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Dan Brothwell - Custodian of the SHIFT scheme. Chair of Bike Worcester. Tweeting as me, views are my own. Mostly active travel. 🙂🚲
Three years ago, I wrote this article on how radically reimagining our cities can drastically reduce the frequency, intensity, and duration of heatwaves. With yet another ‘once in a lifetime’ heatwave impacting Europe, it is as relevant as ever. bigissue.com/opinion/heatwa…
Common misunderstanding: cyclists don't take the centre lane to hold anyone up. It's simply to prevent unsafe manoeuvres. When it becomes safe, we move to secondary - 50cm + from the kerb.
So you agree riding primary deliberately to prevent a car passing because of some notion it is not safe to pass is also obstruction. Glad that's settled.
New @BikeWorcester blog is up (thanks to @SaferRoadsYorks for the content from a thread here on X). bikeworcester.org.uk/blog/why-are-s…
@for_birmingham Great ride Harborne good work handsome turn out for first ride 💪 Thank you to everyone who turned up.
One of the many reasons cyclists will ride in the middle of the lane.
Dooring is a brutal type of crash. Most people don't think to look over their shoulder before opening the car door. That risk goes away with protected bike lanes.
The British justice system is weird to say the least 4 years for cutting down a tree but someone who deliberately knocked my friend off his bike using their car which resulted in his death didn’t get anywhere near that
Telegraph readers have now voted for their favourite European cities. The top 3: Seville, Copenhagen and Venice are well-known for not being filled with cars… Perhaps they could also have nice walkable places at home and not just on holiday?
Telegraph readers have now voted for their favourite European cities. The top 3: Seville, Copenhagen and Venice are well-known for not being filled with cars… Perhaps they could also have nice walkable places at home and not just on holiday?
Hi @Heidi_Labour . As with road building, you shouldn't be doing this. EV drivers should pay the full cost of their filling stations, and you can raise the price of fuel to encourage the switch to EVs. Oh yes, spend £s on roads policing and Active Travel schemes instead!
We're making it cheaper and easier to own an EV. Today I've announced £63m to deliver: ⚡kerbside charging - saving up to £1.5k a year vs petrol 🚑New chargepoints for NHS, saving millions 🚛chargepoints for business Creating jobs, cutting costs & driving our Plan for Change.
20mph What more evidence do you need? 40 per cent fewer people killed, and 75 per cent fewer children killed. Facts that can’t be ignored…. standard.co.uk/comment/20mph-…
Cyclists present a tiny risk to other road users. Just bought £2m of third party liability insurance for just £15 per year. directline.com/cycling-insura…
No amount of HiVis ... No amount of lights ... No amount of signs saying you carry a camera ... No amount of cycle training ... ... seems to stop this sort of driving. Hopefully the police action they now face will stop them doing this again. Before they kill someone.
“If cyclists do sometimes have to jump red lights, it’s because of these things” Ashley Neal says he “gets” why cyclists ride through red lights as YouTube driving instructor stopped for over two minutes while cycling after sensors “ignore” him road.cc/314889 #cycling
As Hackney’s Cabinet Member for Transport, I delivered the largest number of LTNs in the U.K. In return, I was abandoned by my colleagues, got deaths threats, and received the largest number of complaints of any Cllr in the U.K in 2020. It was worth it. theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…
New blog: some thoughts on anti social behaviour. bikeworcester.org.uk/blog/lets-have…
This is the future - AI accurately determining passing distances. Once it is automated the volume of reports will increase and there will be a step change in road safety for cyclists.
From the video, the white van passed the cyclist at approximately 0.5 meters—well below the UK Highway Code's recommended minimum of 1.5 meters at speeds up to 30mph. This constitutes an unsafe close pass. grok.com
Drivers…. did you give cyclists a granny-on-a-bench-worth of space today? Love this in Todmorden
New blog is up: Rob and Dan’s epic ride from Worcester to Spain. bikeworcester.org.uk/blog/3x47btrnt…