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Jon Burke 🌍 Profile picture
@jonburkeUK
Oct 4, 2021 • 9 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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Car manufacturers so embarrassed of cars taking over our cities that they leave them out of their adverts.

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Volkswagen. Embarrassed of cars. Image
BMW. Embarrassed of cars. Image
Mercedes-Benz. Embarrassed of cars. Image
Citroen. Embarrassed of cars. Image
Renault. Embarrassed of cars. Image
Volvo. Embarrassed of cars. Image
Land Rover. Embarrassed of cars. Image
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Jon Burke 🌍 Profile picture
Mar 22
Getting a lot of people who’ve been misled by fossil fuel industry grifters in my notifications, so here’s a short myth-buster:

1/ ‘There’s plenty of oil and gas in the North Sea!!!’

FALSE: 90%+ of the U.K’s reserves have already been extracted.

Source: eciu.net/media/press-re…
2/ ‘Ed Miliband won’t let us use our own North Sea oil and gas!!!’

FALSE: The U.K currently purchases 100% of North Sea gas and can only purchase 20% of North Sea oil because we don’t have the refining capacity for any more of it.
3/ ‘Ed Miliband is artificially forcing down North Sea oil and gas extraction!!!’

FALSE: North Sea oil and gas extraction peaked in 1999 and has fallen by 65% since because most of it has been extracted, hence our import dependency. Image
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Aug 3, 2023
1/ The Daily Mail's latest LTN attack piece - complete with token Northerner sporting flat cap and whippet 😂 - is a hoot.

Since it features LTNs I delivered - the Mail clearly doesn't know London Fields is in Hackney - let's look at some of its claims.
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
2/ Because all the evidence shows LTNs...

* Improving air quality without displacement.
* Halving road injuries,
* Eliminating rat-running.
* Reducing street crime.

....authors @markdavidduell and @eirianJprosser have to rely on unsubstantiated anecdotes.

Fake journalism. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@markdavidduell @eirianJprosser 3/ Let's look at the claims reported without challenge:

"when they can't get an Uber one night or can't get their Amazon delivery they're not going to be happy."

FALSE.

The Hackney LTNs featured have been operating for 3 years with no impact on obtaining taxis and deliveries. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Jon Burke 🌍 Profile picture
Jul 30, 2023
I delivered the largest number of LTNs in the U.K.

This is what they do:

* Halve road injuries.
* Eliminate rat-running.
* Reduce pollution, even at boundaries.
* Reduce street crime.

Rishi Sunak wants to impose these scourges on you and your family.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…
Yes, Low Traffic Neighbourhoods "halve road injuries".

"We found...injuries inside LTNs halved relative to the rest of London...indicat[ing] substantial reductions in pedestrian injury risk. We found no evidence of changes...on LTN boundary roads."

https://t.co/P5emH8CkO5findingspress.org/article/25633-
twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Yes, Low Traffic Neighbourhoods halve motor vehicle movements by eliminating rat-running.

"Across London the average traffic reduction within LTNs was 46.9%."

https://t.co/C9rFK605nbwearepossible.org/latest-news/lt…
twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Apr 3, 2023
1/ Let me take you on a little journey about why this thread is nonsense. Albeit the kind of nonsense that Twitter thrives on, hence its 5000+ 'likes'.

But, more than that, let me tell you all about the awesome power of urban trees...
2/ The first giveaway that, despite their immense confidence, the Tweeter doesn't really know what they're talking about, is the claim that these algae units are to "be used in places where trees can't survive" is the healthy, mature street trees in both shots.
3/ Now, algae-based carbon sequestration does have potential at scale, but this gimmick box -with its high revenue and capital costs for cleansing etc and purchase - isn't it.

Besides, nature has already provided cheaper, far more effective alternative for constrained spaces.
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Nov 10, 2022
1/ Recently, I wrote about the harassment campaign conducted against me by anti-LTN Horrendous Hackney Road Closures.

These are the same people who undertook a failed judicial review against the LTNs I delivered and, by all accounts, still owe the taxpayers of Hackney £10,000. Image
2/ Yes, the same anti-LTN group who mocked me up as a slave master and encouraged their gormless acolytes to lodge complaints about my support for LTNs appear to have turned out to be the bunch of dishonest, malignant grifters I warned you about.
3/ But who are Horrendous Hackney Road Closures and, crucially, where has all the money they raised gone?

I understand that failed Judicial Reviews don't come cheap, but by my reckoning they raised (and are continuing to raise) around £24,000 from over 1000 donations. ImageImage
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Oct 25, 2022
1/ Yesterday, we were treated to another statistics masterclass from anti-Low Traffic Neighbourhood journalist Andrew Ellson, of @thetimes.

Since I'm mentioned in the piece - a weird fixation - which cherry-picks DfT data to falsely imply LTNs increase mileage, this is my reply.
2/ Firstly, let's deal with Andrew's statement that I delivered the U.K's largest number of LTNs "on the basis that sat-nav apps were increasing the traffic on local roads."

This claim is false, as my introduction to Hackney Emergency Transport Plan (2020) shows:
3/ That is not to say I don't believe sat-nav-assisted displacement of motor vehicles from an overloaded main road network isn't a major issue for our cities. Because it is, as the following paper demonstrates: researchgate.net/publication/32…
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