Sam Wakeling

What do you dream of your local streets being like? For me it is making them welcoming public spaces for everyone to enjoy and move in without fear from traffic (including the remaining vehicles which are there). I drew this of my local South Road, Sheffield.

Tell me it's a terrible decision without telling me it's a terrible decision

Et tu, Guardian? Disappointing to see this given their generally great climate coverage. (fixed it for them)

You may want to try turning this off. I say try, as when I went to do it the “on” toggle wouldn’t change.

Yes. Air pollution concentrating where people of colour live is very clear in Sheffield schools data. @felly500.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Car preference?

We had our street’s first Playing Out session today. Turns out, yes there are other kids here. And neighbours meeting. And after it officially ended, my two were flipping crocs into the air and wouldn’t come in until it was dark and Strictly time. So. So. Good. @playing out.bsky.social

“This is a matter of some urgency… as you can see this is a residential street but the children can’t play.”

Considering arguing that for a safe road system we need to rethink responsibility to the point of decriminalising bad driving: Drivers aren’t the enemy, so the police can’t save us.

Thanks to ModeShift for organising their annual Walking to School around the Globe event. I was pleased to share 10 mins of what we’ve seen with @livingstreets.bsky.social working with National Highways of what it’s like for children living near major roads. youtu.be/Ri-HXTIMdTE?...

"Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring." -Desmond Tutu, anti-apartheid and human rights activist #BicycleBirthday October 7 (1931 -2021)

Child: This is my first time meeting a mayor. Mamdani: Wow, have you ever met a prime minister? Child: No Norway PM Jonas Gahr Støre: *walks over*

Tactical paint job extending the decorative tile pattern 😍 Quick doesn’t have to mean dirty.

“These choices were made for you. But you were never part of them” We can make better choices about our streets, because most of us never chose the way they are now.

Bumped into my local @sheffgreenparty.bsky.social candidate Seb this morning st school drop off. Good luck in the by-election today! Polls are open until 10pm.

The Irish musicians, Beoga, who play alongside Ed Sheeran, have withdrawn from Sheeran’s tour. This is the statement they published on Instagram:

Few people put it as clearly this. “The public needs to be able to make the decisions as to who gets what.”

Thank you Rachel. Such courage and dignity in the face of awful framing from BBC.

“Every aviation scenario the UK Government has published overshoots the carbon budget Parliament has legislated, before a third runway at Heathrow is even taken into account.” (And even that budget is wildly out of line with 1.5 or 2C)

A deadly crash on the A6182. Speed limit is 40mph. Dual carriageway appears built to encourage much higher speeds. Footway along one side. Pickup truck. Not clear yet what happened. Is this somewhere which should be excluded from 20mph policy? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hillsborough Corner, one of Sheffield’s more complex junctions, has all signals out today. It can be difficult for people crossing, esp if you’re blind, but in some ways the traffic has really calmed down with drivers giving way (including to people) and checking if they can risk going through.

Just my 8yo filming a butterfly that landed on my leg as we sheltered from rain under a tree while playing some tennis in our street.

“We found that when heavy motor traffic arrives in a neighbourhood, residents' perceptions of street crime go up…” @jpinasanchez.eurosky.social

“A successful high street is not simply one with fewer empty shops. It is one where people recognise something of themselves in the streets around them: somewhere to meet, to linger, to spend money if they want to, and somewhere to belong even when they don't.” 💚 nowthenmagazine.com/articles/the...

Incredible improvements but note how the 'red' colour denotes UK legal limits aligned to health evidence from 2005 The health evidence was updated in 2021 by WHO. Applying the latest evidence to these maps, only first block is blue (10ug/m3) We've a long way to go until we breathe *healthy* air 😷

What if the difference between “actual” safety and “perceived”safety is how well your measures of “actual” safety describe the “actual” real world?

Only last year as mayor Burnham endorsed the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty as a “lifeline”, and said “I urge all governments… to join this fight”. What or who changed his mind? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

JLR seem to be trolling, and the BBC is helping them by using their airline promo photo. A luxury car is even more luxurious with electric power, and even JLR now realise it. But it seems they want everyone to know they aren’t here to stop their climate violence. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Our streets and roads have been prioritised for motor traffic at every level for so long it is hard to notice that it is even a choice. Great post here about unravelling that strangling net.

Like rebuilding a crashed aircraft (irony etc), returning from climate overshoot, if possible at all, would be vastly more expensive and difficult than preventing it. Healing will always be needed. But stopping the injuries makes that easier.

It's rare to see a mainstream news broadcaster explicitly referencing loss-and-damage finance, climate justice and big-emitter responsibility in its reporting. So this moment on the BBC's News at Ten really caught my attention. Report by @azadehmoshiri.bsky.social in Nepal

In Wales 20mph has prevented injuries for people inside vehicles even more than for people outside them. It’s not about benefiting either “group” at anyone else’s expense. It’s safer for everyone.

I'm thrilled to be writing a new poem commissioned for @otsfestival.bsky.social to celebrate the National Year of Reading 2026! But I need your help... I want this poem to be inspired by a range of local people's experiences. To be part of the piece, share your story here: forms.gle/QdbBdDfouWEU...

Does capturing cattle waste to digest and produce electricity and fertiliser make a significant impact on the climate impact of dairy? It seems methane from the waste is only 10-25% of the methane produced by cows - most is burps and so would continue?

Reporting of e-scooter injuries often ignores other vehicles. But inferring from govt summary: Of 1377 collisions, 993 involved another vehicle. 47 of these were prob cycles. So about 70% of e-scooter crash casualties (950) seem to be from crashes *with motor vehicles*. www.gov.uk/government/s...

Wonder if Home Office is making a similar booklet for far-right race rioters since they seem to have an actual tendency towards abuse? www.thedetail.tv/articles/alm...

Fed up with people shirking responsibility by arguing that the UK causes just 1% of emissions? Here are two fantastic analogies from a primary school teacher, Mark in Coventry, who called Sheila Fogerty on @lbc.co.uk - one involving dog poo 😆 Other arguments here: www.nebriefing.org/mp-dialogue

There are some MPs who understand that drilling for yet more oil is wrong. I’m glad my MP Abtisam Mohamed (Labour) has signed this. Yet the list of names is so, so short.

3/3 Funding British clean energy will secure our home-grown supply and build reliable green jobs for the future.

2/3 We do not have to choose between jobs and the climate. Continuing to push for volatile fossil fuels leaves us vulnerable. Energy investment must serve the public interest, not just corporate profits

1/3 I have co-signed a cross-party letter asking the Prime Minister to stop the Rosebank oil field development.

“… children are now nearly 11 when they start playing outdoors without supervision for the first time. That’s over a year older than their parents’ generation, with parents reporting they played outdoors at age nine.”