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Hackney Cyclist
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Living and cycling in Hackney since 2003, I want Hackney to be as safe and comfortable for me and my daughter to cycle here as it is in the Netherlands
Nov 29, 2023 • 23 tweets • 13 min read
In this 🧵I will share before and after images from Amsterdam showing how the streets have been redesigned and how the city has changed from one designed around cars into one designed around people. First is Eerste Jacob van Campenstraat in 1988 and in 2023
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Image A residential street where through traffic was removed in the 1970s after campaigning by local school children and now car parking replaced by greenery, cycle parking and drinking water


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Aug 12, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
The Daily Express and Brexit, a short thread on how it started and how it's going.. ImageImage ImageImage
Aug 8, 2021 • 9 tweets • 6 min read
Cycling with no helmets is not dangerous Image Cycling with children in a cargo bike is not dangerous ImageImageImage
May 7, 2021 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
Candidate who stood against the popular LTNs in Islington was the least popular candidate with just 7% of the vote. It leaves Jody Graver free to concentrate on his upcoming trial on intimidation, cocaine and ABH charges And Niall Cowley, who stood against the popular LTNs in Hoxton, also receives just 7% of the votes in the Hoxton East council by election. People friendly streets are popular. The noisy minority motorists are not.
Oct 26, 2020 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
The chaos in Hackney, Tower Hamlets and Islington this morning at the height of rush hour due to the LTNs 🙄 The A10 through Hackney, between the London Fields LTN and the De Beauvoir Town LTN
May 25, 2020 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Amsterdam became a cycling city because of protests by residents. In 1970 25 people cycled around Dam Square, in cargo bikes to block traffic, which was then had a large one way system around it. Here it is in 1983 and the same view on streetview Cargo bikes were chosen to show how silly it was to allow one person to drive to work in a car, when the police told them they needed a permit to protest they said that people driving in a line of cars did not need a permit
Feb 7, 2019 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
These are some of the appeals and updates put out over the past week by the Metropolitan Police They include a man hitting a one year old child on a zebra crossing, refusing to stop and driving through a red light, a driver driving the wrong way down a one way street killing a 63 year old, two road rage attacks with cars driven at people, an 18 year old killed by a coach,