Scientist and unashamed transport geek. Camberwell. Helped make: @pedalmeapp, School streets, stepped tracks in Ldn, and @Camdencycling Born: 345ppm
Joined November 2009
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Ben Knowles retweeted
6 Jan 2025
1/ Very odd and fishy programme on Panorama this evening focusing mostly on illegal motorbikes masquerading as "E-Bikes".
Presented by Adrian Chiles who starts the programme saying he has never ridden an E-Bike before. 🐟
6 Jan 2025
Sales of e-bikes have boomed but some councils and police are struggling to cope
Panorama’s E-Bikes: The Battle for Our Streets on @BBCiPlayer now and @BBCOne at 8pm tonight
bbc.in/41Z1eSV
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Ben Knowles retweeted
30 Dec 2024
I interviewed Chris Boardman about his many careers, including current role at Active Travel England. He told me that fact-free anti-cycling media stories are harming the UK's health as they put off politicians from making brave but necessary decisions.
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17 Nov 2024
RT @SadiqKhan: Let’s be real: it’s not Netflix subscriptions and flat whites that are holding Londoners back from buying their first home,…
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2 Nov 2024
It’s actually a gig economy problem.
Let’s tackle that instead yeah?
2 Nov 2024
In a rare outing for our opinion site, I’ve written about why councils seeking to ban bikes from city centres due to delivery bikes are treating it as a “cycling problem” when it’s actually a law enforcement problem - these are mainly electric mopeds.
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Ben Knowles retweeted
2 Nov 2024
In a rare outing for our opinion site, I’ve written about why councils seeking to ban bikes from city centres due to delivery bikes are treating it as a “cycling problem” when it’s actually a law enforcement problem - these are mainly electric mopeds.
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Ben Knowles retweeted
24 Oct 2024
In the Netherlands, they've used bus stop bypasses for decades. This is partially why the Dutch cycle 1,108km a year and the English cycle 97km a year.
The data on bus stop bypass safety is clear, which is why anti-bus stop bypass campaigners ignore it.
23 Oct 2024
I have written today to @MayorofLondon to again raise my concerns about bus stop bypasses and their impact on access to public transport.
I sincerely hope we will see change on the ground - instead of a seemingly unstoppable rollout of inappropriately designed infrastructure.
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Ben Knowles retweeted
"It will just put people off your cause!!!"
Guess what. It doesn't
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Ben Knowles retweeted
9 Oct 2024
It’s time for Labour to remember its roots and reinstate the right to peaceful protest.
Thanks to @ChrisGPackham for the narration
Location: HMP Wormwood Scrubs
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27 Sep 2024
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
26 Sep 2024
💥New data shows fatal collisions in London have fallen FOUR TIMES more than the rest of the UK.
@MayorofLondon is making streets safer with more:
🚲Bike lanes
🚦New crossings & safer junctions
🚗Lower speed limits
🚸School streets
#VisionZeroLDN
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25 Sep 2024
Seems entirely reasonable.
How are we involved in sending weapons to a country that is using them in a “war” on a civilian population?
24 Sep 2024
Break: we caught up with the protestor from the PM's speech
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24 Sep 2024
How hard are the press going after our new government at the minute?
Almost like they’re trying to chop their feet out from under them before they get started.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
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24 Sep 2024
And - sceptical as I was pre-election about a Keir Starmer government - it’s in all our interests to let governments have space to lead in all our interests and let us judge them later.
Let them serve the damn pudding.
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Ben Knowles retweeted
23 Sep 2024
I’m at a Labour fringe event about preventative health care where public health minister Andrew Gwynne explained how Chris Whitty told him on his first day that 40% of NHS spending is on preventable illnesses. Fifteen years on it is forecast to be 60%, he said.
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Ben Knowles retweeted
20 Sep 2024
Pro tip: The trick to performing an overtake on a £250000 200mph Lamborghini Aventador in central London is to spend 0.1% of the asking price and ride a bike. No slip stream needed
Even easier when the Aventador approaches a speed hump as it hits the eye-watering 2mph mark.
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Ben Knowles retweeted
21 Sep 2024
20th century urban planning changed the concept of a street from a place to pass time to a place to pass through.
21st century planning is about reversing that mindset and prioritizing people living in a city over cars driving through it.
Ferenciek tere, Budapest: 2011 vs 2024.
ALT A before and after collage of an urban street in Budapest. The before image is a sunken car expressway. The after image a vibrant street filled with pedestrians, cyclists, and terraces.
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16 Sep 2024
Correct.
16 Sep 2024
“The super-rich do not spend their money on MPs out of generosity and out of the goodness of their hearts. They want something in return. This wealth is used to buy influence in this House; to get this place to serve their interests and not the interests of our constituents.”
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14 Sep 2024
Absolutely.
Why was this allowed to drag on so long?
It’s clear that coal mines are an industry 50 years out of date and out of step with what we need as a society.
13 Sep 2024
Is it any wonder economic growth is so weak?
Seven years, millions in legal fees, a public inquiry; and then this.
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Ben Knowles retweeted
12 Sep 2024
Important principles for a closed loop system of consumption.
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Ben Knowles retweeted
10 Sep 2024
Around 70% of Londoners want more Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) and 60% agree that all roads across the city should have a 20mph speed limit, according to a new survey.
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