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TheFSGModel retweeted
I don’t get why officials from Greater Manchester are put in charge of Liverpool games - and especially *that* game against City.
I’m not alone in thinking that - it’s mad that “Pro Ref” don’t consider the optics.
✍️ garethroberts.substack.com/p…
TheFSGModel retweeted
In @willnorman’s first full year, 2017, as the London Cycling [& Walking] Commissioner, cycles were ‘involved’ in 65 serious injuries to pedestrians and 22 cyclists. A decade on and £1.5 Bn spent, the figures have near doubled for pedestrian injuries (116) and more than tripled (74) for other cyclists. He says he’s making it safer for everyone. He says the roads are getting safer and London has a Vision Zero approach. Really? @EmmaBest22
TheFSGModel retweeted
MOTION AGREED: The Mayor should instruct TfL to pause the installation of floating bus stops on the TfL road network, and to pause funding for new floating bus stops through borough programmes. london.gov.uk/who-we-are/wha…
TheFSGModel retweeted
Police arrest a cyclist after jumping a red light.
Another cyclist aggressively approaches the female police officer shouting and being intimidating without knowing full details…..
Jumping a red light just like a driving past a red light is normally dealt with with a fixed penalty notice. If name is refused or can’t be verified then arresting comes into play …..
TheFSGModel retweeted
As ever @Chris_Boardman is wrong. In London, cycle is the ‘vehicle involved’ in a good number of serious injuries. In the City of London far more than car and in Westminster a good proportion. What is more these proportions are increasing and the rate of serious injuries caused by cycles is much higher than car per mile travelled There are also many cycle v cycle serious injuries and of course we know many go unreported.
Nearly 30,000 people were killed or seriously injured on Britain’s roads last year.
That should shape where police focus, not the latest outrage.
It’s time to push the facts to the front. By me in @spectator:
spectator.com/article/its-ti…
TheFSGModel retweeted
🚨 NEW: The leader of Reform UK in Hampshire has been charged with 35 offences, including 12 counts of rape and making indecent images of a child
TheFSGModel retweeted
Exclusive: Chelsea owner’s company resold Premier League tickets at inflated prices.
Tickets for matches for all PL clubs - apart from Chelsea - were offered by website but that access now removed after The Times contacted Clearlake.
Story with @Adam___Williams
thetimes.com/sport/football/…
Issued a bunch of FoI requests to find out how many councils have actually banned pavement parking under their 'new' (but not really) powers.
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Inevitably getting back a lot of 'we haven't banned pavement parking anywhere nor do we intend to' because actual terrorist @Heidi_Labour knew full well no council will do anything to improve conditions for walking.
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TheFSGModel retweeted
A modest request to HM Government: if we have to have an 'active travel commissioner' can we please make it a pedestrian next time, rather than an Olympic cyclist? In the past five years the number of fines issued by police forces to cyclists fell from 6,000 to 3,660.
Some police forces last year failed to fine a single cyclist, while just ten were fined in the whole of Devon and Cornwall. But even this, apparently, is still too much for Chris Boardman, the current holder of the above post and a former gold medallist on his bike.
While acknowledging that cyclists ought to stop at red lights, he adds, in a letter to the Times, 'We need to distinguish between behaviour that irritates us and behaviour that puts lives at greatest risk.
Someone on a bike and someone driving a two tonne vehicle do not pose the same potential risk. That does not excuse either breaking the law, but it should inform where we put our limited enforcement resources.'
✍️ Ross Clark
Article | spectator.com/article/we-nee… | @RossjournoClark
TheFSGModel retweeted
Day one of Sadiq Khan’s Oxford Street pedestrianisation: empty pavements, roadwork barriers, security guards and cyclists riding on the pavement.
This is the grand transformation London was promised? Or another vanity project being sold as progress? 👏
#OxfordStreet #London
Aaaaaand there it is, your 'pedestrianised' street.
Cyclists are continuing to ride along the newly pedestrianised section of Oxford Street, despite being asked to dismount.
Around seven security staff have been stationed near Oxford Circus, calling out to cyclists to get off their bikes, with mixed success.
More on this story ➡️ bbc.in/3W32bbT
#OxfordStreet #London #Cycling #Pedestrianisation
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TheFSGModel retweeted
If Luigi had hit that CEO with an SUV he would be walking free right now
Kansas Mom Who Drove Truck Into Youth Soccer Game, Killing 2, Released Without Charges tmz.me/4dJYvlp
TheFSGModel retweeted
The BBC has a fascinating, broken relationship with commercial media - constantly taking its cues from an industry where most of the business models are in a long-term death spiral, and replicating their shoddy content, despite facing none of those constraints itself.
TheFSGModel retweeted
🚨 NEW: Manchester City were invited to a Government trade delegation to India this week despite the Premier League charges
[@guardian]