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Paul Manzotti mastodonapp.uk/@manzo

2 years

Before I start recording this evening's radio show (my best hip hop sevens, if anyone's interested), I want to talk about the phrase "Don't let perfect be the enemy of good", in the context of active travel. 🧵 1/n

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Paul Manzotti mastodonapp.uk/@manzo

@manzanotti

6 months

Whilst on our lunchtime walk, I saw this minibus driver get out and throw the bollard into the planter. I walked over asking him if he was going to at least put it back after driving illegally through the filter. He got back in and drove at me until the minibus was touching me.

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Paul Manzotti mastodonapp.uk/@manzo

@manzanotti

6 months

My wife videoed this and submitted it to NextBase. Funnily enough, he took photos of both of us, as if it was us breaking the law and not him. Well, he's now got a lovely memento of the occasion, in the form of a fixed penalty notice.

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@manzanotti

6 months

@CliveBowman554 Is that where you buy the toys you throw out of your pram when someone asks you to obey the law from?

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@manzanotti

6 months

Remember, if you don't want a fine, or points on your licence, maybe obey the law. Or, keep acting like a self-entitled man-baby, and risk getting caught on film. Sure, people with cameras aren't everywhere. But we could be anywhere.

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@manzanotti

2 years

I didn't know that putting your hazard lights on allowed you to park on zig zag lines so you can go to Greggs... One for @YPLAC

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@manzanotti

1 year

Ghost. Town.

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6 months

@Jay6337 There's a sign there, just not in shot.

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Paul Manzotti mastodonapp.uk/@manzo

@manzanotti

4 years

@akalamusic They actually only got 47% of the vote in England, so I would strongly disagree that people overwhelming voted for them. The fact that they won 65% of English seats is more a damning indictment of our voting system.

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@manzanotti

2 years

This, from my wife's ride to work yesterday morning, is truly special driving! You'll love this one, @markandcharlie !

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Paul Manzotti mastodonapp.uk/@manzo

@manzanotti

2 years

My wife was cycling home from work on Monday afternoon, at about 1535 she witnessed this quality piece of "Sorry, mate, didn't see you" driving. Is this reportable, or would the cyclist involved have to submit it? One for @markandcharlie . I have 4k footage + license no.

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Paul Manzotti mastodonapp.uk/@manzo

@manzanotti

4 months

Why do people think they have a right to free use of public property to store their private property?

UK drivers charged £70 to park outside own homes under strict new rules

The local residents and homeowners have spoken to the Sun newspaper over the situation - saying it "makes their blood boil".

www.birminghammail.co.uk

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Paul Manzotti mastodonapp.uk/@manzo

@manzanotti

6 months

The number of man-babies this thread has triggered is something to behold. Amazing.

Paul Manzotti mastodonapp.uk/@manzo

@manzanotti

6 months

Whilst on our lunchtime walk, I saw this minibus driver get out and throw the bollard into the planter. I walked over asking him if he was going to at least put it back after driving illegally through the filter. He got back in and drove at me until the minibus was touching me.

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Paul Manzotti mastodonapp.uk/@manzo

@manzanotti

3 years

Have just walked from Kings Heath to Balsall Heath, and beaten every car to Moseley, and every car through Balsall Heath. It was easier to count the number of vehicles with more than 1 person in them than those with a single occupant. We're doing travel wrong, aren't we?

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@manzanotti

2 years

I do intend to write a post on my thoughts on Copenhagen and what lessons it can provide Birmingham on active travel. In the meantime, I was struck by how they stop building works blocking cycle lanes. One for Kent Street, @LizClements ?

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@manzanotti

6 months

@GranddadR You mean like this one? And, yes, there's one facing the other way, and I think there's also one on the other side of the road.

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Paul Manzotti mastodonapp.uk/@manzo

@manzanotti

5 months

This is horrendous. How much longer will we tolerate someone not coming back from a simple walk to the shops? Going to buy a pint of milk should not have ending up in a body bag as a possible outcome. #EnoughIsEnough

Birmingham Live

@birmingham_live

5 months

BREAKING: A pedestrian has tragically died after a collision with a van on Lordswood Road in Harborne

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@manzanotti

2 years

Kings Heath High Street in 1998. Please tell me again that the LTN is the cause of the traffic on there now... (from the Birmingham Mail: )

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@manzanotti

2 years

So, the Pro-LTN candidates in Brandwood & Kings Heath won 60% of the vote. I can't see how that isn't a vindication of @LisaTrickett41 and @David4BKH taking a stand (as well as the Green candidates). Let's get Phase 2 in, then it's all about the cycle lanes, baby!

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Paul Manzotti mastodonapp.uk/@manzo

@manzanotti

1 year

Absolute kudos to Simon here, for entering into the tinfoil hat-wearing swamp so that we didn't have to! I'm not sure anything is going to top Wendy claiming that people were driving from Cornwall to buy from her shop, but the LTN put a stop to that. That's genius-level satire.

Simon J Dixon

@WoodinRivers

1 year

All set at @KingsHeathCC for the Kings Heath Business Assocation and Together Declaration meeting on making residential streets through roads again. Martin Mullaney comparing & warming up a substantial crowd.

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@manzanotti

1 year

How many more people have to suffer from our addiction to cars? We're going to need another protest. I'm up for blocking the road this time. If the police choose to arrest me when they leave our roads unpoliced, that's on them.

B14 News

@B14News

1 year

⛔ Travel: #KingsHeath High Street is CLOSED in both directions due to an RTC. Avoid the area if possible and expect major delays on surrounding roads.

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@manzanotti

5 months

Can you imagine the transformative effect this would have on Birmingham? How's that pavement parking consultation going, @Mark_J_Harper ?

SW20

@SW20Ed

5 months

First working day of 2024: Edinburgh Council putting these notices on cars parked on pavements in SW Edinburgh today 📸👇… …plus announcing 29 January as date of enforcement for #pavementParking , parking at dropped kerbs and double parking.

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Paul Manzotti mastodonapp.uk/@manzo

@manzanotti

2 years

I have to say, I'd be happy for these splashes of colour to be made permanent.

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Paul Manzotti mastodonapp.uk/@manzo

@manzanotti

1 year

@TheBrumBikeCam @2wheelsgoodBrum You just missed out being the bloke on this bike, thankfully. All the roads off Bristol Street need modal filters on them, these roads are not suitable for rat-running.

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@manzanotti

2 years

Even by the normal standards of parking anarchy outside the shit burger joint, this is epically self-entitled car parking wankery. @BadlyParkedB14

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@manzanotti

1 year

I've been told that some people couldn't hear me speak at yesterday's @for_birmingham protest. Unlike Matt, whose brilliant 15 minute tour de force was delivered without notes, I was up at 6:30 am writing my much shorter one down. I stand by every word. #SaferStreetsForBrum

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Paul Manzotti mastodonapp.uk/@manzo

@manzanotti

3 years

Lovely vibe, yet again, in York Road today. Love the two wooden seats that have been added!

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@manzanotti

3 years

@tsofparadise @carltonreid Bus journeys are unreliable because there are too many cars on the road.

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Paul Manzotti mastodonapp.uk/@manzo

@manzanotti

7 months

Oh, so that's what happens when you build a network, rather than two disconnected routes...

Bee Network

@BeeNetwork

7 months

Oxford Road Cycleway 🤝 hitting a milestone 🥳 In October, a record breaking 6,000+ trips were made along the path in one day. 🚴‍♂️ Manchester’s busiest cycle route opened in 2017 and is a great way to get around, so it’s brilliant to see how many of you are using it. 💛

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Paul Manzotti mastodonapp.uk/@manzo

@manzanotti

2 years

Well, isn't this lovely? 😍

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Paul Manzotti mastodonapp.uk/@manzo

@manzanotti

1 year

Oh, look, a city being bold over the last three years...

Brent Toderian

@BrentToderian

1 year

The recent Paris transformation of key streets to add bike infrastructure is intensely pragmatic — more mobility choice and more trips using a lot less space, lower public cost, lower emissions, less pollution, better public health, etc! Via @EmmanuelSPV

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@manzanotti

11 months

You're going to lose it when you find out how many people are killed or seriously injured by cars...

WestMidsPCC

@WestMidsPCC

11 months

PCC @SimonFosterPCC is demanding to know when the government will adequately regulate private e-scooters. Last year there were 23 collisions in our area involving e-scooters in which people were seriously injured. One died. READ MORE:

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@manzanotti

6 months

@ARAheatinggas The locking plate was damaged, so was removed, and people keep stealing the padlocks anyway, unfortunately.

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Paul Manzotti mastodonapp.uk/@manzo

@manzanotti

1 year

York Road is an absolute ghost town again, I see. Though after a 120km ride, I could do with less people around so I could have a comfier seat!

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@manzanotti

1 year

Your regular reminder that shared infrastructure isn't cycling infrastructure. Sure, they're alright for a gentle leisure ride. But they shouldn't be considered part of the cycling network. *gives the Starley Network my hardest Paddington stare*.

Will Columbine

@willcolumbine

1 year

The number one skill for riding bikes on canal towpaths? Patience!

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@manzanotti

2 years

I'm presuming that the number plate refers to the owner considering their own laws to be more important than the laws of the land? Top parking on Stirchley High Street. @badlyparkedbrum

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@manzanotti

2 years

Yo, Brums's Finest (sic): How you like them apples?

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Paul Manzotti mastodonapp.uk/@manzo

@manzanotti

8 months

This is brilliant. If there's a war, it's on pedestrians, cyclists, and people who want to drive safely. It's a war on our towns and cities, waged by cars. It's not on motorists.

Sarah Chaundler

@ChaundlerSarah

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If Rishi thinks there's a "war on motorists" he should come for a wander around Birmingham or any other town or city in the UK for that matter. @for_birmingham would be delighted to show him our streets.

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@manzanotti

1 year

Now do this for illegally and dangerously parked cars.

Moseley & Kings Heath Police

@MoseleyHeathWMP

1 year

Vehicle removed from Moseley for no tax #OneForTheBin

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Paul Manzotti mastodonapp.uk/@manzo

@manzanotti

2 years

Have to say, super-proud to have assisted in the creation and delivery of this @for_birmingham LTN leaflet. We wanted to counter some of the, how shall I phrase this, hyperbolic viewpoints out there. Still more to deliver (we got most of the phase 1 and 2 cells done).

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Paul Manzotti mastodonapp.uk/@manzo

@manzanotti

4 months

I ask again, what do you have to do to get a life ban from driving?

Better Streets for Birmingham

@for_birmingham

4 months

Kudos to @WMPolice for taking this dangerous driver off the road. But what sort of a justice system was ever going to let a man who killed someone at 101mph in a residential area back behind the wheel, and why has he still not lost his license for good?!

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@manzanotti

2 years

@Caoimhe4now @markhipwell1990 @badlyparkedbrum I think I'd have preferred it if they just tipped the car over!

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@manzanotti

4 months

Now, Birmingham, let's bring in city-wide paid parking permits, with higher charges for bigger and heavier vehicles, as well as multiple vehicles.

Transport & Environment (T&E)

@transenv

4 months

BREAKING: Parisians have voted to increase parking rates for heavier vehicles, signaling that the tide is turning against huge SUVs in our cities. It's time for other European cities to ask whether large SUVs have a place on their streets.

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@manzanotti

1 year

Birmingham, we have a driving problem. My money is on them having a look at their phone, looking up, seeing the pedestrian has crossed the lights, and panicked.

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@manzanotti

1 year

Just imagine how many more people would use this cycle lane if it actually went all the way into the city centre, rather than dumping you on a building site. Let alone if there was a network of lanes joining other suburbs to that lane.

Tom Flood

@tomflood1

1 year

Bicycles deliver the freedom that auto ads promise - Birmingham Edition. Was a great day couple of days with many awesome people.

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@manzanotti

1 year

I'm going to keep banging on about this: Put a bloody cycle lane in Kings Heath High Street, and people won't be able to reach the pavement to park on. Rather than the current plan to fill in the parking bays with pavement.

KingsHeathern

@lewisamlucas

1 year

@BadlyParkedB14

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@manzanotti

1 year

Fantastic @for_birmingham protest/vigil in honour of those killed on our roads in the last month. I know we're not going to change the city overnight. But I know it'll never change if we don't try.

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@manzanotti

3 years

Lovely vibe on York Road this afternoon, with @TheJukebars and @graceandjameskh doing a decent trade! Can't wait to see what it will be like on a warm day, post-covid!

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@manzanotti

7 months

I've published the next article in my #BeBoldBirmingham series for @for_birmingham , where I continue my quest to change Birmingham. I look at what our city's premier seat of learning (don't at me, Aston), @unibirmingham could be doing to help.

Opinion – How University of Birmingham can lead the fight for change

Paul Manzotti suggests some big changes to transport around the University of Birmingham and Selly Oak as part of our Be Bold, Birmingham! series.

betterstreetsforbirmingham.org

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@manzanotti

9 months

@cllralexyip @for_birmingham Given that there isn't an LTN on that side of the High Street, how do you come to the conclusion that it's the fault of the LTN, rather than the two schools there, plus that road being a notorious rat run?

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@manzanotti

1 year

@harry_99_99 @KirstendeVos Just park legally and unselfishly. It's not hard.

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@manzanotti

1 year

Birmingham needs to go on a serious lane diet. Let's face it, most of the dual carriageways in the suburbs have the inside lane used as a car park, so they're clearly not needed for driving on.

Better Streets for Birmingham

@for_birmingham

1 year

Why reallocate space from driving? "Significant traffic evaporation observed following tactical road space reduction." "(−5 to −28 %) along alternative traffic routes following the pedestrianisation of the right bank of the river Seine"

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@manzanotti

1 year

@OliverKamm @jdportes @rob_marchant By definition then, you are saying that every single person on that poster is anti-semitic, yes?

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@manzanotti

6 months

@Hamish88205796 @CliveBowman554 This does, of course, make explicit mention that this applies exclusively to motor vehicles, right?

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@manzanotti

4 months

@chrismcewan11 @JamesGilroy So, car drivers get free parking, bus users have to pay £4 to get to town and back? How do you see that as fair? You should get rid of free parking, and ring-fence the money to improve town centres and add active travel measures. That would be bold and forward-looking.

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@manzanotti

11 months

I'm sorry, but drivers have been given enough chances to show they're responsible enough to drive on them, and clearly can't. It's time to massively roll out modal filters, and stop through-traffic on residential streets.

Adam Tranter

@adamtranter

11 months

This week I spent time with the Police and saw first hand what they’re up against. In just an hour in one car on a ride along I witnessed three separate fail to stops in residential streets. There’s a view that it’s our A-roads that are dangerous. But it’s quiet streets too.

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@manzanotti

4 years

@andrew_lilico Er, plenty of people, including Rashfors, are arguing for benefits to rise for all, but that debate is going to take time to settle. So extending free school meals is the quicker, short-term, fix.

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@manzanotti

7 months

Would be good if @bhamconnected could focus on protected cycle lanes to schools, as well as commuter routes. Reducing school run traffic levels would be transformative.

15 Minute Pabs 🚲

@PauloCampbell

7 months

Wait there are children using Cycleway 9 in Chiswick to ride their bikes to school? In November? But we were told this was a fantasy of the cycle lobby. It can’t be true.

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@manzanotti

7 months

We need a rolling plan of squaring off all junctions across the city. It is ridiculous that it was ever decided that prioritising vehicle speed at junctions was the main driver if design. But we know better now.

Jordan

@jordanbhx

7 months

Meanwhile in Birmingham we’re still allowing neighbourhood streets to be designed as if they need to accommodate Boeings.

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@manzanotti

2 years

Close the A38 tunnels, and this needn't be 8 lanes of tarmac. This could be actually pleasant, instead.

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@manzanotti

4 years

@PhilHs10 @Trystanian @StaceyKrum @billigmeister @lewis_goodall No he isn't, no he doesn't, and no he doesn't. And as for your last point, I can only assume that you're joking.

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@manzanotti

7 months

Drive like you don't care about anyone else and there's a good chance someone will catch you on camera and report you. We're not everywhere, but we could be anywhere.

Adam Tranter

@adamtranter

7 months

Here are some examples of the bad driving tackled through @WMPolice 's dashcam portal last month. 734 submissions were made with 81% resulting in a positive outcome. The figure was just 4% in July. I'm grateful to the Police for being open to challenge and turning things around.

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@manzanotti

2 years

A very good run through of some of the trends in the local elections here, by @lewis_goodall .

BBC Breakfast

@BBCBreakfast

2 years

The Conservatives have lost almost 500 seats in the local elections, with Labour and the Liberal Democrats taking control of a number of councils. Our correspondent @lewis_goodall explains the state of the parties on #BBCBreakfast ⬇️

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1 year

We. Don't. Have. Self-driving. Cars. Yet. A human being was in charge of the vehicle, regardless of whether this was an accident or dangerous driving.

BBC Midlands

@bbcmtd

1 year

Boy, 4, dies after being hit by car in Birmingham

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@manzanotti

6 months

Every time I walk down my road (which is more pleasant now that the LTN has stopped rat-running), I can't help look at all the parked cars (including mine, admittedly) and think how much nicer it could be if we made it possible for people to live without their car.

Cycling Professor 🚲 

@fietsprofessor

6 months

When they say: 'We can't change our city, we are not #Amsterdam !1!' You say: 'Amsterdam wasn't Amsterdam either; it took bold choices and consistent effort!' — Eerste Jacob van Campenstraat, 1988-2023 (📸 by @Hackneycyclist )

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@manzanotti

5 years

I love that these people think that they're going to wear @jessphillips down. Not going to happen, people!

Jess Phillips

@jessphillips

5 years

It hurts you that every single day hundreds of those you aim to defend turn to me for help and get it. You want those with less to all act one way, all sing from the hymnsheet that you their saviour gives them. They are people too you know & we should stop acting like we own them

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@manzanotti

7 months

I'll say it again: close the parking bays on Bristol Street and extend the cycle lane up to Smallbrook Queensway. Close the Bullring car park entrance, and use one lane of the Queensway for a cycle lane to Moor Street Queensway.

Shivaji Shiva

@ShivajiShivaLaw

7 months

I gather than the national cycle route - NCN5 - through Birmingham will be amended to run along the A38 blue route. I hope the section between Quarterhorse Coffee and the city centre will be approved. It is not fit for purpose.

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@manzanotti

1 year

@adamtranter @for_birmingham It was the first thing the cameraman recorded! We heard the modified exhaust pass us, so he turned the camera on and caught that. Absolute madness.

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@manzanotti

5 years

@ShippersUnbound @das_munch @Thomasgordon01 Surely the horrors of the 80s are fully owned by the Conservatives too?

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@manzanotti

1 year

Strong agree. Turn the redgra area in the park into a wild flower meadow. Include park & ride from Longbridge and Northfield in the ticket price. Shuttle buses from the University station to the cricket. And have manned secure bike parking, like the Commonwealth Games did.

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@manzanotti

1 year

Nice sign on York Road, though a bit depressing that it's needed. You'd think that the bollards and No Vehicles signs would be enough, but we sadly know that is not the case.

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@manzanotti

1 year

Today's episode of "Red lights are optional these days then?".

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@manzanotti

1 year

@markhipwell1990 As close to squared off as possible, I say, and one vehicle wide. That should be the default for every junction, then see if an exception should be made on a case-by-case basis.

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@manzanotti

7 months

This is such an impressive improvement. Kudos to @for_birmingham for creating the momentum to allow people like @adamtranter and @WestMidsPCC to work with @WMPolice to focus valuable resources on improving third-party reporting. Game changer.

Adam Tranter

@adamtranter

7 months

October has been the most successful month so far for dash and helmet cam reporting to @WMPolice . 734 submissions were made with 81% resulting in a positive outcome. I’m grateful to the hard-working team who have turned around a system which was in need of much improvement.

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@manzanotti

1 year

Seeing as you have this truck, any chance you can start using it to tow away vehicles that park dangerously?

Moseley & Kings Heath Police

@MoseleyHeathWMP

1 year

Another vehicle recovered for no tax in Sparkhill ❌ with @SpringfieldWMP officers ✅

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@manzanotti

2 years

I'm sick of checking Strava every morning to make sure my wife managed to cycle to work safely. I'm sick of hearing a siren at school run times and worrying that one of my kids has been run over. I'm sick of cars ruling our city. I'm just sick of it all, frankly.

Shivaji Shiva

@ShivajiShivaLaw

2 years

Why do some people bang on about making our streets safer? Because we want fewer people to see or experience scenes like this.

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@manzanotti

1 year

I approve this message. Thanks to the man-baby revving his engine at us at the beginning of this video, demonstrating the culture we're up against. Brilliant work, again, by @ChaundlerSarah !

Sarah Chaundler

@ChaundlerSarah

1 year

Mothers and fathers attending the @for_birmingham demonstration in Birmingham call for safer streets across our city. We shouldn't have to fear for our children as they walk to school or make their way around this city... but we do #stopdekindermoord @ShivajiShivaLaw

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@manzanotti

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Only that stat is provably nonsense! As @jdportes laid out in this article: Don't believe the myth that we must sacrifice lives to save the economy

Don't believe the myth that we must sacrifice lives to save the economy | Jonathan Portes

Governments must do whatever it takes – and whatever it costs – in the interests of our health and our collective wealth, says Jonathan Portes, a professor of economics and public policy

www.theguardian.com

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@manzanotti

2 years

While we're at it, pedestrianise Bennets Hill, Temple Street, Temple Row, Waterloo Street, and The bit of Colmore Row from Victoria Square to Bennets Hill.

Liz Clements

@LizClements

2 years

Enjoyed being a flâneuse in Birmingham tonight. More and more convinced that New Street between Temple Street and Bennett's Hill should stay permanently pedestrianised ...

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3 years

@adamtranter Does this fit the bill?

I've seen the future and it's Norwich: the energy-saving, social housing revolution

The 100 homes on Goldsmith Street aren’t just smart and modern. They may be the most energy-efficient houses ever built in the UK. Could this be the start of proper social housing?

www.theguardian.com

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@manzanotti

5 years

@The_Foe_Malign @griefdrums @JamesBullLabour @Barrage_Jeff That's very unfair on the Muppets, don't you think?

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@manzanotti

8 months

Still no plans for a protected cycle lane to allow passage from the A38 cycleway to Digbeth though.

ItsYourBuild - Birmingham

@BuildsWeAre

8 months

📢 BREAKING: Significant design changes to the £1.9bn #Birmingham Smithfield project. The biggest change sees a re-designed market relocated away from the buried remains of the de Birmingham family manor and moat, with a new Manor Square introduced. 🗣️

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@manzanotti

1 year

More of this, much more of this! 😍

Birmingham Police

@BrumPolice

1 year

🚗 We’re taking action to make our roads safer! Today, our officers from @Trafficwmp teamed up with partners for a multi-agency road safety operation in #Birmingham . We stopped vehicles for excessive tinted windows, dangerous defects and various driving standards issues.

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@manzanotti

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72 parking spaces for 44 houses?!? When are we going to start trying to make Birmingham less car-dependent? @LizClements @BrumLeader @David4BKH @LisaTrickett41 #BeBoldBirmingham

Fears for badgers after 57-home plan approved

The scheme was approved this morning by Birmingham City Council's planning committe

www.birminghammail.co.uk

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@manzanotti

1 year

Oh, York Road, you absolute tease!

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@manzanotti

10 months

Woah, so you *can* have protected cycle lane next to a tram line?

West Yorkshire Combined Authority

@WestYorkshireCA

10 months

Our Place, Regeneration & Housing Committee meets this month to discuss design principles of a West Yorkshire mass transit system. Our ambition is for a bold new form of transport to help the economy flourish & bring communities together. Read the papers:

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@manzanotti

11 months

@tomflood1 House wasn't wearing hi-vis clothing, what do you expect?

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@manzanotti

6 months

Would love to see if Birmingham could take any learnings from how Coventry has rolled this out so quickly.

Adam Tranter

@adamtranter

6 months

🌼 Funding secured in March 2023 ☀️ Consultation in July 2023 🎄 Construction in December 2023 🚲🎉 Completion in early 2024 Great to see the pace #Coventry are building new cycleways. Things are coming along nicely on Allard Way which will then connect to the Binley cycleway.

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@manzanotti

1 year

Dangerous driving needs to become as socially unacceptable as drink driving, not wearing a seat belt, and smoking in pubs.

Tim Egan

@timegan1995

1 year

This man just ran 🔴 light, to then park on double yellows. He says he "doesnt give a fuck about me or my wife or kids...doesnt give a fuck about the woman & child" fighting for their lives in hospital now cos of behaviour like his. I asked him what about his future wife & kids?

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@manzanotti

7 years

@Daniel_Sugarman He really should have wished you a joyful Winterval, then we could have enjoyed watching the Mail, Sun & Express explode!

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@manzanotti

2 years

@michaeljswalker @OwenJones84 Is that not libellous? Couldn't he sue?

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@manzanotti

1 year

Right then. With the backdrop of a partially blue sky, it's time for a day of bike schemes! The Birmingham bus strike (which I fully support, by the way) has inspired me to start my quarterly London work trip with a 20m walk to try @WMCycleHire for the first time!

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@manzanotti

1 year

Yes, a massive thank you to everyone who came along and made themselves heard. We will change Birmingham for the better, and won't give up trying until we achieve it.

Better Streets Harborne & Quinton

@for_harbquin

1 year

Great to be there today, and thanks to everyone who came along to support us. Enough is enough, for Kings Heath, for Quinton & Harborne, and for Birmingham. Time for Better Streets

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@manzanotti

10 months

If anyone else thinks there should be a feasibility study for a cycle lane up Kings Heath High Street, please come along to this. I'm planning on being there, and will happily bore anyone with my detailed thoughts on how I think a protected cycle lane could be accommodated! 😁

Councillor David Barker

@David4BKH

10 months

The next Brandwood and Kings Heath ward action plan meeting will be on Thursday 7 September - details on the image. Please come along to help update our ward plan and look at how we can make active travel safer 🌹

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@manzanotti

1 year

If we're going to have bus gates in Birmingham, can they please be of this type. Cameras do nothing to stop people who don't care, and those with cloned plates. Two groups that are more likely to drive dangerously.

World Bollard Association™

@WorldBollard

1 year

Are there many more beautiful sights in Wales🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 than this? #WorldBollardAssociation 🎥 @Steve_Merthyr

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@manzanotti

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The fact that we are having the same arguments over the deficit that we've been having for 10 years surely shows that the deficit hawks/austerity proponents, are being deliberately deceitful rather than stupid. Good read, though @sjwrenlewis must be sick of writing about this!

simon wren-lewis

@sjwrenlewis

4 years

New post: Starve a kid to save a quid Neither Osborne or Sunak are dumb enough not to understand the basic macroeconomics of deficits and debt. Instead they play on the ignorance of mediamacro as a device to justify getting money to their people.

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A most fun Critical Mass ride round Kings Heath, rewarded by a nice schooner of @GlassHouseBeers IPA at Schooners.

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@manzanotti

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Just think how many more journeys we'd have if we had a network of cycle lanes joining to this one. Hell, how many more would we have if this lane actually took you into town? #BeBoldBrum

A38 Mobility Lane Users 🚴🛴🧑‍🦼🛹🛼

@A38Cycleway

6 months

It's been six months since we started posting the daily counts from Sir Harry's Road. In that time, there have been over 100,000 trips - meaning we could have collectively cycled past the moon! 🚲🌝

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@manzanotti

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As much as I hate this strategy with every fibre in my body, I am struggling to disagree with the logic here. If it takes a period of appeasement to get a progressive government, I'll accept that, as long as the first thing it does is dismantle First Past The Post.

simon wren-lewis

@sjwrenlewis

3 years

New post: It is inevitable that Labour in opposition will not be a champion of social liberalism When the marginal voter is socially conservative, and opposition arguments are dwarfed by the right wing press, what alternative is there for Labour to win?

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@maireadenright @ShivajiShivaLaw We're planning a protest for the weekend. Enough is enough.

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