20 years working in the politics & policy of streets. 16 years chairing Hackney’s planning comm. Committed to saving London’s bus services & better streets.
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The London Assembly has voted by a huge margin, 17 to 3 votes, to call on the @MayorofLondon London to pause all floating bus stops on London’s streets.
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74% of cycle fatalities and 79% of serious injuries occur at junctions and are not associated with bus stops. @theJeremyVine is wrong. There is much that can be done to reduce collisions without excluding disabled people from our streets and bus services.
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Vincent Stops retweeted
TfL continues to ignore repeated concerns raised by numerous DDPOs about the risks this infrastructure poses to Disabled people, including the potential for serious injury.
How many more concerns need to be raised before TfL takes action? @TfL @InclusionLondon @NFBUK
“Campaign groups have previously pushed back against the scheme, due to concerns the infrastructure poses a major safety hazard for blind, deaf and disabled commuters.” bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvj6…
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Fact checking the London Cycling Campaign. It is well researched that 74% of cycle fatalities and 79% of serious injuries occur at intersections. Cyclist injuries are not associated with bus stops. This is tosh! lcc.org.uk/news/floating-bus…
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More bike track lunacy. 100 yards of bike track costing £1.3m, slap bang in the middle of the pavement of a busy high road making the junction impassable for many including Andrew, who can no longer use his bus and will be excluded from the street altogether. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/11…
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Vincent Stops retweeted
The day after we call on @haringeycouncil to call an immediate stop to the installation of a Floating Bus Stop on Ferry Lane the @LondonAssembly realise their own Call made to pause installing floating bus stops bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvj6…
#Ferrylane #DisabilityRights #SMD @HaringeyGreens @HaringeyLabour @HaringeyLibDems
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Great if it’s true, but a moronic tweet from a public official on the basis of only 6 days trading!
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This is a profound change of tack from the @LondonAssembly. In 2018 they were stitched up, hearing only from fanatical cycling advocates and nothing from anyone else representing other users of London’s streets including London’s statutory transport users watchdog, @LonTravelWatch. Here is a list of participants.
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.@Chris_Boardman, National Active Travel Commissioner, wants us to follow the facts. How about the fact that walking is by far the most important active travel mode, followed by public transport use and cycling is the smallest mode.
I seldom monitor ‘Twitter’ now. I had a quick but just had a scan at reactions to this.
It never ceases to amaze me how some are outraged having not read the article.
I know they haven’t read it, as if they had, they’d realise they’re’ being outraged by me agreeing with them.
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.@TfL are to implement what will be an incredibly busy and complex, very long floating bus stop on Shoreditch High Street. They have said that their Diversity and Inclusion Team had told them they didn’t need to update their equalities assessment! When they did update it they assessed the impact on disabled people as neutral! @LonTravelWatch @Semakaleng @EllyBakerAM @AndrewBoff @NFBUK
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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
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This is great news. Every London Assembly member present, bar the Greens and Lib-dems, voted for a pause to floating bus stops. But that doesn’t get rid of the chaos the cycle fanatics with their downright lies about working in Europe and road safety has caused hundreds of thousands of Londoners. All this chaos and discrimination will continue.
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…
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.London’s Cycling Commissioner, @willnorman, is claiming he’s making London’s streets safer for cycling. His own data clearly shows that is untrue. The number of seriously injured cyclists is at record levels and trending up. It is the highest June figure for a decade. 2026 on this chart is 6 months data. AND he knows all this!
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It’s a lie to say they are making London’s streets safer for cycling. 2025 had the highest number of serious cyclist injuries and the rate of injuries per mile is trending up.
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Silent outrage about cyclists behaviour has been going on unheard for many pedestrians for a long time, way before Oxford Street scheme. Are pedestrians suppose to accept it due to other priorities? It’s time we had an an active travel commissioner for pedestrians. @spectator
‘What wrong with you?’ Terrified pedestrian asks dangerous Lime bike rider skidding past her on pavement opposite St Thomas’s Hospital, London. Other pedestrians subjected to people riding bikes at speed & close passing them when they have green man to cross road. @ShabanaMahmood
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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…
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Vincent Stops retweeted
Re “cyclists are not really the main problem on the road when it comes to danger” - for pedestrians in central London that is simply untrue.
I hold no brief for dangerous vehicles - & I’m not a driver - but these days, 2 wheels are more of a threat to me than 4
The @London_Cycling campaign always divert to cars being the problem. But although cars seriously injure more London pedestrians, if you consider miles travelled, the cycle has a far worse rate of causing serious injury per mile travelled. They are not without blame! theguardian.com/news/2026/oc… @GuhFuhLuh
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The @London_Cycling campaign always divert to cars being the problem. But although cars seriously injure more London pedestrians, if you consider miles travelled, the cycle has a far worse rate of causing serious injury per mile travelled. They are not without blame! theguardian.com/news/2026/oc… @GuhFuhLuh
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@willnorman @SadiqKhan @Heidi_Labour @andyburnham @Chris_Boardman @Itsdanny_again @London_Cycling @APPGCW @WALKwheelcyclet @activetraveleng do you have anything to say or are you just going to carry on looking the other way? #SilenceIsComplicity
‘What wrong with you?’ Terrified pedestrian asks dangerous Lime bike rider skidding past her on pavement opposite St Thomas’s Hospital, London. Other pedestrians subjected to people riding bikes at speed & close passing them when they have green man to cross road. @ShabanaMahmood
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