hugely destructive and expensive roads need to be spent on greener forms of transport.
Imagine what we could get with the billions being spent on roads. 1/3
#NoNewRoads
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Carlton carries the flag for cycling and trains. Why, oh why do world leaders only want to talk about electric cars?
No talk about cycling at COP26 is an absolute shocker.
I guess they can't make profit form cycling.
It's all still about profit, profit, profit.
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Kidical Mass London …
on the home stretch!
🌻🐰 🐭 🦊 🐸
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Spot the protestors - you can barely see us for the electric SUV taking pride of place outside the Dept. of Transport.
So let's start talking about the earth's resources required for making 40 million replacement vehicles, shall we?
#FundActiveTravel
#FundPublicTransport
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The Roads Building programme is an inappropriate path in a climate and ecological emergency.
This underpins the Government's push to promote the manufacturing and selling of private EVs to all - at the expense of investment in public and active travel.
This is
#NotNetZero
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“SUVs are a climate disaster, they cause air pollution and are dangerous for other road users.” New group
#TyreExtinguishers
have “disarmed” hundreds of SUVs in 13 UK locations overnight.
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Four reasons why building new roads is folly:
1/4
'We'll never see a net zero future with everyone owning EVs... We'll only see a net zero future if we massively invest in public transport and make it safe for people to cycle around their cities.'
@WeAreCyclingUK
#EVsNotEnough
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As part of the National Road Rebellion Day protesters in
#Cornwall
will gather in a field near Zelah Bridge over the
#A30
on Saturday, 29th January at 10am.
Many fields have been destroyed but campaigners are still fighting. These fields have names.
#RoadsRebellion
#NoNewRoads
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Roads Rebellion activists burst into
#London
car showroom to hold a “die-in” and demand that
@ToyotaMotorCorp
#StopDirtyLobbying
now!!
#ExtinctionRebellion
#RoadsRebellion
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Dirty Lobbying. It has to stop. Watch & learn.
@ToyotaUK
#StopDirtyLobbying
now!
There's a
#ClimateCrisis
& 10 million cars = 12 coal power stations, time for
#Toyota
to re-examine the business model & help build a better future for us all
#ExtinctionRebellion
Film:
@j_syz
💚
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“Eight-yr-old girl dies after *CAR USER* hits London primary school”
“..not treating this incident as terror-related”
But
#UnacknowledgedActsOfEverydayMotoringTerrorism
kill 5 ppl each day
Get SUV users off the streets
Recycle offensive weapons 🛠🚘⚙️
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@SetCheshire
@Wankpanzer
Main concern is that with incoming tide,
Antisocial tonka toy will contaminate beach & pollute the sea.
Apart from that …
😂😆😀😄🤣😂
#Impound
🚘🛠
#Recycle
#Reuse
#BanSUVs
#BloatTax
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JOIN US. We need to Government to hold regional citizen's assemblies on decarbonising transport.
The UK must cut emissions by 68% by 2030. We are all in this together.
Current RIS2 plans make no sense in a climate crisis when we need incentivising to drive less.
#NoNewRoads
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"Very rainy and blowy at the M4 bridge at J11 this morning - you can just about make out the bridge banner in the distance behind us but too windy to also display the banner we are holding in the pic 😀"
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“Stonehenge and the surrounding landscape has been a sacred site for thousands of years and we’re grateful that it’s not going to be carved up to meet short-sighted traffic concerns.”
Photo:
#XRSouthEastUK
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Outside the blue zone - asking delegates if we should be building any new roads, in wealthier nations, in a climate emergency? The majority agreed with us! NO!
And that car free cities, free buses, cheaper electric trains were needed over the fantasy of individual EV ownership.
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@GhostPanther
Contrast this piece of video
#gaslighting
b/s with
the treatment of
@SDonziger
.
Chevron
#perps
inflicted great harm upon
@SDonziger
as they persecuted & hounded him.
These corporate thugs must be brought down;
& brought to book
They must serve time
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@ActualPersn
@MikeLydon
@IDoTheThinking
Last time we looked, it was drivers doing the killing not people walking.
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Do we have a CARbon crisis or not ?
Because the way car makers are allowed to carry on suggests not! 🤔
Extracting rare metals, building ICE cars till 2030 and Hybrid till 2035 - all for entrenching car dependency - a culture that wrecks nature, the atmosphere and our streets.
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👍🏽 Maryland & Forest Gate LTNs to be permanent despite opposition
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"This act is not suicide.
This is a deeply fearless act of compassion to bring attention to
#climatecrisis
..ppl are being driven to extreme ..
#climate
grief & despair..
I do not want .. young people start thinking about
self-immolation”
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What kind of vision is this: expand roads, build roads, construct housing on green fields, never stop?
To what end? More money for construction firms? More profits for shareholders?
What's driving the endless need to expand and gobble up our natural world?
#NoNewRoads
#XRSurrey
took part in the
#RoadsRebellion
National Day of Action against the £27bn road building programme, protesting at Wisley where a massive expansion of the M25/J10 is planned.
#StopRIS2
#NoNewRoads
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Whoever thought this was a good idea? It cuts through the middle of Glasgow creating noise and toxic particulate pollution. Limit the speed to 40mph out of respect for residents! And to cut emissions!
@GlasgowCC
We did not enjoy walking over it each day 😶🌫️
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@UKLabour
Shocking! You should not be backing a climate denying government. As the opposition - you need to call out climate denial and support the protestors to end the 42 new gas and oil projects.
@Ed_Miliband
- did you sanction this messaging that will send young people to prison?
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What's the impact of building new roads in a
#Climate
and
#EcologicalCrisis
?
Come along, join us for discussion and to hear key speakers including Lisa Hopkinson plus Transport Action Network.
Join the
#RoadsRebellion
!
#ExtinctionRebellion
Register at
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🌎Open Letter to the UK Government🌎
Halt the Road to Nowhere!
Review the Transport Strategy.
New roads and electric cars are
#NotNetZero
. Cancel RIS2. Set targets for cutting car use
@COP26
#EbikesNotEcars
#FundPublicTransport
#FundActiveTravel
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RIS2 is little known about. We want the Government to tell the truth about the carbon impacts of this programme. The contracts are huge e.g. Lower Thames Crossing = £8billion.
Wales has halted road-building - why not us? Where is the media on this? 3/3
@GwynTopham
@RHarrabin
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‘The bicycle is an emancipatory machine, and it should be safe for everyone to use one on our roads.’
This machine tackles climate change like no other.
How can Britain become a ‘great cycling nation’ when it’s so scary to ride a bike? | Adam Becket
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You can say that again
"Any relapse or stasis in
#emissions
reduction policies could lead to a plausible worst case of 7°C of warming by the end of the century (10% chance)"
It’s no longer possible to be patient when it comes to better city-building in the face of multiple, over-lapping crises.
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"Just transition" in energy??🤢
...'everyone needs/can afford a car' narrative is all pervasive & pernicious🤮
E-Bikes have huge potential for
#socialjustice
AND
#climateaction
:
an undersold solution
New-to-EBike users' stories are huge validation
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The UK Government’s plan for all to switch to EVs is destructive. It’s not a transport strategy about public good it’s based on private profit. Rio Tinto lithium mine: thousands of protesters block roads across Serbia | Serbia | The Guardian
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On 29/1, road-building opposition groups acted together to say
#StopBuildingNewRoads
and to demand funds are flipped into public transit and active travel, in all areas.
For England, to
#ReduceCarUse
by 2030 as Wales and Scotland have done.
1/14
@XRebellionUK
@John_Whitelegg
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Great turn out for the
@London_Cycling
Ride For Womens’ right to cycle free from
#RoadAbuse
today 💚
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Whenever we hear anything about climate change its not about dealing with the issue, its about selling cars. In the new Government plans its all about EVs and no mention of cycling and walking.'
The raw material extraction will destroy the living world.
3/4
@_wearepossible
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More roads, more cars, more pollution, millions of tonnes more carbon, less nature. Is this really what we want?
We call for a pause and review of the Transport Strategy.
We can do better than this.
Watch our video:
1/2
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What's the carbon impact of building roads?
How do we oppose new roads in the 2020s?
Why are private electric vehicles the main thrust of the Government's strategy?
Lisa Hopkinson and TAN present, join us to discuss.
FREE event register at .
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'4,000 miles of new roads! Road building is the worst idea. It has to stop. The Arundel Bypass will destroy 3 villages, a water meadows, wildlife and nature. It will drive up emissions.'
@CBTransport
@TfQL2Pagers
@TransportActio2
4/4
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@willnorman
@JoRigby_Balham
Every school should have a motor exclusion zone.
Car parks in schools also set the wrong example & squander vitally needed space.
#EndCarDependency
🔥
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Yep.
We are driving into oblivion in bloated cars that resemble Armageddon climate deniers tanks.
Meanwhile, Governments make sure the car industry goes unregulated.
SUVs are a daily slap in the face to future generations.
The phrase 'while Rome burns...' springs to mind.
This succinctly epitomises the car industry’s approach to the climate emergency
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We need targets for reducing car use in the way Wales and Scotland's Governments have done.
The UK Government's strategy is baking in car dependency.
Sure, E cars are part of the future picture - but we need to talk about enabling other cleaner ways of moving around. 2/3
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@DavidZipper
Happy to see these replace the monstrous tanks blighting the US.
Though better still would be E Bikes/Trikes?
A ton of energy & savings: sane & social.
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Car Free bridges.
XR UK in protest at government wrong doing.
Energy crisis driven by oil, gas and coal.
War financed by oil, gas and coal
Climate crisis caused by oil, gas and coal. Let’s join the dots.
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French city of Montpellier makes public transport free for all residents
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#COP26
agree to
#CutCarUse
This would drive a
#TrueZero
transport transformation and end car dependency.
Governments would * have to * fund alternatives instead.
We Must Cut Car Use To Save The Planet, Agrees U.K. Government via
@forbes
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A renaissance in anti-road building resistance is rising.
Why is the Government clinging to this plan in a climate emergency?
If we halted new roads we could instead fund a world-renowned walking & cycling network seamlessly linked with buses & trains.
@GwynTopham
@RHarrabin
Watch this! MASSIVE March against the eco-destruction planned by Norfolk County Council here in the Wensum River valley. We can stop this road!
#nonewroads
#witnesstheWensum
..please RT!
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Scientists uncover link between car fumes and lung cancer that helps explain why so many non-smokers develop disease
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'I want to take a stand against RIS2 because I'm speaking out for life, for living things. I'm not speaking out for concrete, air pollution and metal boxes on wheels... Noise pollution from roads impacts birds...their numbers are dying away because of noise'
@Natures_Voice
2/4
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Come to car blighted Cornwall—help trash the place—turning it into a series of car parks,
#TrafficSewers
& rat-run foulled enclaves.
Wallow in hypocrisy at
@EdenProject
colossal car-storage depot.
Cycling/walking?
Good luck with that
🚘🚘🚘💀🚘
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@TheEconomist
The godfathers of
#GasLighting
…
the car & road lobby
“fairer & more efficient” 🤮
💩💩💩
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EVs webinar...
Carlton (at 16:30) points out the girth and heft of
EVs = potholes and congestion.
We already have 40m cars!
Do we want more? "The planet, grid and roads won't cope"
What we need is more cycling, more walking, more public transit. 🌎
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Tottenham Court Rd,
@CamdenCouncil
—tho exempt today from
CAR FREE status enjoyed 6 days p/wk, nevertheless offers blissful traffic-respite & space, for rollerskate revellers 👍🏽
Needed as DEFAULT 👌🏾
@TfL
@MayorOfLondon
@willnorman
@CityWestminster
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🙏🏿Tell Rishi Sunak to
🔴 STOP Funding RIS2
£27 BILLION RIS2 roads plan
Treasury needs your views on
Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) priorities
(next 3 critical yrs of Govt spending)
🔴 Please respond now: Deadline 30 September
1👇🏿
@transportactio2
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All who are rightly worried about climate change, the UK being one of the most nature depleted countries in Europe, road traffic increases, loss of communities, air and noise pollution please spend five minutes objecting to the 8km road, costing £500 million. 🙏
@TransportActio2
Time till 8th March is getting short. Please respond now by emailing your objection to a27arundelbypass
@highwaysengland
.org.uk
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What could transport look like in the next five years?
We will debate the alternative vision to RIS2 and car dependency.
Carlton Reid: Transport historian, analyst and writer
Chris Todd: Transport Action Network
in Conversation with Caspar Hughes
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🇫🇷 Paris residents to vote on Sunday on plan to triple parking charges for SUVs
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Greenpeace UK is taking the govt to court to stop
@Shell
’s Jackdaw gas project.
Jackdaw won't lower energy bills, but it will make the climate crisis worse.
It's time to
#StopJackdaw
@KwasiKwarteng
.
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@Jesse_Norman
@allpartycycling
Sounds nice…
but,
when set against
£34,000,000,000
for mass road building—that increases & escalates
🚘dependency—it’s a bit futile no?
🧐
#CarBlight
&
#Conflict
N E W R O A D S
=
N E W T R A F F I C
💀
#Carbon
#NHSCrisis
#HealthCrisis
#RoadViolence
#EnvironmentalCrisis
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GB News owner Paul Marshall's hedge fund has
$2.2 Billion
#FossilFuel
investments––
includes companies for
#FF
extraction/refining/transpt/distribution
2022, 1/3 GB News presenters spread
#climate
science denial & 50%+ attacked climate action 💀
@DeSmog
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Paris mayor plans to triple SUV parking tariffs
👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
“This is about very expensive cars, driven by ppl who’ve not yet made the changes to their behaviour that have to be made [for the
#climate
].”
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James Lovelock, creator of Gaia hypothesis, dies on 103rd birthday
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.
@ExtinctionR
has criticised the
@sciencemuseum
for taking funding from Shell for the Our Future Planet exhibition (running May––September)
@GretaThunberg
has hit out at Shell after the museum's signing of a gagging clause over funding.
#ClimateCrisis
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We rode together.
Mass action captures the imagination and shows people that another world is possible.
#NoNewFossilFuels
#FundActiveTravel
@XRebellionUK
@XRLondon
@WeAreCyclingUK
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@wevegotwheels
Needs to be reported for threatening ABH & intimidation.
How are these ppl EVER allowed to operate lethal machinery in the public domain?
#BanForLife
#15minutecities
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What could transport look like in the next five years?
We will debate the alternative vision to RIS2 and car dependency.
Carlton Reid: Transport historian, analyst and writer
Chris Todd: Transport Action Network
in Conversation with Caspar Hughes
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Lithium, Cobalt, Nikel, Steel, Battery production all come with an environmental price.
Electric cars have a long way to go to become clean - should we be car sharing in the future?
@carltonreid
@TransportActio2
@countcaspargh
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🌎Open Letter to the UK Government🌎
Halt the Road to Nowhere!
Sign the letter!
#StopRIS2
#NoNewRoads
are needed
New roads & electric cars are
#NotNetZero
Let’s move forward!
#FundPublicTransport
#FundActiveTravel
#RebelForLife
Please share widely
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Same in London 😳
Love
@CamdenCouncil
for their fabulous progress on enabling
#ActiveTravel
& traffic calming schemes ❤️
..but what action can they, or ANY council take against footway driving/obstruction… idling etc?
..while this UKGov won’t even condemn anti-ULEZ bombing 🤬
Never done this before but just tried to report dangerous pavement parking.
@WirralCouncil
website points me to
@MerseyPolice
and
@MerseyPolice
point me to
@WirralCouncil
We need pavements for people not parking. Who’s going to take charge?
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“[50% of publc] & Attenborough—are right.
Britain has been officially revealed as one of worst countries in 🌎 for biodiversity, having lost nearly 50% since industrial revolution.
& gov is doing shamefully little to tackle this”
#NoNewRoads
🔴
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Small Citreons are trending in France. Cars in the future needs to be small and shared.
Imagine a pool of these in each neighbourhood.
Let's move away from the idea that we all need our own privately owned cars.
For bigger trips hire a bigger car!
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Check out
@PollutaMotor
- dirty lobbying needs to end to arrest climate breakdown.
Lobbying to block climate action, whilst putting millions of new hybrid/SUV cars on the road is immoral.
We need a new model of car use: shared, small electrics.
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🌍Roads Rebellion UK National Day of Action 🌎
Social Media Storm!!
Halt the Road to Nowhere!!
#StopRIS2
#NoNewRoads
are needed in a climate emergency.
Watch out for
#RoadsRebellion
banners this Saturday! Put photos of your banners online and share widely!
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RIS2 2020-25
p94 for a list of new and expanded roads.
See
@TransportActio2
for the carbon impacts of these roads
Fix potholes, YES.
Build new trunk and A roads, NO.
Wales have suspended new road-building so must we.
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Child obesity in pandemic could have lifelong effects, study says
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Scotland and Wales have car use reduction targets in place for 2030 - why doesn’t England?
Most people don’t know anything about RIS2 and it’s hugely destructive and expensive road building plans.
Wales👏 for suspending road building.
#NoNewRoads
#StopRIS2
The Welsh Government shd be congratulated on its approach to transport policy+road building. It is hugely better than anything from DfT in London. What is the budget for the 20 road schemes still going ahead?
@Amanwy
@IWA_Wales
@TANCymru
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As you would expect...
No mention of climate change, the biodiversity crisis, 36,000 death a year from air pollution, chronic and historical underfunding of buses and trains, lack of safe cycling within and between villages, towns and cities.
Daily Fail.
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Who is ready for the
#RoadsRebellion
Day of Action?
Have you got your banners ready?
Who’s in? Where will you be on Saturday 29th?
#NoNewRoads
#StopRIS2
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"They patrol the roads like an occupying army.
Amid London’s cherry blossom,
the SUVs have taken over.
Whose tanks are these?
We had chance to reclaim outdoor space..
Why is so much of our cities dedicated to cars?"
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🌼 German city bans cars and removes traffic lights in centre
🌻 “The time for experiments is over.
🌳 Now we are getting on with the job of transforming our city,”
#CarFreeCities
🌿
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“Westminster’s new Labour leadership has also pledged to move towards a “15-minute city”, where most resident needs can be reached w/in 1/4 of an hour by foot or bike”
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🟢 Islington Council to introduce low-traffic schemes on 70% of roads 👍🏽
❤️ Fantastic News! ❤️
As well as reducing rat-running &
#roadviolence
these places will have more:
• green spaces
• widened footpaths
• bike parking
• placemaking features
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Things no longer allowed because of clear harm to human health
(but lobbyists fought hard against restrictions)
🔴 Smoking in public
🔴 Lead in petrol
🔴 Tobacco ads
🔴 Lobotomies
🔴 Asbestos
What’s next?
🔴 Driving
(
@adamtranter
🙏🏾)
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Damning annual report from UK
#climate
watchdog slams gov’s progress on reducing🚘use
Climate Change Committee's 438-page report
(28 June)
🔴Criticises this UKgov’s road-building plans
🔴Praises
#LTNs
🔴Demands reversal of
#ActiveTravel
budget cuts
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Happy Easter.
Read this short letter. It’s shocking that the whole Conservative Party is not fully versed on the climate science.
We might then get the climate and ecological leadership we need.
We cannot let Angus Rose die. He has one simple demand.
#NoNewFossilFuels
Clinicians, scientists, and public health experts have signed an open letter calling on
@BorisJohnson
to brief MPs on the science and urgency of the
#climatecrisis
Read the letter, published in
@bmj_latest
@Angus_Climate
@KamranAbbasi
@fgodlee
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@markvauxhall
@UB1UB2
Speed is also leading factor in serious injuries inflicted by car users;
Speed also suppressed uptake of AT
Speed means excess emissions, particulates, noise & routine intimidation.
#CarFreeCities
#BanForLife
#BanSUVs
🔥
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@eointf
@TheWarOnCars
@IBIKEDublin
That’s so so brilliant - pls add another page on the noise issue - inside a house you can escape the other factors but the noise penetrates the walls and windows disturbing the families sleep and peace. 👏👏👏
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So we get two new Motorway tunnels under the Thames!
Who wants them precisely ? Haulage firms, construction companies? Certainly not locals - their quality of lives are being diminished by air and noise pollution. Our planet is being trashed by profiteering.
@SilvertownTn
1/2. Baroness Vere visited HS2’s South Portal site to see how National Highways is working with
@HS2ltd
to capture learnings and best practice to benefit the Lower Thames Crossing project.
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Xmas day 2023
1. Why is thru-traffic still permitted on Trafalgar Square?
2. Why is there NO public tspt in London today?
3. Why is central London not service vcls only?
@MayorofLondon
@willnorman
@London_Cycling
@WestminsterSts
@LDN_LS
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@XRBrentLondon
Cars ruin our cities. It was a joy to make this a car free space. Like the blocking of the four bridges we made space that people enjoyed. We didn’t hear any pedestrians demanding we clear the space for cars to dominate.
#CarFreeCities
#CleanAirForEveryone
#NoNewFossilFuels
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It’s so terrible that in a climate emergency people are having to fight so hard to stop this monstrous, carbon intensive road being built.
Why does no-one in Government have the moral compass to rein in National Highways
#NoNewRoads
in a
#ClimateCrisis
This stunning bluebell wood, home to badger, red kite, buzzard, roe deer, tawny owl, barn owl, & Barbastelle bat, will become a noise & light polluted, litter strewn sideshow to
@NorfolkCC
’s
#NorwichWesternLink
road if they get their way. Don’t let this happen
@NaturalEngland
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