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Tyne & Wear used to have integrated public transport. It was great & we’d like it back.

Excellent news for our vibrant suburb! Hopefully they will have a transport department…

The woman sustained life-threatening injuries and passed away in hospital

A vehicle, believed to be a Volkswagen Sharan, has collided with the front of Designer Exchange in Newcastle City Centre

There's traffic queuing on the A1 in Gateshead with congestion seen from the Metrocentre stretching back as far as Team Valley

📢 We have updated our bus tracker to make it quicker to find Metro Replacement buses. Now, when service 900 or 901 is running, you can chose 'Metro Replacement' from the list of operators to see all the bus locations. 🚌 sensors.spaceforheaton.com/bustracker

The Tyne Bridge is now closed until 2nd November, including for walking and cycling.

#Gosforth #NewcastleUponTyne Thorpes of Gosforth Newcastle upon Tyne photographed 22nd May 2015. Still on the go and have been since 1947.

A great turnout for tonight's @cyclinguk.bsky.social Glow Ride in Newcastle, raising awareness of the need for safe and inclusive cycling after dark, particularly for women. Thanks to @nclgreenparty.bsky.social councillor Sarah Peters for setting out the importance of the cause at the start.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I think many will be disheartened. I know some MPs are in favour of lifetime bans in certain cases. How can we persuade those in power to reverse their motonormative thinking here?

Police have dealt with three incidents in a week of cars driving the wrong way on major A-roads in the area where seven people died in a head-on crash

We need the other local rail lines on the map too. And with a few extensions maybe one day we could end up with something like this: bsky.app/profile/lf-p...

That a metro system would be built in a northern UK city involving underground tunnels and stations is supposedly an impossible, unrealistic idea from an unserious mind. Meanwhile, Newcastle with 13km of bored tunnels and 9 underground stations built 13 years after first plans:

Tagging @danhollandnews.bsky.social to ask if the Chron could report on the recommendations of the All Party Parliamentary Walking & Cycling Group e-bike report as these could reduce the burden on police if the Government implements them.

Many in #NewcastleCentralandWest are concerned about E-Bikes/Scooters in our community. I visited the @NewcastleHosps to talk with @UniofNewcastle Dr Tom Andrew about the startling increase in trauma cases from these bikes/scooters and their impact on our NHS.

Our very own John Shipley, Baron Shipley of Gosforth, former leader of #Newcastle City Council between 2006 and 2010, and member of the House of Lords from 2010, is retiring from the House after 16 years.

This is a heartbreaking case and our thoughts are with the victim’s family. Their words are worth reading.

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More bins at the entrances to the Town Moor would be good as some don’t have any.

This was discussed at the Gosforth ward meeting inc a request for Newcastle’s parliamentarians to request the Government to act on the recommendations in the All Party Parliamentary Group on Walking & Cycling’s e-bike report @chionwurah.bsky.social @cmckinnellmp.bsky.social @joemorrismp.bsky.social

More than two tonnes of nurdles could still be in the River Tyne itself according to a warning from Newcastle University experts. | Peter Sagar

Worth reading especially as we are increasingly seeing cars parked completely on the pavement.

We'll be hosting a Glow Ride in Newcastle next Thursday, starting from the Civic Centre at 18:30. It'll be a short, social, easy ride with other people. Wear your lights and come along to make a statement about the need for safe infrastructure so everyone can cycle after dark!

John Rice was just moments from his home after playing tennis when he knocked the cyclist off

#Gateshead #NewcastleUponTyne Happy 98th birthday to the Tyne Bridge, opened on this day 10th October 1928 by King George V.

I talk a lot about major transport investment, but one of the biggest bangs for the buck policy-wise would be a full pavement parking ban and more rigid enforcement of traffic rules. Enforcement is so lax that this stuff is just completely normalised now, and it's unacceptable.

A note for readers: the "hope" that a relief road would alleviate traffic congestion has been the driver for many such schemes for decades. And they never alleviate traffic congestion for long. We need a reliable and affordable public transport system, not more and more roads.

The Great Fire of Newcastle and Gateshead began on this day 1854, leading to 53 deaths and hundreds injured. At least 800 homes and businesses were lost. Caused by explosion at worsted yarn factory owned by Wilson and Sons in Hillgate, Gateshead. (Pic: Illustrated London News.)

SPACE for Fenham and Arthur's Hill are running a Glow ride again this year. They'll be meeting up outside the Civic Centre (by the God of the Tyne) on Thursday 22nd October for a ride through the Toon. It's free and all are welcome- as long as you've got a bike. www.facebook.com/events/17453...

Northumbria Police and the North East Ambulance Service responded to the incident this morning, where one person also received treatment at the scene

Mainly retweeting as this sounds lovely. ❤️”The Assembly Rooms has been at the heart of Newcastle's cultural life since 1776, and there could be no better place to celebrate her.”❤️

A really productive evening spent at the Active Travel Forum discussing active travel across Newcastle. Some really insightful points raised including learnings from World Car Free Day last month, the need for wrap around soft skills development, active travel routes - especially to & from schools

“total casualties on 20mph and 30mph roads combined have fallen by 23% since the limit was introduced.”

Big day for public transport accessibility today. From 1st Oct ALL buses must have next stop audio announcements and visual display screens installed. Equipment has been installed on many older vehicles so we're looking forward to seeing and hearing it working. reviewmobility.co.uk/news/bus-acc...

Nurdles collected today on North Shields Fish Quay beach by one of the paid clear-up team (who also works ridiculous hours as a volunteer; his video). This gives some sense of the scale of the task, 10 weeks after the spill.

Leam Beamson was doing 45mph in a 30 zone while repeatedly looking at his phone and didn't see a man crossing the road in Byker until it was too late

More on the Greenways (rural low traffic routes) - an interesting project to watch. Love the Metro-style map for the routes!

As October rolls in, here’s what’s happening at GCT 🍂  We’ve got a packed month ahead, with live music, theatre, film, family sessions, community groups, workshops and plenty more.

I also forgot to say that there are discounts and different passes available. Students, blue light card holders and people on Universal Credit get a range of discounts. Furthermore, I believe that once the scheme is properly embedded employers are able to work with Dott to negotiate staff discounts

Crumble has been out exploring the city and has seen some Dott bikes out in the wild. Should the first phase go well, we will then be slowly expanding to allow all residents to benefit from this!

After the soft-launch of just 22 bikes available across the City last week, over 418 people cycled more than 3000km in the first week alone on 851 rides. Journeys were 3.53km on average, with a 97.9% parking compliance rate. This will have cost savings, improve air quality and health outcomes.

I'm also hopeful that these pedal assisted e-bikes open up cycling to people who may not normally consider themselves cyclists. Removing the need for people to use private vehicles - and in turn if uptake is good we hopefully will see improvements in congestion, bus journey times, air quality etc.

We can then use this dataset to help shape cycling provision and infrastructure decisions across the city and use this data to help make proper data driven decisions which in turn can help us build an active transport system to fit what people actually want and the journeys they want to do.

This will provide people a new choice of how they travel. Bikes are required to start and finish in a designated geofenced parking zone. With all journeys fully tracked end to end. Which will provide us with a rich dataset of where people actually cycle, what time,and where journeys start & finish

It's been difficult to keep this properly under wraps but I can now finally talk about this! Today Dott bikes have launched a new cycle hire scheme in Newcastle - providing residents a proper alternative to car use within the City. We have taken learnings from previous schemes (eNeuron and Mobike)

North Shields Fish Quay beach this evening. It’s like this the full stretch of the beach, apparently, along the tideline and with parallel strands. (Not my photo)

Tagging @dsnorthnorth.bsky.social on this as this might be an effective solution to the Felton rat running problem - dualling is unlikely to stop either traffic jams or people taking shortcuts. The rest of the thread on Quiet Lanes is also interesting & worth watching. @joemorrismp.bsky.social

This is one to watch - Northumberland has lots of quiet roads that are wonderful for cycling once you are out in the county, but getting to them from Newcastle is tricky by bike due to traffic for less confident riders. Could Quiet Lanes be the way to link city and county?