‘Customers’ who have lived in their homes for 30 years to be evicted by housing association who won’t pay for repairs.

Lots of discussion about who to vote for on Thursday. If active travel and public transport is your thing, Kim is the only person who has a chance of winning who has spoken up for a safe and joined up network and has stated that she would appoint an active travel champion.

Hey Tyne and Wear Transport Flashback I'm currently doing a PhD looking at the history of transport on Tyneside during the 20thC. I'm looking for oral history volunteers who experienced using and working on the Metro, ferries and motorways. Can you help?

Lovely to see so much attention being given to the paint, but THERE ARE NO CONTROLLED CROSSING POINTS FOR PEDESTRIANS RUNNING NORTH-SOUTH EITHER SIDE OF THE ROAD AT A JUNCTION THAT SERVES SEVERAL SCHOOLS AND A NURSERY.

thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/24283361.…

Calling on Newcastle folks to join us 4 a fundraising event 4 Medical Aid for Palestinians & Hope and Play

12-5 family friendly, craft & play

7-12 talks, poetry, spoken word & live music

We have fantastic line!
*it says £18 but there's a pay as you can option too.

ticketsource.co.uk/zahra-ravenscr…

Latest on the Heaton LTN saga -

Wrote this for The Conversation on how austerity and 14 years of Tory government have decimated planning as a public activity. Whatever the policy agenda, the actual day to day system is in need of a major rebuild!

theconversation.com/to-tackle-clim…

Currently working with Teesside Archives and the family of artist Genevieve Glatt to digitise a wonderful collection of Teessaurus related materials: including sketches, technical drawings and photographs.

Some great looking books in my possession that I'm looking for people to review for Urban History (Urban History Group) - send me a DM if you'd like that review to be you!

1) The Oxford Handbook of the Modern Slum:

Palestine Solidarity Campaign march in London, 15 March 1971.

From Sorcha Thomson's fascinating History Workshop article on the history of transnational support for Palestine: historyworkshop.org.uk/activism-solid…

‘Until March 2020, the government provided funding schemes to meet the costs of reasonable adjustments for disabled election candidates, but despite calls from disability rights organisations to reinstate or replace them, there is currently nothing.’

A child friendly Leeds blog all about play and the built environment! Play England Playing Out Ludicology wearechildfriendlyleeds.com/2024/04/23/pla…

A fully funded PhD studentship for disabled candidates. Focused on accessible transport design, practice, or policy. At Newcastle University.
ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/f…

It's tomorrow! Still time to register to join us. 🙌

When the head of St. Bernard's Catholic Primary School in Birmingham spoke on Saturday afternoon of the persistent daily fear that the children in his care might be injured by a motor vehicle, we could not have imagined that such a graphic illustration of the risk would come so soon.

#SafeStreetsNow

Do register and attend for what promises to be an important event to centre Palestine in our field - looking at you architectural historians!

'War on motorists'?

A total of 350 people joined our rides in Tyneside today! All calling for safe streets for children and their families #KidicalMass #SafeStreetsNow NewcastleCityCouncil North Tyneside Council

Hello York. What we have lost.