One of the reasons why I feel so strongly about the urgent need to move away from car-domination is that cars make us feel like our bodies are not good enough to get us to where we want to go. It has a very detrimental impact on our activity levels - and sense of well-being.
The Netherlands’ quality cycling infrastructure means a third of trips by people aged 65 to 75 are on a bicycle; the highest rate among all adult categories.
For many, the bicycle acts as a “rolling walking stick”; a type of mobility device far easier on the joints than walking.
📢Considering the financial pressure people in the UK are under because of
#inflation
, can we have new emergency cycle lanes? Enabling more people to cycle safely would help them to keep transport costs low. Of course, we also need affordable cycle storage!
#inflationlanes
400 000 signatures en faveur de la révocation de l'article 50, c'est-à-dire de l'annulation du Brexit, à 6h30 heure de Londres ce matin. Quelque chose me dit que ce chiffre va grimper très très vite d'ici la fin de la semaine.
#Brexit
#RevokeArticle50
#p
étition
Here it is! 🥳
A Breathe London node has been installed on
#Harlesden
High street.
Measuring pollution and sharing data with local residents will be a huge help in making the invisible visible locally - and push for clean air in Harlesden.
#BreatheHarlesden
@tedtmccarthy
@DavidZipper
I visited Paris last December for the first time in a while. I was struck about how walkable Paris is. I was in South Kensington yesterday. At junction, priority is clearly given to cars over pedestrians. Trying to cross the road took us for ever.
@carlafrancome
Hi Carla, sorry to hear that. The best would be to get some pro bono legal advice. Maybe you could contact
@JolyonMaugham
from the Good law project.
Every time I read about new cycle lanes and LTNs across London, I can’t help feeling sad and terribly angry about the situation here in
#Brent
.
#BrentLabour
is stuck in the car-dominated 20th century & more than 300k residents are suffering as a result.
Construction on Haverstock Hill starts 31 Jan. Soon many more people will be able to safely cycle and cross the road in the area. Note: no motor lanes are being taken out -> no negative impact on traffic expected
@valmasdel
@CoralieSchaub
Les éditorialistes etc. qui attaquent G.Thunberg pensaient avoir tt compris, et mieux que les autres, à la marche du monde. Alors, quand une j fille vient leur expliquer que la planète est en train de mourir, au lieu de reconnaître leur myopie, ils la mettent plus bas que terre.
Hi North West Londoners,
Have you heard about the
#airpollution
alert?
I am afraid that our area is among one of the most polluted right now.
Please ask your local council and the Mayor of London to clean up the air asap.
#CleanAirNow
🚲🚲🚲Cycled from
#Harlesden
to South Kensington this morning. Stopped at
@ParlourUK
for fish and chips on way back. 20k ride. Harlesden High Street and Harrow road not my favourite part of the ride but
#BIKEISBEST
. I felt like London belonged to me.
@London_Cycling
@psimonk
@TfL
So while Paris and Barcelona are becoming cyclable cities, we are told to be nice to drivers. Doesn’t it sound just a bit backwards? 🧐
Just back from dropping my son to school at St Joseph’s RC in Willesden. We live round the corner from the school and, as a local resident and parent, the benefits of a
#schoolstreet
with CCTV cameras are very obvious. Much more relaxed atmosphere! 😊
@JolyonMaugham
@GAILsBakery
@LukeJohnsonRCP
That's kind. Not too worried about the bread as I've heard about a micro bakery in our area that I've been meaning to try out. However, those croissants and pains au chocolat...some family members are going to miss them but hopefully they'll understand.
Took son to the North Circ for a very special kind of photo opp. He didn’t like it much.
Who would enjoy standing in one of most polluted spots in the UK?
There’re people who live by the North circular and breathe in toxic air every day.
London needs to be
#dieselfree
.
I grew up in a house with an open fire but I have no desire to have a wood-burner in my house these days. I am too aware of the health impact of
#woodburning
.
I can't begin to tell you how mad I feel about the fact that
#AirPollution
is not being urgently tackled by people in power in the UK. There are lots of people who are fighting for better
#AirQuality
but we need many, many, many more to come on board.
Children in the UK deserve to breathe
#CleanAirNow
. It’s crucial for their health, their general well-being and their learning. When we breathe clean air we are all much healthier.
Tell the gvt that we can’t wait for 2040 to breathe cleaner air :
There are 70 head of States and government in Paris today. Seventy. UK top officials conspicuous by their absence. Remind me what Theresa May says about the importance UK cooperation with France and the EU?
#WW1
#Armistice100
#Brexit
Such a moving video about the road violence faced by the people of Birmingham. Watch this and spring to action in your local area. Road violence makes our lives stressful and unsafe wherever we live. Well done,
@for_birmingham
Twenty five people are killed on Birmingham’s streets every year in collisions and 400 are seriously injured. Please watch and share the
@for_birmingham
protest in the city centre yesterday.
When will we see action at a local & national level to prevent these avoidable deaths?
Kids are back at school round the corner from me in
#Harlesden
. The new traffic restrictions - aka
#schoolstreet
- made a huge difference to the traffic on my road. No more parents parking outside my door nor cars driving by. Very quiet back to school day. 🥳🥳🥳
@MumsForLungs
I can't wait for Monday and the expansion of the Ultra Low Emission Zone to
#Harlesden
! I've noticed that one of my neighbours got rid of their non-ULEZ compliant campervan in anticipation. Good to see that they are a lot more drivers switching to cleaner vehicles.
@MumsForLungs
@Talia_inReality
Here is a blind spot created by the pro-anti LTN debate: what is being done to reduce both pollution and traffic created by delivery vehicles? We need fewer vans on our streets, more electric cargo bikes, car free high street so and a reformed business rate, I think.
Hello!
👉Do you own a shop in
#Harlesden
?
👉If so, do you want to take part in a
#cargobike
delivery/cargo bike waste disposal trial?
You'll get £250 for taking part in a 2-week trial.
Please RT.
It was great to see so many people taking part in
@MumsForLungs
webinar about woodburning tonight and asking questions. The quickest we get the message out that
#woodburning
is making us sick (very sick!), the better!
Excellent
#WoodBurning
webinar tonight - all down to our speakers Dr Ian Mudway & Tom Parkes from
#Camden
Council. Not sure how they got so much info across in such a short time! It's clear that so much needs to change.
#AirPollution
#CleanAir
I organised a street party alongside another’s neighbour today for
#CarFreeDay
. We had a fantastic day. Everybody was really chuffed to talk to their neighbours and watch the kids play freely. People said we should have more car free days and more get togethers as neighbour
#NW10
@CLARISSAH27
@LondonParklet
@MumsForLungs
@BrentCyclists
Hi Clarissa, I don't meet my neighbours in the park and I don't know them well enough to invite them in my garden. Parklets enable residents to have a proper chat that we don't have otherwise. I think they could help tackle loneliness.
@willnorman
All very good. Now, can we get some cycling infrastructures in
#Brent
? I feel like I live in another city entirely from the London you describe here.
I am so proud of being part of
@MumsWhoCycle
. Today was our 5th ride and our 6th event. Each time there were about 30 of us - adults and children. Our outreach is growing and goes well beyond the ride participants. I am sure of that.
#Brent
#Harlesden
#NW10
We had a nice gentle ride from Roundwood Park to Tiverton Green this morning and alongside some regular faces had several new joiners 😍 Thanks everyone for coming & see you for our next ride on August 28th!
@tomvampouille
Je ne suis pas du tout d’accord. La une du Parisien ce matin présente l’identifi comme un fait établi. Et puis, franchement, qu’est-ce que ça peut faire aux Français d’attendre 48h ou + pour savoir avec certitude s’il s’agit de XDDL ou pas?
Brexit is...a waste of time. Of lifetime.
Of time we would have needed to fight climate change.
In hindsight, this will have been the real crime of the Brexiters.
When are we going to talk seriously about the impact of
#airpollution
on our health? Cargo bikes are a very efficient way to deliver food & other goods. When are supermarkets going to embrace this mode of transport? It cannot happen soon enough.
#YouAndYours
#Radio4
People of
#Brent
who have taken up cycling recently out of necessity or choice, I salute you. If I could, I would high-five every cyclist I see on the roads. 🚴♂️🚴♀️🚴
Hello
@TfL
, I live in
#Harlesden
and I would like to be given more time to cross the road on Craven Park road (traffic lights near Greenhill Park). It would be a very welcome improvement for all pedestrians. What do I have to do?
#walking
#Brent
#London
Nothing like a traffic warden actively patrolling Brownlow road school street in
#NW10
to cheer me up on a Monday morning. Glad I contacted the council after last Monday’s mayhem (see picture).
I've just dropped my son to school for the first time ever. Phew!
How can all schools NOT have
#schoolstreets
?
We have one and it's SO much needed.
With 500+ children and almost as many parents, we need to walk on the road safely.
Thanks
@MumsForLungs
@Brent_Council
It was a
#cleanair
packed morning in
@MBrookprimary
today! First, 5 pupils delivered a presentation to the WHOLE school. Afterwards, the clean air artwork created by the school's eco warriors with
@linett_kamala
was revealed.
#Brent
🫁
The Mayor of London still needs to cancel Silvertown tunnel, on top of expanding the ULEZ.
@MayorofLondon
Just in case there was any doubt about that.
#cancelSilvertown
City Hall says expanded ULEZ will reduce polluting vehicles in London by 20-40,000 every day. Building Silvertown Tunnel will introduce 20-30,000 more polluting vehicles every day, just into Newham - and increase overall traffic on A12/A13/A102 by similar amounts.
@SebDance
400 000 signatures en faveur de la révocation de l'article 50, c'est-à-dire de l'annulation du Brexit, à 6h30 heure de Londres ce matin. Quelque chose me dit que ce chiffre va grimper très très vite d'ici la fin de la semaine.
#Brexit
#RevokeArticle50
#p
étition
I’ve signed this petition to revoke A50 and deal with the consequences afterwards - referendum, election, whatever. I have no idea whether these things do any good but after May’s astonishingly irresponsible speech this evening I’ll give anything a go.
Brent council has published its report on
#SchoolStreets
. The vast majority of emergency school streets will become permanent.
This is good news but, based on my experience, communication & enforcement have to improve.
@SarahJ_Berry
This should be a priority! The few seconds given to pedestrians to cross a road in London is a discrimination against people with mobility issues and puts at risk the safety of pedestrians in general.
The very, very poor quality of the air in London this week is a very timely reminder that the gvt needs to raise air quality targets substantially.
Please attend
@MumsForLungs
webinar on Tuesday and join many parents determined to clean up the air.
👇👇👇
Please join us next week to hear all about the government's proposed
#AirPollution
targets. They are far too weak, & if we do not collectively challenge the level of ambition, yet another generation of children will suffer from being exposed to
#ToxicAir
.
THREAD:
I wrote to my local
#Harlesden
councillors & to
#Brent
MPs about
#AirPollution
. Asked questions here to
@ShamaTatler
about implementation of URGENT measures.
In return, I got :
- silence,
- an email about emergency funding for businesses in Brent (?!),
- vague answers.
“We have 8% of UK homes that are responsible for about 40% of PM2.5 pollution,” said Gary Fuller of Imperial College London. “
#WoodBurning
in homes has crept up under the radar while we all focused our attention on diesel traffic.”
💀💀💀
'The single highest concentration of nitrogen dioxide was found at Harlesden high street'.
No news to
#Harlesden
residents, of course, but a reminder that urgent action is needed to reduce air pollution in the area.
#Brent
Thank you Emily
@shareourcars
for answering my questions about the community car share you created in Oxford.
"We’ve got to find a way of using our cars better"
@MumsForLungs
@pepemac27
@TfL
It's appalling but I am not entirely surprised about it. Sometimes I feel like there is a competition going on among bus drivers about who is the biggest annoyance to cyclists. The thing I fear the most is being in front of a bus on my bike.
Happy to report that
@linett_kamala
and myself have delivered our
#Brent
school clean air project in 3 out of 4 schools so far as part of a
@MumsForLungs
' project. Read more about it here :
“The widespread public and political pressure is what’s made Cambo untenable. There is now broad understanding that there can be no new oil and gas projects anywhere if we’re going to maintain a safe climate.” -
@tessakhan
Activism works.
@PedderSophie
I think the extremely harsh austerity imposed by successive governments sincer 2010 is partially responsible for the lack of collective outrage. Austerity has wrecked lives & an already fledgling sense of common good. I wouldn’t describe the UK as a prosperous democracy.
@MumsForLungs
This is absolutely heartbreaking. 😣 We are lucky that, for now, there are only a few houses with wood burners in our area. We need a new Clean air act to ban woodburning or I fear the air pollution will become much worse across the UK.
Bringing the ULEZ to all of Brent will improve life expectancy, protect our children’s lungs and prevent climate breakdown. Please sign the consultation below to let TfL know.
Very happy to report that myself and
@linett_kamala
will be able to deliver
@MumsForLungs
pollution workshops to 4 schools in
#Brent
. We are one of the winning projects of
#YouDecide
. Thank you to everyone who voted for us yesterday.
BTW, did you know that the drop in
#RoadTransport
emissions experienced last year as a result of the Covid-19 crisis across the world was the major driver of emissions going down by 7% in 2020?
Road transport is bad for the planet and it's bad for our health.
Rather disappointing piece of information about
#schoolstreets
in Brent magazine.
It confirms the impression I’ve had for a while.
@Brent_Council
is trying to say as little as possible about
#schoolstreets
.
@EUCourtPress
Le communiqué de la Cour de justice de l'UE pour ceux que ça intéresse. Ca n'est pas une décision. C'est l'avis de l'avocat-général de la CJUE.
I've also checked. The Silvertown tunnel will be an enormous source of air pollution and carbon emissions. So,
@MayorofLondon
, take example on my neighbours and ditch it now.
#CleanAir
#London
Neighbours who put planters in parking bays without asking Town Hall are told the green makeover can stay - with a new application system in the pipeline for others to follow suit
Everybody campaigning for active travel or not need to follow
@davidfhilliard
- and especially you
@carlafrancome
😘.
David, keep going and sharing those golden moments with the kids. They are very precious.
Lots of excited chatter in my
@BikeabilityUK
class this morning as the boys and girls grab their coats and gloves before our session.
One of the quieter boys says "This is going to help my mood". On prompting he adds that he had been crying this morning. Worries about home.
Je suis une pigiste basée à l’etranger dans une situation précaire, comme beaucoup d’autres consœurs et confrères. Le rapport de la CFDT est le bienvenu. Il est très déprimant, même pour les personnes directement concernées dont je fais partie.
💚Thank you
@London_Cycling
and all the organisation’s and volunteers involved in today’s ride. It was a proud moment for me as a woman and a Londoner to cycle with such a diverse group of women (and men!) as part of
#WomensFreedomRide
.
I love a lot of respect for tradespeople but there is 1 thing that irritates me whenever
I need to use their services: having to sort out parking permit for them.
For this reason (and others), I would be very happy to be able to use tradespeople who use a
#cargobike
.
Wow! Really good to see
@MumsForLungs
’ project making the headlines in the
@bktimes
. Looking forward to delivering the next school workshop this month with
@linett_kamala
.
🥹Our clean air public art piece made top shelf press & page 3 write up!
Just popped into my local supermarket saw this 😍 Thank you
@bktimes
for featuring so prominently the statement art by these artists aged 8 & 9 from Furness Primary School.
@lin_kam_art
@MumsForLungs