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Cllr Ed Lamb

11 months

Let me get this straight 🤔 🌏 It combats climate change 🚘 It solves congestion 💳 It saves us money 🏥 It improves public health 💴 It helps local businesses 🚭 It cleans the air ... and we have to *campaign* for it?? Like. Lol 🤪

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Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

2 years

I loved Bladerunner as much as the next guy but this is the future I want 😎

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Cllr Ed Lamb

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2 years

Don't threaten me with a good time

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1 year

when the council submits plans for a bike lane

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9 months

Rishi Sunak be like

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2 years

It's not a war on cars. It's a war on kids. Their independence restricted. Their lung growth stunted. The future of their planet uncertain.

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5 years

A 6 year old and his ride to school*

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3 years

It's not a war on cars. It's a war on kids. #ClimateChange #AirPollution #RoadDanger

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Cllr Ed Lamb

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3 years

Ask a grown up what is wrong with this photo and they'll point to the child being on the road. Possibly the lack of helmet or hi-viz jacket. Ask a kid what's wrong with it and they'll tell you it's too many cars. It's time we listened to the kids 🌎

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Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

16 days

10 minutes later and this room would have been full of children and nursery staff. Can't quite get my head around this 🤯

Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

17 days

Terrible breaking news from Liverpool this morning. Horrendous on so many levels. Let's hope everyone is OK. Let's also hope for immediate and ruthless action to stop this from happening ever again

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Cllr Ed Lamb

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2 years

It'll be nice when they're all electric, eh?

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Cllr Ed Lamb

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2 years

This is the natural end point of car culture. No one can get anywhere (in a car), because everyone has gone somewhere (in a car) 😂

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Cllr Ed Lamb

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1 year

Cyclists should have number plates 🤷‍♂️

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Cllr Ed Lamb

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11 months

"I don't need to cycle, I go to the gym." "But how do you get to the gym?" "I drive." "Why not cycle to the gym?" "But then I wouldn't need to go to the gym!" "Correct."

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Cllr Ed Lamb

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2 years

Is it a problem?

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Cllr Ed Lamb

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9 months

A 35kg machine that delivers 100kg of human to ⚽ practice. You can't beat those numbers

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Cllr Ed Lamb

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2 years

Shoulda posted this yesterday

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Cllr Ed Lamb

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1 year

just think what your life would be like without cars

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Cllr Ed Lamb

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2 years

Don't blame the cyclist for riding on the pavement/sidewalk. Blame the leaders that failed to give them a safe place to ride.

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1 year

Reversing down the pavement with a 'Baby on Board!' sign in your window. Peak SUV driver entitlement?

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Cllr Ed Lamb

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1 year

Happy to say that 453rd consecutive 'Drive to School Week' was a huge success. We hardly even needed to publicise it either. Great job everyone, see you all again next week! 🎉

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Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

1 year

We had it. We lost it.

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Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

4 years

This little legend cycled 35 miles before lunch yesterday. You sure you can't manage that 5 mile commute into town?

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Cllr Ed Lamb

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2 years

Bruh. Screaming 'HELMETS' from your crappy Astra while whipping by a father and two kids on a cargo bike is not making the contribution to road safety that you think it is 🙄

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Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

10 months

Reader, I did not dismount. I did not use the footpath. I simply... cycled in the road. Patronising innit. Deliberately designed to make cycling look like a childish pursuit 👶

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Cllr Ed Lamb

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3 years

It makes the air cleaner. It extends people's lives. It cuts congestion. It reduces noise pollution. It's great for local businesses. It cuts green house gases like nothing else. And we have to *campaign* for it 🤷‍♂️

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Cllr Ed Lamb

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3 years

Cycling with kids isn't hard. What *is* hard is plucking up the courage to do it when you're surrounded by a sea of cars and a culture that thinks this looks weird 👇

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Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

8 months

Asking our kids to be constantly vigilant when so many grown ups break the rules is, frankly, embarrassing

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Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

9 months

No rest until vehicles are factory limited to 70mph

Pregnant crash victim's partner says killer's sentence 'insulting'

Frankie Jules-Hough's partner tells the BBC a 12-year jail term will not stop others speeding.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Cllr Ed Lamb

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2 years

1000 miles on an electric cargo bike. A thread... 🪡 (TL;DR - get one)

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Cllr Ed Lamb

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4 years

We’ll look back on the evolution of car design and wonder why we forgot about the folks on the other side of the windshield*

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Cllr Ed Lamb

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2 years

People: "I'm too scared to cycle!" My 10 year old lad: "Hold my Fruit Shoot..."

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Cllr Ed Lamb

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1 year

Me on NYE

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Cllr Ed Lamb

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2 years

Ball games ❌ Car storage ✅ What happened to us?

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Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

1 month

"Motor vehicles kill more than 700 children a day." LET THAT SINK IN

EVs Can’t Fix a Global Epidemic of ‘Car Harm,’ Study Finds

A staggering number of deaths, injuries and illnesses over many decades can be attributed to cars and auto infrastructure, researchers say.

www.bloomberg.com

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Cllr Ed Lamb

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2 years

Someone I know gets up twice a week at 6am. Drives 2 miles to the gym. Does a spin class for an hour to get their exercise quota. Drives home. Drives 3 miles to their office. People are weird.

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Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

1 year

An acceptable city car. Small, light, electric & low speed 😎

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2 years

My awesome wife has cycled to work 9 days in a row and is loving it 🚴‍♀️🎉

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Cllr Ed Lamb

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4 years

Need cheering up? My youngest learnt to ride his bike yesterday. A symbol of hope for us all*

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Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

3 years

"Hi [name of child], I've read your letter with interest. You're right, the climate emergency is real. We must act! Sadly, we just can't find any space on our medieval roads for a cycle lane. Thanks for your interest & best wishes. Yours, [City/Council Leader]"

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Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

9 months

Defender of what?

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Cllr Ed Lamb

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2 years

Yesterday, for the first time in her life, my wife cycled to work! 🎉 (I'll keep a thread 🪡 here of how it goes throughout Lent)

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Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

2 years

Yes, @WirralCouncil ! What was once a dual carriageway is now a safe route for cycling. Fender Lane, starting outside Bidston station. Opened last week 😎 @merseycyclists @lizgrey_ @simonobtv1

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Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

2 years

'Just try and think what your life would be like without cars!' Thinks...

Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

2 years

I loved Bladerunner as much as the next guy but this is the future I want 😎

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Cllr Ed Lamb

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10 months

Cycling clothing advice: wear what you want

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Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

2 years

The problem with electric cars is ... they are cars 🤷‍♂️

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Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

1 year

Brand new homes! Generous, wide pavements to carry all of that foot traffic to the station and local shops. Oh...

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Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

3 years

Meet the newest member of our family

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Cllr Ed Lamb

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1 year

Show me your bicycles 👇

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Cllr Ed Lamb

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4 years

#BuildBackBetter

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Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

2 months

25 people in cars sure do need a lot of space huh

BathComms

@Leighlines

2 months

Welcome to Bath! One empty bus lane and one gridlocked mess crawling into the city. Well done @bathnesld @Wera_Hobhouse squeezing us onto fewer roads is a disaster for business and residents. @FreeBathStreets

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Cllr Ed Lamb

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5 months

How far could a hat, gloves and an e-bike take you in the 15 minutes it takes to safely clear a car of ice? 🧊

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Cllr Ed Lamb

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1 year

Local school has emailed parents saying kids can't scoot or cycle to school without a helmet. Should I tag them on Monday and let Cycling Twitter eat them for breakfast?

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Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

1 year

"Can we have some bollards to keep us safe please?" - Walk to school ❌ - Retail park ✅ We protect people where we value them most 🤷‍♂️

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Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

4 years

Hey kid, why not try cycling to school?

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Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

8 months

🚷 Pedestrians: "No earphones! Look 6 times! Watch out for drivers on the pavement! No fun!" 🚗 Drivers: "Who's excited about that 56" touch screen??"

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Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

5 years

It's a bit exhausting doing this each morning but someone needs to stand up and sort this shit out. Our roads are sewers of pollution, aggression and impatience. Shut the roads around primary schools asap #SchoolStreets

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Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

2 years

Not a cyclist. Just a mother on a kick ass bicycle with her kids and a puppy riding shotgun 🐶

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Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

1 year

This one is for all of the cowardly men in my comments last week defending driving on the pavement #UKCarCulture

Mum and daughter killed on school run as car mounts pavement and hits them

Justyne Hulboj, 27, and Lena Czepczor, 4, were en route nursery when a white Audi TTRS ploughed into them

www.birminghammail.co.uk

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Cllr Ed Lamb

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1 year

Some personal news 👀🚀

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Cllr Ed Lamb

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2 years

We subsidise driving so much that it should be regarded as public transport. Discuss

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Cllr Ed Lamb

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1 year

I seem to be inhabiting a Bizarro World where arrogant drivers use the pavement and vulnerable, elderly residents walk in the road

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Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

3 years

Contrary to popular opinion, there is *no* dress code for cycling. Wear what you want and what makes you feel safe, comfortable and confident

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Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

9 months

If only cyclists were given as much protection as (checks notes) this lighting column

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Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

3 years

My council urged us to ditch the car for short journeys. We've kept up our end of the bargain. When do our leaders follow through on their promises and deliver safe routes for my family and our fellow citizens? 🤔

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Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

1 year

The legend lives on 😎

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Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

3 years

It'll be nice when they're all electric, hey? 🤢 #YouHaveBoughtYourLastCar

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Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

2 years

No ifs. No buts. Ban pavement parking this very instant. Cancer of the streets.

BBC Yorkshire

@BBCLookNorth

2 years

“Please just don’t park on the pavement.” A Yorkshire man has shared this footage of his guide dog to warn people about pavement parking.

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3 years

@ShaunBaileyUK

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Cllr Ed Lamb

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2 years

'A bicycle just isn't practical. I have two kids, bags and a guitar to collect from school today.' 👀

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Cllr Ed Lamb

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3 years

We could spend trillions on clever little robots to shuttle our parcels around or we could make this a more acceptable and routine sight on our streets #Quaxing

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Cllr Ed Lamb

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8 months

Level boarding on our new @merseyrail trains. Very cool 😎

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Cllr Ed Lamb

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2 years

New road safety strategy

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1 year

How Google sees a 'cyclist' vs how I see a 'cyclist' 🧐

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1 year

Shots fired @notjustbikes

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Cllr Ed Lamb

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7 months

1. No they don't 2. Habitual driving warps your sense of speed 🔗

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3 months

Weight (and size) based parking charges in built up areas? Yes please 💯

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Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

17 days

Terrible breaking news from Liverpool this morning. Horrendous on so many levels. Let's hope everyone is OK. Let's also hope for immediate and ruthless action to stop this from happening ever again

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2 years

“An engineer designing from scratch could hardly concoct a better device to unclog modern roads – cheap, nonpolluting, small and silent…” Rick Smith, International Herald Tribune Ladies and gentlemen... the bicycle.

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Cllr Ed Lamb

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1 year

A thread about why I let my lad leave his bicycle outside *all of the time* 🧵

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Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

10 months

Newsflash for the haters. We're gonna have to eat less meat AND remove 8 million cars from the roads

Eating less meat 'like taking 8m cars off road'

A new Oxford University study pinpoints for the first time how high- and low-meat diets impact the planet.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

1 year

I always approach this busy junction with caution

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Cllr Ed Lamb

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3 years

Not a cyclist. Just a kid in a Pudsey onesie on his way to school 🤷‍♂️

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Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

1 year

your life without cars

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Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

4 years

The humble bollard will do more for transport CO2 reduction than anything with a battery or motor... all hail @WorldBollard ✊

Carlton Reid

@carltonreid

4 years

This narrow old bridge in Jesmond was awful for motorists, cyclists and pedestrians. Since Thursday it has been transformed by @NewcastleCC into a great route for active travel.

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Cllr Ed Lamb

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2 years

'Those militant cyclists are ruining our bus network!'

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Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

5 months

Certain drivers, a reminder: If the parked cars are on *your* side of the road, then you should give way to oncoming traffic... EVEN IF THAT TRAFFIC IS A FATHER & SON ON BICYCLES. Capeesh? 🙄

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Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

3 years

Yes @WirralCouncil !!! 🥳😂

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Cllr Ed Lamb

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1 year

You can't park there, sir

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Cllr Ed Lamb

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9 months

A weird reality in my area. When the crushing school traffic disappears, the roads become safe enough for kids to ride on them. What if... we make a new kind of school traffic?

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Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

1 month

Not all heroes wear capes. Some disguise themselves as tree stumps

The Chronicle

@ChronicleLive

1 month

'Everyone is getting sick of it' - Tree stump in North Tyneside is causing 'thousands' in car damages

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Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

2 years

Lost my mojo when I saw a driving instructor (or pupil) driving on the pavement outside my kids' school this morning

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Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

1 year

“So, perhaps what angers me about footway parking is just how little people care about it. Whenever I see a car parked across the pavement on my walks around my ward, it reminds me of why I am angry.” 🔥— @Layo_FH

What I talk about when I talk about pavement parking

I really hate pavement parking. I really do.

link.medium.com

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Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

8 months

Wondering why our roads are so violent and hostile? Wonder no more! This is an appalling use of language and imagery, IMO

Roads Policing Unit

@MerPolTraffic

8 months

The rider of this Sur Ron electric motorcycle thought he could ride dangerously through the city, pulling wheelies and riding on the pavement. He was introduced into the front of one of our new Volvos and arrested. He was already disqualified and wanted by Police in Scotland.

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Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

2 years

Enable & Normalise Everything in This Photo 👍

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Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

1 year

So glad that we designed and built our junctions for those few occasions when an oligarch wants to come through with his 300ft luxury yachts

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Cllr Ed Lamb

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1 year

How was your journey to work?

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Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

5 years

Anyway, this guy just cycled 14km back from his grandparents in his flip flops 🤷‍♂️

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Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

11 months

"It's a lovely day, we'll sit outside!" Outside:

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Cllr Ed Lamb

@edwardlamb

3 months

Do my eyes deceive me? 😮 "Pick-ups face huge tax hike as they lose commercial vehicle status" This is amazing news for road danger reduction and pot hole haters 🎉 Sales will fall through the floor, surely 💥

Tax hike for pick-ups reversed by UK government

HMRC makes U-turn on changes to benefit-in-kind rules after criticism from motor industry

www.autocar.co.uk

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