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Leo Murray @[email protected]

@crisortunity

3 months

Good morning everyone!

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Leo Murray @[email protected]

@crisortunity

4 years

I’ve just been out on the canoe for only the second time this year and LOOK WHAT WE FOUND in the Thames at *Brentford* 🤯✨

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4 years

Gather round, climate twitter, I want to tell you a story about Ed Miliband 1/14

Ed Miliband

@Ed_Miliband

4 years

My statement on being announced as the Shadow Business and Energy Secretary:

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2 years

Bikes are fine for some trips but what if you need to transport a [checks notes] peacock? 🦚🚲

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1 year

It’s that time of year in North Norfolk when huge flocks of migratory Range Rovers arrive from their overwintering grounds in London. At some key nesting sites like Burnham Market they occupy every inch of space, like kittiwakes on a cliff side. Truly a majestic site to behold

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9 months

#ULEZexpansion discourse summarised in three images

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5 years

I am genuinely puzzled why the government hates solar SO much TL:DR? They want to whack the full 20% VAT on solar panels (and battery storage!) Some context: You pay 5% VAT on a sack of coal You pay 0% VAT on a plane ticket #ClimateEmergency

Proposed solar and storage VAT hike risks setting UK decarbonisation back years

The Renewable Energy Association has taken aim at a government proposal to hike up the VAT rates attached to some energy saving materials, including solar and battery storage.

www.solarpowerportal.co.uk

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4 years

Anyway - that’s the whole story. It’s just a nice story about why Ed Miliband is one of the good kinds of politician, and why I am very happy that he has been given the big climate job in the new shadow cabinet. PS also Polly and I are good friends now Ends/

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2 years

The single most effective thing we could do to reduce demand for gas would be to fully retrofit and insulate as many UK homes as possible over the summer before the next bout of cold weather.

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6 years

We have asked the Mayor to let us fly him over Parliament when Trump visits Britain on 13th July. But officials at City Hall have told us that #TrumpBaby is “not a protest”. Apparently, he is “art”. Here he is, all 6m of him: 2/n

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2 years

Today, Boris Johnson & Liz Truss visit the queen in Balmoral. If they had taken the train, it would have been 56kgCO2e. If they’d at least shared a plane, it would have been 4 tonnes of CO2e. They've taken a private jet EACH. That's 8t of CO2e. A bleak start to Truss premiership

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2 years

Oh nothing, just a now routine and completely unremarkable sight of an ambulance on an emergency call out using the King St cycle lane to bypass queues of cars yesterday. 🚑 999 🤝 C9 🚲

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5 years

Let’s stop pretending that the environmental problem with air travel is annual family holidays and kids taking gap years: this is deflection & a convenient pretext for putting aviation in the ‘too hard’ box. The problem is v frequent leisure flights by a wealthy elite minority

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5 years

1. Onshore wind is now the cheapest form of new electricity generation in the UK, bar none 2. Tories have banned it b/c ERG don’t like the way wind turbines look 3. Local community ownership & control is the solution to securing public support to triple it

Onshore wind farms in UK could cut £50 a year off energy bills

Government urged to overturn effective ban to help meet ambitious climate targets

www.theguardian.com

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1 month

Picturesque Burnham Market, with its charming and characterful flint cottages, is often regarded as one of the prettiest villages in Norfolk

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11 months

Don’t get me wrong, I’m in favour of roads for cars where they make sense - I’m a Keen Motorist myself - but this one is barely being used, and it is taking up a ridiculous amount of space. Sign my petition calling on the council to rethink this failed experiment

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3 years

It’s fair to say my secure on street cycle storage presentation to our residents association this evening got a mixed reaction but I think we are making progress from saying that bike hangars are out of keeping with the character of the conservation area

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3 years

Hello twitter friends, please allow me to offer a weekend thread on how the WAR ON MOTORISTS works in the mainstream media. Remember this story from back in May? It got VERY wide coverage across a range of media outlets: LTNs help violent criminals escape the police 1/n

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2 years

“The amount of tax income lost every year as a result of cuts to fuel duty is more than the total passenger income of the rail & bus industries combined. In other words, for the same money, public transport could have been made free.” - @TomHainesDoran

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2 years

Hi @EalingCouncil it’s good you’re supporting residents to switch from fossil fuels to electric vehicles. But please don’t put car stuff on the pavement, car things belong in car space not pedestrian space. Thank you!

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Leo Murray @[email protected]

@crisortunity

2 years

I have volunteered myself to be a lightning rod for reactionary fury by appearing on camera on BBC London this evening to sympathise with the mischievous scamps who let down all those SUV tyres last night. Key message: they’ve got a point though don’t they Pray for me

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Leo Murray @[email protected]

@crisortunity

5 months

Good morning! To everyone except Range Rover drivers

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@crisortunity

2 years

Cycle lanes are good, actually

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@crisortunity

6 years

I wrote a thing about the conception and birth of @TrumpBabyUK and why being rude to visiting fascists is not some sort of faux pas but a vital civic duty

We're protesting Trump's visit by flying an inflatable Trump Baby over London

To really get through to the American President, you have to get down on his level and talk to him in a language he understands: personal insults.

metro.co.uk

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@crisortunity

5 months

“I’m certain that in 100 years, when we’ve all been melted in our beds by climate change, we will realise that, far from being a status symbol, driving an SUV is an unconscionable act of ignorance.”

A vulgar climate catastrophe — we should ban SUVs in London or tax them to the max

What upsets me most about life in London today? The endless proliferation of “luxury flats” marketed abroad while ordinary Londoners can’t afford to rent a basic home? Yes, that upsets me. The fact...

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Leo Murray @[email protected]

@crisortunity

4 years

Rather than have police shout at Londoners in parks over a tannoy to “keep moving!”, maybe it would be better to just temporarily close lots of residential streets to motor traffic so we can exercise safely outside our homes

Brent Toderian

@BrentToderian

4 years

NEW: Portions of several #Denver streets will close to vehicles Saturday to allow for pedestrians & bikes. Densely populated neighborhoods & those without immediate park or trail access will receive priority. #coronavirus #PhysicalDistancing #COVID19

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Leo Murray @[email protected]

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1 year

Right, halt the #ULEZexpansion immediately, this injustice is simply too monstrous to be ignored any longer #JusticeForSue

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@crisortunity

6 years

Hello twitter friends! Now, hear me out. I’ve got this blimp. Of Donald Trump. As a baby. With tiny hands. 1/n

Trump Baby

@TrumpBabyUK

6 years

I am a giant orange baby with tiny hands. I just want to fly above Parliament on July 13th when little Donald visit Britain. But @MayorofLondon says I can’t. Sad! Tell @SadiqKhan to let #TrumpBaby fly!

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@crisortunity

9 months

This won’t make any difference at all to Labour’s electoral prospects. But it will mean a generation of children continue to breathe toxic air that stunts the growth of their lungs. Spineless, clueless, heartless and just unspeakably demoralising 😩

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Leo Murray @[email protected]

@crisortunity

1 year

OK I’m now home from my walk and will stop this silliness; thanks for indulging me, it meant that instead of feeling annoyed and disheartened by the literally *HUNDREDS* of Range Rovers I saw today, I got to laugh at my own stupid jokes 🚙🚙🚙🚙🚙🚙🚙🚙🚙🚙🚙🚙🚙🚙🚙🚙🚙🚙🚙🚙🚙

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Leo Murray @[email protected]

@crisortunity

4 years

It’s easy to get sucked in to the vitriol & toxicity of debates over reallocation of road space away from private cars. But I had literal CHILLS riding in Chiswick High Ed’s new protected lane with my daughter this morning, even though it’s unfinished. Pure magic ✨🚲

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Leo Murray @[email protected]

@crisortunity

2 years

Treasury says we CAN’T afford rail electrification or the Tube, but we CAN afford their £28bn road building programme. We CAN’T afford to keep rail fare rises below inflation, but we CAN afford to freeze fuel duty for the umpteenth year in a row. I think I may be seeing a pattern

Campaign for Better Transport

@CBTransport

2 years

The 3.8% rail fare rise (just announced) is far from fair. It risks driving people off rail and onto roads instead - bad news for the environment. Rail fares should have been frozen to match the fuel duty freeze for car drivers.

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Leo Murray @[email protected]

@crisortunity

11 months

Hammersmith Bridge has been closed to motor traffic for over 4 yrs & despite what many people still believe, traffic is down almost everywhere in the region around it. Reopening it to cars would cost £230m+ & break climate promises. See the alternative!

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Leo Murray @[email protected]

@crisortunity

8 months

I’m seeing this pattern so much. Frequent flyers are the archetype. But we looked at travel demand survey data for London which found that half the car trips in London are taken by 10% of residents; I’m just going through car mileage by band in England & it looks similar

Svein Tveitdal

@tveitdal

8 months

Beef guzzlers: 12% of Americans eat half of the country's cow meat Changing the habits of this small group could go a long way toward cutting the country's planet-warming emissions.

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6 years

@rabithapa We agonised over this until we found someone who does biodegradable balloons 👍

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7 months

Car bores on here often wang on as if I have somehow unfairly impugned the humble SUV driver, & what business is it of mine what car they drive anyway etc. Our new report, Tractor Attack, may help to explain why I talk about this so much, and also: What Is To Be Done About It 1/

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@crisortunity

2 years

Energy capped at £2,500 for two years. The countdown is on. We've got 2yrs to flood the grid with renewables and insulate millions of homes. If we waste this window of opportunity, we'll be back where we are now in 2024. If we get it right, we'll bring down bills for good.

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10 months

WTAF are we doing as a society

Land Rover

@LandRover

1 year

Locked and loaded. Defender 130 Outbound. #Defender

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Leo Murray @[email protected]

@crisortunity

1 year

Very brave, will be hated, probably making people I know and respect furious and exasperated, still not wrong. We are not changing anything like fast enough. We remain, globally, on a trajectory towards civilisation and ecosystem collapse. Anyone paying attention knows this

Just Stop Oil

@JustStop_Oil

1 year

Sam Johnson, 40, a construction worker from Essex, said: “I took action today simply because we have run out of time. We’ve got to tackle this now. We have known for longer than I’ve been alive what would happen if we kept burning fossils fuels and now we are seeing this…

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Leo Murray @[email protected]

@crisortunity

4 years

Glenthorne road in Hammersmith completely gridlocked again this morning but - and you won’t believe this - there’s no cycle lane here, no LTNS and no school streets anywhere in sight. It’s utterly inexplicable, what could possibly be causing all this traffic

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Leo Murray @[email protected]

@crisortunity

2 years

In awkward news, @rbkc ’s Future High Streets project has learned that cycling is the second most popular way to visit High Street Kensington, after walking & just ahead of public transport. Turns out all those Range Rovers are mainly just passing through

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Leo Murray @[email protected]

@crisortunity

2 years

Every morning the King St cycle lane is full of kids now, and it’s just the best thing. Really starts my day right ✨🚲 #C9isHere

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Leo Murray @[email protected]

@crisortunity

11 months

Good morning to everyone except Range Rover drivers

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Leo Murray @[email protected]

@crisortunity

8 months

Good afternoon to everyone except Land Rover drivers

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@crisortunity

1 year

An EPIC thread on my unintentionally detailed new report investigating the very real threat posed to pedestrian space, disabled mobility and walking and wheeling targets by the national tidal wave of public on-street EV chargers needed to reach net zero: Streetspace Invaders 1/n

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2 years

For main roads which ‘don’t have enough space’ for both a bus lane and a bike lane, the trick is to remove the car lane

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6 months

First ever SUV ad ban for being irresponsible! “Advertising for SUVs is pushing up demand for massive gas-guzzling, highly polluting cars in urban environments, just when we want streets that are safer & cleaner & an accessible low carbon transport system”

Toyota SUV adverts banned in UK on environmental grounds

Advertising Standards Authority says Hilux poster and video condone driving that disregards ‘impact on nature’

www.theguardian.com

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@crisortunity

5 years

Like it or not this is essentially accurate, and I’m sorry but all of you Corbyn-hating centrists in my climate followers know it If the tories win this GE in any capacity there isn’t a hope in hell of staying under 1.5ºC warming These are our choices now Choose life

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2 years

£250m on this one motorway junction on the outskirts of London is the same as the entire emergency active travel fund; or the cost of introducing an entire trolley bus scheme in Leeds, the only major city in Western Europe with no mass transit. Which government said no to

New Civil Engineer

@ncedigital

2 years

Roads | Shapps finally gives green light for £250M M25/ A3 interchange upgrade Full story: #planning #decision #junction #congestion

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4 years

Ed never did approve that coal fired power station at Kingsnorth - not exactly anyway. He cleverly called the industry’s bluff, and made new coal conditional on featuring Carbon Capture & Storage from day one - which they couldn’t actually do ofc 13/14

Green activists jubilant as Kingsnorth shelved

E.on says coal plant is no longer needed as recession reduces electricity demand

www.independent.co.uk

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@crisortunity

5 years

Nearly every BBC interview I did today about #NetZero asked “but is 2050 ambitious enough?” That would never have happened without @ExtinctionR and @Strike4Youth speaking their truth, and opening out the space for continual ratcheting of ambition. We’re all indebted to them

Left Foot Forward

@LeftFootFwd

5 years

"Every year that goes by before emissions get to zero increases the risk of triggering a catastrophic tipping point"

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1 year

I agreed to appear on GB News this week, standing up for clean air against people trying - farcically badly, I might add - to discredit the science around air pollution’s public health impacts. Ofc GB News shared a clip of the deniers, but not my bit! 👇

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1 year

bloody cyclists 🤩

Bicycles Now Outnumber Cars in London's Rush Hour

People on bikes represent 40 percent of non-pedestrian rush hour traffic in the city, and cars are trending down.

reasonstobecheerful.world

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@crisortunity

2 months

If you’ve ever wondered how it’s done, I caught a rare glimpse of the cycle lane fairies working their magic in #C9 this morning 👨‍🎨🚲✨

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@crisortunity

4 years

The way Ed dealt with being confronted at the time on stage was perfectly fine; but after the fact and away from the cameras, it was genuinely admirable and quite unusual for a senior politician. Ed went up in my estimation then and has held onto my esteem ever since 12/14

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@crisortunity

5 months

The entire remaining active travel budget for the whole of England is less than one tenth of the amount of public money being spent on a single road building project in Cambridgeshire

Anthony Painter

@anthonypainter

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£1bn for a *single* section of road and a junction is obscene. Invest that in active/public transport in and around nearby Cambridge and you will get a far greater return on investment/growth then this 1960s style project.

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5 years

“Rewilding such a large proportion of the UK did not have to involve an overall reduction in food production... There are 1.8m hectares of deer stalking estates and 1.3m hectares of grouse moor estates” 😐 End public subsidies for aristocrats’ bloodsports

Rewild a quarter of UK to fight climate crisis, campaigners urge

Subsidies to restore woodlands and meadows would also boost wildlife, says Rewilding Britain

www.theguardian.com

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@crisortunity

2 years

“The e-bicycle is a game-changer, much more significant than the overhyped, expensive & insufficiently green e-car: global sales of e-bikes will reach 40m next year, vs 9m for EVs. Globally, most trips are <10km, which e-bikes can cover within 1/2 an hour”

The cheap, green, low-tech solution for the world’s megacities

Poorer megacities tend to be designed for rich people who can afford cars. Bikes are the answer

www.ft.com

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@crisortunity

1 year

Feeling extremely lucky to be rolling out of Paris with my family on the top deck of a high speed train to Barcelona. First time doing a European train holiday with the kids! You too could be holidaying without frying the planet if your work signs up to

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@crisortunity

6 years

We have been informed that “a protest is a gathering of people with banners and placards”, which is quite the clarification. Anyway - so far we can’t find any legal basis for the refusal. So we are asking Sadiq to reconsider. 3/n

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@crisortunity

2 years

“Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.” - E O Wilson. Rest in power 🌍

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@crisortunity

7 months

Learned a lot from this pioneering old gent I met by the river yesterday! He decided to give up his car a year ago because “you see all these stories where a pensioner has driven into a shop - I thought that’s gonna be me” (He’s lost sensation in his feet) 🧵

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@crisortunity

24 days

Very interesting to see so many Labour Party commentators dismissing the Green Party leader’s interview on solving the housing crisis today, while respected housing justice campaigners who live and breathe this issue every day are responding with clap emojis 🤔🧐

KWAJO- Social Issues Campaigner

@Kwajotweneboa

24 days

@carla_denyer 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

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@crisortunity

3 years

My amazing mum’s obituary has just gone up in the Guardian. I’m so proud to be her son

Dinah Murray obituary

Champion of autistic people who explored the attention that they devote to a leading interest

www.theguardian.com

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@crisortunity

2 years

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@crisortunity

3 years

Sweden’s top daily national newspaper will no longer accept adverts for fossil fuel brands or high carbon products like flights and ICE cars, in recognition of the fact that the goal of these adverts runs directly counter to their editorial policy of support for climate action!

badvertising

@badvertising11

3 years

A leading European newspaper is showing how media can stop adverts fuelling the #ClimateEmergency - which title will be next to take the step? National newspaper drops high-carbon adverts for fossil fuels, flights & cars

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@crisortunity

6 years

Jesus. “White House officials are said to be afraid the ‘Trump baby’ protest at Westminster may prompt him to lash out” - this reads like an anxious mother pleading with the kids to be meek and compliant towards their abusive stepfather

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@crisortunity

4 years

It’s this simple: UK cities can choose to rapidly change their road layouts to prioritise walking and cycling, or they can choose to bury their citizens under an avalanche of cars

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1 year

I see the money being announced today for new EV charging infra in England is FOUR TIMES the size of the entire post-cuts active travel budget for England. Reminder: modal shift AWAY from car use is *at least* as important in Net Zero pathways as EVs

Transport decarbonisation package to help boost net zero ambitions

Measures announced to increase use of electric vehicles, as well as the production of sustainable aviation fuel in the UK.

www.gov.uk

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@crisortunity

3 years

One good thing about this winter’s lockdown is that my neighbours who used to have their ‘smart’ Range Rover Discovery turn itself on and idle its engine for 10-20m every day to warm up before they drove off in it aren’t doing that any more

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@crisortunity

2 years

When car manufacturers blame consumer demand for the wholesale switch to SUVs, they forget to mention how hard they have worked to create this demand. The Ford Fiesta is the *most popular car ever*, but less profitable per unit than SUVs. So discontinued

Ford Fiesta car set to be discontinued as model scrapped

The BBC understands executives are planning to announce the production will end as early as next year.

www.bbc.co.uk

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@crisortunity

3 years

And that’s the end of the story! I’ve shared it here because this is just one small, hopefully insightful, vignette into the dominant paradigm around mainstream media reporting of measures to reduce motor traffic dominance. Countless other examples are churned out every day Ends/

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@crisortunity

1 year

This Range Rover mother has captured a large number of bicycles in her specialised trailer and racks. She will now carry them back to her nest to feed to her young. A baby Range Rover can consume up to 15 bicycles per day before it fledges

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10 months

Good morning to everyone except Range Rover drivers

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@crisortunity

2 years

💔🚮

The Labour Party

@UKLabour

2 years

Motorists were already being hammered by prices at the pump, and now millions can’t even access fuel. The government must immediately impose injunctions to put a stop to this disruption.

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4 years

airlines are horrified that their chocolate teapot offsetting scheme might actually have some effect😱 because the baseline year - 2020 - they have to pay to offset any growth in carbon after is now going to see much lower emissions than they bargained for

Airlines lobby to rewrite carbon deal in light of coronavirus

Industry says it is not trying to dodge obligations but that it is a ‘matter of survival’

www.theguardian.com

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@crisortunity

2 years

Mmmmm just look at that kerb separation, lovely #C9isComing

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@crisortunity

9 months

Never been more proud of our Mayor than this past week. This kind of political courage and sticking power is going to be required of every political leader trying to steer us out of environmental crisis. Starmer urgently needs to reflect on his own recent conduct 😔

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan

@MayorofLondon

9 months

Expanding the ULEZ was not an easy decision, but it will save lives. The easy decision would have been to kick the can down the road. But were we to do that, thousands more people would die prematurely. London deserves better than the dangerous, polluted air we have today.

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@crisortunity

8 months

My only real criticism of this very good explainer video is that we needed it at least five years ago

Paul Sweeney

@PaulJSweeney

8 months

This is why HS2 is vital - it unlocks space on the existing railway for commuter & freight trains by putting high-speed intercity trains on a segregated line. If the government doesn't build all of HS2, then the whole UK railway network will face gridlock.

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@crisortunity

4 years

It was really clear to me then that this was a politician who had begun to grasp the enormity of the challenge ahead. He was coming to to terms with it in his own way & spending time with climate activists was a part of that. I felt camaraderie with this Secretary of State 11/14

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Note to self: This is a huge personal victory for me and I must remember to take the time and space to really celebrate it! There is much I’m furious or freaking out about - the curse of the climate obsessive - but there is important stuff to be happy about too!

Will Norman

@willnorman

1 year

🥳🎉🚲💥Cycleway 9 on King Street has been made permanent! 🥳🎉🚲💥 Well done everyone at Hammersmith & Fulham Council (& @tfl colleagues) and massive thanks to the brilliant @lbhf cycling officer Richard Duffill.

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3 years

Picked up ~40 strategically scattered brass tacks from this cycling bottleneck alongside the A4 in Hammersmith after a warning from another local cycling parent @LBHF

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1 year

Each Easter the national nature reserve here at Holkham plays host to what is believed to be one of the largest colonies of Range Rovers in the world

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7 months

“The idea that solar power could interfere with the UK’s food security is utterly detached from reality. Solar power generated over 8% of all our electricity this spring, but takes up less land than golf courses.” I’m so tired 🥴

Helena Horton

@horton_official

7 months

New story from me: ‘Detached from reality’: anger as Rishi Sunak plans to restrict solar panels

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3 months

The 9% that come by car absolutely ruining Richmond Town Centre for the other 91% is a perfect microcosm of our entire transport system

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1 month

The period finish of local flint gives the conservation area a distinctive character

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1 year

Good morning to everyone except Range Rover drivers

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3 years

My son’s friends’ mum works for ITV and she says they’ve all just had mandatory climate change training, and it was really good ✨

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@crisortunity

6 months

Good evening to everyone except Range Rover drivers

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@crisortunity

2 years

“All the focus for subsidies has been electric cars, but this new report demonstrates the substantial benefits of electric bikes and how essential they are for rapidly decarbonising transport, improving our health and cleaning up the air at the same time”

UK ministers urged to promote e-bikes to tackle health and climate crises

Campaigners say subsidy scheme could create £2bn in health benefits and cut 1m tonnes of emissions annually

www.theguardian.com

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@crisortunity

5 years

Right, I’ve stuck my neck out here and sketched out a credible #GreenNewDeal transport plan for ⁦ @Cmmonwealth ⁩ that is actually (horrors!) commensurate with the climate emergency: making private car ownership obsolete in our cities within 10 years

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@crisortunity

2 years

A report from #Hammersmith town centre, where @HFConsCllrs claim the new cycle lane “isn’t working” & promise to remove it. The only trouble is - it hasn’t even finished being built yet 🤪 #C9isComing

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@crisortunity

4 years

But rather than flounce off with his entourage, Ed came along to our after party with the crew. He chatted with me and fellow activists, about climate breakdown and activism. He did his dad dancing. He had a couple of drinks 10/14

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2 years

“Why aren’t all bikes like this?” My son, upon trying out my wife’s new Dutch step through bike

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1 year

Colonies are best viewed from a distance as Range Rovers can be highly aggressive towards people, as well as towards one another as they vie for the best nesting sites in the scarce space available. One of the few British species that is now rapidly increasing in numbers

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3 years

OMG it gets better #Ealing

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3 years

good morning from the war on motorists

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6 months

“New analysis by Transport for London’s social media team has now found a 97 percent reduction in conversations about ULEZ on social media since the zone’s expansion on August 29, according to Politico. It is already bedding in. And the dark prophecies have not come to pass.”

Josiah Mortimer

@josiahmortimer

6 months

🔴 Early Signs Show Sadiq Khan’s Expanded Ultra Low Emissions Zone is Working – and the Culture Warriors Have Gone Quiet It was meant to be a disaster, but the doomsayers appear to be in retreat. My latest for @BylineTimes

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7 months

It should be obvious by now to any local councillors that have actually tried to do anything about traffic domination of our streets that there is a faction of the public who will never be prepared to concede a single inch of the public realm from the dominion of the private car

Ian Barnes

@Ianbarnes2001

7 months

511 comments on NextDoor about a small bike rack placed on a road next to shop in Enfield. 511! Includes the usual WEF/climate lockdown right-wing conspiracy theorists. It’s just a simple bike rack, not some secret plan. Is this happening everywhere or just in London and Oxford?

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4 months

Good morning! To everyone except Range Rover drivers

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@crisortunity

2 years

A popular theory for why conservative ministers ignore their own voters’ on onshore but go nuts for nuclear & offshore wind is that only giant multinational energy companies can build those, whereas any community can put up a turbine outside their village. So they banned that

Chris Skidmore

@CSkidmoreUK

2 years

As a new poll out in @telegraph today shows Conservative members overwhelmingly support rolling out more energy efficiency measures and renewables- including onshore wind- let’s get on and deliver an energy security revolution at lower cost for the U.K. 👇

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