😱 how NOT to lock your bike @ABUS_UK x @London_Cycling

🛡️ 80,000 bikes stolen every year in London. Don't make it easy for thieves...

🧵 [1/10] 1) DON'T use racks unattached to the ground 😅

Sounds obvious but easy mistake. No lock will keep your bike safe here. Give the rack a shove first. Wobbly? Loose? = AVOID 😱 [2/10]

🧵 Tonight @TowerHamletsNow Council decides the future of #TowerHamlets Low Traffic Neighbourhoods

LEAVING ASIDE air pollution, road danger & the climate crisis (!!!) we're also really concerned about this from a 💰💰💰 perspective 1/9 Background: @AspireParty was elected last May & wants to rip out all existing low traffic schemes. They’ve run two consultations costing £100,000… but results KEEP coming back with residents in favour of keeping the schemes 👀 2/9

https://twitter.com/BetterStreetsTH/status/1701645334626103506

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 🌶️

https://twitter.com/London_Cycling/status/1404373240173182983

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

https://twitter.com/pareetjshah/status/1404394789055905797

how it feels sometimes ☹️ 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.

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 ✨🙌

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?

https://twitter.com/roadcc/status/1403718204871020548

This is one of our staff's - all about why fixed gear cycling is so fun! sheldonbrown.com/fixed.html

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.

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.

rbkc.gov.uk/committees/Doc… 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)