Where Cardiff residents can discuss cycling, share tips, improvements and campaign for change. I also support all active travel.
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CyclingCardiff retweeted
Back when I was on the tools I spent a lot of time in and around Epsom. With all the racing stables in the area it's pretty much horsey central. The rabid imaptience I witnessed from drivers on a daily basis had to be seen to be believed.
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CyclingCardiff retweeted
It seems people who cycle come in for the most abuse for merely wanting people to drive safely.
If you don't want to drive safely for cyclists, maybe you could do so for horses? It's an absolute travesty that so many horses are killed by drivers on our roads.
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The amount of people who routinely park in disabled bays without a blue badge, or treat them as some sort of emergency parking for when all the other spaces are full, is a national disgrace.
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CyclingCardiff retweeted
Better cycling infrastructure isn’t anti-driver.
Every person who cycles is one fewer car in traffic, one fewer car competing for parking & one less delay for those who need to drive
People don’t cycle where it feels unsafe. That’s why infrastructure gradually changes behaviour
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CyclingCardiff retweeted
I'm for freedom of mobility and choice.
Cars occupy the majority of space and make it dangerous or noisy for other types of transport to exist.
As we've seen in London and Glasgow, build a good network of good cycle infrastructure and people will use them.
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Jun 8
Proof business thrives when you remove cars from city streets.
A pop-up pandemic intervention in the summer of 2021, Bristol's busy Princess Victoria Street emerged as a permanent pedestrian space within four years; offering a compelling case of how such measures can reshape public opinion, local economies, and the future of urban streets.🧵
ALT People walk and sit along a pedestrianised shopping street in the centre of Bristol, featuring terraces, trees, planter boxes, bike parking, and advertising boards.
ALT People walk and sit along a pedestrianised shopping street in the centre of Bristol, featuring terraces, trees, planter boxes, bike parking, and advertising boards.
ALT People walk and sit along a pedestrianised shopping street in the centre of Bristol, featuring terraces, trees, planter boxes, bike parking, and advertising boards.
ALT People walk and sit along a pedestrianised shopping street in the centre of Bristol, featuring terraces, trees, planter boxes, bike parking, and advertising boards.
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CyclingCardiff retweeted
Jun 12
ULEZ has dramatically improved air quality in London.
New evidence shows that our policies are reducing hospital admissions for breathing and heart problems 💚
theguardian.com/environment/…
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CyclingCardiff retweeted
In under two months since the counter was restarted, 539,697 cycle journeys along the Embankment have been recorded as of 8:36 am this morning.
Safe cycle infrastructure = more people cycling = less congestion
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CyclingCardiff retweeted
Terrible lo que ocurre en las ciudades cuando fomentas la bici.
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Why paving over front gardens stresses our sewers and contributes to flooding. youtu.be/DhsNszzWF8k?si=iri5… via @YouTube
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Jun 11
Devastated to report that not even first class is safe from the scourge of people playing TikTok out loud
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CyclingCardiff retweeted
Jun 11
Ryanair investigated over charging parents to sit with children bbc.in/3S4yFAs
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CyclingCardiff retweeted
Greenery in Delhi is a privilege limited to a few enclaves, but Govts can explore the option of converting 1 in every 4 streets of areas like Begumpur, Mahipalpur, Okhla, Uttam nagar, Sangam Vihar, etc into green corridors like this and tackle urban heat island effect.
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CyclingCardiff retweeted
It’s those #BloodyCyists again..!!
Oh wait ✋
A CAR ENDED up in the pond in St Stephen’s Green Park in Dublin today.
It is not clear how the car ended up in the pond in the busy city centre park, which is not open to motorists.
Jun 10
A car ended up in the pond in St Stephen's Green Park in Dublin today.
jrnl.ie/7067093
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CyclingCardiff retweeted
Hey @OctopusEnergy
Do you encourage your people to park like this?
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CyclingCardiff retweeted
Jun 11
Typical of the hostile gatekeeping culture at Waterloo. Genuine, paying passengers are treated like criminals over tech failures, while actual fare evaders walk through unchallenged. Public trust in our railways—like so much else—is collapsing. @SW_Help @Heidi_Labour
Jun 11
My morning so far…I feel the need to get this off my chest 🤣🤦🏼♀️
At London Waterloo I tried to board my train as soon as the platform was announced, but my ticket wouldn’t scan.
Showed the guy my ticket & asked him to pls let me through the barriers. He said ‘no, you need to use your ticket’.
I showed him ticket & explained it wouldn’t scan. He shrugged & told me to ‘go & see that woman there’. Woman had a queue of people so I asked if she could let me through, she told me ‘no, you have to wait your turn’.
I waited, but conscious I only had minutes left, in desperation, I tried to buy another ticket at the machine, but the contactless wasn’t working. I tried to get another via the app, but it wouldn’t work (presumably because now, it was so close to departure?).
Anyway, I returned to the barrier exasperated. Please, I said to ‘the woman’, can you help me because I really need to board the train which is about to depart.
‘No. Wait your turn’ was again the response.
I went to two other staff members at the gates & showed them my ticket and said ‘please, can you just let me through the barriers’.
‘No, she needs to say we can’ was the response.
Anyway, you guessed it - I missed the train.😩🤬
As I said to all the staff members, if I had just turned up to the train & barged through the barriers, ticket-less, as so many seem to do these days, I would have been happily on the train and en route to the destination… Makes me wonder why we bother trying to do the right thing 🤷♀️
Argh! Anyway, I feel better now having got that off my chest! 😉
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CyclingCardiff retweeted
Ban them, nobody wants them
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Jun 11
'Lost Waymo test car keeps waking us up' ➡️ bbc.in/4otgHE0
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Transportation planning is a geometry puzzle. You only have so much space to work with, and the goal (I hope!) is to give people practical options for getting around.
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Jun 11
Jakarta has lots of painted bike lanes, but they don't offer any safety benefit for cyclists.
A notable exception is the protected bike lane along Jl Sudirman. This is the type of facility that would help make cycling safe and comfortable for people of all ages and abilities.
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