Tom Roberts

Cities, urbanism, streets & infrastructure ...perhaps also the occasional @ManCity related tweet. Views my own.

[Tom Roberts @tomrob3rts]

Humanity faces three enormous problems; climate change, public health, and inequality.

Only one invention is the antidote to all three.

#COP26

[Henrik Lundorff @bicivikingo]

The solution is already here.
#COP26

[henrimurison.bsky.social @henrimurison]

People living in #HighPeak commute to Greater Manchester every day.

They attend college and use health services there.

Now it’s time to fix the historical anachronism that they aren’t in #GreaterMancheter

https://t.co/xchPLoSRwa

@Jon4HighPeak & myself in @MENnewsdesk

[Councillor Nick Small‏ @CllrNickSmall]

Briefing on the Bath Street Active Travel Scheme tonight before the public consultation next month:
🚴 New segregated cycle lanes all the way to Boundary Street.
🌳 Public realm improvements on Bath Street Triangle.
🚶Pedestrian link between Princes Dock and Old Hall Street.

[Andy Gill @MerseyHack]

People help to repair damaged wall at #Southport Mosque after violence last night. Latest in @BBCNWT at 1.30

[Tom Roberts @tomrob3rts]

Chatsworth Gardens 🌿

[Tom Roberts @tomrob3rts]

Cartagena 🇪🇸

[Liverpool City Council @lpoolcouncil]

Big update on the Liverpool Baltic station scheme ⬇️

[Liverpool City Region @LpoolCityRegion]

📰 | 🚉 BREAKING – Stunning new CGIs have been unveiled of the £100m Liverpool Baltic station scheme, ahead of a public consultation starting next month.

Read more 👉 https://t.co/KczjMO4Nei #MerseyrailForAll #BreakingNews

[Tom Roberts @tomrob3rts]

https://t.co/YDU704bIlh

[Tom Roberts @tomrob3rts]

@LiamThorpECHO @LiverpoolWomens Thanks for writing this Liam. We had a similar experience a couple of weeks before you. Cannot speak more highly of the people who give their all day-in, day-out there.

[Tom Roberts @tomrob3rts]

@nicolahrigby @AYUKViews Well done Nicola 👏👏 will have to have a chat about our plans round the corner on Deansgate 😊

[Tom Roberts @tomrob3rts]

@NickClarke11 @HCDCongress ‘Tis the season! To be fair I should count my blessings I’ve dodged it for so long…

[Tom Roberts @tomrob3rts]

There’s a certain irony to getting your first bout of Covid on the day of @HCDCongress 😩

[Tom Roberts @tomrob3rts]

Excellent discussion this morning with a very knowledgeable panel - thank you 🙏

[MetroPolis @mcrmetropolis]

See @ProfSMillington speaking w/ @LucyUrbanDesign, @jamesmurray_ldn & @SHinchcliffe at our fringe event w/ @CentreforCities tomorrow🙌

We'll explore the future for our high streets inc. what they need to thrive ⚡️

Join us for a fascinating debate 👇

https://t.co/eACDt66I0b

[Tom Roberts @tomrob3rts]

‘We feel forgotten’: anger in Crewe at scaling back of HS2 https://t.co/613cvIKZ6r

[Jennifer Williams @JenWilliams_FT]

On great rail cancellations, a reminder that the expansion of Piccadilly, intended to alleviate the chronic northern rail bottleneck in the centre of Manc, was promised a decade ago, then put on ice, messed about with and actually only officially cancelled a few months ago.

[Tom Roberts @tomrob3rts]

This is very good advice 👇

[Nicholas Boys Smith @boys_nicholas]

Don’t hate cars. Don’t wage a war against motorists. But don’t wage a war for them either. Instead fight the battle for place and for happy and healthy, prosperous and productive neighbourhoods. All the evidence suggests that voters will thank you.

[Cary Cooper @ProfCaryCooper]

The is how the Conservatives destroyed the NHS in 13 years!

[Tom Roberts @tomrob3rts]

Tell me you don’t understand economics without telling me you don’t understand economics.

[David Frost @DavidGHFrost]

It's not a 'problem', it's a good thing.

In poorer countries people depend on public transport & bikes. When they get richer they want cars because they bring freedom.

Public transport will *never* be good enough for a free people to move around on.

[Tom Roberts @tomrob3rts]

I’ve tried so hard to get this but I just cannot - a cancer doctor and former WHO director opposing a major urban air pollution policy, which will almost certainly improve health outcomes. What am I missing here?

[Professor Karol Sikora @ProfKarolSikora]

Same tactic being used for ULEZ critics as was the case for lockdowns and vaccine mandates.

Oppose it, you're responsible for countless deaths.

Obviously total nonsense, but an effective way to smear and censor dissenting voices.

It's important to push back.

[Tom Roberts @tomrob3rts]

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https://t.co/8MXliOTJl6