John Munro

In 2017 I started taking photos of books I've been reading: to keep a kind of record for myself and to celebrate books, authors, ideas, and pedestrian interaction with one's surroundings.

Exactly this. And there's a lot of responsibility to go around across our media landscape for normalizing racists.

More. Of. This!

Little by little, cities sre being reclaimed.

Politicians take note.

Slowly - too slowly - but surely, the tide is turning. #UKCarCulture is entering its terminal phase.

Bollard about the size of a small child

#AnyCityCanDoThis

Imagine a city with infrastructure that allows businesses-by-bike to thrive.

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

Widely applicable.

Transport historian here. A lot of that is due to the so-called “retreat from the street.” Kids stopped playing outside etc. Mass motoring brought many benefits but also curtailed a lot of freedom.

Yeah, yeah, but it's the pensioners holding signs opposing genocide that I worry about.

It will be a shock to noone that the campaigns against Professor Jason Arday - that continue even after they hounded him to death - are financed by far right-inclined millionaires who also finance far right think tanks, media, academic racists and Neo Nazis. bylinetimes.com/2026/10/21/j...

As @shivajishivalaw.bsky.social has pointed out, this is just like much of the official view of the canals of Birmingham, UK.... Cyclists can just ride there, so the roads should be reserved for cars to drive on (and sidewalks for them to be parked on).

Chris Wickham, remembered fondly, appreciated finely.

One more post about this to try to get it out there. I still can't tell if the dots I'm trying to connect here also connect for others or only do so in my own head....

US Republican transport policy is shared by so many political parties in so many countires.

Picturing people with a shred of ethics everywhere: on buses, trains, sitting in cafes, etc. reading this from their phones and involuntarily shouting "same" out loud.

True. And also true, I think, for "public consultations." They sound participatory and as though they might further discussion of a given issue, but generally just further entrench existing inequalities.

No city can enforce its way to these results. Mobility justice is a matter of the equitable redistribution of public space.

1. Poor political practice. Conservatives: do the right thing & correct your post which wrongly says of me (& perhaps the other councillors) that I didn't declare my interests. I did. I submitted my declaration on time but it wasn't posted: a Council admin error I complained about in the summer.

For a minute there I thought these people were going to start holding up signs opposing genocide. What a relief.

AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"

Time will tell whether we will see more and more pedestrian trip hazards courtesy of EV owners, but this person is right about one thing: the new regs are indeed meant to encourage car ownership.

So many people with power in so many places are a version of this guy.

This is the part we don’t talk about enough. The reversal of good placemaking—from literally ripping up bike lanes to reducing library hours to scraping public transit projects—creates cynicism. Someone should calculate both the social and economic cost of this issue.

This is fucking insane. It reads like a bad spy novel. The corruption is almost cartoonish at this point. www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

Interesting to see what one person with the help of their community can do to make a road safer. follow the link below to see what Majid Cheway did. If you want to find out how to make birmingham safer like Majid then join our mailing list & whattsapp group! www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY4g...

University of Nottingham, right now, is cutting 560 jobs. Do we need to rebrand universities as very large, very clean, land-based oil rigs to get government support?

Birmingham’s (🇬🇧) first red light junction cameras have so far taken around two years to get through design and business case works. In NYC? 600 junctions. 🥲

Now that "Life After Cars" is one year old and our book tour is winding down — after a whopping 38 cities! — we want to keep the momentum and the movement going. Here's how you can help spread the word. Thanks to everyone for all the support over this past year! www.lifeaftercars.com

Our meritocracy.

The IDF just detained the man who’s about to be elected US Congressman for NY’s 10th district, per his social media.

The movement for mobility justice is global.

Government gives green light to owners of expensive cars to set up pedestrian trip wires. #UKCarCulture

Mike Davis's "City of Quartz," specifically for the chapter on Fortress LA — aka Bunker Hill. bookshop.org/p/books/city...

In the dystopian world of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower, the role of government is being usurped by the private sector.

Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead was an apocalyptic road map vision for where we are now as billionaire oligarch destroyers imagine leaving us the ruins as they ascend to Mars.

The cold war did not take place.

NEW EPISODE: "Doug Ford Versus Toronto's Bike Lanes." The Ontario Premier is making good on his threats to rip out Toronto's cycling infrastructure. But people aren't taking it lying down. @cycletoronto.bsky.social @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social join us to discuss. podcasts.apple.com/lu/podcast/d...

Land Rovers are for losers.

It's Tuesday so that means @activetravelcaf.bsky.social at 5pm (BST), contact www.activetravelcafe.org.uk to get the Zoom link. Tonight with @cb123456.bsky.social sharing her approach to comms & stakeholder engagement, drawn from her experience on projects such as #ULEZ, #OxfordStreet and elsewhere.

Imagine a country where a case this horrifying made national news, or where what it represents made it a national political priority.

Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper are easily forgettable in their unprincipled blandness, but it seems history might just remember their legacy after all.

The absolute terror of car free 15 minute cities

In which I argue that Mike Davis’s *City of Quartz,* Leslie Marmon Silko's *Almanac of the Dead,* and Octavia Butler's *Parable of the Sower* should be read together, not least because doing so can help us better understand the end of the cold war idea.

We will be hosting an online discussion on Amy Kaplan's "Our American Israel" on Tuesday 24 November from 3 to 4.30pm BST. PDF provided. Register for the event here: www.tickettailor.com/events/ukame...