Pete Dyson - Bicycle Mayor for Bath, UK
I am the Bicycle Mayor for Bath and North East Somerset region. Part of a global network to accelerate the progress of cycling in cities, improve accessibility and safety. Independent of politics and available for media comment.
- Reposted by Pete Dyson - Bicycle Mayor for Bath, UKI hear there’s another big influx of new folks happening here on @bsky.app. If you’re interested in cities and how to make them better, there’s a BIG, ACTIVE community here, biggest in social media. STARTER PACKS are great for finding people. Here’s my 1st of several, each with different themes.at://did:plc:ny5w2k6brb2kdubxnevke6li/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3laksm67ewu2l
- A brilliant little video from my neighbourhood in Bath about e-cargo bike riding. More and more people are finding these can replace a car (and especially second car) even in hilly areas. youtu.be/0ie0ne_hmOw?...
- Reposted by Pete Dyson - Bicycle Mayor for Bath, UKThe Dutch will double intercity bike routes in the next 5 years, from 1100 to 2300km. Every city has local routes: Utrecht, for example, has 420km of separated bike lanes & bike streets. 𝘿𝙤𝙤𝙧𝙛𝙞𝙚𝙩𝙨𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙚𝙨 allow people to safety go by bike throughout NL. More info: www.fietsersbond.nl/nieuws/doorf...
- Such detail! Acknowledging benches as a tool for improving walking, cycling, wheeling and accessibility is enlightened systems thinking. Counterintuitively, benches encourage movement 🌞
- In local transport, what kills or injures whom? Here's data for Bath and North Somerset from 2019-2023. Unfortunate to see car-pedestrian as the biggest circle. Cycles get a clean sweep. Data from national stats, gratefully compiled by @robintucker1.bsky.social @cyclinguk.bsky.social Oxfordshire
- Looking at today's Active Travel England (@ategov.bsky.social) updated funding allocations, here is the funding per person per year. I think it makes good sense to fund places that put money to best uses, I made this chart shows how that policy play out in practice. www.gov.uk/government/p...
- If you're from a big Combined Authority (Manchester CA, West Midlands CA, South and West Yorkshire CAs, West of England CA), then rest assured they all got about £3/pp/yr. Perhaps ATE feel CAs have wider resources available from other settlements.
- Awesome the Cobble Wobble has returned from a 10yr break. Nice piece from ITV covering the positive story behind it too.
- www.instagram.com/reel/DRaXJ9B... @wombat37.bsky.social you mentioned wanting to see a bit of people's home towns so I thought you'd appreciate this news piece about a historical event in my town, the 'Cobble Wobble'.
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- Reposted by Pete Dyson - Bicycle Mayor for Bath, UKThe Welsh 20mph default reduced casualties by 25% and insurance costs by £90m. If done in England expect reductions of 15,000 casualties pa and insurance by £2bn pa. Implementation cost would be approx £0.5bn. For comparison, 1st yr depreciation on new cars registered in England in 2024 was £78bn
