Trying to encourage more active travel in London Borough of Bromley. Sharing experiences and ideas for positive change.
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Just when gov plans are announced to open access to green space within 15minutes of your home, only in #Bromley would they decide to pop posts in (yesterday) to limit access to green space! @LBofBromley its such such shame there is such an unwillingness to share
Down to 1 #schoolstreet in #Bromley @LBofBromley why do you insist on pushing us backwards as a burough instead of doing more to enable #ActiveTravel
💥#Bromley CLOSES 2 of its only 3 #SchoolStreets💥
How poignant that a lost baby's bottle sits by the covered sign & abandoned barriers at now CLOSED Westgate Rd #SchoolStreet. This after Portfolio Holder decision "Council should support schs currently operating a School Street"
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Kidical Mass is coming to Bromley! 💯✨🚲 Sunday 30 October, beginning at 10am at Market Square and finishing at Beckenham Place Park. Register via Eventbrite eventbrite.com/e/kidical-mas…
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I can confirm @BetterBeckenham that #Bromley Conservatives proposed, approved & voted through amendment to remove #activetravel as KPI in Guide. Opposition incl me as 1 of x4 Labour + 1 Lib Dem voted against. To modernise & gain all poss funding we shld be embracing active travel
Astonishing! @LBofBromley just edited their Urban Design Guide - the document that ensures new developments meet certain standards to make Bromley an aesthetically pleasing & liveable place - to remove 'active travel' (provisions for safe walking & cycling) as a criterion...
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My god, it doesn't get more obvious than this...
Bromley Tories (Carservatives) remove Active Travel as part of their key performance indicators for Urban Design...
#AciveTravel
@BromleyLS @livingstreets @ActiveTravel28 @activetraveleng – at Bromley, London
"Remove the words #activetravel" as a KPI
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Yes, that was amendment proposed by Tory #PettsWood cllrs & APPROVED 😟 by Tory majority last night-DG16 Pg 140 of #Bromley's Urban Design Guide Supplementary Planning Document consultation draft, presented at Development Control mtg
“Over time, our communities have been optimised for peak motor traffic flow. Our communities now need to be redesigned to make walking the easiest choice.” @AdamTranter xitter.gq/adamtranter/status/146…
Time to prioritise residents’ health and safety over ‘car is king’ in LB #Bromley ⬇️
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Another Environment meeting for Brom Council. Livetweeting highlights. First qu from public is on treemendous tree scheme. Resident explains he has had COVID and would like a written reply. 1/n
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Most surreal moment ... when the Conservative Vice Chair of Environment Committee suggested the rise in KSIs in #Bromley is due to people emerging from lockdown & forgetting how to cross the road safely! 🙄
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Here’s an initiative for GPs in LB #Bromley to embrace, however for it to succeed Tory Councillors need to break their addiction to cars, and enable safer #walking and #cycling on our streets, with #20mph where people live, shop, go to school. @BromleyGPs @LBofBromley #20sPlenty
We've launched a new trial with GPs and @ActiveTravelEng to offer walking, wheeling and cycling prescriptions. This could help reduce health disparities and improve wellbeing across communities. 🚲
Read more about the trial 👉gov.uk/government/news/walki…🚶♀️
ALT GPs to prescribe active travel. We’re awarding £12.7 million to 11 areas across England to evaluate how pilot projects can improve wellbeing in communities, including: adult cycle training, free access to loan bikes, led walks and rides, walking groups and personalised travel planning.
ActiveTravelforBromley retweeted
Great tips and inspiring story. We'd love to hear from Bromley residents who have started to cycle or walk more everyday journeys! @livingstreets
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Calls for 20mph speed limits in LB #Bromley are getting louder.
Will the four BIDs - @BeckTogether @Orpington1st @SE20Penge @YourBromley - join residents in asking @LBofBromley to create 20-minute #activetravel neighbourhoods around town centres?
It’s good for business too ⬇️
When your Local Authority makes 20mph speed limits the norm, it helps you to make walking and cycling the norm for local journeys. Then you can help your local High Street thrive just by leaving your car at home.
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Getting children outside and playing has been the focus of @playingout, a UK-wide grassroots initiative started on Bristol's streets. They've helped 40,410 children to play out in safe street spaces. Want to do something similar? See our funding options ⬇️
sportengland.org/funds-and-c…
ActiveTravelforBromley retweeted
E.g., para 16 of the Code of Practice states " local authorities should not use public funds to mount publicity campaigns whose primary purpose is to persuade the public to hold a particular view on a question of policy."
ActiveTravelforBromley retweeted
May I gently suggest that this tweet (and the item to which it links) contravenes paragraph 1.7 of the Code of Conduct for Councillors (political purposes) as well as the requirement that LA publicity be objective.
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Last night LB #Bromley’s Tory Councillors voted in favour of residents breathing toxic air from vehicle emissions.
Less than a mile from the Council chamber, children attending @ValleyPrimary School are exposed to some of the worst #airpollution outside schools in our borough ⬇️
ALT Very high air pollution at Valley Primary School, Bromley
A proposal to expand inner London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) to London’s greenest borough has been condemned as a cynical tax raid against the borough’s residents ow.ly/sb9i50K4jOX
ALT Graphic Bromley Council logo text No to Mayor of London's ULEZ expansion proposals
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“A waste of time and money”
This is how the conservatives referred to the called in School Streets meeting last week at todays full council meeting
They hate public scrutiny in local democracy
@BromleyLS @MumsForLungs @ActiveTravel28 @BetterBeckenham @LiveableBromley
Hi @LBofBromley hope you've been managing to keep cool in the heat? If not I've heard towels in the freezer work a treat. Oh on a completely unrelated note...just wondering whether you are ready to declare a #ClimateEmergency yet?