Public transit is treated with a scarcity mentality despite how wildly efficient it is. Mobility is a critical public good and cities need to be doubling down on BRT, trains, lightrail, etc. We need transit abundance to combat the continuing privatization and commercialization of our streetspace.
Waymo seeks to cannibalize & destroy public transit & Uber/Lyft, whereas Uber/Lyft seeks to cannibalize & destroy public transit & taxis.
We could refuse to allow yet another American corporation to clog our streets, weaken public transit, & funnel our money into American techbrah pockets.
We could refuse to allow yet another American corporation to clog our streets, weaken public transit, & funnel our money into American techbrah pockets.
Waymo announces plans to launch its robotaxi service in Toronto. The company’s vehicles—with humans at the wheel—will hit the streets in the coming days www.thestar.com/news/gta/way...
October 16, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Public transit is treated with a scarcity mentality despite how wildly efficient it is. Mobility is a critical public good and cities need to be doubling down on BRT, trains, lightrail, etc. We need transit abundance to combat the continuing privatization and commercialization of our streetspace.
So far, it looks like shit. The footprint is far too large, it juts into the streetspace almost. The way it abuts the old hi-tops building is an atrocity. It is just wrong in so many ways. That was a great space for infill, and they just fucked it up royally.
October 12, 2026 at 5:52 PM
So far, it looks like shit. The footprint is far too large, it juts into the streetspace almost. The way it abuts the old hi-tops building is an atrocity. It is just wrong in so many ways. That was a great space for infill, and they just fucked it up royally.
The student council ventured out on a walk and worked with local organisation StreetSpace on a community nature exploration walk. Despite the rainy weather, we discovered fantastic natural features right here in our neighborhood and learnt more about our local environment.
October 9, 2026 at 12:57 PM
The student council ventured out on a walk and worked with local organisation StreetSpace on a community nature exploration walk. Despite the rainy weather, we discovered fantastic natural features right here in our neighborhood and learnt more about our local environment.
There must be literature written about how the automobile and its infrastructure gutted Glasgow. The freeway running through the middle of it came along with the 1960s urban renewal, I'm supposing?
Clear signs of trying to reclaim some of the streetspace but, oh boy.
Clear signs of trying to reclaim some of the streetspace but, oh boy.
September 29, 2026 at 2:47 PM
There must be literature written about how the automobile and its infrastructure gutted Glasgow. The freeway running through the middle of it came along with the 1960s urban renewal, I'm supposing?
Clear signs of trying to reclaim some of the streetspace but, oh boy.
Clear signs of trying to reclaim some of the streetspace but, oh boy.
Ever wondered about the lack of space for #pedestrians compared to cars? Here's a #method to help redress the imbalance. open.spotify.com/episode/6MN8...
#streetsforpeople #strongtowns #liveablecities #bikes #people #streetspace
#streetsforpeople #strongtowns #liveablecities #bikes #people #streetspace
May 2, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Ever wondered about the lack of space for #pedestrians compared to cars? Here's a #method to help redress the imbalance. open.spotify.com/episode/6MN8...
#streetsforpeople #strongtowns #liveablecities #bikes #people #streetspace
#streetsforpeople #strongtowns #liveablecities #bikes #people #streetspace
Reasons for that is far deeper than any one industry or company price gouging (but big oil and big auto are nefarious actors dgmw), just trying to increase everyones dollar power to buy more gas will result in more driving and will just get more expensive as drivers compete for time and streetspace
June 11, 2026 at 11:36 PM
Reasons for that is far deeper than any one industry or company price gouging (but big oil and big auto are nefarious actors dgmw), just trying to increase everyones dollar power to buy more gas will result in more driving and will just get more expensive as drivers compete for time and streetspace
My local Councillor in Chiswick, Joanna Biddolph, uses the Conservative Ward website to maintain her extensive archive of anti-LTN and anti-cycling news stories and material from all over the UK and links to conspiracy nutters on X.
www.chiswickgunnersburyconservatives.org.uk/news/ltns-an...
www.chiswickgunnersburyconservatives.org.uk/news/ltns-an...
LTNs and Streetspace: Chiswick information compendium
www.chiswickgunnersburyconservatives.org.uk
December 9, 2024 at 12:29 PM
My local Councillor in Chiswick, Joanna Biddolph, uses the Conservative Ward website to maintain her extensive archive of anti-LTN and anti-cycling news stories and material from all over the UK and links to conspiracy nutters on X.
www.chiswickgunnersburyconservatives.org.uk/news/ltns-an...
www.chiswickgunnersburyconservatives.org.uk/news/ltns-an...
Overcoming ‘motonormativity’ and car dependency in Edinburgh’s historic city centre
tps.org.uk/public/downl...
How local access management of private cars can unlock streetspace and improve outcomes for safety, public health and accessibility
tps.org.uk/public/downl...
How local access management of private cars can unlock streetspace and improve outcomes for safety, public health and accessibility
tps.org.uk
March 31, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Overcoming ‘motonormativity’ and car dependency in Edinburgh’s historic city centre
tps.org.uk/public/downl...
How local access management of private cars can unlock streetspace and improve outcomes for safety, public health and accessibility
tps.org.uk/public/downl...
How local access management of private cars can unlock streetspace and improve outcomes for safety, public health and accessibility
Damn I see this thread broke before the end (🫣) - read the whole report here! www.wearepossible.org/our-reports/...
November 19, 2024 at 8:37 AM
Damn I see this thread broke before the end (🫣) - read the whole report here! www.wearepossible.org/our-reports/...
Damn I see this thread broke before the end (🫣) - read the whole report here! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Streetspace Invaders FINAL WITH ENDNOTES
Possible is a UK based climate charity working towards a zero carbon society, built by and for the people of the UK. Charity number: 1157 363 www.wearepossible.org About the author Leo Murray is Po...
docs.google.com
November 19, 2024 at 8:36 AM
Damn I see this thread broke before the end (🫣) - read the whole report here! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Whole report is here! (Just seen that sadly blue ark broke the thread when porting 😢) lots about buildouts
Streetspace Invaders FINAL WITH ENDNOTES
Possible is a UK based climate charity working towards a zero carbon society, built by and for the people of the UK. Charity number: 1157 363 www.wearepossible.org About the author Leo Murray is Po...
docs.google.com
November 19, 2024 at 8:32 AM
Whole report is here! (Just seen that sadly blue ark broke the thread when porting 😢) lots about buildouts
"I didn't come into politics to manage the status quo, I came to make a difference, and all the evidence is on our side that walking & cycling is the way to go. So just remember whatever the political consequences you are doing the right thing!" 😍🚶♀️🚲🛴@Labourstone #Streetspace
November 18, 2024 at 10:58 PM
"I didn't come into politics to manage the status quo, I came to make a difference, and all the evidence is on our side that walking & cycling is the way to go. So just remember whatever the political consequences you are doing the right thing!" 😍🚶♀️🚲🛴@Labourstone #Streetspace
Remind me to stay off the CAPSLOCK snakepit that is Nextdoor, where chiswick pro-car lobbyists are currently sharpening pitchforks & working up a vengeful frenzy over this Judge’s comments on Streetspace schemes. Strong mob justice energy towards the @ChiswickHighRd cycle lane
November 18, 2024 at 5:13 PM
Remind me to stay off the CAPSLOCK snakepit that is Nextdoor, where chiswick pro-car lobbyists are currently sharpening pitchforks & working up a vengeful frenzy over this Judge’s comments on Streetspace schemes. Strong mob justice energy towards the @ChiswickHighRd cycle lane
Scheme Amendments – November 2021 | Hounslow's Streetspac...
Hounslow's Streetspace
www.hounslow.gov.uk
November 18, 2024 at 10:56 AM
For everyone encountering fresh demands for cyclists to pay road tax during recent #Streetspace struggles, this 2017 piece from @BBCTomEdwards should set things straight https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-41212379
Road tax: the myth that won't die
Who actually pays for London's roads?
www.bbc.com
November 18, 2024 at 10:44 AM
For everyone encountering fresh demands for cyclists to pay road tax during recent #Streetspace struggles, this 2017 piece from @BBCTomEdwards should set things straight https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-41212379
Installing EV chargepoints on public highways also has the effect of consolidating the private car’s monopolisation of the kerbside, more permanently delineating kerbside streetspace for the exclusive use of car parking. As @TfL put...
November 18, 2024 at 4:57 AM
Installing EV chargepoints on public highways also has the effect of consolidating the private car’s monopolisation of the kerbside, more permanently delineating kerbside streetspace for the exclusive use of car parking. As @TfL put...
Urban streetspace allocation is already heavily skewed towards motor vehicles. “On a busy shopping street, for instance, perhaps 75% of users may be pedestrians, but they may be confined to narrow pavements taking perhaps 20% of the...
November 18, 2024 at 2:47 AM
Urban streetspace allocation is already heavily skewed towards motor vehicles. “On a busy shopping street, for instance, perhaps 75% of users may be pedestrians, but they may be confined to narrow pavements taking perhaps 20% of the...
An EPIC thread on my unintentionally detailed new report investigating the very real threat posed to pedestrian space, disabled mobility and walking and wheeling targets by the national tidal wave of public on-street EV chargers needed to reach net zero: Streetspace Invaders
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November 17, 2024 at 4:27 AM
An EPIC thread on my unintentionally detailed new report investigating the very real threat posed to pedestrian space, disabled mobility and walking and wheeling targets by the national tidal wave of public on-street EV chargers needed to reach net zero: Streetspace Invaders
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Very glad to see @livingstreets.bsky.social standing up for streetspace for people not delivery robots.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Ministers likely to support law change to allow delivery robots on England’s paths
Exclusive: Safety campaigners concerned about plan for widespread deployment on already crowded pavements
www.theguardian.com
June 29, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Very glad to see @livingstreets.bsky.social standing up for streetspace for people not delivery robots.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Part 2 - another 3 phases of consultation, Covid Streetspace and beyond - continues here:
bsky.app/profile/cold...
bsky.app/profile/cold...
The 12 year project to create 1 km of quiet, back street, cycle route in Dulwich.
Part 2.
In early 2019 we're back in the same church hall Andrew Gilligan has been shouted down at over 3 years before. Presentations from experts on the impact of pollution and benefits of active travel.
Part 2.
In early 2019 we're back in the same church hall Andrew Gilligan has been shouted down at over 3 years before. Presentations from experts on the impact of pollution and benefits of active travel.
The long saga of a cycle route through Dulwich Village has finally reached it’s ‘season finale’ as the new square is revealed.
It’s a great new public space and a key enabler of cycling in the area... and a case study on why consultation is a waste of time and money.
It’s a great new public space and a key enabler of cycling in the area... and a case study on why consultation is a waste of time and money.
December 8, 2024 at 9:56 AM
Part 2 - another 3 phases of consultation, Covid Streetspace and beyond - continues here:
bsky.app/profile/cold...
bsky.app/profile/cold...
March 2020….Covid hit and TfL sponsored streetspace programme. Southwark moved forward with schemes it had already been consulting on over the previous 2 years and implemented as with temporary materials.
December 7, 2024 at 4:46 PM
March 2020….Covid hit and TfL sponsored streetspace programme. Southwark moved forward with schemes it had already been consulting on over the previous 2 years and implemented as with temporary materials.
I’m going to somewhat miss the quality of debate from anti LTN crew on Xitter.
Covid streetspace budget that delivered 89 LTNs (and loads more interventions) was 1/1000th of the cost of the Crossrail project (which took 20years.
Yes. Safe to say crossrail did cause more modal shift then 1 LTN.
Covid streetspace budget that delivered 89 LTNs (and loads more interventions) was 1/1000th of the cost of the Crossrail project (which took 20years.
Yes. Safe to say crossrail did cause more modal shift then 1 LTN.
November 15, 2024 at 10:44 AM
I’m going to somewhat miss the quality of debate from anti LTN crew on Xitter.
Covid streetspace budget that delivered 89 LTNs (and loads more interventions) was 1/1000th of the cost of the Crossrail project (which took 20years.
Yes. Safe to say crossrail did cause more modal shift then 1 LTN.
Covid streetspace budget that delivered 89 LTNs (and loads more interventions) was 1/1000th of the cost of the Crossrail project (which took 20years.
Yes. Safe to say crossrail did cause more modal shift then 1 LTN.
I hope you get well soon – and please don't give up cycling! This form of motor traffic is structural violence and demands a political response. I hope Londoners will fight to reactivate the Streetspace programme to turn their city into Copenhague-on-Thames!
October 26, 2023 at 9:27 PM
I hope you get well soon – and please don't give up cycling! This form of motor traffic is structural violence and demands a political response. I hope Londoners will fight to reactivate the Streetspace programme to turn their city into Copenhague-on-Thames!
They will faint when they hear about streetspace consumed by cars.
September 5, 2024 at 8:21 PM
They will faint when they hear about streetspace consumed by cars.
Much pearl-clutching about a tiny 3% fare evasion on PT, compared to closer to 10% in Oz. Not so much outrage about the theft of public streetspace by those not paying for on street parking. Wonder what the % is for that? Same sort of theft, or is that different? shrtm.nu/ykMk4Jx
Fare evasion: Thousands of Auckland commuters skipping payment on buses
Fare evasion on Auckland buses accounted for almost 3% of journeys in the past six months.
Transport officers caught 12,700 fare evaders, with 4.8% receivi
www.newstalkzb.co.nz
December 5, 2024 at 8:43 PM
Much pearl-clutching about a tiny 3% fare evasion on PT, compared to closer to 10% in Oz. Not so much outrage about the theft of public streetspace by those not paying for on street parking. Wonder what the % is for that? Same sort of theft, or is that different? shrtm.nu/ykMk4Jx