Cllr Emily Kerr 💚 @EmilyKerr36 Twitter profile

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

6 months

Promoted by and on behalf of Emily Kerr (Ox Green Party), 12A Merlin Rd, OX4 6EP. Yes this is a requirement.

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

1 year

My kids primary school has gone quietly vegetarian 2 days a week. This means that just 3 of the 15 weekly main meal options now contain meat or fish. Many vegan options. No complaints from parents, they have been doing it nearly a year. Institutions can drive important changes.

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

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1 year

A Friday pic of Beyoncé on a bike (there are loads!). She loves cycling: “It’s amazing how I’m able to ride around on a bike. People kind of see me but since I’m on a bike, they think, ‘No, it’s not her.’ And by the time they realize it’s me, I’m already gone.”

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

2 years

Well hello, German / Danish footrests and rails at bike traffic lights.

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

8 months

I am very into the Welsh lorry drivers who are allegedly going to show their opposition to the new 20mph speed limit in towns and villages… by driving at 19mph.

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

1 year

I’ve been speaking to older cyclists this week. Pictured is Alec, 94. He uses his ebike every day and cycles all over Oxford. “My bike is… well it’s my liberty. I can’t walk very well any more. So it’s how I get around and go shopping and visit friends. It keeps me healthy” 🧵🪡

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

1 year

OK so I really just want everyone to be able to cycle safely to dinner two miles away wearing high heels & a nice dress, as I did this evening. The easiest mode of transport, as it should be. #lovecycling #lovemybike

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@EmilyKerr36

1 year

So there’s a primary school I know who got so fed up of the constant stress of dangerous cars at the school gates that a few weeks before the holidays, the head & Deputy just stood outside in hi viz vests and asked car drivers politely to stop at the top of the hill 1/2

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

2 years

A reminder of Appleyard’s classic study that shows how heavy traffic reduces the number of neighbourhood interactions and social cohesion. Through traffic imposes huge costs on local communities.

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

2 years

Hello Twitter, and hello to my new car which arrived this morning. #carfree

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

2 years

This machine at Paddington is to taps what flying cars are to bicycles: a significantly more expensive, techy, yet rubbish solution. Takes 8 clicks, 3x as long, and you can’t half fill a water bottle - only does 500ml so overflows. Taps: working brilliantly since Roman times.

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

8 months

The active travel shift we’ve seen in the last 2 years at my primary school since LTNs has been incredible. This is just the YR and Y1 bikes which kids cycle themselves to the school on. There are also tons of cargo bikes, trailers, bike seats AND many kids walk. #LTN

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

8 months

I’m following Tower Hamlets because it’s one of the very few places ripping out safer streets. I just saw that the ENTIRE CABINET IS MALE?!!! Is this even allowed? Aligns with my view that safe streets are a gender issue: men drive, women and kids die (1/3)

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10 months

Private schools are now on holiday: look at the transformation of traffic on our streets. A reminder that congestion is caused by too many, and too large, cars. Bigger cars create more congestion.

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@EmilyKerr36

2 years

Reminder that Oxford roads weren’t built for cars but for bicycles and buses

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@EmilyKerr36

2 years

As a female politician did I enjoy raging men in huge cars threatening me because I was protecting the school run at Mag Rd LTN this am? No. Did it convince me that these angry men should be allowed illegally through to threaten the tiny kids going to nursery on bikes? Also no.

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@EmilyKerr36

1 year

This is a Dutch Entrance Kerb. We should all care about them and ask councils to use them as they make the walking experience a lot better than sloping pavements. I had previously thought just to improve for wheelchairs & buggies, but today I had a chat with a lady who 1/2

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@EmilyKerr36

1 year

Today I went into two Oxford schools and spoke to about 40 teenagers who cycle to school about what we needed to change on their routes. They marked specific dangers up on A1 maps. I’ve just finished reviewing them. A 🧵

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

3 months

A neighbour tells me this is the fourth car which has flipped near their house since they’ve been living in my ward. Each year on Oxfordshire’s roads there are 30,000 accidents. Let’s face it, dangerous driving is the real risk on our roads, not escooters or cyclists.

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

1 year

I'm in Oxford, where we've recently had marches by the national far-right protesting our local traffic reduction measures. Lots of people have asked me how it's been. The answer is it's been fine - because they represent a very small proportion of our residents. (1/4)

Cllr Charlie Hicks 🌹

@Charlie_Hicks_

2 years

From the last 18 months working on LTNs, if there's one message I could share with any local govt candidate or councillor, it would be this👇

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

2 years

Had a v civilised exchange just now with someone opposed to the LTNs. He said “Infact they’re so annoying that I’ve stopped driving to work”Then he looked at me and we both laughed. “I suppose that makes you happy doesn’t it?” Me: “Well it doesn’t exactly make me sad…”

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

2 years

In Croatia. Completely obsessed with all the car-free village and town centres. Have seen 3 today. Barriers give residents access, but no parking so they just drive in to drop stuff and then drive outside to park. Golf buggies and mobility scooters for disabled people.

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

1 year

Caught sight of myself in a mirror and realised my outfit has the potential to trigger anti-LGBTQ+, anti-maskers AND climate-change deniers all in one go. #probablynotaterribletimetostartwearingamaskagain

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

7 months

So despite all the people claiming that Oxford is ‘closed’ and ‘dead’ because of Broad Street parking going and our new LTNs, City Centre footfall has actually grown at 15% vs UK average of 0% and our vacancy rate is 6% vs S. England rate of 13%.

City centre 'bounces back' with summer footfall bucking trend

Oxford city centre has bounced back this summer after being hit harder than most UK city centres during the Covid-19 pandemic

www.oxfordmail.co.uk

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

5 months

Today’s school bike racks for those who asked me to “post photos of them again on a cold wet day in December and see if children are still cycling then.” Looks like they are, tbh.

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

2 years

Spoke to a resident in the new East Oxford LTN last night. He said that he’d slept properly for the first time, without being woken up in the middle of the night by speeding cars zooming past. This is a benefit which hadn’t even occurred to me before.

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

1 year

I’ve spoken to two people this week who live in the East Oxford LTNs and have sold their 2nd cars since the LTNs introduced. One bought a cargo bike instead. I’ve never seen so many bikes & trailers at my kids schools (one school inside, one just outside new LTN). #modalshift

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

1 year

Concerned about climate change? Some thoughts on some actions you can take and what the good news is: a thread

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

2 years

The subtle approach

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

7 months

And here you have Tory travel policy in a nutshell: absolutely zero concern about pedestrians or road safety, as demonstrated by van parking on the pavement next to an actual parking space. Good of them to remind everyone it’s 20mph though, that’s useful.

Ian Barnes

@Ianbarnes2001

7 months

@AndrewRTDavies You might want to tell them to stop blocking the pavement Andy. Have some thought for the visually impaired and those using wheelchairs and pushchairs.

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

2 years

Oxford’s Cowley LTNs approved to be permanent!! #LTN

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

2 years

Cycle commute this morning. Anyone else absolutely love being overtaken by grannies sailing past on ebikes?

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

2 years

Until last month, this space was a car park.

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

2 years

Fascinated by all the energy going into trying to prove to me that bikes are more expensive than cars to buy. I mean - check the internet!?! 2nd hand bike, £50; car £1k. At the top end, Lamborghini bike £20k; Lambo car, £200k. And then there's the running costs...

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

2 years

Just saw three teenagers cycling home on Magdalen Rd - now safe and legal to do this.

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

1 year

Me and my mum, in her 80s. This is the route we use to get the shopping. I live in Oxford close to safe, segregated cycle infrastructure and nearby to a Low Traffic Neighbourhood. We need better connectivity across the City to enable older people who don’t drive to get around.

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

8 months

Oxford has the school with the UK’s highest cycling rates, at 58% of kids. It’s a secondary called @CherwellSchool They do great activation work (see next tweet for link), but also this is how you get to them from much of the catchment. THE INFRASTRUCTURE IS KEY (1/2)

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

2 years

Have just been to Wales, staying in one of the 6 trial “20mph” villages. The locals I’ve spoken to are loving it. Kids now cycling to school, better community, feels safer. #20isPlenty

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

10 months

Guess what? People support LTNs. It's theoretically possible that all of these surveys by credible firms are wrong... but it's much more likely that most people like LTNs. I put together this summary of all of the representative polling surveys I could find on LTNs.

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

1 year

This morning a mum from school shouted at me as I went past, asking if I could take her son as she had to wait in for washing machine repair man. So her son jumper in the cargo bike with us. THIS is the community safe streets enables: we live outside a new LTN & school in it.

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

2 years

Had a chat with an outside-LTN local resident who said she’d decided to stop complaining about them. After being stuck in traffic on Fri she’d got out her bike and decided to give it a go instead. She was also convinced by all the benefits the new LTN residents were loving. 😍🚲

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

2 years

Car-free Rovinj was amazing: Croatia’s largest pedestrian zone at around 10km squared. I stayed with a local friend who runs a hotel there and I spoke to a number of locals about it. It was done around 20 years ago and met the usual protests at first. A thread on what I learned.

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

8 months

This is BIG. High level: the TH mayor wants to rip out all the LTNs implemented by his predecessor. And he was sure that residents supported him, so he commissioned a survey which was, unlike most, difficult to game. But 75% of residents support the existing LTNs! (1/6)

Better Streets for Tower Hamlets

@BetterStreetsTH

8 months

The Council has released the results of the Bethnal Green Liveable Streets consultations! Let's get into them... 🧵

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

10 months

One of the things I find interesting about no longer owning a car as a family with young kids is the positive adjacencies. So for example, we spend a lot more time in Oxford, which means firstly we spend a lot less money and that which we do is spent more locally. (1/3)

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

2 months

I am excited to be proposing that @OxfordCity should look at size & weight based parking charges in our City Council owned car parks. All cars are not equal, big cars clearly take up more parking space - and create more other externalities.

Plans to increase parking charges for heavier vehicles branded 'anti-car'

An Oxford city councillor has explained why she believes car parking charges should be increased for heavier vehicles.

www.oxfordmail.co.uk

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

7 months

Went to a second primary school in our local LTN area to look at bike racks this morning. They need more. Our LTNs are causing a huge shift in the way kids get to school.

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

2 years

I think about this quote a lot

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

1 year

A couple of people have asked me recently about whether driving at 20mph is worse for emissions than 30mph. IT ISN'T! It's better for emissions. People drive more smoothly at 20mph, so less braking and accelerating, so fewer particles generated

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

2 years

Private schools: please can you help be part of the solution rather than the problem? I think you are creating up to 70% of Oxford’s school run traffic, and you need to help your parents with alternatives to driving huge cars through our congested streets at peak hours (1/8).

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

1 year

Here is an amazing thing I’ve just been shown: Bicester Blue Line. It is a 5km long painted blue line loop on a walkable route linking parks and quiet streets. You can join it at any point and walk or run a loop. Apparently £18 back in public health for every £1 invested. Wow!

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

8 months

You can’t carry a washing machine on a bicycl… Oh. Spotted in #Oxford #quaxing #carryshitolympics

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

7 months

I’ve been thinking about cohort / generational change. Both schools in my local LTN area have just contacted me about needing more bike racks. Anecdotally this is because now we have a new year group, they’ve all started coming to school walking and cycling. Or… (1/3)

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

1 year

I went to a great conference on Vision Zero last week. We had a lot of speakers with different perspectives which was great. However, I noticed a trend: women on vulnerable forms of transport (pedestrian, cycle, horse, motorbike) asking not to be killed… (1/2)

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

10 months

Absolutely huge news: Cllrs have just voted to refuse planning, 7:2. This is genuinely a massive example of a council turning down a road scheme as it does not meet policy objectives. It was a very lengthy meeting, with a huge amount of consideration. My hope is (1/2)

Oxford Clarion

@OxfordClarion

10 months

Oxfordshire County Council is deciding this afternoon on the £300m road scheme from Didcot, over a new Thames bridge, to Clifton Hampden – the biggest new road in Oxfordshire since the M40 in 1991. The planning meeting is getting underway with over 20 people planning to speak.

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

2 years

Tiffany, Dawn & Nichola, dinner ladies at my primary school, collecting their ebikes so they can cycle to work from Blackbird Leys. They usually share a car but told me they’d love to try ebikes instead so we got them a loan - tx wheels4all! (1/2)

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

6 months

Can confirm that Bath’s new emissions based parking charges are easy to use and seem to work as planned: you just put your numberplate into the machine and it calculates it for you. @SaskiaHeijltjes

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

1 year

So this is why #cyclingtwitter rocks. I posted saying I was thinking of buying a trailer, and @RobOnABike said he was in Oxford and I could just borrow his as he wasn’t using it atm. I went to his house and he fitted it for me. Cheap, eco, community solution. Thanks Rob. 😍🚲

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

1 year

Feel like I should add to this that I had nothing to do with it, I’m just a parent. I have only noticed fairly recently - they send us menus. Schools have to meet stringent nutritional requirements for all meals.

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

2 years

Fixed it

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

9 months

Like everyone else it seems, I’m doing a Dutch / Belgian train & cycling infrastructure tour. I’m with my 7yo. Just great, clean trains, loads of cycle parking, lovely clean air in cities and general cycling joy. Loved the water bottle refilling stations. (1/3)

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

1 year

Also for those of you who somehow misread the above tweet as saying that all children are only allowed vegan food (!!), please note that they have meat options twice a week plus fish once a week. That’s not exactly vegan, is it?! And it’s vegetarian food, not vegan.

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

10 months

Yesterday I met H from Blackbird Leys, one of the most deprived bits of Oxford: “I had never ridden a bicycle before March, and now I don’t want to go anywhere without mine. I used to hate the LTNs and now I’m like ‘Close more roads! Close all the roads!’ because I’ve seen…

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

1 year

Oxford’s Broad street. 6 weeks ago it was a car park, this evening it’s a bustling night market. I love the new space.

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

5 months

At Warlands this afternoon. They’ve been selling cargo bikes for 2 decades and they said that this year’s back to school was the first they’ve seen a “run” on them. Things are changing. Now can we have a #CargoBikeEmoji please?

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

7 months

BREAKING: Oxfordshire County Cabinet decides to keep and make permanent the LTNs in my ward of St. Mary’s. Story linked below by @carltonreid and a 🪡🧵by me (1/10)

Carlton Reid

@carltonreid

7 months

Council Votes To Keep Oxford’s LTN Which Conspiracy Theorists Confuse With 15-Minute City Plans. Click pic for story:

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

5 months

👇 it’s cars

Bobbie

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5 months

A remarkable image comparing four generations of 8 year old children and the decline in how far they were allowed to roam on their own. From 6 miles in 1919 to 300 yards today. Has the world got more dangerous, or is it that our fears have grown?

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

2 years

This was what first made me realise how great it would be if we had fewer cars driving through our streets: a local street party. Kids playing outside and adults chatting. Teenagers skidding down the hill on someone’s go kart. This was today’s version, amazing afternoon. 🎉💚💃

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

2 years

I’ve been car-free with 3 kids under 7 for nearly a year now. Here are some thoughts on how we have done it. First, I live in a city and we don’t need a car to commute. True for most car owners, but obvs if not true for you, it’s v. tricky. #carfree

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@EmilyKerr36

6 months

Was asked to post a pic of my primary school bike racks “in rainy November”. So here they are. Yes, lots and lots of children are still cycling. Do I mind if some kids need to be driven more in winter? Dear Reader, I do not. All journeys switched are good, even if seasonal. 💖

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@EmilyKerr36

1 year

Rather than driving down it to the school gates. A sort of de facto School Streets. It has been completely transformative. The kids enter school way, way more calm. Most kids come by active travel anyway. Those who have to drive are now encouraged to drive in a one way loop 2/2

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@EmilyKerr36

1 year

This photo was taken about 4 years ago. People used to stop me all the time asking me about the strange bike I was using to carry my kids. That hasn’t happened for ages, because cargo bikes and trailers are now so common in Oxford. We are making progress, people. 💖🚲🌳

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@EmilyKerr36

1 year

I found it funny last week that people thought it impossible that a mum friend had called out to me when I cycled past and asked me to take her child to school with mine on my bike. So I thought I’d tell you it happened again today with diff child - took a photo this time. 🚲

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@EmilyKerr36

1 year

I came to Waltham Forest (famously one of the UK’s leading walking and cycling boroughs) for a fancy-dress party so naturally I wanted to tag on a tour of interesting street design beforehand. @deekinstow showed me around. This is what I saw, a 🧵🪡

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@EmilyKerr36

2 years

88% of adults can cycle, but only 74% of UK adults have a drivers license (76% of white adults, 53% of black adults). Let's be clear, not everyone can cycle but way more adults can cycle than can drive. Source: (2015-2019); BHF 2017

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@EmilyKerr36

2 years

One MILLION car trips disappeared in and around the Cowley LTNs since their launch just over 500 days ago (-2k car trips/day net). Traffic evaporation works. Data from p48 & 53 of , extrapolated over full 500 days. Chart my own.

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It’s taking a bit of senior management time, in that it’s 3 teachers for 15-20 mins at peak time. But they get to greet many of the kids coming in, and apparently the difference in calm transition and stress reduction for the kids has made it worth it 4/5

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1 year

Feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. Anyway - geography of school means this is possible, not for everyone, but wanted to share! School had been on list for school streets for more than a year but wasn’t happening so just cracked on. 5/5

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@EmilyKerr36

1 year

This regressive proposal benefits the richest, who drive more and bigger cars. Instead, why not do something transformative like fund free buses across England (£2.5Bn) or dedicate all fuel duty (£25bn) to improving walking, cycling, & public transport?

Rachel Reeves

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1 year

Across the country, people are reliant on their cars to get to work. But the Tories want to raise fuel duty in the midst of a cost of living crisis. Labour is calling on the government to rule out a fuel duty rise at the next Budget.

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@EmilyKerr36

2 years

The East Oxford LTNs are going in tomorrow. Few worthwhile things are easy, but to transform our streets we need to shift away from cars. This trial is one of the building blocks in a vision which will make Oxford a much more liveable city with better busses & cycling. 🧵🪡🧵

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1 year

Just had a conversation with a lady unlocking her Tern GSD. "I was opposed to the LTNs before they came in but now I love them. I couldn't see how we'd get around, I used my car daily to get 2 kids to school and nursery. Now I use the bike instead and I hardly ever use the car"

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@EmilyKerr36

6 months

This is devastating. We do not talk enough about the huge number of injuries caused on the roads: it isn’t just deaths which are the issue. I recently read that 1,200 children PER MONTH are injured by car drivers on the school run. We need safer streets.

Five arrested and six children in hospital after car crash in Oxford

Police say five men have been arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving

www.theguardian.com

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@EmilyKerr36

10 months

Breaking: Minister for local govt @Lee4NED has ordered South Cambs council to stop its pilot 4 day week despite actual data and Cam Uni research showing it is working. Anyone else bored of the Tories starting culture wars vs following evidence? #GTTO #4dayweek

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

2 years

Excited to be the new Green Party City Councillor for St.Mary’s. And can’t wait to work with @rosierawle @chrisjarvisdiy @Lucy_1103 . Here’s to a greener & more equal Oxford. :)

Oxford City Council

@OxfordCity

2 years

🗳️St. Mary's votes are in 🗳️ Mustafa Barcho, 574 Emily Kerr, 893 Josie Procter, 70 John Skinner, 435 #LocalElections2022

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And men on dangerous forms of transport (HGVs, LGVs, motorbikes) talking about how safety was every road user’s individual responsibility. Which concerned me: I believe that with power comes responsibility, ie if you drive dangerous vehicles you need to take care of others. (2/3)

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Such a fun ride on the back of a long tail bike. Visited great friends and one of them gave me a lift home through West London. This wouldn’t have been possible 7 yes ago when I lived here. C9 rocks! Let’s normalise adults riding as passengers on cargo bikes.

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“Go on then, show us those school cycle racks in February.” From this morning. Kids love cycling to school, my school is surrounded by low and no traffic roads, so kids cycle (and lots walk and run and scoot too!). Oxford has the UK’s no.1 cycling school, at 58%. SAFE INFRA!

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Why is Utrecht such a great city for cyclists? Some thoughts. First, it’s foremost a great city for pedestrians. The city centre is full of shops (and all the huge chains, Zara. H&M Home et al) and we only saw one car - a police car. All deliveries before 7am. No kerbs. (1/5)

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Anyone in Oxford want one of these? I’ve got four spare. They’re pretty big, A1 I think. Can put them on school railings (with permission) with cable ties, very easy.

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As we stood there, an awful lot of new £50k+ SUVs with one occupant drove past. These are not local people, they are definitely not doing minimum wage jobs. Less than 50% of houses in this area own a car, we need to stop dangerous vehicles speeding through.

Bollard-protected Div Road LTN

@DivRoadLTN

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Councillors (and babies) checking out the #planters on #MagdalenRoad @CoHSATOxon @shareourcars @katherinesmiles #EastOxfordLTN #peoplefriendlystreets #20May

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Is there a more stylish way to arrive at your wedding? Unusual cargo credit @PedalandPost , photo credits @rmovitz …

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This reflects what I hear all the time - people like LTNs but are scared to say so because of the aggression of a minority. It explains why polls consistently show most people in favour, which genuinely surprises Antis because they’ve intimidated most supporters into silence.

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“I’m a woman in my 50s. I live in the Bounds Green LTN, and love it. I really love it. The streets are returning to people. It’s quiet, it’s safer, and there’s less pollution. I consider myself lucky to be alive after nearly being hit by a driver last year on the road that I /1

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I love my new bike basket. That is all. 🌻💖✨

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@EmilyKerr36

1 year

Oh I nearly forgot - or you can jump into my comments and deny climate change, and go on about how individual actions don't make any difference, and make spiteful comments. That'll be really helpful for future generations and I'm sure it will make your family and friends proud.💖

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Hey Twitter, what’s another example of an older technology which works really well and arguably better than an over-engineered replacement? I am thinking bicycles and taps at the moment and looking for a third.

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Anyone else think that Wimbledon’s sponsorship by Land Rover is the most problematic since Shell’s sponsorship of the Science Museum? I might be missing other bad ones but this strikes me as pretty awful.

Cllr Emily Kerr 💚

@EmilyKerr36

10 months

@the_LTA We’ve just been told that London will be unsuitable as a sporting host due to poor air quality, partly driven by your sponsor @LandRover_UK . Added to the extra risk of child death due to 4x4s, do you really think the sponsorship is a good look?

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I'd like to share something innovative Oxfordshire is doing on 20mph because I realised on Sat that many other councils hadn't heard of it. The County is allowing local communities to apply for their own 20mph. So far, 270 of 310 (87%) have done so. (1/5)

Eight new 20mph limits approved in town and villages in Oxfordshire

More communities in Oxfordshire have had their applications to bring in 20mph limits approved by the council.

www.heraldseries.co.uk

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This is incredibly sad, she lived in my ward and was much-loved. A stark reminder that with power must come responsibility: car drivers must take care around cyclists, and cyclists must take care of pedestrians. The towpath should be slow cycling only.

Woman, 80s, dies after being hit by cyclist

A WOMAN in her 80s has died after being hit by a bicycle.

www.oxfordmail.co.uk

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@EmilyKerr36

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The day after the PM decides to focus on dismantling local councils’ ability to deliver safe streets (rather than focusing on the economy or NHS), a BMW 4x4 crashes into a bus stop near an Oxford school.

Car crashes into bus stop near school

A BMW crashed into a bus stop near Oxford High Pre Prep School this afternoon on Woodstock Road.

www.oxfordmail.co.uk

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This has hugely improved drivers experience too (less clashing of cars on narrow streets). Parents in cars can drop kids at top of hill and they walk down with siblings, or the staff have walkie talkies - there’s someone at the bottom of the hill too. 3/3

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It’s been a busy and fun year fighting for safer streets: thanks so much for all your support. Kids break up today so I’m off for a bit. I leave you with a picture of Meghan on a bike. If either triggers your hate, do ask yourself why. Merry Christmas. 🎄💖 🚲 🚶‍♀️

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Awesome article in today’s OM on all the businesses in Oxford switching to e-bikes to get their staff around the city. Estate agents, caring firms, midwives. It’s no longer just delivery logistics: this is now the practical solution for many. Great piece @rail_guns 💖🚲🚴‍♀️

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