Rebecca Sharkey
Londoner now in Liverpool
Chair of Merseyside Cycling Campaign @merseycyclists.bsky.social
Walking, cycling, taking the bus and train 🚲🚶🏼♀️🚌🚝
- Reposted by Rebecca SharkeyBrilliant to hear how local campaigners successfully stopped the building of a dual carriageway right down the middle of Rimrose Valley Country Park in Sefton. Now, thanks to @rimrosevalley.bsky.social it's teeming with wildlife and walking and cycle paths for everyone to enjoy. Have you visited?
- Reposted by Rebecca SharkeyThe victim blaming of people walking or cycling and injured or killed in road collisions is off-the-charts shocking. It seems motor normativity is so ingrained that people desperately clutch at the language of “accidents” or worse just blame the victims.
- Reposted by Rebecca SharkeyFour bicycle riders stop for a photograph on the Alameda Avenue Bridge, Denver, Colorado ca. 1905
- Reposted by Rebecca SharkeyLet’s shift the narrative: focus on drivers — with better legislation, clearer guidance and stronger communication — so harm isn’t normalised or dismissed as “cycling is risky”. It’s long past time to prevent harm, not explain it away. Less victim-blaming.
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- Reposted by Rebecca SharkeyOk, let’s do this🙄 We’ll start with an explainer covering: 🕒What is a 15-minute city 🏫What on Earth is going on with Oxford 👽Where the conspiracy theories have come from And then we’ll look at the Telegraph article 🧵 1/25
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- Reposted by Rebecca SharkeyIt’s match day, so of course any Street in Stretford without residents parking becomes an unofficial match-day car park. Appears that those drivers too selfish to pay for parking are also the type to block pavements with their cars. Who’d have thought it 🤷
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- Reposted by Rebecca SharkeyMotonormativity is not clearing snow from the sidewalks and then doing an Instagram post telling pedestrians not to walk in the road.
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- Reposted by Rebecca Sharkeymy grandmother, an Auschwitz survivor, was Anne Frank’s neighbor in Amsterdam, and Oma thinks this comparison is perfectly apt
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- “Auschwitz took time….” #HolocaustMemorialDay
- Reposted by Rebecca Sharkey⚠️Registrations of the most commonly-sold pick-up trucks have nearly doubled in just over a decade! 📈Our new analysis has found a major increase in the number of large, US-style pick-up trucks on UK roads over the past decade - with serious implications for pedestrian safety, particularly children.
- “The driver might have spent an hour in the gym or eating organic but all those health gains would have been wasted – and reversed – by idling their engine, poisoning both themselves and everyone around them.”
- Reposted by Rebecca SharkeyFor example, not good morning to these guys. Good morning to everyone not driving blithely through the green man phase of a pedestrian crossing in a deadly urban land shark, basically
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- Reposted by Rebecca SharkeyWe need a government that will TAKE BACK our public services 💧💡🚌🚄🏥📮 Privatisation has failed for 40 years. Brilliant to see @andyburnham.bsky.social recognise this As an independent campaign group we praise all politicians when they support public ownership, hold them accountable when they don't
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- Fantastic thread with photos and stories of hardy, hearty grandparents on tandems 🚲💪💕
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- Reposted by Rebecca SharkeyCommenting as Govt launch a road safety strategy. Every death on our roads is unacceptable. We need a Vision Zero ethos: no deaths or serious injury. Change driving culture, reject speeding, use speed-limiting tech, strengthen sentences, end ‘accident’ language. Driving is a privilege, not a right.
- Reposted by Rebecca SharkeyWe've all seen the before-and-after photos of Amsterdam and Paris - but we have our own examples to show how Liverpool is progressing away from gridlock and pollution, towards streets that are vibrant, welcoming and safe for everyone. More of this sort of thing please!
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- Reposted by Rebecca SharkeyOne of the biggest tricks of the car industry was convincing us that parking private cars is a public responsibility, turning shared space into free storage for personal vehicles.
- Reposted by Rebecca SharkeyTogether with our friends at Liverpool Pedestrians Association, MCC has put out a statement in response to the sentencing of Paul Doyle following the horrific road rage incident earlier this year.
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- Fate for breakfast, or doubt for dessert. Which would you go for? Serious questions posed by this 1979 album unearthed at a book market yesterday.
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- Reposted by Rebecca SharkeyHey, thank YOU Rebecca!! More tickling to come in 2026...
- Huge thanks to everyone involved in making these excellent podcasts, for tickling my brain and helping me understand the world a little better @ppfideas.bsky.social @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social @bunkerpod.bsky.social @rostaylor.bsky.social for More Jam Tomorrow & National Museums Liverpool podcast
- Huge thanks to everyone involved in making these excellent podcasts, for tickling my brain and helping me understand the world a little better @ppfideas.bsky.social @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social @bunkerpod.bsky.social @rostaylor.bsky.social for More Jam Tomorrow & National Museums Liverpool podcast
- Also shout-outs and thanks to these ace podcasts for entertaining and educating me on #ActiveTravel issues: Moving Up North from @walkridegm.org.uk @lowtrafficfuture.bsky.social @podstreetsahead.bsky.social That’s Her Problem from @pattybikes.com and of course the mighty @waroncars.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Rebecca SharkeyLook away now 🫣 Next week marks 5 years since the Government closed their consultation on pavement parking and we're still waiting for a decision. We've received photos from across the UK highlighting pavement parking hotspots. Add your photos here👇 t.co/rO3Lat5JTB
- Reposted by Rebecca SharkeyYour Comeback Guide to all the Anti-Cycling Arguments You’ll Hear This Year. momentummag.com/your-comebac...
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