Sam Wakeling

@samwake.bsky.social

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Loves streets. Make them safe. Set them free. Sheffield. Abolition. Works at Living Streets. Free free 🍉 🔗 sam.wakeling.me

A pavement on a terraced street with parked vehicles and a white van with wheels just on the kerb and wing mirror sticking out.
Person on green tshirt riding a bicycle with a trailer containing spade rake and tool box
Manchester miles driven going up steadily since 2010 (with dip for Covid). All time high in 2024 beaten again in 2025.
Child sat in front of a cargo bike holding up a Lego drone with propellers being spun by the breeze. Parked cars go past either side.
A child wearing a red boiler suit paints on a wall covered in abstract coloured paint. There is also paint and drawing on the floor.
Chart of car ownership per income decile - with lowest incomes owning 5x fewer cars than highest incomes
Tram platform with person walking past and electronic sign saying- Service suspended due to high heat We apologise for disruption to journeys TiCkets valid on First & Stagecoach
An adult walking holding hands with a child. The adult is wearing a brown/orange coat and the child is wearing a large hi vis vest with “be safe be seen” on the back.
Photo of person filling water bottle and white man in open necked shirt. Headline: Hottest June day on record as temperatures soar to 36.1C in Hampshire
Thermal image with yellow area labelled 77.4 and purple box shape
Hazy sunny London skyline with red news text banner cycling through “red extremely heat warning extended by Met Office” “Alerts due to “heat dome” over Western Europe” etc
Black website image with text: Our heartfelt condolences and support following the tragic incident on Friday 19th June. On the 19 June, two EMR services were involved in a collision at Bedford South. Tragically, this incident resulted in the fatality of an EMR driver and a number of inuries to…
• We will take regular hydration breaks in class and encourage all pupils to drink water.
Three people, two of them children, walking on herringbone pattern brick paved street with flowers and trees around.
Man in tie shrugging in front of a street full of cars with people trying to cross. "Yes, we support safe streets for all! There just isn't room left due to the cars" The same man shrugging in front of rows of faceless men in ties. "Yes, we support diversity in parliament! There just isn't room left due to the men"
The Reform UK leader of Derbyshire County Council, Alan Graves, has already backed the idea of charging visitors and has suggested the park authority should harness modern technology to implement a form of congestion charge. "We could put some kind of cameras up - when you enter, you pay ÂŁ1", he said.
Claire Ward - Labour East Midlands Mayor posts on Facebook: Reform calls for congestion charge in the Peak District Alan Graves, Reform UK leader of Derbyshire County Council, wants to spend public money installing cameras to bring in a congestion charge Whether it's a visit to the Peak District for the day or popping to the shops or work, Reform want you to pay to drive! I wont let that happen. BBC News clip: The Reform UK leader of Derbyshire County Council, Alan Graves, has already backed the idea of charging visitors and has suggested the park authority should harness modern technology to implement a form of congestion charge. "We could put some kind of cameras up - when you enter, you pay E1", he said. "The initial cost would be expensive but over time it would all be paid for."
Shelf of newspapers (mail, sun, mirror, express, times, star) with each having a different block colour ad with the same message: Stay at home for the NHS, your family, your neighbours, your nation, the world and life itself
HI VIS VEST - FUNERAL TRIBUTE - MEMORIAL
Starmer smiling behind a white podium with JLR logo on, with workers standing behind him.
Map from Google maps with sheffield shown with traffic layer. The busiest roads like ring road are coloured green with some bits of yellow and red.
Pie chart with big green segment for renewables and yellow chunk for solar. A smaller blue chunk for nuclear and wood burning. Red wedge for fossil gas is tiny.
Chart of last 24 hours of electricity generation. Green line high above everything is wind power at 23GW, yellow solar line has a curved bump rising for the middle of the day to 8GW. Other lines below these show nuclear at 4GW and gas and transfers far below
Postcard photo of ripples on water starting black and blue and the bottom, fading to white at the top. No caption.
Aerial view of the square showing the road going diagonally across the square and splitting in the middle to go either side of the statue.
Georgian Terrance of townhouses with people walking and running the park paths and cobbled streets.
The Christmas Steps lane facing downhill with strings of lights cross crossing between old shop fronts. A sign reminders CARLOS TROWER, “The African Blondin’, high rope performer and abolitionist, who lived in this house in 1876
Night sky above a With Ferris wheel (with no passenger cars hanging from it). The deep blue sky has a swirl of moving starts circling above the circle of the wheel
A bollard lying prone on the mud some way from a zebra crossing with broken tarmac where it appears to have been smashed out from
Ad for online gambling to “win cash, free spins and golden chips” with a logo of a green leaf and tag “carbon neutral ad”
Pedestrian and cycle only sign with camera enforcement and a buff over street behind with people waking around. White man with glasses and grey hat smiling alone
Site galley in red brick with sign in lights on the roof saying everything is different today
Chart of Sheffield carbon emissions 2019 - Climate emergency declared Actual emissions (est) Amount over-budget - CO, which will heat our atmosphere for centuries Sheffield's 1.7C budget Advice sought by SCC but not applied in city plans Sheffield's 1.5C budget To minimise tipping point risks Sheffield's political target Net zero by 2030 GOV.UK local authority data for Sheffield CO2 emissions Estimated from GOV.UK emissions data and forecasts Tyndall Centre advised annual reductions of 12.3% from 2020 to meet IPC's 50% chance of 1.7C, (shown adjusted to start from updated UK Gov local authority data for 2019) Global carbon budget for 66% chance of 1.5C was roughly half this, needing 25% annual reductions
Time-lapse of chapel roof with starts slowly rotating above in dark night sky
Bright circles of stars over a cross and chapel
Panorama of sheffield view across hills over Bolehills with cargo bike in foreground
Image of house like a no smoking sign. Thank you for not smoking Burning wood causes invisible air pollution which harms you and your neighbours
Snaking queues of cars in multiple directions turning in and out of a junction. An adult runner picks their way through the moving traffic and waits in the middle of the road.
A white sign with the phone shop in red on it, and above this are four storeys of honey stone architecture with arched window tops, frilly details, tall gable end. Sorry I don’t know more of the right terms for the building features!
Hierarchy of responsibility diagram with text highlighted saying “Across the whole hierarchy, everyone has to behave responsibly.”
Fireworks explode above a crowd of people holding up glowing camera screens and one person is standing watching the show with arms outstretched
Twitter post It should be law we can drive over those types take them to the local park and roast the carcass over an open fire then feed the homeless and undernourished. I'd eat some just to do my part eradicating idiocy. The hills are getting lonely everyone's hiking the city roadways ©
Labour Party tweet: This Labour government is on the side of drivers. This Easter, over a thousand miles of roadworks will be lifted to make journeys smoother, and thanks to Labour's Plan for Change, drivers are set to be ÂŁ500 better off Graphic of tarmac: LABOUR IS ON THE SIDE OF DRIVERS Fuel duty frozen Funding to fix an extra 7 million Tory potholes next year Over 1,000 miles of roadworks lifted
Dark and wet street with wide pedestrian area with musical instruments and a road in the background with passing vehicles.
Photo of school protest for safe streets, and a feature box below linking to another daily mail article “Britain's roads to be made narrower to stop drivers overtaking cyclists in latest war on motorists”
Do we know what we’ve got? Chart of five segments of incomes, with people’s answers to the question of which fifth you think your income puts you in. The richest get it the most wrong.
Cartoon with a person walking at night holding lamps. Caption: THE PERFECT PEDESTRIAN; OR MAKING THE WORLD SAFE FOR MOTOCRACY With acknowledgments to PUNCH This Punch cartoon was published in the issue of February 2, 1927. The Bishop of Derby, Dr. Rawlinson, suggested at the Derby Diocesan Conference on October 27, 1953, that in the interests of road safety pedestrians should be made to carry lights at night. Winter 1954
WAYMO Because Safety is Urgent™ At Waymo, we believe the status quo of road safety is unacceptable. Autonomous driving technology can save lives and improve mobility for all.
Glacier with grey rocky valley in front
Looking over the town hall and peace gardens with festive extortion sheds and rainbow
STREETS FOR PEOPLE
BLESSED ARE YOU WHO ARE POOR FOR YOU SHALL INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD
Map of collusion markers with pink showing dozens of slight injuries and purple showing about 24 serious injuries. This is from the last 25 years.
Aerial view of university roundabout. Dark areas are added to redraw where lanes go with entry roads split into left turning or joining the circulating single lane around the middle of the circle.
A curving road to a supermarket car park with a patrol station forecourt and large expanse of tarmac with hgv driving across it. A footway follows the road on the left before going up a ramp and away from the road.
World day of remembrance for road traffic victims Every year, over 1.3 million lives are lost on the world's roads. Families, friends, and communities are forever changed by preventable road deaths. #WDR2025
Starmer in front of a Range Rover production line