Let's treat the unnecessary harms massive SUVs cause bystanders like we treat the harms caused by smoking, ie doing everything we can to limit the sales of these awful machines through taxes and regulation
This Builder’s Merchant and DIY shop in Hackney hasn’t moaned about LTNs - instead it switched to cargo bike delivery, saving time money and environment. 👏 Kts4diy.co.uk
@bmj.com, a renowned health journal, slams car bloat:
"Cars are becoming steadily larger, [and] with this comes potential harms to health...Action is needed locally, nationally, and internationally to curb sales of new SUVs and to reduce their presence in urban areas."
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Age yourself with gaming
So important to call out all of this "balanced" news reporting for what it is increasingly becoming (or indeed has been for a good while): client journalism.
I really noticed how many adoring shots of these horrific vehicles there were. Totally gratuitous.
I present the most interesting graph ever made.
HUMAN ON BICYCLE beats every other living thing.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...
Not long until our yearly social / fundraising céilidh!
www.tickettailor.com/events/hackn...
Dinner and dancing, perfect to chase away the January blues.
Low Traffic Neighborhoods!
Low Traffic Neighborhoods!
All in one mega blog post is a huge resource containing the most popular films, photos, diagrams & links on LTN's.
Bookmark. Share. Link to it. Host a screening. Advocate.
@talyaschwartz.bsky.social @solomonge.bsky.social @openplans.org
Led ride around Hackney this Sunday, starting at 11am from the Rio Cinema. Taking in a good portion of the borough and its cycleways / LTNs. Weather is looking, quite frankly, ridiculously good for November!
See the link below to sign up:
Rob
Rich
If you need some enlightenment about Low Traffic Neighborhoods…well you came to the right place! Films! Maps! Photos! Presentations! It’s one-stop LTN shopping!
Join us for a ride round the borough, taking in many of Hackney’s cycle tracks, low traffic neighbourhoods, Cycleways and parks. Dalston, Millfields, Chatsworth, Hackney Central, Well St Common, Londo...
"Action is needed locally, nationally, and internationally to curb sales of new SUVs..."
The British Medical Journal recognising SUVs as a danger to public health in a new editorial.
The laissez faire policy approach to them has led to additional and avoidable deaths.
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Liam Duffy
Joel Boerckel
Hackney Cycling Campaign
Streetfilms/Clarence Eckerson Jr.
www.bmj.com
While ostensibly about one academic’s experiences with the NYT, the central point about the sheer, relentless march of, “critics say”, false-balance journalism should be read and understood by anyone involved in or just interested in the news.
I’ve complained to the BBC about #CelebrityTraitors. The repeated shots of Land Rover Defenders feel like product placement - banned under BBC rules - and it’s clearly worked, with searches for the Defender spiking after the show aired.
Jon Owen
Age yourself with gaming.
Peter Walker
Alt: The opening scene from the original VGA edition of The Secret of Monkey Island. The main character, Guybrush Threepwood, is about to startle the Lookout.
