Thomas Dickson

Financial Planner specialising in working with dentists

[SafeStreetsNow @StreetsSafeNow]

Do you want safer, less polluted and congested streets?
Space where people can walk, wheel and cycle without fear? Where children can make their way to school safely? Join us on 22nd September 2024 and follow for updates.

[Sarah Chaundler @ChaundlerSarah]

If only every journey on public transport could be like this.
A meeting of world class musicianship and sustainable travel. The CBSO’s Music Director surprised and delighted commuters on the Birmingham to Wolverhampton line.

Encore @TheCBSO and @WMmetro

[Sarah Chaundler @ChaundlerSarah]

Given 64% of girls quit sport by the end of puberty, messages like this are so important for girls to hear. We should be doing everything we can to keep girls active at this critical time of life, & create opportunities for them to love being active, no matter what their level.

[Dr Tony Goldstone @goldstone_tony]

1/ 🚨IMPORTANT: We need to meet again @jamesmurray_ldn @wesstreeting to talk about pension tax. Houston, we have a big problem #PayingToWork #TaperTaxHell

James & Wes would like to talk you through this REAL case study (shared with permission) 👇[& others]

Please share/RT

[Sarah Chaundler @ChaundlerSarah]

8/ Outside @BhamCityCouncil house, Janet explained why so many people, are simply too intimidated to even attempt to cycle in Birmingham. If it's intimidating for adults, how on earth can we expect children and young people to embrace cycling?
https://t.co/NjVC1F45Sm

[Sarah Chaundler @ChaundlerSarah]

@for_birmingham @bbcmtd 7/ Jan 23, the fifth @for_birmingham protest; 2 weeks after @BhamCityCouncil consulted on a new Road Safety Strategy. Six months on, what's changed? Where's the urgency? Realistically how can a "bankrupt" authority tackle this without national support?
https://t.co/m9UJFN2lLO

[Sarah Chaundler @ChaundlerSarah]

@for_birmingham @bbcmtd 6/ The fourth @for_birmingham vigil was held in Erdington, in the north of Birmingham, where a cyclist had been struck and killed on Chester Road in June 2023. Not even a road safety demonstration could deter some drivers from running red lights. https://t.co/m40V771kyI

[Sarah Chaundler @ChaundlerSarah]

5/ The third @for_birmingham demo was after the death of a 12 year old boy called Azaan Khan who was killed on 8th June 2023. Like previous demonstrations, it was well attended by local politicians and the media including @bbcmtd

[Sarah Chaundler @ChaundlerSarah]

4/ Parents attending the rally expressed utter fear for their children's safety and pleaded with our authorities to do something about the state of dangerous driving in the city.
https://t.co/xTORjOD6Fm

[Sarah Chaundler @ChaundlerSarah]

3/ The 2nd @for_birmingham demo, held in June 23, attended by hundreds, after a child was struck by a driver on their way school, at the same crossing where 13 year old Hope Fennell was killed on her bike in 2011 https://t.co/S2mmemoWtM

[Sarah Chaundler @ChaundlerSarah]

2/ This was the first @for_birmingham vigil, held after the father of a little boy, was killed on his bike on Belgrave Middleway in May 23. Even as demonstrators held up placards urging drivers to slow down, many just sped through red lights.
https://t.co/U0jblhK6Ze

[Sarah Chaundler @ChaundlerSarah]

Birmingham’s leaders may have conceded the city is indeed facing a “road safety emergency”, but this situation has been hiding in plain sight for decades. At every demo @for_birmingham has held, people have talked about their lives being blighted & saddened by dangerous driving

[Shivaji Shiva @ShivajiShivaLaw]

"Birmingham needs to wake up."

It is good to see @birmingham_live covering this afternoon's calls for action to tackle the epidemic of deaths and serious injuries on the streets of Birmingham.

We need to see urgent, decisive action.

@for_birmingham

https://t.co/45mycwnw1r

[BDA @TheBDA]

"The dental contract is the root cause of the exodus of dentists from the NHS" says @TheGreenParty co-leader @AdrianRamsay MP, calling on the Govt to commit to a timetable for reform ASAP.

The crisis in dentistry affects millions and solving it requires urgency and ambition.

[Lucy Harrison @1687lucy]

Pleased to see this statement from you @RichParkerLab but could you perhaps now find time to meet with us @RoadPeace West Midlands? We have been asking and only offered a meeting with an officer in October...this isn't really okay...we need to meet with you.

[Thomas Dickson @dicksonthomas]

No surprise to see a driver going through a red light (42 secs into the video) during an interview about road safety, despite all the cameras and pedestrians on the junction.

[GB News @GBNEWS]

‘Our roads are in crisis! Everyone on our streets has to be in a perpetual state of anxiety at the speeding cars, the lack of enforcement, using phones, jumping red lights.’

@_Jack_Carson talks to a protester who is fighting for safer streets in Birmingham.

[GB News @GBNEWS]

‘Our roads are in crisis! Everyone on our streets has to be in a perpetual state of anxiety at the speeding cars, the lack of enforcement, using phones, jumping red lights.’

@_Jack_Carson talks to a protester who is fighting for safer streets in Birmingham.

[Sarah Chaundler @ChaundlerSarah]

@RichParkerLab Pleased to see you'll be bringing this up with Louise Haigh. But we've been here before. last summer, after high profile campaigning & sustained media coverage, leaders issued a joint statement. Not much changed. What will you do to make a difference?
https://t.co/ibzl02szH3

[Better Streets for Birmingham is no longer on X @for_birmingham]

With the sustained trend in those being killed and seriously injured as a result of collisions in Birmingham, we've written to our city and regional leaders urging them to declare a state of emergency on our roads.

Read the letter on our website: https://t.co/3b8z8S6loU

[Sarah Chaundler @ChaundlerSarah]

The kids know what works to make their streets safer.... now the "grown ups" in power need to get in the room and do something about it, before any more lives are lost. #SafeStreetsNow