@jonusher

Ex @Sustrans and current @Optibus a proud champion of all things sustainable transport, because it's simple! Talking walking, cycling and buses. My views etc...

 Rothesay, Scotland
Joined February 2009
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Optibus@Optibus14 Nov 2024
🚍 Planning for 2025 in Public Transportation ✨ Industry experts share insights on: 🔹 Financial sustainability post-COVID 🔹 Decarbonization challenges 🔹 Workforce innovation & diversity 🔹 Tech-driven service planning Read more: blog.optibus.com/how-to-plan… #PublicTransport
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On the day where national policy is inexcusably scaled back, I'm proud that @UWEBristol is stepping forward. I'm part of our new Climate Education course - enabling students to understand the #ClimateCrisis, feel empowered and act to make a difference. bristol247.com/climate/news-…

UWE Bristol launches 'UK-first' climate course

The online course is available to all students and promotes positive action

bristol247.com
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Bristol #SafeStreetsNow 30th Sept - please join us on East St, BS3 to call for safe streets for children, older people and everyone in all neighbourhoods across the city.
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Ok Bristol, who’s in? Are you fed up with streets that don’t feel safe for our children - or anyone not in a car? We just need to pick a location and show up. @beardedjourno @jonusher @BristolCycling @ZoeBanksGross @EdPlowden #SafeStreetsNow
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Hem hem, residents of Richmond Upon Thames....(or every London borough...) Well said @Lorespontevedra 👏 It is *not* the local authority's job to supply you with a parking space in a city where public transport is also provided.
Urban Cycling Institute 🚲 @fietsprofessor2 Aug 2023
"It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them." —@Lorespontevedra, Mayor of #Pontevedra🇪🇸 (re-elected SIX time)
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What bad urban leadership looks like. Anyone who truly understands how cities actually work, and why they succeed or fail, knows that this isn’t “motorists vs everyone else.” Designing cities for cars fails for everyone, including drivers. This doesn’t bode well for UK cities.
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Replying to @RishiSunak @Telegraph
Ok Rishi, let’s talk about “freedom”. Let’s talk about how children’s freedom has been stolen from them over decades of car-centric policy-making. How they no longer walk, cycle and play outside because it’s not safe. How 80% don’t get the daily physical activity they need.
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Replying to @RishiSunak @Telegraph
Wow do you actually know what your talking about? This is taking 'surreal' to a whole new level! You don't think you have a few other more pressing issues to focus on- let's say the economy, struggling public services, cost of living crisis, climate emergency etc etc?
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After a great campaign with 3 excellent runners it's great to now have @damienegan as our @UKLabour candidate for the new #BristolNorthEast constituency. I have known Damien all his adult life and know he will be a fantastic candidate & Member of Parliament to represent us all.
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BREAKING: Damien Egan has been selected as Labour’s parliamentary candidate for the seat of Bristol North East, defeating Marvin Rees
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And here we have it -- the global 2 meter temperature anomalies, through today, with 2023 in red. What's happening right now with global temperatures leaves me speechless (but not numberless). 4.81 sigma. 1-in-1,300,000. You go.
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How would you finish this sentence? 'A good bus service in the UK...'
A photo of the inside of a bus, where most seats are occupied.

ALT A photo of the inside of a bus, where most seats are occupied.

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Collating data for a project recently & found this; 15min neighbourhoods cityaccessmap.com. - incl. distance from schools, restaurants, hospitals etc. For #Bristol, eg dark spots formed even though so close to city centre
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Some impromptu new exhibits appeared today as part of the Shell-sponsored carbon capture exhibition at the Science Museum, London. #greenwashing
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Few of us in the House of Commons have ever known a time when Her Majesty was not there, so her passing has left a huge hole in our lives. She was our equilibrium, our history, our guide and our Queen - and we will miss her beyond measure.
Statement from the Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Lindsay Hoyle

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Oh!! 🥁🥁 It’s a #CasquetteMeets and #CycleToWorkDay special! Behold the beautiful lady in red!!! 🥳🥳 This is @LucyHockingsBBC everyone. She is a journalist and news anchor on “Live with Lucy Hockings” on @BBCWorld . She is a brilliant woman at the top of her … 1/5
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Hats off to the person responsible. Annoyed English teachers can be pretty fearsome.
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Bristol, Feb 2020: Thousands turned out to see @GretaThunberg but turned College Green to mud, so £000s was raised to restore it The grass grew back fine in 3 weeks unaided anyway, so the organisers created a wildflower area on College Green with @BristolCathedra This is it now:
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Today marks the 9th anniversary of the opening of the Two Tunnels Greenway in 2013 🎉 Thanks to @Sustrans who built the path, and to everyone that has used and continues to use it and has made it such a huge success. Bit difficult to imagine moving around in Bath without if now! – at Bath, England
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💚 Bristol is one of just three cities in the country to be awarded Zero Emission Transport City funding today! We've secured £500,000 to develop plans to introduce 1,000 cycle hangars, 250 electric buses & increase electric charging units Read more👇 westofengland-ca.gov.uk/news…
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