The content you engage with on social media is boosted inside the respective social media algorithm. You might feel like you're "debating" but what's actually happening is you're amplifying the platform of the people who don't care about your safety.
Here's a short thread with some content you could quote tweet and reply to instead! (Not just us 😅)
@GetOutCycling and their fab community building cycle work
Thank you everyone for contributing your spicy ideas about what we can start advocating for to get on the radio. We're going to give our 'top 5' and give them a 'spice factor' using the chili emoji 🌶️
Starting off with 'beg buttons' for motor traffic. This is a spicy idea that up-ends the current system of road crossing in which pedestrians and cycle traffic have to 'beg' traffic to stop by pushing a button and waiting - which can be an agonising delay
Yo dawg we heard you like cycles so we put a cycle on a cycle so you can cycle while you cycle.
One of our staff moved homes today with @pedalmeapp and this is what it looked like ✨🙌
Cycle freight like this can be used for a huge amount of London's journeys. This would steeply slash road danger and pollution across London. We're the campaign to make that a reality.
The fact that Sheldon's website's future has been picked up by cycling media is testament to how important a resource Mr Brown left the cycling community with. What's your favourite Sheldon Brown article?
"When you ride a fixed gear, you feel a closer communion with your bike and with the road. There is a purity and simplicity to the fixed-gear bicycle that can be quite seductive." Few people's love for cycling and cycles came across in their writing quite like Sheldon's.
LTN 1/20 is the document published by @transportgovuk and @grantshapps as part of the #GearChange strategy last summer, which sets out guidance for quality and safety standards for infrastructure that enables safe, convenient and enjoyable cycling.
LTN 1/20's first anniversary is next month. The document establishes baseline quality criteria for infrastructure changes. We're hopeful that since the document has now been 'on the scene' for long enough, new schemes from local government will be compliant.
Women shouldn’t experience fear, harassment or harm on our streets. This has to stop, and creating safer and welcoming streets will be part of that.
This is especially important when it comes to walking, cycling or taking public transport, which we must enable more people to choose. Inclusive streets have to prioritise these transport choices, & the space needed for them.
We need cycle routes that are comfortable for all. Women shouldn’t have to choose between braving traffic or unlit parks & empty industrial estates. Routes must be direct, lit, with people around.
1/7 We have serious concerns about this council report for next week’s decision on the #KensingtonHighStreet cycle lanes. Why? Its tone is biased, it has errors, and it considers ‘doing nothing’ a valid option for this dangerous road.
2/7 The report is biased *against* the cycle lanes. Eg some public misconceptions (cyclists don’t pay road tax!) are reported without comment, while supportive comments (cycling is better for climate!) are questioned.
(Btw, zero evidence that the cycle lanes caused congestion)
3/7 Forty-eight organisations who publicly supported the cycle lanes via @betterstreetskc *aren’t named* in the report. Why?
They include NHS Imperial Trust, Royal College of Music and RBKC Youth Council. No one important, then...🙄