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Prof. Ian Walker

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Environmental psychologist and Head of Psychology @SwanseaUni . Guinness World Record for the fastest bike ride across Europe. Trustee @wheels4well . Views mine

Swansea, Wales

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Prof. Ian Walker

1 year

We have a new study out! The short version is this: "Car Brain" - the cultural blind spot that makes people apply double standards when they think about driving - is real, measurable and pervasive. Read on for more details... 1/14 @SwanseaUni @UWEBristol @EdNapierTRI

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Prof. Ian Walker

4 years

Looks like I picked a bad day to set this app up

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Goodness me, the apologists for UK rail responding to this. "Ackshually you just need to book 87 years in advance and travel via Chad and Murmansk when it's Mega-Super-Sunday-Offpeak - why's that so hard?" It's like some particularly bizarre Privatisation Stockholm Syndrome

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Two adults, two children, next week. Manchester to St Ives, Cornwall: 8-9 hours, multiple changes, £710. Manchester to Málaga: 3 hours, £433. Please help my domestic tourism industry is dying.

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Showers use lots of water. Quite possibly more than anything else in your home. We've done some new research on how to address this, and it's a win-win for sustainability! Grab your favourite loofah and read on for details...🧵1/15

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Prof. Ian Walker

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This is my cat, Monster. Over the past two years he has secured exactly the same number of international trade deals as Liam Fox #MonsterForFCO

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Prof. Ian Walker

2 years

A lot of people are commentating on how dramatic increases in fuel prices don't seem dramatically to be changing behaviour. People are still driving millions of short trips, still sitting with engines idling, etc. So - woo-hoo! - here's a *thread* on the PSYCHOLOGY OF HABITS🎈

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Prof. Ian Walker

3 years

A remake of Armageddon but where the council just declares an "Asteroid Emergency" and everyone carries on as normal until the asteroid hits Earth

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Prof. Ian Walker

5 years

16 days, 20 hours, 59 minutes. The new world record for crossing Europe by bike. I did it solo and unsupported. It feels great.

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Prof. Ian Walker

6 months

"The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars"

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The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric...

Electric vehicles get all the press – but it’s the smaller unsung two wheelers cutting oil demand the most.

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Prof. Ian Walker

2 years

Nice example of how a junction radius can be retrofitted to make it better for pedestrians and less easy for motorists to whizz in and out

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@ianwalker

Prof. Ian Walker

2 years

Bought a car that doesn't fit in your garage? Just make it everybody else's problem

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Prof. Ian Walker

2 months

And this is where we saw the big win-win: there's a clear negative relationship between water pressure and consumption. More powerful showers used less water overall. A LOVELY TINGLY SHOWER MIGHT BE *BETTER* FOR THE ENVIRONMENT THAN A WEAK DRIBBLE. I know, right?

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Prof. Ian Walker

7 months

“It would also look at preventing the introduction of the concept of the "15-minute city" - where essential amenities are always within a 15-minute walk.” If he'd just shouted YOU HAVE TO CONSUME MORE OIL it would have been a lot quicker

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Sunak vows to stop 20mph zones and review LTNs

PM says measures like 20mph zones should not be forced on drivers but Labour accuses him of hypocrisy.

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Prof. Ian Walker

3 years

People suggesting that LTNs make their 5-minute car trips a little longer might like to reflect that my usual bicycle commute is an HOUR longer every day because I have to avoid the roads where motorists would kill me

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Prof. Ian Walker

4 years

*Wipes tear from eye*

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Prof. Ian Walker

1 year

"Gridlock at retail park traps drivers for ‘three hours’" “I’m never going drive in there again," said a man who, the article goes on to note, lived five minutes away. #cardependency

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Gridlock at retail park traps drivers for ‘three hours’

“I'm never going drive in there again"

www.bristol247.com

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Prof. Ian Walker

1 year

Dyson sees cars filling the air with pollution and noise and their solution is not to fix the problem, but to filter faces. Was there ever a better example of how we view the harms of motoring as entirely outside human control, like the weather?

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Dyson's Zone headphones with personal air purifier get a hefty price tag

Dyson's Zone headphones boast noise cancellation technology synonymous with soon-to-be market rivals from the likes of Sony, Apple, and Bose - but the most striking feature is the attachable air...

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Prof. Ian Walker

2 months

This graph probably tells us something important behaviourally. It suggests that people turn the shower off when they have achieved a desired sensation, not just when they have completed a certain set of actions. This is a potentially important new insight 10/

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Prof. Ian Walker

5 years

IT'S OFFICIAL! @GWR just confirmed that I am the Guinness World Record holder for the fastest crossing of Europe *massive grin*

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Fastest cycle across Europe (North Cape to Tarifa) - individual

Ian Walker

www.guinnessworldrecords.com

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Prof. Ian Walker

3 years

All that technology in a Tesla, yet it doesn't prevent people parking like this

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@ianwalker

Prof. Ian Walker

5 years

If driverless cars require us to redesign our streets for their convenience, this should be taken as evidence their engineers have failed

@Arup

Arup

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How do we prepare our roads for #driverless cars? By developing flexible kerbs that adapt for different uses, guided by real-time #data and local transport goals.

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1 year

This! This from Indonesia. This is what I was talking about when I said forget the expense and engineering of trams, just take space from private motoring right away and make it public

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Prof. Ian Walker

4 years

Really struck this week by how many new housing estates have car-dependence built in. Huge estates thrown up miles from workplaces, shops and schools. Should the ability to live car-free be a condition of planning permission?

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Prof. Ian Walker

2 years

Can't believe I'm now going to have to drive responsibly when I get in the car later. Woke nonsense

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Prof. Ian Walker

2 years

Four questions for people who say their driving is essential: - why is it essential to drive THAT car? - do you drive it as little as possible? - why is it essential to drive it that fast? - why is it essential you have priority over people who aren't driving? #minimiseharm

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Prof. Ian Walker

2 months

Putting the two effects together, we saw average water consumption shift from nearly 61 litres/shower (low pressure, no timer) to under 17 litres/shower (high pressure, timer). Remember, this is hot water, so potentially massive carbon savings. 13/

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Prof. Ian Walker

5 years

This is Queen Square Bristol. This path used to be a dual carriageway road. I challenge anybody to look at the people relaxing on the grass today and say "Yeah, this was better with cars blasting through it". Cities can change and improve.

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Prof. Ian Walker

2 months

@shovell Two things can be true at the same time

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Prof. Ian Walker

9 months

Move over, 25kg of peanuts man - someone on LinkedIn just told a politician that no journeys can be by bicycle because what if you need to carry a sofa

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Prof. Ian Walker

10 months

The best time to tell the public that car trips are not harmless was 30 years ago. The second-best time is now

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Prof. Ian Walker

2 months

I know you're wondering so here are the basic numbers. The average shower was 6.7 minutes, median was 5.7 and 50% fell between 3.3 and 8.8 minutes. In other words, the length of showers is quite variable. We excluded any showers over one hour, but believe me, they happened 5/

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Prof. Ian Walker

2 months

The BBC have just published an article on dangerous driving which, I'm pleased to say, draws heavily on our motonormativity work. Well worth a read

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'Motonormativity': The bias that leads to dangerous driving

Certain personality traits can predispose people to taking more risks on the road – but societal biases also lead to recklessness behind the wheel.

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Prof. Ian Walker

4 years

I've been experimenting this week with "commuting" to work while working from home. I go for a bike ride at the start and end of each day, and it's really helping overcome the lack of home-work boundaries that I was starting to struggle with

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Prof. Ian Walker

4 years

I'm already hearing "Should we be cycling right now, in case we have a crash and put strain on the NHS?" But this needs to be evidence-led, and the far greater pressure on NHS comes from motor crashes and air pollution. Perhaps we need a message of DRIVE LESS, DRIVE RESPONSIBLY?

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Prof. Ian Walker

3 years

Large new study gives further evidence that travel attitudes change AFTER travel mode changes. Implication is: create an environment where people drive less and they’ll come to want to drive less. You can’t wait until everyone is persuaded they want change

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Travel attitudes or behaviours: Which one changes when they conflict?

Transportation - In recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest in the ‘disagreement’ or dissonance between travel attitudes and behaviours. This has shown that when people...

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Prof. Ian Walker

2 years

Just went for a long run. I can't tell you how astonishingly remote the location of this sign was. Like... surely they get about 4 people passing a day? So I did the honourable thing and had both drink AND cake.

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Prof. Ian Walker

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@KenKaiden Also, the very existence of railcards is evidence that we know trains cost too much

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Prof. Ian Walker

2 years

"Try not to breathe outdoors". This is fine. Definitely no need to do anything about all the motor vehicles

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Londoners told to reduce physical activity on Friday due to pollution

Government advises older people and those with lung or heart issues to avoid strenuous activity altogether

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Prof. Ian Walker

7 months

Perhaps the worst road safety advert I've ever seen and by god I've seen some shit

@RichmondRCMP

Richmond RCMP

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Pedestrian safety is a two-way street. What pedestrians and drivers can do to make our roadways safer

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Prof. Ian Walker

2 years

So an actual human being thinks it's okay to park like this while somebody pops into the shop.

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Prof. Ian Walker

3 years

Just seen people discussing how bicycles are elitist because you have to store them, and am more horrified than ever at the normalisation of hand-outs to motorists

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Prof. Ian Walker

2 months

Really interesting bit of motonormativity here, where even a left-wing analysis of today's anticipated £bns handout to motorists assumes everybody drives: "those who earn the least will save just £22" (no, they walk and use buses, so get *zero* benefit)

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UK fuel duty cut is regressive policy that benefits the wealthy, study finds

Chancellor’s 5p freeze will save £60 a year for well-off motorists compared with just £22 for lower earners

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Prof. Ian Walker

2 months

And this stuff gets big really quickly. In just this experiment, those 290 showers burned through 4.4 million litres of hot water, and about 15 tonnes of CO2e, in the 39 weeks. The energy involved is mind-boggling when you start to think what it's like at a national scale 14/

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Prof. Ian Walker

1 year

Cutting edge cycle infrastructure in Swansea

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Prof. Ian Walker

2 years

Personal news! In November I'll be moving to @SwanseaUni to become Head of Psychology there. I'll miss Surrey, which is a dynamic place to work with lots of great people, but I'm enormously excited to be coming to 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (although Strava suggests I'm not entirely a stranger...)

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Prof. Ian Walker

4 years

Your local authority: Let's allow everybody to store their property in the road for free Also your local authority: We've got no money and no possible way to raise any

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Prof. Ian Walker

2 years

All this points to three lessons for policymakers: 1. Stop expecting new information, or incremental price changes, to alter ingrained behaviours. Just stop it. Seriously.

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Prof. Ian Walker

1 year

Here's the full set of answers. As you can see, responses could change dramatically when driving was mentioned. All except Question 2 were hugely statistically different. This doesn't make sense! The principle is the same in both forms of each question; only context changes 6/14

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1 year

We end with a call for policymakers to recognise their unconscious and institutional biases and to implement mechanisms to overcome them in planning and health decisions. You can read the full paper here for free Thanks for reading! 14/14

Motornomativity: How Social Norms Hide a Major Public Health Hazard

Decisions about motor transport, by individuals and policy-makers, show unconscious biases due to cultural assumptions about the role of private cars - a phenomenon we term motonormativity. To...

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Prof. Ian Walker

3 years

We'd better at least get quiet roads again

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8 months

"Wales' 20mph speed limit is working and journey times are just 45 seconds longer, analysis shows"

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20mph limit is working and journey times just 45 seconds longer, analysis shows

The results have been called 'astonishing and far greater than would have been predicted'

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Prof. Ian Walker

3 years

Fascinating how society's concern for the poor, disabled and marginalised can lie dormant for so long, awaiting the arrival of a few bollards and planters before it can be expressed

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Prof. Ian Walker

2 years

So to move a single person 100k, this car needs as much energy as a typical home uses in 2 or 3 days. I can cycle 100k on a couple of croissants

@AudiOfficial

Audi

2 years

Audi e-tron S: Electric power consumption combined in kWh/100 km: 26.3-25.1 (NEDC); 28.4-26.2 (WLTP); CO2-emissions combined: 0 g/km. Information on fuel/electricity consumption and CO2 emissions in ranges depending on the equipment and accessories of the car.

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So in sum: 1. We're mostly doing behaviour-change wrong, squandering the best opportunities to make sustainable changes 2. Study psychology! It's really cool. Ideally do it at @SurreyPsych @EPRG_Surrey 🎓

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Prof. Ian Walker

2 months

Big thanks to my colleagues Pablo Pereira-Doel and James Daly. You can find a preprint summary of these findings, and a link to the open data and graphing script, here: 15/15 @SwanseaUni @UniOfSurrey

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Prof. Ian Walker

2 years

A well-appointed housing estate for cars, with useful human-storage around the edges

@PlanningShit

Shit Planning

2 years

More outdoor car space than outdoor people space! #shitvalues Via @DrAdamChapman

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2 years

2. Look for times when people's lives are disrupted and GO IN HARD to encourage change at this point. (Policymakers: you already know when all these points are! Moving house, having a child, getting a new job, retiring... We literally tell government when we do these things!)

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3. Support new behaviour long enough that old habits can fade away entirely. This will take weeks, or months. "Bike to work day" isn't going to cut it, because the underlying urge to drive remains intact despite the day off. Same for "Healthy eating week" or whatever.

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Prof. Ian Walker

3 years

The massive shadows ruining the television footage of Wembley are a good reminder of how the Sun moves randomly through the sky and its position can never be predicted in advance by architects

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Prof. Ian Walker

4 years

Politicians who don't support a goal of zero road deaths should be made to nominate the specific people they think ought tot die in the coming year SHORT THREAD

@fietsprofessor

Cycling Professor 🚲 

@fietsprofessor

4 years

What do you think would be an acceptable number of people dying on our roads? Powerful message by Transport Accident Commission Victoria.

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Prof. Ian Walker

2 months

And here's what we saw. It looks like a big advantage of the timers is that they stop showers from gradually creeping longer and longer as the weeks go by. We wonder if people 'anchor' on whatever is the length of their first shower, and stick to this when there's a timer 12/

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Prof. Ian Walker

10 months

Four years today since I broke the world record for cycling across Europe. Still quietly shocked I pulled that off

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Prof. Ian Walker

4 years

The English reluctance to wear masks makes sense to me. I cycle on the roads here. I know how many people refuse to make the slightest shred of effort to keep strangers safe from the risks they are forcing upon them.

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1 year

I'm shocked - SHOCKED - that running a massive dual carriageway through the city centre while letting the bus service collapse hasn't created a free-flowing traffic utopia

@BBCRB

BBC Radio Bristol

1 year

#Bristol is more congested than ever. So what's the best way of getting into the city? 🚗🚴‍♀️🛴🚊🚎 📻 Hear the analysis ➡️

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2 years

Is there no element of escooters where we don't lose all sense of proportion? An e-car might hold a tonne of batteries and be unused 97% of the time and this is apparently fine. But THE HORROR if a scooter's few kgs of batteries aren't in constant use...

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He has an epiphany at the end though: “Large cars just aren’t the way forward, and even electric cars aren’t either. The site was totally permeable for walkers and cyclists, but the physical size of the cars just creates mayhem.” Tom from Bristol, welcome to The War on Cars

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Prof. Ian Walker

3 years

Driving an SUV should be viewed as a conscious act of waste, like buying twice as much food as you need then publicly throwing half straight in the bin

@APPGCW

APPG for Cycling & Walking

3 years

Carbon emissions fell across all sectors in 2020 except for one – SUVs. They made up 42% of the global car market in 2020.

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Prof. Ian Walker

4 years

Seeing as the government is currently all pro-cycling (rather than pro cycling, which involves tighter clothes), it's a good time to repeat this: *If there's space for hatched areas on a road, or if there's space for on-street parking, there's space for a bike lane*

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Prof. Ian Walker

7 years

We've long known cycling is a kind of "magic bullet" for public health, but bloody hell look at those hazard ratios

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Prof. Ian Walker

6 years

It's done North Cape 4000 4322 km 11 days, 10 hours, 44 minutes I am humbled by everybody's support

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Prof. Ian Walker

4 years

I just sent this picture in reply to a message but I'm posting it again because A WHOLE SERIES OF ACTUAL HUMAN BEINGS PUT THAT CYCLEPATH SIGN ON THAT LAMPPOST AND GOT PAID TO DO SO. @BristolCouncil

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3 years

Driving a car that's larger than you need ought to be seen like buying more food than you need, and publicly throwing away the excess in a display of conspicuous consumption

@GeorgeFreemanMP

George Freeman MP FRSA

@GeorgeFreemanMP

3 years

Two approaches to cars. Imagine how much safer, more fun, less congested & less polluted our cities would be if more people in cities drove cars like the one on the right of this picture? Time to bring back the electric original mini for city centre motoring @ClimateTories

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3 years

How did I miss this? Studies place dummy animals on the road and look how many motorists deliberately hit them. 89/% of the deliberate hitters were in SUVs in one study...

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Do Drivers Purposefully Swerve to Hit Animals on the Road? - The News Wheel

Human beings are capable of some dark and demented things, but would people purposefully swerve onto the shoulder of the road—outside their driving path—just to run over a small animal? The idea is...

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Prof. Ian Walker

4 years

Local authorities of Britain, look at these two pictures. Within a single week you have been given WHY and you have been given HOW. Let's do this #buildbackbetter

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Prof. Ian Walker

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I have some exciting personal news! From 1 September I'm going to be taking on a new position as a Professor in the School of Psychology at @UniOfSurrey . I'm really excited to be joining such a great group of environmental psychologists, but am going to miss Bath terribly

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Prof. Ian Walker

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(That said, I'm going to suggest that these Surrey students have generally shorter showers than many people. Last time we measured showers in the UK public we found an average of 10.8 minutes. So perhaps mentally scale up everything I show you here) 6/

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Leeds gets it

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Prof. Ian Walker

4 years

I'm in Oxford today. WHY IS SUCH A SMALL, ANCIENT CITY CENTRE SO FULL OF CARS? WHY DOES THE ENTIRE PLACE REEK OF DIESEL FUMES? Sort it out, Oxford.

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Prof. Ian Walker

4 years

"Just how metric *is* your socket set?"

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Prof. Ian Walker

3 months

Dear all journalists - See? Headlines about road violence can be written correctly

@WalesOnline

WalesOnline 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Pedestrian has life-threatening injuries after being hit by suspected drug-driver

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(Note that all our graphs use a logarithmic y-axis, so the real differences are a LOT bigger than they might appear visually. 3 on the graph = 20 litres, 4 = 55 litres and 5 = 148 litres. And yes, that was an exponential curve on a logarithmic axis - crumbs) 9/

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3 years

Your periodic reminder: it's not about bicycle licensing, it's about punishing people for being different

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Prof. Ian Walker

2 years

Prague offers free hire bikes permanently following successful trial

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Free shared bikes are now a permanent part of Prague's public transport

A pilot project offering holders of a Prague public transport pass access to free 15-minute rides through bikesharing apps has been a success.

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4 years

Lockdown 1: "Maybe you shouldn't ride your bike in case you crash and burden the NHS" Lockdown 2: "Let's have a million members of the public play with explosives!"

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Prof. Ian Walker

10 months

Imagine the PM saying "Most people are dependent on alcohol so we need to keep it flowing"? #motonormativity rides again

@HanneyDP

Dermot Hanney

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This literally goes against every transport and net zero policy the UK government has released since the last general election. It’s his own government that has set his so called ‘anti motorist policies’. It’s impossible to keep up.

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4 years

Those bloody cyclists and their gel wrappers

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Prof. Ian Walker

7 months

Ten years to the day since I first went out for a run. That run escalated into a lot more running, which escalated into cycling, and eventually to breaking a world record. Quite the decade. Celebrated just now with a great hilly run in Gower

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Prof. Ian Walker

2 years

Remember: it's only if your bicycle helmet is exactly 2 fingers above your eyebrows that it will magically make pickup truck drivers look up from their phones and stop speeding

@wpgpolice

Winnipeg Police

2 years

The warmer weather is on its way cycling season is upon us. Regardless of age, it is important to wear a bicycle helmet and wear it correctly. The MB Cycling Association provides a great video on the importance of wearing a properly fitted helmet:

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Prof. Ian Walker

4 years

Before responding to an anti-cycling tweet, it's important to look at the "author". A lot of the time they're obvious trolls. Fake pic, account created in 2011 with only 10 followers, nonsense username. Don't amplify their political message. Just block and move on.

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Prof. Ian Walker

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Growing up surrounded by that environment, people internalise the idea that fast, untrammelled, near-consequence-free motoring is normal and, moreover, people conclude that *this must surely be the proper way of things*. In our paper we call this mindset "Motonormativity" 11/14

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Prof. Ian Walker

2 years

Can confirm that Premier Inn have been great with bikes. Especially the Aberystwyth branch, where I've rocked up at some very odd hours of the morning needing bike storage

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Is Saddle There Is?

@IsSaddleThereIs

2 years

This is doing the rounds on Facebook. I had no idea about this. Very encouraging to see! Well done @premierinn ! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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Prof. Ian Walker

2 years

Good illustration of how people on foot are treated here. This is a fast road - drivers fly along it - but @NorthSomersetC have allowed the footpath to be swallowed up by plants to the point I can't even walk side-by-side with my dog, all the while with HGVs and SUVs speeding by

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Prof. Ian Walker

1 year

Welcome to Bristol: cars come first. The very first sight introducing travellers to the city is a barrier to move you out of the way. And a cloud of diesel fumes

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Prof. Ian Walker

2 months

We put Aguardio sensors in 290 showers around the University of Surrey campus and covertly tracked the length of showers for 39 weeks. We gathered data on over 86,000 individual showers. 4/

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Prof. Ian Walker

5 years

[Last night, a microbrewery] "Are you with the Bristol Leavers?" "Sorry?" "We're the leaving the EU group. We're supposed to be meeting here but we can't find where we're supposed to be." *LITERALLY* CAN'T ORGANISE A PISS-UP IN A BREWERY

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Prof. Ian Walker

2 years

Art? No, this is bike storage on a UK intercity train

@LoveofCycling

Love of Cycling

2 years

Creative bike art.

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Prof. Ian Walker

1 year

What we demonstrated is an example of the "Special Pleading Fallacy" where certain specific cases get a free ride in thought and discourse. People selectively fail to apply the moral and ethical standards they would use in other contexts 7/14

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Prof. Ian Walker

4 years

This is entirely the wrong way round. The point of a city is LITERALLY that everything is close together. If people want to drive around in cars, they can move to the countryside

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Susan Hall AM

@Councillorsuzie

4 years

Of course they are protesting. All modes of transport need access to our roads. If people had wanted quiet areas they would move to the countryside. This has not been thought through properly, typical #SadiqKhan

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Prof. Ian Walker

5 years

I've just discovered that sperm banks are using these cryogenic cargo bikes and HOW THE HELL AM I ONLY JUST LEARNING THIS?

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Prof. Ian Walker

2 years

The answer is that, as these behaviours are triggered by familiar contexts, the best time to intervene is when these contexts are disrupted. If you aren't in your kitchen, it simply can't trigger you automatically to start preparing cornflakes.

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