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Great to chat with @greatermcr Transport Commissioner @Chris_Boardman on the opportunity to make a great place to live even more special.
🎩 tip to the team @DotPerformance for the edit ✌🏽
Special mention to @bricycle #cheers 🙌🏼
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American study but relatable to most jurisdictions even the lil 'ol #IsleofMan
There's a very real equality problem in transport and urban planning and time and again is overlooked in the 'noise' of trying to change anything to do with driving habits.
U.K. has some of the worst public transport in the western world (outside of London village) & intimidating/hostile roads for anyone outside of a car. Being a 'nation of drivers' is not something to be particularly proud of as a PM of a party in power for 13 years.
#LittleBritain
We are a nation of drivers.
Most of us use a car every day and, for many, life would be difficult without their car.
But too often, drivers feel under attack.
That changes today with a long-term plan to improve drivers' experience on the road.
Here’s how 👇🧵
ALT Graphic that reads: Our plan for drivers - slamming the brakes on anti-motorist measures. Long-term decisions for a brighter future.
Here’s me thinking the @Conservatives wanted to take us back to the 1970s with #Brexit. Turns out they want to go back to 1960
#GTTO
Exclusive: Rishi Sunak expected to set out a 'Plan for Motorists' on Monday that would limit councils' powers in areas including 20mph speed limits, bus lanes, and enforcing road infractions with number plate-recognising cameras.
theguardian.com/politics/202…
I knew these driverless cars would go rogue…
Emergency services were called out to Crosby early yesterday evening after a car overturned. manxradio.com/news/isle-of-m…
4 years after Tynwald adopted the new evidence led road safety strategy the silence is deafening on speed limits. Either adopt 'Safe Systems' in full @IOMGovernment or review your own strategy. Doing the same thing and expecting a different result isn't a great look.
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We’re happy to announce that the 2023 Sleepwell Hotel Isle of Man Youth Tour will take place from 28th - 30th April.
The event is now live on BC for entries - bit.ly/3m2CYwl
We’ll post info about the courses, stage details and more over the coming days and weeks.
Editorial piece on '15 minute cities' in @iomnewspodcast suggesting that this wouldn't be a vote winner 'because less parking' when time and again it's demonstrated to be the opposite.
Surprised a pub option isn't on there though...
🧵 15-minute cities: are they a fad or the future of urban living?
Conspiracy theorists aside, new polling shows the policy is popular. But outside of dense cities like London, their scope may be limited
My feature in today’s @thetimes
thetimes.co.uk/article/9aeb6…
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Jersey could take inspiration from the Netherlands when it comes to promoting safe and sustainable travel, according to @Cycle4Jersey.
They made the comments after the @Cycling_Embassy's Shelley Bontje gave a talk at the invitation of @architecturejsy.
jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2…
ALT A man in sporting attire stands with a racing bike on a street in Saint Helier, Jersey. A bus passes in the foreground.
How we move can be part of the solution to a number of societal issues. If only we knew how to start the process of enabling it... 🤔
@IOMGovernment @christhomasiom @DanDavies_IOMG
Report shows the cost of obesity in UK is £58bn a year. For Wales that is £2.9bn. So if the national 20mph provides for more active travel resulting in just a 2% reduction in obesity that will save Wales £58m pa and a huge reduction in load on NHS. frontier-economics.com/uk/en…
Hate is often a learned behaviour...
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Never happen here, we’d tarmac over the National Sports Centre to accommodate this first…
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The Treasury rejected the DoI's plans to introduce 20mph zones in all of the island's residential areas as part of the 2022/23 budget #isleofman gef.im/2022/11/02/there-wasn…
I’m old enough to remember when @IOMGovernment endorsed #VisionZero and an evidence led road safety strategy…
#20splenty
The Treasury rejected the DoI's plans to introduce 20mph zones in all of the island's residential areas as part of the 2022/23 budget #isleofman gef.im/2022/11/02/there-wasn…
‘The do nothing option costs more to society than bringing in 20mph limits’.
20splenty.org/20mph_vfm
'Sign only' default 20mph should be the starting point for any jurisdiction serious about achieving #VisionZero and is evidenced to:
✅ Be low cost
✅ Reduce average speed
✅ Reduce emissions
✅ Reduce casualties
✅ Improve our urban spaces
✅ Improve traffic flow at peak hours