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27 Nov, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Today’s gratitude list;

1) I’m grateful for the Kensington high street cycle lane @RBKC 🥰🥰🥰
2) I’m grateful to have found the writings of MFK Fisher and the whole world that has opened up to me because of it
3) I’m grateful for @isabella_tree and every other farmer and landowner letting their land grow wild
4) I’m grateful for @lamlibs for helping me make headway on my goal to read 100 books this year. 89 down, 11 to go.
5) I’m grateful for fog.

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Sarah 🍓 Profile picture
29 Nov
THREAD: I was living in @RBKC when I first learnt how to ride a bike, by taking a @TfL cycle confident course.

But despite having the skills to ride, the roads around my home were so dangerous that I could never build up the confidence to ride a bike ~properly~
I lived just across from Olympia, where the red marker is. Every day I would walk up High Street Kensington to get to Holland Park or Gail’s Bakery or even Hyde Park — and I’d wish I was brave enough to cycle the journey. Image
At first I thought it would be a problem that would be solved as soon as I learnt how to ride a bike. That straight away High Street Kensington would not look so treacherous but instead would look safe and welcoming.

Nope.
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Sarah 🍓 Profile picture
28 Nov
Living in a 15 minute city means being able to access all the things you might need day to day within a 15 minute walk of your home, including:

📓 schools
🏪 shops
🏥 healthcare
👷‍♀️ work
🌿 green space

Do you already live in one?
When you live in a 15 minute city, the best thing you can do is make it easier to walk and cycle — because only a limited number of people need to drive such small distances.

That means having clear pavements, segregated cycle lanes, street trees and clear signage.
Think eliminating such short car journeys wouldn’t make a difference to the congestion on London’s roads? Think again! A third of all car journeys in the capital are less than 2km content.tfl.gov.uk/technical-note…
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Sarah 🍓 Profile picture
28 Oct
One thing I think drivers don't get is that the inconvenience they're experiencing from school streets, LTNs and cycle lanes is miniscule in comparison to the inconvenience other road users have been asked to take for the benefit of drivers over the years.
Your journey is five minutes longer? I feel you! As a cyclist, I'm often forced to take longer routes because the quickest path from A to B doesn't have adequate infrastructure or isn't safe for someone on a bike.
You have to wait at traffic lights on main roads instead of breezing through residential back streets? I feel you! As a pedestrian my journey is frequently interrupted by trying to find a safe place to cross a road, and waiting at lights that prioritise cars over me.
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Sarah 🍓 Profile picture
27 Oct
An able bodied person like Keir Starmer just shouldn't be driving in Kentish Town.

There are too many cars on our roads and this is the consequence.

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-547013…
To me, the Labour Party should represent a group striving for the collective good.

Driving an SUV in central London means prioritising your personal comfort and convenience over the collective good.

Driving it in such a way that you collide with a cyclist? I’m so disappointed.
Maybe @Keir_Starmer should have a read of my open letter to dangerous drivers before he gets back behind the wheel of a car
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Sarah 🍓 Profile picture
23 Sep
I don't know who needs to hear this but creating pro-LTN petitions to counteract the anti ones isn't a strategic use of your time.

Here's why:
Opponents are sharing their petitions all around the country. They're getting signed by motorist groups, taxi drivers, and other interest groups in an attempt to boost the numbers.

But all that does is make them irrelevant for local authorities trying to gauge local opinon.
That's good news and bad news for supporters.

Because unless you take on the same tactic of sharing the petitions beyond local boundaries (and hence making them irrelevant) you'll never be able to get an equivalent number of signatures.
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21 Sep
I think we make a mistake when we focus on where people live in low traffic neighbourhoods.

People's home life will be impacted by low traffic neighbourhoods -- but it's about so much more than that.
The street I live on currently was a notorious rat run before @RailtonLTN was introduced, now it's much quieter.

My new home will be on a main road where an LTN is about to be introduced. That LTN probably won't reduce traffic outside my home.

BUT...
@RailtonLTN It will reduce the traffic on the surrounding streets where I commute by foot or by bike.

It will reduce the traffic on the route I take to get to local shops, cafes, restaurants, libraries, schools, services.
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