Chris Boardman @Chris_Boardman Twitter profile

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

2 years

Copenhagen where ~50% of daily commutes and school runs are done by bike. This is the kind of parking problem we need! @activetraveleng @Sport_England

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@Chris_Boardman

4 years

Been at this for 20yrs, never thought I’d see the day.

Department for Transport

@transportgovuk

4 years

The new Cycling and Walking plain aims to… ✅ Transform infrastructure to make cycling and walking easier ✅ Reduce traffic and improve air quality ✅ Build a healthier and more active nation Find out more 👉 🚴🌳🚶 #Walking #GetPedalling

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

2 years

Meet my grandson Bruce, a week old and we’re already accumulating material to humiliate him at his 18th

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

4 years

I’m so sad that riding a bike looking like this is so upsetting to people. It’s happening just a few hundred miles from us, and I think it’s quite wonderful.

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

5 years

We did this today, hopefully brings a bit of perspective to those determined not to have any. If you agree, share it far and wide 👍

British Cycling

@BritishCycling

5 years

Cyclists aren’t the ‘scourge of the streets’. They are mothers, fathers, grandparents and children all doing their bit to make Britain a healthier, greener and more liveable place. Share this video from @Chris_Boardman to help us make our message loud and clear to @channel5_tv

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@Chris_Boardman

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@Chris_Boardman

3 years

This is not a cycle club outing, it’s the ITV Tour de France production crew - sound, camera, director, everyone - just out for dinner like any other night. How wonderful is that. (Imagine if they’d all come in a car)

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

4 years

I am heading for Scotland Make of that what you will.

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

7 years

Getting so many messages from road crime victims coupled with polite inaction from our justice system, I think it's time for this:

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

6 years

Thanks for all the lovely messages about my leaving ITV Tour de France coverage. It’s been an absolute privilege, especially this year. Sadly not enough time for all things, and lots to do in Greater Manchester with @AndyBurnhamGM 🐝 🚲 🚶‍♀️

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@Chris_Boardman

4 years

So, weekend coming up, weather looks nice, if you’re going to ride a bike... Once a day Close to home AT LEAST 2m away from anyone else. Don’t even think about going out with anyone You don’t live with. We need exercise to get through this and stay healthy. Don’t abuse it 👍

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@Chris_Boardman

2 years

We’ll do more than encourage them, we will enable them to get to shops, schools and workplaces under their own steam, by providing high quality, safe joined up routes . Looking forward to it.

Department for Transport

@transportgovuk

2 years

We’re encouraging more people to cycle and walk through a new Executive Agency body, #ActiveTravel England. 🚴 🚶 @Chris_Boardman will be leading the new body as the first interim national Active Travel Commissioner. Find out more about our plans here 👉

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

3 years

How cool is this!

Limerick School Cycle Bus

@CyclingBusLmk

3 years

Dark winter mornings are nothing to the cycles bus kids. #BiketoSchool

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

4 years

What terrible wording. If ‘the car’ had only ‘hit his bike’ this 6yr old wouldn’t be dead. Fact: ‘driver hits child with a car’ We have to start calling this what it is, taking road crime seriously and attaching appropriate penalties.

The Guardian

@guardian

4 years

Family pays tribute to 'bubbly' boy, 6, who died after car hit his bike in Manchester

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@Chris_Boardman

2 years

Congratulations @gannafilippo haven’t watched one in quarter of a century, glad I tuned in, a beautiful thing to witness 👏👏👏

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

4 years

Well....yes

ThomasTheTaxi 🚖

@thomasthetaxi

4 years

Is this what we really want to see on the morning school run ????

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@Chris_Boardman

4 years

This is astounding. Certainly blows away the ‘people here won’t ride bikes’ argument. There is absolutely no reason this can’t be so in other major cities across the UK. If we choose to enable it. And right now is the time to do so. There will never be a more appropriate time.

Peter Stuart

@PeterStuart3

4 years

Westminster today, around 1.30pm. Simply incredible numbers on bikes, more than I’ve ever seen in rush hour, and from all ages and backgrounds. If this is the new normal, we could have cleaner air, safer streets, a healthier population. A silver lining perhaps...

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

4 years

Our minimum design standard: 'must be usable by a competent 12yr old' the only way to ensure 'non-cyclists' will use it. Nowhere is this more important than at junctions. This Cyclops junction, a UK first, is one of more than 20 going in to deliver that 👏👇 @mancitycouncil

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

3 years

Excited to start a new role as Transport Commissioner in Greater Manchester. A genuine honour to be trusted with the task. If we are going to drive less, then we must provide an easy, reliable & affordable alternative. And that’s what we are going to do! 🐝🚶‍♀️🚲🚋🚂🚶‍♀️🐝

Mayor of Greater Manchester

@MayorofGM

3 years

🗣️ "I am very pleased that @Chris_Boardman has agreed to become Greater Manchester’s first Transport Commissioner." 🐝 In his new role, Chris will help accelerate delivery of the Bee Network: a fully integrated transport system for our city-region. 👇

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

4 years

My Tour de France: 22 days 44 commutes 308 miles 13,200 calories (52.8 🍺) £61.60 mileage allowance claimed (£77 saved for employer) 48.6kg of carbon not emitted I love this bike.

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

3 years

If we can - and are- limiting the speed for e-bikes and e-scooters. Whats the rational for not doing so the same for e-cars….? 🤔🤷‍♂️

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

7 months

Just a statement of fact - I live on The Wirral and last week drove 173 miles almost, motorway free, across Wales (train strike day) to Cardiff to celebrate -10yrs since the Active Travel act came into being. I drove approximately 1 miles in a 20mph zone.

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

5 years

2p a litre would pay for a UK wide cycling network. I wonder how much it’d take to pay for a functional train service so people didn’t have to drive in the first place? (Not to mention savings to NHS from more activity). Such very, very, short sighted and shallow policy.

Conservatives

@Conservatives

5 years

We’ve frozen fuel duty for the 9th year in a row, putting more money in the pockets of hard-working people ⛽️ By 2020 the average driver will have saved £1000 ✅

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

5 years

So let me see if I have understood correctly, our options are: TM Deal, which no one wants. No Deal, which no one wants Option To Remain, which the majority want (not even being denied now) And the only one not being offered to us is...? That, my friends, is not democracy.

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

10 months

Poor countries like Holland, Denmark, Germany....? This looks like freedom to me.

David Frost

@DavidGHFrost

10 months

It's not a 'problem', it's a good thing. In poorer countries people depend on public transport & bikes. When they get richer they want cars because they bring freedom. Public transport will *never* be good enough for a free people to move around on.

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

4 years

When you’ve had a mother crushed to death by a driver, you feel differently.

Dr Samuel Furse

@SamuelFurse

4 years

@_XavierBrice_ @Chris_Boardman Is traffic violence not a bit inflammatory in tone? It implies it was deliberate, even premeditated.

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@Chris_Boardman

4 years

As the nation returns to work, those who choose to ride into work, avoiding driving busses and trains, are helping all of us now and in the future. They are transport heroes. And that’s how we should start thinking of them. Not everyone can but we can appreciate those that do 👏

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

4 years

How cities should be 👏

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

5 years

So sad that riding a bike in normal clothes is seen as a terrible thing in the UK, that cycling is something you can’t do in normal clothes. That’s what safety is and what I will stand. Not easy position for me to take, read my blog page if you really want to understand 👍

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

1 year

No subscription or App needed. 🎄🎄 #freedommachine

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@Chris_Boardman

2 years

What parent wouldn’t want this for their kids? How exciting that to tackle the biggest crisis’ we face as a species, all we have to do is make nicer places to live.

Melissa & Chris Bruntlett

@modacitylife

2 years

Dutch teens cycle an astonishing 2,000km per year. They also rank among the healthiest and happiest—with the lowest rates of obesity and antidepressant usage—on Earth. This isn't coincidence, but an outcome of a system that prioritizes humans over cars.

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

3 years

21years old - Mountain bike, cyclo-cross, road, time trial, (and fighting for the win in all) @Tompid is the next Tadej Pogacar

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@Chris_Boardman

3 years

Hands up if you’d like your kids to go to school like this* *I’d like to go to work like this

Cycling Professor 🚲 

@fietsprofessor

3 years

Imagine that instead of passive backseat passengers, our children are actively engaged while being underway! Watch, listen, aspire: the Dutch schoolbus (in #Nijmegen , video by @MartijnLi )

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

7 years

So, Cycling & Walking Commissioner for Gtr Manchester. Thanks for the amazing support. Excited/daunted by responsibility in equal measure!

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@Chris_Boardman

10 months

Spent 6h driving to events yesterday, utterly stressful & hours of dead time (Pile of work left to do when I got in) Today - Bournemouth by train & on to Oxford. Could work, dose & get everything done whilst traveling. No parking stress or cost. Driving is not freedom. Trains are

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@Chris_Boardman

3 years

Every rider with the same injury on both legs requiring ‘medical tape’ down the front of their legs, coincidently exactly where it would be aerodynamically advantageous 🤔🤔🤔

UCI Track Cycling

@UCI_Track

3 years

Another OLYMPIC RECORD! This time it's Denmark who set a blistering time of 3:45.014 😮 #Tokyo2020 | #Olympics | #CyclingTrack

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@Chris_Boardman

3 years

The driver failed to stop @bbcnews There was someone driving the car who was responsible for it.

BBC News (UK)

@BBCNews

3 years

Boy, 12, in a critical condition after being struck by car that failed to stop in Manchester

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

6 years

Today I will be mostly talking about: 1000 miles of cycling and walking network, the biggest in UK, 75 miles of which fully segregated. The network will be called Beelines. We aren’t going to ‘encourage’ people not to make 250m car journeys of less than 1km, we will ENABLE them

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

3 years

250 million car journeys in Greater Manchester alone are less than 1km Over 3/4 of parents said this would make them more like to walk with their kids to schools So, really hope the evidence will lead to us being able to conduct large scale trials.👇

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

4 years

👍 thank you

Nicola Jarman

@JarmanNicola

4 years

A HUGE thank you to @boardmanbikes and @Halfords_uk for getting an NHS worker back on the road! They kindly replaced my bike which was stolen from Broadgreen Hospital! A huge social-distanced thank you from myself and my team for supporting NHS staff at this challenging time!

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

2 years

👇 Cheap, healthy and sustainable. There has never, ever, been a more important time to ensure everyone feels able travel to shops schools and workplaces by 🚴🧑‍🦽🚶🛴 👆

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

4 years

I’ll let Holland and Denmark know, they’ll be horrified 😂

Rod McKenzie

@RodMcKenzieNews

4 years

On #bbcnews explaining why cycle lanes are making lorry drivers lives harder - restrictions on roads which are for everyone to use won’t help 1) economic recovery 2) congestion = pollution #lovethelorry @RHANews

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

3 years

This is extraordinary in its vision, boldness and leadership.

Brent Toderian

@BrentToderian

3 years

Paris is investing £225m to transform the iconic but car-choked Champs-Élysées boulevard into an “extraordinary garden.” Among other things, 140K on-street parking spaces will be removed. Bold city-building leadership from @Anne_Hidalgo & team. Via @TheB1M

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Chris Boardman

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3 years

Actually, This picture deserves more than a ‘civilised transport’ throwaway line. Having watched UK media doing ill-informed ‘LTN controversy’ features, with journalist dressed in stereotypical cycling kit THIS is ‘cycling’ & it’s for everyone & anyone. It’s also Leadership.

MJ

@MichielJoseph

3 years

Dutch PM on his way to cabinet meeting about covid

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

4 years

Just scanning for the other tweet asking drivers to slow down and take care to look out for vulnerable roads users now it’s dark. Presumably that ones just coming? 👍

Greater Manchester Police

@gmpolice

4 years

Give them a sure 'shine'. Pedestrians – make sure you are seen by other road users by wearing high visibility or bright clothing and remember that during bad weather, drivers may take longer to react

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Chris Boardman

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4 years

Not my area but I can tell you first hand, @AndyBurnhamGM is a good person. These aren’t ‘political games’ he just wants people to be able feed themselves and keep their houses if they must stop work. That doesn’t seem unreasonable to me.

BBC News (UK)

@BBCNews

4 years

“Even now I am still willing to do a deal” Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said it was the government who “walked away from negotiations” "At no point today were we offered enough to protect the poorest people [through winter]," he adds

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Chris Boardman

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8 years

REMARKABLE footage RT @JustBanter__ : Mum: if your friends jumped off a cliff would you do it too? Me:

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

4 years

I did not know this.

Henk Swarttouw

@copenhenken

4 years

European cycle-tourism brings in more money than the whole European cruiseship sector and creates more and better jobs, all over Europe, not just in a couple of popular port cities.

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3 years

The saddest thing about this story, is how little coverage it got. Ask yourself why that is. The answer should anger us all.

BBC News Midlands

@bbcmtd

3 years

Two-week-old baby dies after pram hit by car

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3 years

I don’t think I’ve ever mistaken a UK street scene for a Dutch one before. A powerfully simple 40sec video showing just how fast we can make things better, if we dare to try different.

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

3 years

It’s pretty insulting to remove a cycle lane being used by 4000 people a day even before trial period finishes, because ‘it’s causing chaos’ and then THE NEXT DAY allow traffic to park in the lane, ensuring there is now no upside for anyone at all.

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

4 years

I love these before and after pics but to see it happen so quickly, should give us hope and politicians courage. Two questions: 1) which do you prefer? 2) What are you waiting for?

Cllr Oisín O'Connor

@OConnorOisin

4 years

Check out this absolute banger from Parisienne DJ Anne Hidalgo. And just wait til the beat drops at 00:24 it's sick.

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

2 years

Very sad to hear Mike Burrows, the designer of the Lotus bike, passed away today. He was the godfather of modern bicycle design and my life would not have been the same without his influence.

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

3 years

Magnificent sky tonight

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

4 years

The looking behind bit before celebrating was a really, really good idea.

Liège-Bastogne-Liège

@LiegeBastogneL

4 years

🏆 #LBLwomen 2020 - 🇬🇧 @lizziedeignan 🏆

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3 years

I’d like my kids to have got to school like this They’d have liked to cycle in a large group too, it’s social & feels safer In a large group, I’d have been more likely to let them Large groups of kids cycling to school together, organised or not, seems a very good thing to me

Limerick School Cycle Bus

@CyclingBusLmk

3 years

The #CycleBus doing it's thing

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

4 years

If you think it is too dangerous for even police officers to ride a bike on the road, how will police officers not addressing the cause make it safer for the public? 🤔

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

5 years

Sensational, the traffic jam you want to see. Build them and they will come!

Jeremy Vine

@theJeremyVine

5 years

These gorgeous cycle lanes heading towards the Thames by Blackfriars Bridge are now so busy I couldn't pull out.

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

4 years

This afternoon, I’ve been out for a solid 2H of self isolating. Tomorrow I will be self isolating to work. This my personal self isolating device. (Now cleaned, for those winging).

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

5 years

Ian Stuart, HSBC UK’s chief exec, said that at the Birmingham headquarters, “Nobody gets a car parking space unless they have a disability. Cutting 90% of car-parking at 3 main sites. Spending 3m this year on bike parking & changing facilities Leadership... 👏

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

26 days

London. One 30sec snapshot. Imagine if every UK town and city moved around like this.

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

5 years

wow, that’s commitment.

road.cc

@roadcc

5 years

ScotRail unveils forthcoming West Highland Line carriages with space for 20 bikes #cycling

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

4 years

This could be, well, the whole UK if we choose to....

Dr Edward Seaton

@_Dermatologist

4 years

Chiswick High Road on Saturday afternoon. A place where tiny children are now cycling. #ChiswickChaos

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

2 years

This is the future, or at least it is if we choose it. As apposed to insults, or short sighted anger, be genuinely interested to hear of any alternatives that can forecast the same benefits.

Brent Toderian

@BrentToderian

2 years

BIG NEWS: Milan has approved a £200 million plan to create a new 750km network of bike paths linking 80% of the city to bike paths, & connect the city to surrounding areas. The goal is to achieve a 20% modal shift to biking by 2035. Strategy & leadership.

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

5 years

Myself and Mrs B getting ready to watch @itvcycling Tour de France coverage on the telly for the first time in many years. Feels a bit weird

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

4 years

Time to choose. Is this the normal you want to back to?

Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

5 years

A 6 year old and his ride to school*

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

3 years

This is all I want for the UK in one picture

Mikael Colville-Andersen

@colvilleandersn

3 years

Copenhagen. That is all.

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

3 years

Not counting a group discount, I estimate it would cost 15 billion to take every adult in the UK to Utrecht (or other active travel town) show them round and buy them a meal, then ask, whilst looking them in the eye, if they’d like this in the UK I think it’d be 15b well spent.

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

6 years

My god, we have a sea of evidence about what is needed, we are drowning in the stuff. We know exactly what to do: Sustained meaningful funding Strong cross-party leadership A real commitment to change How about we get party transport leads in a room and AGREE TO DO IT?

Transport Committee

@TransportCttee

6 years

How can we get more people out of their cars and onto active travel modes? Is more needed than just building the infrastructure? We have launched an inquiry into active travel and are seeking your views on boosting its take-up across the country

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

4 years

It’s not a lot to ask for really is it. As a species, we should be ashamed of ourselves

Daorcey Le Bray

@Daorcey

4 years

This is the best thing in my life right now. #yycbike

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

2 years

I don’t know about you but this is the future I want for my kids – totally doable, proven by the fact that it’s already happening just a couple of hundred miles away. AND it just happens to fight the climate crisis too. #nobrainer

Melissa & Chris Bruntlett

@modacitylife

3 years

"By the time most Dutch kids are 8 or 10, the traffic calmed streets mean parents let them travel independently; in control of how they get to school, friends' houses, and sports clubs, and there's something really important there." We talk to @CBCOttawa :

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

4 years

Those asking,this is official government guidance right now: ‘You can go for a walk or exercise outdoors if you stay more than 2 metres from others’ For isolation to be sustainable, perhaps for months, this is a vital tool. Abuse it and we will loose it

[Withdrawn] [Withdrawn] Guidance on social distancing for everyone in the UK

www.gov.uk

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

5 years

Trying to think of the right word for this. I’m going to go with sickened. Just 1.7% of all road users Don’t pollute Improves health And even the idiots cause little hazard (evidenced) But no, let’s demonise this minority cos it’s easy. Lazy, unethical, irresponsible.

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

4 years

About as ironic as it gets 😂

Calum Fraser

@CalumFraser4

4 years

4th weekly protest against road closures in Islington. Upper Street gridlocked.

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

10 months

Just thought I’d put this out again. In case people have forgotten. Because it’s still true: Lowest carbon✅ Lowest cost ✅ Big health benefits ✅ Highest return on investment ✅ I could go on.....

Department for Transport

@transportgovuk

10 months

Cycling traffic across England is up 7.4% on pre-pandemic levels. Not only does active travel like cycling and walking promote healthy travel but helps grow the economy through increased high street spending and better access to jobs. #Cycling #Walking #ActiveTravel

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

2 months

Barely 2 foot wide for walking or pushing a pram, and even that is stolen. I’m utterly sick of it.

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

4 years

1) Have a look at safest places in the world to ride a bike and see what they advocate. 2) look at least safe places to ride a bike and see what they do. 3) Look at places they made ⛑ mandatory and see what happened to cycling levels and injury rates. 4) Form your opinion 👍

Margaret Greenwood MP

@MGreenwoodWW

4 years

Increase in number of children with head injuries because more are cycling. Vital cyclists wear helmets.

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

2 years

Nothing to see here, just people getting from A to B under their own steam. No pollution, quieter roads, better health, nicer place to live, natural security for everyone on the street. It’s exactly the non story we need.

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

4 years

It should be so, so simple.... ✅ climate change ✅ congestion (the bad sort) ✅ health ✅ pollution ✅ socially just ✅ nicer! A solution waiting to happen....Barely mentioned in any manifesto.

Lennart Nout

@lennartnout

4 years

Heavy traffic reported leaving the Delft train station. Expect delays of up to 1 minute.

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@Chris_Boardman

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Zero children killed in over 2 decades. Check the picture: continuous cycle way at junctions and side road zebra reinforcing pedestrian🚶‍♀️ priority. It’s not complicated is it....

𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇

@grescoe

4 years

*Zero* children have been killed by cars on the streets of #Oslo , capital of #Norway , since 1999. There were no pedestrian/cyclist fatalities, of any age, last year. This is true #visionzero . cc: @TheWarOnCars @Naparstek More on how they got there:

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@Chris_Boardman

4 years

Couple of emojis short there Mr Secretary 🚶‍♀️ 🚲 especially as communities mean everything 👍

Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP

@grantshapps

4 years

Honoured to be back as Secretary of State for Transport. In a government working hard to level up Britain, connecting communities means everything! 🚆🚍🚎🚘🚡✈️🛩️🚢🚀

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@Chris_Boardman

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If 10 years ago someone had asked us, “Can we increase the traffic on your road by 30%?” we’d have been incandescent with rage. But that’s exactly what has happened. 20,000,000,000 more miles driven outside our homes than 10yrs ago.

For our children's sake, let's rid Britain's residential streets of traffic

Low-traffic neighbourhoods have been proven to work. Now let’s roll them out and reclaim the roads from the rat-run, says Greater Manchester’s cycling and walking commissioner, Chris Boardman

www.theguardian.com

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

4 years

Build it and they will come. It’s that simple.

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

2 years

I visited a car-centric Paris on Friday, but a car- centric city that is doing something about it and very, very quickly.

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@Chris_Boardman

6 years

An interesting piece: UK Cycle Industry worth 3x more than our steel industry and employs 2x as many. One of these is considered to be of huge strategic importance by government, one isn’t. Have a guess which way round....

UK cycling is worth more than the steel industry – where's the strategy?

A new report argues we’d all benefit if the government started taking the cycle industry seriously

www.theguardian.com

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@Chris_Boardman

4 years

Local roads suitable for a competent 12yr old to ride and pavements clear for a parent pushing a pram. It doesn’t seem too much to ask really... Consultation begins on banning pavement parking in England

Consultation begins on banning pavement parking in England

Disabled people and parents are particularly affected by parked cars blocking their way

www.theguardian.com

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

3 years

Nicely put

Geraint Thomas

@GeraintThomas86

3 years

I've seen Cav at his very best & I've seen him work so hard through his toughest moments. And even I didn't expect that today. This sport knocks you down time & again but if you keep getting back up it can reward you in incredible ways. Cav always gets back up. Proud of you mate

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@Chris_Boardman

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The first 1,500 docked ‘bee bikes’ including e-bikes, with Tap-in technology will start appearing from November (Eventually region-wide) 100,000 households will live within 5 minute walk of a docking station The foundation of the 🐝 Network will be active! @AndyBurnhamGM 👏👏

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

4 years

A very Happy Birthday to: My business partner My creative director My accountant My life coach My wife Love you Mrs B

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

5 years

Why oh why are there no life bans from driving for repeat offenders. Why? The amount of parliamentary enquires I’ve attended on ‘safety’ and this is still normal. A driving ban has no cost to society, only the individual. Surely a no brainier for any civilised society.

Jon

@ormondroyd

5 years

Thomas Scully had been drinking for 4 hours, and was twice over the limit when he turned into motorcyclist Michael Dennis, who almost died on the operating table. Only caught by a witness after fleeing, it was Scully's third drink driving conviction. 18mths suspended, 2yr ban

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@Chris_Boardman

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Very important that this is visible on social media: For every 1 person objecting to even temporary active travel measures, more than 6 support. Make sure the vast majority aren’t drowned out by the angry minority. Sign their petition. Get others to sign it. 👇

Bike Is Best

@BikeIsBestHQ

4 years

New data from YouGov released by us today shows the public is overwhelmingly in favour of measures to encourage walking and cycling with 6.5 people supporting changes to their local streets for every 1 person against. Read more 👉

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@Chris_Boardman

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👇🤣 😭 Remember, when someone tells you they need to cure congestion by building a bypass, this is just a few hundred miles from where you’re standing now and is real.

Melissa & Chris Bruntlett

@modacitylife

5 years

100% of Dutch trains are powered by wind energy, which—when combined with the bicycle—form a seamless, door-to-door mobility solution with zero carbon emissions. And now, the Netherlands’ first fully solar-powered station is under construction in Delft.

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@Chris_Boardman

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As of today, Greater Manchester has a pipeline of 🚲 & 🚶‍♀️schemes to deliver the region’s 1800 mile 🐝 Network, totalling nearly 1/2 a billion pounds From inception to this point took just 2yrs. 👏 @AndyBurnhamGM & all the GM Leaders. 2020 we start delivering it.

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@Chris_Boardman

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In the last 24h, hundreds of tweets asking why shouldn’t children have to have a registration plate? why not high viz vests? why not make helmets mandatory... Here’s a reminder of what the end game should be. HAPPENING RIGHT NOW. JUST 350 MILES AWAY

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

4 years

Could do with one of these going out from every team, or they may end up with nothing to watch

Movistar Team

@Movistar_Team

4 years

As most of you, we're concerned by the current situation in the world. It's taken so much effort to restart the season - and we all don't want it to end. Please wear a mask, use it correctly, and keep some distance. Do it for us and the rest of the field. 🙏😷 #TDF2020

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@Chris_Boardman

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2.5yrs How is that right?

Sussex Roads Police

@SussexRoadsPol

3 years

A drink-driver ran over a 10-year-old cyclist - then reversed over him - before driving home with the bike still trapped beneath his car. Keith Vernon has today been jailed and disqualified from driving. The victim is thankfully recovering well. More➡️

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@Chris_Boardman

3 years

Daniel, my mother was crushed to death by a car. This is very much my agenda.

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@Chris_Boardman

5 years

Proven to actively make cyclists LESS safe, their only purpose is to look as if you’ve done something helpful without disturbing anyone driving as the imperative. Dashed white line cycle lanes are possibly THE best ways ever invented for a council to pour money down the drain.

Ryan Wilson

@rhwilson83

5 years

There is *literally* no point in having cycle lanes if people are going to park in them. These people just made a pleasant Sunday afternoon cycle needlessly dangerous. Roll on segregated cycleway 9 in west London. @JoannaBiddolph And yes, I do know I sound like @theJeremyVine

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Chris Boardman

@Chris_Boardman

5 years

Here’s what civilised roads look like, happening just a couple of hundred miles from here. Right now

Martin

@Orett_

5 years

Grosses bises d'Amsterdam 🚲 #cycloinfras

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@Chris_Boardman

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For reasons I can’t explain, I’ve just done a max test for the first time in 21yrs. I narrowly missed my PB by 150watts Sadly, ‘There’s life in the old dog yet’ is a saying I can neither subscribe to or validate.

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