INDEPENDENT thinker, walker, bike rider, community gardener, educator, Hackney Air Quality Champion - fighting for social & environmental justice.
London, England
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Clair retweeted
Went back to Farringdon Road Floating Bus Stop in the City of London. @andyburnham these will never be safe or accessible for blind people. Andy please halt them.
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Like to highlight this again…
Went back to Farringdon Road Floating Bus Stop in the City of London. @andyburnham these will never be safe or accessible for blind people. Andy please halt them.
Clair retweeted
This is important. London TravelWatch, London's statutory transport wacthdog, has called for a pause on rolling out further floating bus stops by TfL & boroughs "until there is clear evidence of significantly improved Highway Code compliance by cyclists"
londontravelwatch.org.uk/new…
Clair retweeted
In which TfL rely on a report withdrawn because it was so inaccurate. And “we are continuing to listen”. They have been listening for a decade!
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So many blind/VI people petitioning against floating bus stops we now make up 5 contingents for petitions. From Essex to Exeter, Manchester & Oldham across to Leeds & York plus everywhere in between. But are you listening @andyburnham ⁉️
ALT Five members of NFBUK outside number 10 Downing Street petitioning the Prime Minister, two are wheelchair users, one a rollator user and one has a long white cane.
Clair retweeted
Have a read of this blog. Outlines clearly the problems with floating bus stops and comes up with a possible solution. We would be particularly interested to hear from bus drivers if they think it is workable.
Floating bus stops make disabled people cross a cycle lane just to catch a bus. There is a safer way: The Bike Aware Bus Stop. Passengers stay on the pavement. Cyclists keep a level, steady lane. Read the report: boldlytogo.blogspot.com/2026… #FloatingBusStops #Accessibility
ALT Aerial illustration of a red London bus stopped in a bus layby with its ramp down. A wheelchair user, a person with a guide dog, an older person and a parent with a buggy wait on the pavement. A red cycle lane with hatched markings passes alongside the bus, with cyclists and cargo bikes riding past.
Clair retweeted
.@flickhwilliams message to @andyburnham @10DowningStreet
‘It’s time to end all these floating bus stops. It’s discriminatory design that excludes many of us’. Thank you Flick for being part of our mass day of action against floating bus stops. The Prime Minister has to act.
Clair retweeted
The only review of these disastrous schemes undertaken by TfL has now been withdrawn twice. No review of accessibility has ever been undertaken because it’s an established fact that they are inaccessible.
Official. The @MayorofLondon has designed streets that blind people can no longer use but takes no responsibility, passing the buck onto cyclists to change their ways.
Clair retweeted
Blind and disabled pedestrians and bus passengers are paying the price for an ideological push to get more people cycling. The safety claims for cycle tracks and floating bus stops don't hold up. Blind people have rights, and they aren't going away. Today they're at Downing Street and Parliament. Please RT. @TinyWriterLaura @gilescoren @laurencesleator @DaveHill @RicHolden @Kumail_Jaffer
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Karl, the blind man with no vision, pushing John the wheelchair user with restricted vision have one thing in common. Using floating bus stops is a nightmare for them both. But travelling together they were able to petition the prime minister at Downing Street today. @NFBUK
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The @MayorofLondon has decided to drive a coach and horses through new statutory floating bus stop guidance. Pic. 1
He is proposing to install bus stops without pavements, Pic. 2
They have no intention of removing the stop design that government has banned because one steps directly on and off of a live bike track. Pic. 3
@Meg_HillierMP @MarshadeCordova @JoshNewburyMP @RicHolden @danfrancis02 @EmmaBest22 @EllyBakerAM @danielmgmoylan @simonlightwood
Clair retweeted
Official. The @MayorofLondon has designed streets that blind people can no longer use but takes no responsibility, passing the buck onto cyclists to change their ways.
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London’s cycling czar is making a hell of a mess of London’s streets for pedestrians and has created more danger for cyclists since he was appointed. Disabled people are collateral damage he doesn’t care about.
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💯 London ĥas the most congested streets in Europe. Crumbling bridges. Some of the highest fares in Europe. And bus speeds at a record low. Yet Will Norman boasts it will be business as usual. Delusional.
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Councils refuse to open LTNs, because it would solve problems and they then have to admit LTNs are the cause of these problems.
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LTN advocates will continue to lie … tell u it evaporated or it will … after getting bored people decide to get rid of cars ….. the lies are shocking … cycling groups continue to support harming children and families outside LTNs in the name of cycling . They are willing to use false data in this slow killing of families… for personal gain …@PGCommunity
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The Tory party started the nonsense of floating bus stops. Thank goodness they are calling a halt to it. Over to you @UKLabour. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…
