Orpington Cyclist @CycleOrpington Twitter profile

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Orpington Cyclist

3 years

Dear Twitter, I hope to be a source of information about what it's like to cycle around Orpington and beyond. Kind regards, the Orpington Cyclist.

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Orpington Cyclist

@CycleOrpington

8 months

When we had our third child we bought a Komatsu 930E. It's very safe and bigger than both a tank and a F750. My children are very safe. Pedestrians can be wiped off the wheels fairly easily.

Smarkreilly🚶‍♂️🚴‍♂️🚍🚉🌴

@smarkreilly

8 months

When we had our third child I bought an F750. It’s very safe and built like a tank. We always had crossovers and large SUVs which have no chance against giant trucks. The lives of my children are too important to risk to another driver.

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Must be blummin Just Stop Oil blocking the roads again

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6 months

Well done Sadiq Khan! A total vindication of your policies on ULEZ, LTNs, free school meals, 20mph zones, and cycling and active travel. And a total rejection of the racist, polluting, dishonest and scare-mongering facebook tactics of Susan Hall and the Tories. Well done Sadiq!!

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20 days

It's almost as if we should be listening to climate protesters rather than jailing them 🤔

Farmers Weekly

@FarmersWeekly

23 days

🌧️ Rainfall in volumes described as “biblical’’ by one arable farmer has washed away freshly planted crops and flooded grain stores in many UK regions. READ MORE:

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28 days

Dear Drivers, Please stop killing other road users. RIP 💔

BBC Yorkshire

@BBCLookNorth

30 days

A cyclist who died after being struck by a van has been named by police as Leeds cardiologist Robert Sapsford. Read more here:

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10 months

Why drive on the road when there's a perfectly good grass verge to fuck up?

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8 months

Finally, Jackie Weaver gets the tube map recognition she deserves.

BBC News (UK)

@BBCNews

8 months

London Overground: New names for its six lines revealed

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2 months

More than one type of baguette at the supermarket and investing in cycling infrastructure? Sounds great!

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@CycleOrpington

24 days

Clearly drivers can't be trusted with 20mph. Shall we try 10mph?

UB1UB2 West London (Southall)

@UB1UB2

25 days

Serious car collision in Tower Bridge, London yesterday

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Orpington Cyclist

@CycleOrpington

5 months

Interesting. Can we also remove roads from car SatNavs where people have been killed by drivers?

Iain Duncan Smith MP Chingford & Woodford Green

@MPIainDS

5 months

Royal Parks call for cycling apps to remove Regent’s Park route after death of elderly woman in 29mph crash @LBC

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@CycleOrpington

2 months

"Number plates improve safety". Nailed it

road.cc

@roadcc

2 months

"Safety and regulation issues involved in the use of pedal cycles on the road network": Debate follows talk of "dangerous cycling" laws and former Met Police chief claiming "dangerous" cyclists "entirely unaccountable" and should have number plates

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11 months

How come there is so much money spent on road resurfacing, but nothing ever spent on our crappy, bumpy cycle paths @LBofBromley

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1 year

Rishi Sunak lives in a LTN

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@CycleOrpington

4 months

This is why we report phone drivers. Do not use your phone whilst driving.

Norwich driver's winking selfie that led to fatal crash

Amber Potter was checking this image on her phone when she ploughed into scooter rider David Sinar.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Orpington Cyclist

@CycleOrpington

2 months

How is it 2024 and there's no public transport in the US?

greg

@greg16676935420

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How is it 2024 and there’s no air conditioning in Europe?

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2 months

Good. When several Orpington traffic lights were cut down we had schoolchildren dodging traffic and a girl admitted to hospital after being hit. These idiots belong behind bars where they can't do any further harm

Father of three admits encouraging vandalism of Ulez cameras online

Joseph Nicholls, of Sidcup, pleaded guilty at Woolwich Crown Court

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@CycleOrpington

15 days

Ban all football fans from speaking about cycling on twitter

EuroFoot

@eurofootcom

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If you could add a brand new rule to football, what would it be?

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2 months

This does not surprise me. Many people, including my wife, are too scared to cycle on the roads. There is no protected infrastructure near us. Drivers are driving bigger, more dangerous cars, more dangerously.

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@allenholub Camping with GPT is also awesome

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1 year

@Councillorsuzie @RishiSunak @TheSun And will you take responsibility for any road deaths due to 30mph collisions on roads that you remove the 20mph limits from?

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20 days

Considering how obese the UK is becoming, the total return on investment for UK roads must be awful. Let's get people moving instead

Labour urged to scrap UK road schemes such as £9bn Lower Thames Crossing

Suggestion would allow government to divert money earmarked for new roads to rail and other public transport

www.theguardian.com

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@CycleOrpington

24 days

Cycling Twitter - please stop at zebras for pedestrians waiting to cross. It's pretty simple Thanks

BBC London

@BBCLondonNews

25 days

A report published by University College London has outlined the difficulties caused by so-called 'floating' bus stops for visually impaired people. The charity Guide Dogs are now calling for their rollout to be halted. @JonnyHarvey3 | #politicslondon

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3 months

FFS #newsnight !! FAO: @GraphCrimes

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2 months

What about "not killing pedestrians or cyclists"? Telling.

Potholes are drivers' biggest bugbear, RAC finds

Punctures, wheel damage and broken suspension springs are the most common damage, finds survey.

www.bbc.com

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@CycleOrpington

2 months

@CharlotteCGill @willnorman Traffic = cars. Every cyclist is one fewer car stuck in traffic. You should be supporting cycling.

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How on earth can dynamic pricing be fair? Imagine you got to the front of the queue at Starbucks only to be told a coffee was now £10? TicketMaster can go to hell

Failure to warn Oasis fans of dynamic pricing may be consumer law breach, say experts

Would-be concertgoers said they had only minutes to decide whether to pay £355 for tickets on Ticketmaster

www.theguardian.com

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@CycleOrpington

11 months

@cyclingvia The same people who tell you to use a cycle path when you're on the road 🤦‍♂️

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7 months

Where can I report an illegally parked tractor, destroying a grass verge?

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9 months

@adamtranter Of all the people I know who I consider to have a "good character", I don't think any of them drive at 98mph. Not even on a motorway, let alone a residential road.

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Orpington Cyclist

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4 months

You really don't get it do you @Gareth_Bacon !! Your cynical, negative campaigning is getting you and the Conservatives nowhere! You are even losing to Reform!! Londoners have already voted in favour of ULEZ, give up the ghost and try something else!!

Gareth Bacon MP

@Gareth_Bacon

4 months

On July 4th, we have an opportunity to reverse Sadiq Khan’s #ULEZ expansion and go much further to end Labour’s war on the motorist - be it the blanket 20mph zones, LTNs, or pay-per-mile taxes. #VoteConservative on 4th July and let’s end this madness together.

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If you want to reduce traffic, stop building new roads and use the money to fund buses, trains and cycling infrastructure instead.

Traffic worse since A30 upgrade, residents say

People in Hayle say traffic has been made worse by major upgrade works to the A30 completed in June.

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6 months

Fuck

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2 months

The killer had a previous coviction for drink driving. The scum of society who think it's ok to drink and drive should have automatic lifetime bans.

Nine-year sentence for "drunken idiot" drug-driver who told passengers "cyclists should not be on...

The court heard Jack Bingley "had been on something of a bender the night before and had also taken cocaine" — the dangerous driver repeatedly ignoring his passengers' calls for him to go back to the...

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6 months

Well done Gammons, it only took you the best part of a decade but you got there in the end. Great job

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5 months

@GarethBaconMP You literally campaigned against ULEZ, and for putting dirty air in children's lungs. Not very green, eh?

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10 months

@DAVID_LAWES Yes, you can't see that bright flashing light at all can you? @Specsavers - one for you!! 🤣🤣

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4 months

@Councillorsuzie @MailOnline Susan Hall - promoting dangerous drivers 🤦‍♂️

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6 months

@roadcc This is bollocks, there is no point in additional cycling proficiency if it isn't matched by safer routes for children to cycle on.

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5 months

@EnemyCoastAhead @LBRUT @metpoliceuk @roadcc @KingstonCycling I was hit by a driver turning right some years ago (before I had a camera so no footage). In my case there was nothing obscuring their view at all, they just turned, and then fled the scene after. Since then I'm super-wary of cars turning right. But drivers fault ultimately!

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8 months

Every driver who uses a phone behind the wheel should reflect on what message this gives to children who will be driving in the years to come. How many phone drivers did Molly see, how normalised was it to her?

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6 months

@Fishingmagic1 Public transport is fantastic in London. Usually very easy to get to work.

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9 days

Hi @LouHaigh , what does the below tell you about road safety in the UK?

The🚴‍♂️Infra-PM 💚

@theInfraPM

9 days

What the ACTUAL #$!@ A drug-induced driver who ran a red light and knocked a person 20 feet into the air... ...AVOIDS PRISON! 🤬 …

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7 months

Rishi Sunak to announce a £8bn investment in a new national cycle network to combat the "War on Cyclists" 🇬🇧🚴

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24 days

@ariehkovler @Heisenberg87644 And she's thrown away the green section, wonder why?

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9 months

@SurreyRS I don't doubt the offense, but in future please trim your videos to show the actual offence. If I was to submit a similar video of a driver to the met, it would be rejected. Also I do encourage all cyclists to obey red lights unless it is to avoid a clear danger.

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7 months

Good fucking riddance

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9 months

@d_gilly6 @EamonRyan @cllr_ginokenny You have half the road available to overtake, just wait for a gap?

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@CycleOrpington

2 months

Is everyone at @EssexPoliceUK totally brain-dead? My youngest child could tell you this isn't a 1.5m gap. Idiots

CykelTony

@tony_eh

2 months

Just seen this in the comments section on , depressing if this is true. @CampaignCycling @Makecyclingsafe @boots_bike

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11 months

@pedalmania1 @theJeremyVine @AndyCoxDCS Please report the white van, that's appalling driving and that driver should be off the road.

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5 months

Mr Benn convention blocking the cycle path in Hyde Park today 😀

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@CatfordParking Wouldn't happen if the house paid road tax

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1 year

@D675 @Chris_Boardman The car driver is on the wrong side of the road. The cyclist is not.

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@CycleOrpington

5 months

@MPIainDS How many lives will this save compared to equal effort putting forward an amendment to make speed limiters mandatory in new cars?

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@roadcc Fine, so replace one of the car lanes with a two-way bike lane

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@CycleOrpington

9 months

@CitizenUddin @metpoliceuk Perhaps they assumed the sun was low in the sky and dazzled the driver who then didn't notice the pavement, so it's all fine?

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6 months

@Patricia344130 Not hiding your racism very well

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@CycleOrpington

2 months

Not the lorry driver's fault. Dog wasn't wearing hi-viz and doesn't pay road tax.

Yeah But Cyclists

@but_cyclists

2 months

I thought all of those hard-working drivers that @MikeyCycling catches only use their phones while stationary?

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10 months

@gazza_d It's almost as if promoting car use will create more traffic.

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@CycleOrpington

9 months

You have not spoken on this yet - @GarethBaconMP this is the time you need to speak out. You have sided with the anti-ULEZ criminals for too long. Look what you have done!! 😡

Croydon Cycling Campaign

@CroydonCyclists

9 months

First they started with criminal damage. Then they move to terrorism with an explosive device. Now the anti-ULEZ mob have put a 6-year-old girl and an adult in hospital.

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Well done Tim! And thank you BBC for spreading the message that no driver is safe from cameras. Please drive safely and let's reduce deaths and injuries on the roads.

The cyclist helping to catch hundreds of bad drivers

Tim, of Birmingham, says clips from his helmet camera have resulted in hundreds of police sanctions.

www.bbc.co.uk

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3 months

@LouHaigh Awesome, please can you also compel uncooperative councils such as @LBofBromley to provide safe cycling infrastructure, thanks

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6 months

@kelvmackenzie Higher than average?

Orpington Cyclist

@CycleOrpington

6 months

Well done Sadiq Khan! A total vindication of your policies on ULEZ, LTNs, free school meals, 20mph zones, and cycling and active travel. And a total rejection of the racist, polluting, dishonest and scare-mongering facebook tactics of Susan Hall and the Tories. Well done Sadiq!!

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I didn't know schnauzers lived that long?

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@Sosigandbacun Thank you for spreading the word on twitter that drivers will be caught by cycle cams, and doing your bit to improve road safety. Sir, we salute you 🫡

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@CycleOrpington

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@MaryPri81540130 @mark_gb @CyclingInASkirt Did you not realise that bicycles do not run on petrol? Pedestrians don't pay tax on walking either.

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@nottspolice The cyclist could have ended up under a vehicle. Please treat this as attempted murder!

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9 months

@DawnWestgate By this logic you would prefer Gary Lineker as PM as he has 9 million followers? 🤷‍♂️

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9 months

Now it has finally happened. @GarethBaconMP you have sided with the anti-ULEZ criminals for too long. I have never seen any children at your protests, who you are hell-bent on breathing dirty air. And now one of them is in hospital. Shame on you!! 🤬

Girl hurt in car crash after Orpington Ulez cameras felled

Five sets of lights with attached Ulez cameras were brought down overnight, police say.

www.bbc.com

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@CycleOrpington

9 months

@peterwalker99 I wonder what's next - health policies based on WEF conspiracies? Defence policy based decided by flat earthers? 🤔

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9 months

Why is it that the anti-cyclist brigade tend to be so prone to violent thought?

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1 year

@APPGCW Why are we allowing them to ever drive again? Also was it a self driving Mini?

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6 months

So you need to be at McDonalds at 8am tomorrow for work, OK?

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@tvprp The lenient sentence is indeed distressing. Why not give a longer jail sentence? Pathetic

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@APPGCW So we now give suspended sentences for attempted murder? Judge should be sacked.

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@Jacob_Rees_Mogg "Southern Ireland".. have you applied for a refund from @Eton_College ?

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@knighty1012003 @gazzabiker

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@__JayBee00 Thank you for spreading the word on twitter that drivers will be caught by cycle cams, and doing your bit to improve road safety. Sir, we salute you 🫡

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@roadcc Almost dropped my tea, then realised this is not the UK.

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@PickardJE

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Culture, Hitler claimed, was the exclusive preserve of the “Aryan race.” In his mind, no other “race” was capable of producing genuine culture.

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5 months

But I thought floating bus stops were the issue?

Teenage cyclist rushed to hospital after car smashed into north London primary school

The Metropolitan Police said the boy’s condition is not life-threatening and no arrests have been made

www.standard.co.uk

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@CycleOrpington

9 months

To all fellow cyclists running cameras - a huge thank you, there is still so much to do, so many more drivers to report, but we will not stop until the roads are safe 🫡

Ross Lydall

@RossLydall

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1,859 cyclists and 1,327 pedestrians were injured by hit-and-run drivers in London in 2021

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Kemi, you're never going to believe which party has been in power for 99% of these people's lives...

Kemi Badenoch

@KemiBadenoch

1 month

The public want optimism. When I was young, the future was exciting. I hate that young people no longer find it so. Keir Starmer and Labour offer nothing but gloom and doom. I am offering hope for the future with my @Renewal2030 campaign. Watch / listen to my entire interview

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@DanNeidle Nah, definitely moved to Lewisham

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@francesca_kms @CycleIslington @hackney_cycling @HackneyLivingSt This is a parallel crossing. The cars should be stopping so you can cross.

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@UKLabour OK, and what about public transport and active travel? What has "sides" got to do with anything?

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@bXLpedestrian Please tell me they told the driver to fuck off

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10 months

Don't worry, non-Tesla owners. You can park like a twat as well 👍

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@theSNP So you are making public transport to hospitals free as well then?

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@houmanhemmati @Boenau Oh no! A little rain! You snowflake

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@Mark_J_Harper @Councillorsuzie @MPIainDS Please can we have sensible penalties in place for drivers as well.. who kill and injure several orders of magnitude more people than cyclists.

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1 year

@GBNEWS Get in the bin Susan. Any of the seven will do 🗑️

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4 months

Brilliant!

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@APPGCW Everyone who feels safe enough to cycle has already bought a bicycle. We need to make cycling feel safer to get everyone else to buy a bike.

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6 months

@theJeremyVine @DaddyGardener80 Look what avocados and netflix has done to house prices!

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10 months

@venusianbbe The war on motorists is really heating up, isn't it. All those innocent drivers..

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11 months

@cyclegaz It might be a "should" to stop for a pedestrian waiting to cross, but isn't it a "must" to not overtake a vehicle that has already stopped for a pedestrian?

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@StopTheULex Sorry, we are one London. Total vindication for Sadiq and ULEZ.

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