Cyclops Dave

🤯”Bicyclists are channelled to… crossings of the intersecting streets just outside the normal pedestrian crosswalk area. In effect a bikeway ring around the intersection is created”🤯 Holy Moly that’s a cyclops! 1976! And none got built! I was two!

This is great news, and long overdue. I was at Bradford Interchange yesterday - with four platforms, no through lines and very limited facilities, it feels like a small town station serving 20,000, not the primary station serving a population of half a million. secretmanchester.com/new-northern...

Only took me 18 years… and half of those involved inventing cyclops. (2009‘s cycle safety fund was my first attempt to sort that junction… @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social )

Gee, that makes so much sense that it sounds crazy in this fucked-up alternate reality we're suffering through. 🙄

We have reached an unthinkable milestone: three years of genocide.

This is the thing that annoys me most about AI It’s becoming impossible to trust anything. But this is good news. At least I think it is good news. Humanity had so nearly figured stuff out…

What's happening here? Maybe something changed part way through 2023 on urban/residential 30mph roads! I wonder if it could be that from Sep 17th 2023 95% of roads with a 30mph limit were changed to 20mph. #20splenty making your place an even better, safer, quieter, fairer place to be!

[Almost] Everyone in the Green Party

My take on the Andy Burnham speech is that my 14yo daughter saw a bit of it on TikTok & then asked to watch the whole thing with me. She told me afterward that the hopefulness of it almost feels miraculous to her because her whole life the people in charge have been purposely making everything worse

BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.

It’s far too early to speculate what’s going on down there, but it’s obviously posh kids, a dog, and lashings of ginger beer.

Lady Cassandra? Is that you? #DrWho

A short thread on “legitimate concerns”. The phrase is used repeatedly by UK government ministers. The Home Secretary is at it again this week. But only ever - as far as I can tell - in one context: people’s response to the arrival of asylum seekers. Please read whole 🧵before responding - thanks

Anyone actually surprised at this? They are bought when they enter parliament, told what to do and rewarded if they succeed

I have become such a fan of the Norwegian Consumer Council recently. They don't just do these cool vids, the reports are actually really detailed and insightful and oddly strongly written (for a gov't agency, particularly in Norway). Also not fatalist at all www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree/

Just imagine what the figures would be like if everyone could cycle safely everywhere in #Edinburgh. www.scotsman.com/news/transpo...

Looking south along Queen Street, at the western end of George Square in Glasgow city centre. Image 1 from 2016, image 2 from today.

The Fight For Safe Streets. Thank you to everyone who came out and everyone who shared footage of this incredible protest ride. @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social @cycletoronto.bsky.social @lanrickbennett.bsky.social

£30 million? across the whole of the UK? Come back to me when you’ve got some real numbers.

CALL TO ACTION: Tameside Council has announced a new consultation for improvements to the A560 that include wider footpaths, resurfaced roads and footpaths, improved pedestrian crossings, safer junctions, better bus stops, and new separated cycle lanes.

Everywhere I look today I keep seeing: 1) deadly wildfires ripping through our communities 2) people desperately trying to get by as energy costs soar 3) record oil & gas profits When will we see that these three things are connected? www.wsj.com/business/ene...

My proposed minister for AI

Seven Prime Ministers. Nine Chancellors. Ten years. Britain's political instability is holding the country back. If Andy Burnham is serious about changing politics, he should back proportional representation and give every vote an equal voice.

Fundamentally, much of the clique around Westminster are "politics nerds" who find actual politics cringey and uncomfortable. They love court politics, scandal, intrigue, but not the whole business of "who has power and how does the application of said power help or harm people?"

Going to a gig? Doesn’t tell us which gig… (If politicians were tribute bands, this one would be called Brandy Urnham) @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social @geraldinecoggins.bsky.social

This is remarkable.

Tubingen has a Big Blue Bridge. Which is a bridge that is big blue and in Tubingen @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social

"Someone told me once that the best World Cup you ever saw was the one you watched when you were 11 years old." This is so true. Italia 90 for me - Schillaci, Baggio, Roger Milla and Cameroon, and Pavarotti of course. OK, I was 13 - even remember the merchandise - mini footballs and yoyos.

A rare example of a quality full redesign of a street in Italy. Via Amedei, Mantova. First pic, how it was, i.e. the typical oversized street of postwar peripheries. Other 3 pics: how it's now, turned one-way, depaved and traffic-calmed.

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Should probably be more talk in commentary about the LibDems, quietly holding on to the places taken from the Conservatives over the last 4 years and as a result potentially at a GE stopping a Reform/Con coalition being possible.

The next few weeks will see hundreds of newly-elected Reform councillors panicking when they realise their council isn't spending millions on DEI, and managing local authority finances is actually quite hard.

When Liberal Democrat councils are doing this well, it’s no surprise even Kemi Badenoch wants a share of the credit.

This is an amazing thread.

Before we built the protected cycle lanes,the peak bike flow was about 2000, we’re now regularly clocking 6000.

WATCH this video to understand better why positive and badly needed change in cities can be so HARD AND CONTROVERSIAL, at least INITIALLY when proposed (spoiler — quite often that change becomes popular, or just not noticed much at all, after implementation and once the “status quo bias” wears off."

Green Pastures: 3rd and 4th access points on the TPT made "compliant" by removing A-frames & horse step-through boxes. Funded by Defra - Mersey Valley Way www.merseyriverstrust.org/projects/pro... @walkridestocky.bsky.social @walkwheelcyclet.bsky.social @stockportcouncil.bsky.social

Ends in a shared use Walking and cycling path!

All these people live and work in West Yorkshire

Banning children from social media is like building car-centric cities and then forcing children to take traffic safety classes. We need social media platforms and spaces designed safe for children, not adults who create shit and then try to regulate the children.

Reminded of a great @jgrantglover.bsky.social banger

I should also mention, given how disappointed I've been in this government, that this is probably the most important issue facing us today and it is the one area where the government's performance has been very impressive. Thank fuck for Ed Miliband.

NEW ANALYSIS: China's CO2 has now been 'flat or falling' for 21 months * Down in 2025 * Still below Mar 2024 * Clean energy wave a key factor If this is China's peak (TBC) it's the climate story of the century so far… www.carbonbrief.org/...

This is still one of my favourite videos ever, perfectly explaining the staggering amount of public money that’s going into NOT solving traffic congestion. “It means you spend a lot of money now for a very short-term benefit." Jevon’s Paradox via Australia’s great show “Utopia.” Please share!