Vincent Stops @VincentStops Twitter profile

Pinned Tweet

Vincent Stops

1 month

Here’s what the professional body that designs and build our streets says about bus stop bypasses: “Bus stop bypasses can deter many disabled people from using buses, often the only accessible mode of transport available to them.”

2

22

49

Last Seen Profiles

@norhanturk

@roadblokbeats

@gary_mcquinn

@bokeplokalmalam

@Sportingado_

@hoshi_klm

@OccLightblue

@GambitBM_

@ah1me2d34

@AlphabetAbc1976

@surelysims

@oliviacface

@bokeplokalmalam

@OscarHayashi3

@Tomberly4ever37

@LfeqLCF7rpFUeZx

@danliza

@SwiftieDreamer_

@itsnotJesusXO

@ChdKadin

@SISSY_xxxx

@_0xpilot

@ta_brase

@alvacoyote

@adrisgame

@vivit_device

@svkaay

@ebruu32_

@GodsnGoblins

@_eazido

@GodsnGoblins

@StumpysHH

@Silversalty

@ZafarAyub6

@Abu_sl07

@H510Robert

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

1 year

How f*****g stupid is this.

140

149

906

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

2 years

I have been asked to demonstrate how some cyclists disregard pedestrians at bus stops they cycle through.

412

105

646

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

7 months

The blind man I was meeting tried to get off the bus at the Chiswick High Rd stop he used before the cycle lane was built. The bus was second at the stop. He became disoriented and ended up walking into the carriageway. He has stopped using this bus stop.

191

215

515

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

9 months

Today is International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Here is what the cycle lobby has inflicted on blind people wanting to catch their bus:

150

263

496

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

3 years

Everyone cycles in Hackney, but there's not enough bike parking.

23

45

388

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

1 year

I got very angry today. How on earth is Andrew supposed to have the confidence to catch the bus with cycles running through the stop!

62

139

355

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

1 year

You couldn’t make it up:

82

56

330

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

2 years

For those that don’t understand the issues for bus passengers alighting onto a cycle path.

Dave Hill

@DaveHill

2 years

NEW from @VincentStops - London's bus stop bypasses for cyclists are destroying access to the service for disabled people: . @NFBUK @TfL @LonTravelWatch @londoncouncils @SustransLondon @LDN_LS @GDIHub #London @GwynTopham @standardnews

51

98

165

109

122

286

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

1 year

Disabled and elderly people will no longer be able to access a vehicle whatever their mobility problem because the @mayorofLondon has ignored their needs in favour of cyclists.

47

83

245

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

2 years

@cristo_radio Yes. The pedestrian was in the wrong and it was the cycle that did well to avoid him and the person filming.

32

0

233

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

3 months

The new normal for bus passengers. Sitting in traffic since @willnorman , London Cycling Czar, took out the bus lane for a bike lane.

32

75

215

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

2 months

Blind people are telling the ⁦ @MayorofLondon ⁩ they can’t use bus stops with cyclists travelling through them at 20 mph and refusing to stop. They can’t drive or cycle. How are they supposed to get about as they used to.

London transport: Floating bus stops are terrifying - campaigner

Simon Kennedy is now backing a national campaign which is urging the government to get rid of them.

www.bbc.com

23

101

214

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

8 months

London’s cycling Czar, @willnorman , had specialist consultation material designed for blind people to have their say at Lea Bridge. They told him they wouldn’t be able to catch their bus. He ignored them and built them. Don’t travel independently if you are blind.

36

100

210

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

3 years

Hey, @JCDecaux_UK . Your advertising consent for the nine digital advertising hoardings on the pavements around Shoreditch lapsed last week. The consent unequivocally said they should be removed. When are they going to be cleared away?

21

19

208

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

1 year

We are told by @willnorman and @MayorofLondon this utter chaos at a bus stop is fine as it’s a national approach to keeping cyclists safe:

55

133

204

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

7 months

TfL have created chaotic spaces at bus stops with cycles travelling at up to 20mph. Blind people neither hear nor see cyclists who don’t give way let alone stop. It’s impossible to know where on the island one is alighting. These stops are impossible for blind people to navigate.

35

111

200

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

7 months

It’s stupid of politicians to encourage this moronic trade and take no responsibility for clearing them away. All these could and should be removed and @limebike charged for the privilege, using the powers councils have.

55

44

200

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

3 years

How fab is this. The largest engineered timber office building in the world constructed in Shoreditch, Hackney! Well done @WaughThistleton .

8

20

192

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

9 months

. @willnorman narrowed Lea Bridge Road in Hackney and installed the bus shelter here. It’s impassable for many wheelchairs and unsafe for mums with buggies, pedestrians, everyone basically. No room even for the flag!The only solution will be to remove the shelter. #LedByDonkeys

42

58

179

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

11 months

Blind people have told @willnorman over and over they can no longer use their bus services because he is running bikes through bus stops. This is discriminatory and therefore illegal. S 149 Equality Act

33

95

174

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

8 months

This issue isn’t going away. London is becoming inaccessible for blind people and bikes a menace for everyone else. Bikes are vehicles and belong on the carriageway.

NFBUK

@NFBUK

8 months

Went back to the floating bus stop opposite St Thomas’ Hospital in London. It simply is not working & never has. Access to & from the bus direct from the pavement is urgently needed please. @MayorofLondon not sure how many times we have to say this but this has to stop please.

41

71

152

26

90

169

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

9 months

How could sane people promote these bus stops. They are inaccessible to blind people and a f***ing menace to everyone one else. @ellyannab @SebDance @SadiqKhan

NFBUK

@NFBUK

9 months

Went back to Park Lane floating bus stops in London. They are still not working. Riders are not stopping at the zebra crossings, bus shelters are separate from the bus stops & the island platform is too narrow for people waiting for & getting off bus. They are not fit for purpose

183

250

481

26

68

163

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

1 year

How they are destroying London’s bus services. Bus lane, by bus lane.

21

69

152

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

7 months

Over a hundred responses to this shocking video. None suggest this is an accessible stop. Most don’t even address the substantive issue. That is, that blind people can no longer travel independently as they once did.

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

7 months

The blind man I was meeting tried to get off the bus at the Chiswick High Rd stop he used before the cycle lane was built. The bus was second at the stop. He became disoriented and ended up walking into the carriageway. He has stopped using this bus stop.

191

215

515

46

51

151

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

1 year

These are some of the worst bus stops where the entire pavement is given over to cycling. It’s not in any design guide. Figure how you would use it if you were blind. PS this is one of 12 random bus stop designs blind people are expected to navigate.

44

64

145

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

10 days

Andrew has lost his right to travel independently to his local high street by bus as he used to. Blind people’s access needs are being systematically ignored by London government.

15

76

140

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

1 year

In which a cargo bike veers off the bike lane (to avoid boarding wheelchair user) behind a blind man (waiting as he should at the stop flag), whilst second bike squeezes between wheelchair user and man. This is lauded as a flagship scheme, cost £15m, funded by @BorisJohnson

NFBUK

@NFBUK

1 year

This is what our President who is blind said about the bus stop design where you step off the bus onto a narrow bus boarder next to a cycle lane on Lea Bridge Road, Waltham Forest ‘Not fit for purpose. It really is totally inaccessible. These sorts of designs should be scrapped’

149

445

721

27

84

135

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

1 year

. @TfL removing bus lanes to install bike lanes. How has @TfL gone from being the most successful strategic transport authority in the world to the most dysfunctional. Answer: the cult of cycling!

17

47

129

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

9 months

. @willnorman was asked by @SadiqKhan to review bus stop bypasses in response to the access concerns of disabled people. Instead he is gaming the review and looking at collisions reported to the police. He is a public servant. This is fraudulent and an abuse of a minority group.

18

58

130

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

3 years

The test for the cycle-centrics, like @Chris_Boardman , who sell us the line that they know how to get people cycling is for them to get residents of Stevenage cycling. A town built on the model of a Dutch town with a network of separated cycle tracks where almost no one cycles.

31

74

127

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

3 years

It’s shocking that disabled and older people can be discriminated against by measures in favour of cycling, but that’s what is happening. Here’s how the unintended consequence of equalities legislation is disadvantaging these groups. Read my Blogpost:

22

73

124

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

3 years

The cycle lobby are keen to make the case for cycling and town centre shopping trips. But because the numbers are so small they combine them with walking. Here, just published by TfL on their FOI page, figures for shopping trips by cycle and walk from Travel in London report 13.

30

104

125

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

2 years

Blame for the decimation of London’s bus services will be deflected elsewhere, but neither Mayor Khan, nor Mayor Johnson should be allowed to get away without blame. Both failed to stand up for buses, choosing the apparent populism of cycling over the workhorse of the London bus.

13

51

123

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

7 months

The shelter at this bus stop will be moved, but the removal of the pavement to be replaced by a bike lane is permanent. The @MayorofLondon should sack his Cycling Czar for persisting with and defending this idiocy.

25

62

121

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

3 years

How on earth did we allow a small number of cycle fanatics to redesign streets and bus stops like this and that bus passengers would just have to put up with it?

OneGreenwich

@One_Greenwich

3 years

Cycle lanes and bus stops signed off by @royalgreenwich are neither safe or effective in ensuring social distancing measures are adhered to, despite being rushed in under the guise of ‘emergency’ Covid-19 measures. @David_Llew - are you still singing their praises?

13

27

38

25

76

116

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

10 months

Routing cycles, at speed, through bus stops is making catching the bus a nightmare for many bus passengers and impossible for blind people. The law requires them to take account of disabilities.

23

58

120

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

7 months

Here’s Andrew describing in his own words how the introduction of a bus stop bypass on Chiswick High Road has affected his right to travel independently. 1/2

17

67

118

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

2 years

. @TfL and @Willnorman intend to move this bus stop to a more isolated position 75m to the east adjacent to Millfields Park. They are not doing this for the 1000s of passengers who use the stop, but for the cycling lobby groups who want a bike lane

29

65

117

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

3 years

The LCC have a lot to answer for.

stormcab

@stormcab

3 years

I remember when this was a bus & taxi lane on Creek Road. What amazes me is the cycling lobby managed to convince someone they are more important that buses.

50

74

228

33

34

110

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

8 months

The cycle lobby demanded bikes be routed through bus stops. They have created chaotic, confusing and inaccessible places for bus passengers. Some groups simply cannot use them. TfL have been told this at every level of the organisation numerous times.

NFBUK

@NFBUK

1 year

This is what our President who is blind said about the bus stop design where you step off the bus onto a narrow bus boarder next to a cycle lane on Lea Bridge Road, Waltham Forest ‘Not fit for purpose. It really is totally inaccessible. These sorts of designs should be scrapped’

149

445

721

25

66

113

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

2 years

. @mragilligan wrote in the @guardian that he hadn’t wrecked London’s bus services. Well he did a pretty good job on Balls Pond Road by removing the bus lane meaning the 38 now sits in traffic.

18

42

115

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

8 months

This is the finished ‘backless bus stop’, as @TfL calls them. It is completely inaccessible to blind people who will not even be able to navigate the pavement, let alone use the stop to catch their bus.

48

69

114

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

1 year

.⁦ @willnorman ⁩ says: “we are doing all we can to educate cyclists about the rules of the road,” It’s the f***ing pavement Mr Norman.

More floating bus stops to be built despite warnings cyclists do not wait for pedestrians

Researchers alerted TfL and Sadiq Khan to risks after analysts found riders swerve to avoid people at zebra crossings rather than giving way

www.telegraph.co.uk

27

50

111

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

2 years

. @UniWestminster analysed London LTNs to conclude there had been an average of 1.3% increase in traffic volume on boundary roads. This is spin. I use Hackney’s 13 boundary roads counts from the London Fields scheme to show how their results were achieved. 1/6

28

62

112

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

3 years

Early in the Pandemic London’s Cycling Czar, Will Norman, made a bizarre claim of a potential tenfold increase in cycling. He has never offered any commentary on this when it proved so wide of the mark, nor has he been held to account. 1/4

20

59

108

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

7 months

This pavement was narrowed by the London Walking Commissioner, @willnorman . It is now inaccessible in the terms of the national guidance, #InclusiveMobility ! There was a perfectly good bus lane that cyclists had used for two decades. #LedByDonkeys

Oliver Lord

@0jhl

7 months

Anyone else find it odd that many bus lanes don't operate on Sundays? Why not? Buses are for everyone and they should get priority all year round - quick win for the next @MayorofLondon .

131

34

323

13

51

111

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

2 years

So my last Planning Committee this evening. 16 years, 160 odd meetings and I guess 1000 or so decisions.

16

9

112

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

2 months

Hey @EdwardJDavey You are a brave man. How about donning a blind fold and crossing a bus stop bypass?

14

52

109

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

3 years

How useless is the strategic transport authority in this city. Their buses sit in queues of their own making awaiting a fictional tenfold increase in bikes that there officers know won't happen.

9

47

105

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

2 years

This was put in because the cycle fanatics forecast a tenfold increase in cycling. It’s more like 10% and they are still making up cycle boom stories.

Camden New Journal

@NewJournal

2 years

The last of the Euston Road cycle lane being removed last night 📹 @simonlamrock

78

56

265

28

24

106

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

2 years

Hurrah! @Hackneycouncil have REFUSED all 9 of the awful @JCDecaux_UK advertising hoardings on the pavements of Shoreditch. Good policy, sound decision. Let’s now see them removed as per their application and temporary permission ASAP.

3

7

103

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

9 months

This is an amazing image demonstrating how crazy bus stops with cycles travelling at speed through them is. Yes that is a blind man, wheelchair user, cargo bike, conventional cycle and bus at busy stop!

25

68

104

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

7 months

Disabled people are being denied their right to independent travel. They are being played by Cycling Czar, @WillNorman .

NFBUK

@NFBUK

7 months

Thank you so much @MikScarlet @newdawn75 @SurreyCoalition for coming with us to @10DowningStreet to petition @RishiSunak @Mark_J_Harper @GregHands to stop anymore floating bus stops & shared use bus boarder bus stops in the UK. Our petition has over 250 supporting organisations.

7

90

148

8

47

105

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

1 year

This has to be the low point in Cycling and Walking Czar, @willnorman ’s respect and understanding of the needs of pedestrians, disabled & older people, urban design and creating great city streets. The entire pavement is now lost to cycling.

30

34

106

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

9 months

I hadn’t realised this. Now I understand what we are up against! Town Hall nets over £1m from e-bike contracts | Camden New Journal

Town Hall nets over £1m from e-bike contracts

[empty content]

www.camdennewjournal.co.uk

24

70

102

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

1 year

It’s pitiful that blind people have to plead with the @mayoroflondon to be able to use their bus service and are being ignored.

NFBUK

@NFBUK

1 year

@MayorofLondon @SadiqKhan no more studies will change this behaviour at floating bus stops in London. More are being planned, constructed & made permanent. Our petition, our concerns & our access needs are still being ignored. This is blatant discrimination. It has to stop please

45

88

135

22

52

103

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

10 months

For the first time @TfL are now admitting blind people can be fearful of using their new bus stops designed for cyclists who won’t stop. Blind people have been telling them this for a decade.

NFBUK

@NFBUK

1 year

This is what our President who is blind said about the bus stop design where you step off the bus onto a narrow bus boarder next to a cycle lane on Lea Bridge Road, Waltham Forest ‘Not fit for purpose. It really is totally inaccessible. These sorts of designs should be scrapped’

149

445

721

12

61

103

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

3 years

London's Cycling Czar might want to speak to the @TfL statistics team. This first statistic isn't true.

26

38

102

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

1 year

Public transport is actually the most significant ‘active travel’. All the cycle lobby are doing is enabling fit young men to get fitter by focusing entirely on a single mode and in their wake damaging the walking environment and bus services.

57

40

102

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

2 years

Listen to this admission to the @londonassembly this week from @willnorman , the @MayorofLondon ’s cycling Czar that the bus is more important for active travel than cycling, by a long way. But still they pile money into bike lanes and disrupt the bus services.

45

52

101

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

7 months

More from Andrew describing his loss of his right to travel independently, the difficulty of knowing if there are bicycles coming and finally we see the stop being used by a motorcycle!

13

60

98

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

11 months

This is how @willnorman produced his latest fraudulent tweet. He picked out June data, the month with the greatest difference between 2019 and 2023, and pretended it represented the whole year. This is dishonest and unacceptable from a public servant.

17

58

100

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

7 months

Disabled people are having to fight to win back their right to independent travel. This has been lost because cycles are being routed through the pavement at bus stops, travelling at up to 20mph. Over 60% of cycles are unwilling to give way let alone stop.

Inclusive Public Space

@IPS_Leeds

7 months

Yesterday @NFBUK , @SurreyCoalition & @InclusionLondon petitioned at No. 10 about unsafe, and unusable floating bus stops. More than 250 organisations support their call to immediately cease the use of floating and Copenhagen-style bus stops. Credit: Simon Lamrock

5

43

68

12

48

97

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

1 year

This from @TfL , suggesting removing bus lanes resulting in slower buses is part of its response to the climate emergency is f***ing stupid. London’s bus services are part of the solution to climate change and ‘healthy streets’.

28

44

97

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

11 months

. @willnorman has form. He compared two weekends in a February to declare a cycling boom of 200%, he chose the hottest ever October to state there had been a 40% rise and now this. The Nolan principals in public life require him to be honest. This is dishonest.

London Traffic Watch

@LondonTrafficW1

11 months

Sadiq Khan’s cycling tsar is distorting stats to justify millions on bike lanes ⁦ @willnorman ⁩ said to have unfairly selected cycling counts to justify spending millions on new cycling lanes despite only a modest increase in people travelling by bike

49

147

247

9

54

96

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

6 months

Every road death is tragic. But it makes you think that in a city of 9million, London, there are 7 cycling fatalities compared to the Netherlands, a country of 18m where there were 291 cycling fatalities in 2022! And they want us to Go Dutch!

London Cycling Campaign

@London_Cycling

6 months

Thinking of the young woman killed this Tuesday. "We still see 7 or so cyclists die every year on London’s streets. Cycling remains incredibly statistically safe despite this, but that doesn’t take away from the fact that each death is horrendous.”

5

21

85

71

15

92

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

5 months

It is pitiful that blind people have to campaign to be able to use the pavement to retain their independence. Decades of progress for disabled people are being trashed by the like of @Chris_Boardman

NFBUK

@NFBUK

5 months

This is what Kevin, who is blind and a long white can user thought of the new Cyclops Junction at Chorlton in Manchester, which is part of the Bee walking & cycling network ‘It’s just totally confusing’. The layout is too complex and no more should be built please. #ActiveTravel

23

134

198

2

47

94

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

9 months

Just published, @TfL ’s almanac of statistics shows what every bus passenger knows. Londoners are waiting longer for their bus than ever and the journey time is longer. Bring back our bus lanes!

8

51

94

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

10 months

London’s bus services were the slowest they have been for almost a decade. In the 4 weeks commencing 16 September 2023, the average speed across all routes was 8.7 Mph. Time to stop removing bus lanes and put those removed back before more damage to bus services is done.

12

49

93

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

1 year

One can no longer assume academics are doing impartial, or indeed competent, work in the field of transport.

John Stewart

@JohnJohnStewart

1 year

Caught on video: The academic appointed by Government to head up a review of LTNs caught on video tearing down anti-LTN poster in local shop.

44

215

344

13

33

95

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

1 year

Things @TfL and @willnorman know for certain: 1. Cycles travel through bus stops at up to 20mph, mostly without slowing or stopping even when there is a Belisha beacon at the stop. They know this because they commissioned a world renowned transport consultancy. 1of 4

10

49

88

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

2 years

It’s not often one gets to demonstrate the benefits of clear pavements, but here’s the Kingsland Road without the advertising screen on the footway. The contract for all 59 in Hackney expires on 31 August. Tell @mayorofhackney @TfL and your councillor if you want them all gone.

10

11

92

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

3 years

The casual way in which London government has abandoned bus priority and bus passengers is tragic.

14

41

90

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

3 years

This mess is because politicians believed what the cycle bloggers, journos and academics were telling them. The key research is based on a tiny, self selecting survey.

Dave Hill

@DaveHill

3 years

Council consultation finds residents of most new Low Traffic Neighbourhoods in Ealing want them gone: #LTNs #Ealing

10

35

43

11

38

93

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

2 years

The cycle lane lobby told everyone this bus lane (now bike lane) wasn’t used.

23

34

88

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

2 years

For those who want to read Prof. Aldred’s research into the mini-Holland Programme, the one that @willnorman said in 2018: “had proved their worth’, it’s finally published. But first a health warning. 100,000 leaflets were sent out. Only 1% responded to this initial survey. 1/7

26

72

91

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

8 months

. @willnorman might prefer to talk about collision reported to the police, but the issue is his legal duty towards blind and disabled people and their right to catch their bus.

7

43

88

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

1 month

This is in the London’s Cycling Czar, @WillNorman ’s home patch. He is entirely responsible for wasting £17m that discriminates against disabled people. He was personally told by blind people, including an @RNIB officer that they couldn’t use it.

NFBUK

@NFBUK

1 month

‘The tragedy is that visually impaired people are ending up at the bottom of the pile & are designed out of the environment’ Andrews words about a pavement-less bus stop on the new Lea Bridge Road cycle lane in London. @LouHaigh @simonlightwood we need urgent help on this issue.

22

252

431

7

51

90

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

2 years

I visited Chiswick High Road today. There could have been a far better streets scheme that could have benefited everyone instead of the confusing street they now have. Huge waste of public money.

40

26

87

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

2 years

In other news. The man who was singularly responsible for the widespread chaos in London and England’s transportation systems seems no longer to be advising the PM.

15

33

89

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

2 years

The best cycle infrastructure. Whatever the bloggers tell you.

30

18

87

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

9 months

In response to @andrewellson ’s Times piece on bus speeds @willnorman , London’s Cycling Czar, pinged off a tweet. “The reality is that average bus speeds across London have increased since 2016” Had he read TfL’s bus performance report he could have given a considered reply!

16

42

88

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

3 years

So it turns out cycle casualties have increased on London’s streets despite Vision Zero, all the bike lanes and rhetoric about improving safety. Time for a re-think.

Cyclists are being injured in London every day, says Sadiq Khan aide

www.standard.co.uk

38

43

84

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

2 years

When Ken Livingstone was Mayor, London aspired to great city streets. Ken commissioned advice from the world’s foremost urbanist. Now the Mayor employs a cycle centric intent on installing miles more cheap plastic poles.

17

19

85

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

2 years

For the avoidance of doubt using the bus is active transport. Bus users often don’t have cars, nor do they demand public space to keep their bike. Bus is a far more efficient and sustainable user of the road. What bus lacks is middle class activists making demands in parliament.

APPG for Cycling & Walking

@APPGCW

2 years

National Active Travel Commissioner @Chris_Boardman tells @TransportCttee that "The climate has changed, excuse the pun," and that "active travel is a big part of a sustainable future". Watch live:

6

41

128

30

29

82

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

1 year

City Hall visitors bike rack on a recent visit on a very busy day. Not a good look. PS the only bike there is mine.

Zack Polanski

@ZackPolanski

1 year

📈 The results are in: Cargo bikes are… 1.6x faster 7x cheaper to run 67x less damaging to the environment …than vans.

273

262

1K

21

24

81

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

10 days

An unmitigated failure of transport policy: “…people in England averaged just 47 miles by bike annually, a 17% drop on 2022, and just over half the distance recorded in 2020, when Covid restrictions created a cycling boom.”

People in England driving more, cycling less and walking further, survey shows

Department for Transport’s annual travel poll shows car or van trips up 8% as Covid-era shift to cycling fizzles away

www.theguardian.com

24

38

85

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

2 years

There have been as many cycle injuries on Waltham Forest’s flagship Lea Bridge Road bike lane in ONE month (September 2022) as there had been in near 6 years on Lea Bridge roundabout. The @TfL proposals are a huge waste of £millions public money. Go figure!

11

49

80

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

4 years

As a Hackney central councillor I have to say that prior to this latest lockdown motor traffic re-routed. East/west main roads through my ward have had longer queues and this should be acknowledged. Bus services are being affected.

11

36

81

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

1 year

Those in the older peoples and disability lobby need to get their act together. This stuff is spreading like wildfire and will certainly mean London’s only accessible transport becoming untenable for many older and disabled passengers.

18

34

79

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

2 years

Its tragic that London councils ignore the pleas of blind people to keep their streets clear of dockless bikes despite a legal duty to do just that.

Dockless Obstructions

@DocklessObs

2 years

Navigating around all these @limebike ’s is an obstacle course!

1

2

18

41

82

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

1 year

Welcome to the Village Practice! But not if you are an older or disabled person arriving by bus. The cycles might skid to a halt if you’re lucky! Again and again the @MayorofLondon ignores passengers, older and disabled needs.

11

46

81

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

3 years

According to TfL published data, bus speeds are now at the slowest they have been since the start of the pandemic. Buses are used by the most disadvantaged, including those that are keeping this city running. London government should be putting in bus lanes, not taking them out.

9

35

77

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

2 years

The reason people deserted bus travel post 2014/2015 was a direct result of the loss of bus priority to cycle lanes and buses having to sit in general traffic, with the consequence of slower buses. This process continues under @willnorman 's stewardship.

22

29

78

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

1 year

When Cycling Commissioner @Willnorman was appointed in December 2016 the Mayor said “I’m determined to make…cycling safer…” Between 2017 and 2022 there has been a 50% increase in fatal and serious cyclist injuries.

29

49

79

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

4 months

This was a massive policy failure of Boris Johnson to have not properly considered the equality impacts of running bikes, at speed, through bus stops on bus passengers. @SadiqKhan should now talk to those affected, not hope they go away.

NFBUK

@NFBUK

4 months

Not for blind people who need to use the bus where there are floating bus stops. They are still being built, still being planned and blind people’s access needs are still being ignored. @Mark_J_Harper

3

29

56

33

36

81

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

1 year

. @TfL have published their latest bus speed performance figures. Period 3, 2023/24 marks a new low as being the slowest period 3 performance in over a decade. 9.19mph On average, every single London bus, 24/7, was 1/2 mph slower than in 2013/14. 6 million journeys a day!

23

37

81

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

2 years

And to the same @LondonAssembly meeting @AlansTweets of @TransportForAll reminds members that routeing cycles through pavements at bus stops is a real problem for disabled and older people whom are discriminated against and ignored by @TfL and London government.

0

36

80

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

5 months

Meeting a blind man this morning at Stockwell Underground station. Arrived to this! How can London government be so casual as to how it manages its streets?

30

38

76

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

1 year

Hey @MayorofLondon , the Superloop X68 will be stuck in the same f*****g traffic as the all-stop buses on Waterloo Bridge. Time to give buses the priority they deserve. @DaveHill @BBCTomEdwards @SebDance @ellyannab

Vincent Stops

@VincentStops

1 year

How f*****g stupid is this.

140

149

906

15

24

79