James Stafford (@jamesdestafford) 's Twitter Profile
James Stafford

@jamesdestafford

Cycling and everyday cycling advocate. Interested in sustainable transport, cycling infrastructure, environmentalism & BJJ purple belt.

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Joel C (@joel_ca_c) 's Twitter Profile Photo

#RoadViolence RIP Xander. If anything good can come out of this awful tragedy, let it be a legacy of removing incompetent older drivers from the road before they inflict needless harm on others: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Jennifer Williams (@jenwilliams_ft) 's Twitter Profile Photo

According to Oflog, the agency Gove set up to oversee local govt £, some northern unitaries spend an even higher proportion (Blackpool, Middlesbrough). These are not wealthy places. It plays into a politics of discontent: barely any £ left to make the area feel looked after

Bob From Accounts 🚲 (@bobfromaccounts) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Leave your 15kg 1.7 m x 50cm wide bike in a cycle hangar. £107.25 per year, plus a refundable key deposit of £27.75 Leave your 2900kg, 6.25 m long, 2.97 m high, and 2.15 wide campervan on the street: £300 a year This doesn't seem right. Tax by weight and size Islington Council

Leave your 15kg 1.7 m x 50cm wide bike in a cycle hangar.

£107.25 per year, plus a refundable key deposit of £27.75

Leave your 2900kg, 6.25 m long, 2.97 m high, and 2.15 wide campervan on the street: £300 a year 

This doesn't seem right. 

Tax by weight and size <a href="/IslingtonBC/">Islington Council</a>
Daniel Lloyd (@daniellloyd1) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is not good news for cycling in the UK. Firstly, I'd like to say that there are a lot of passionate cycling fans working at WBD, in front of and behind the scenes. The company is automatically 'disliked' by a cohort of the general public because it's a huge international

Jon Stone (@joncstone) 's Twitter Profile Photo

150 businesses in Soho ask for the area to be pedestrianised alongside Oxford Street... Westminster council says it's "totally outrageous" and that it'll "fight this proposal very strongly". very normal! mylondon.news/news/zone-1-ne…

Simon Evans (@drsimevans) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Reminder: Repeated fuel-duty freezes since 2011 have cost the govt at least £80bn and raised UK CO2 emissions by as much as 7% carbonbrief.org/analysis-fuel-…

Walk Ride GM (@walkridegm) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We're not like A̶m̶s̶t̶e̶r̶d̶a̶m̶ We're not like G̶h̶e̶n̶t̶ We're not like B̶i̶r̶m̶i̶n̶g̶h̶a̶m̶ We're not like P̶a̶r̶i̶s̶ Why not Manchester?

Jack Fifield (@jackfifield) 's Twitter Profile Photo

People who think public transport's value comes from ticket sales minus operating costs are absolutely mad. How can you not include the economic benefits of getting people to shops, work, school, and elsewhere?

Bob From Accounts 🚲 (@bobfromaccounts) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Although a smoking ban outside schools is a positive thing, the real culprit which goes unhindered and unenforced is idling cars. This is a serious issue

Although a smoking ban outside schools is a positive thing, the real culprit which goes unhindered and unenforced is idling cars. This is a serious issue
Jan Rosenow (@janrosenow) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This should have happened a decade ago. Developers have lobbied government for years to allow them to install fossil fuel heating systems all which will need to be replaced eventually with clean heating. The faster we stop locking in new fossil heating tech the better.

This should have happened a decade ago.

Developers have lobbied government for years to allow them to install fossil fuel heating systems all which will need to be replaced eventually with clean heating.

The faster we stop locking in new fossil heating tech the better.
GMP Traffic (@gmptraffic) 's Twitter Profile Photo

#VisionZeroGM | Record 📸 Report 📝 Result ✅ This year we've had nearly 5,000 submissions from road users which results in positive outcomes. With key locations such as #Manchester, #Bolton, #Oldham & #Wigan we want to improve road safety. Read more ➡️ orlo.uk/ZzHdo

James Stafford (@jamesdestafford) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This was Great Ancoats Street and Chorlton Street on Saturday night. There was slow moving/stationary traffic all over Manchester. Dream world if you think there wouldn't be traffic chaos with Deansgate's old layout at Christmas.

Will Hayward (@willhaycardiff) 's Twitter Profile Photo

WE NOW HAVE A YEAR OF DATA SINCE 20MPH WAS INTRODUCED IN WALES There were around 100 fewer people killed or seriously injured on 20/30mph roads. The number of casualties in 2024 from July-Sept was the lowest Q3 figures in Wales since records began. Over the year since it