Prof. Ian Walker

Our #RPUspecials joined @BrumPolice specials on Saturday evening for a Traffic Op, seizing 7 vehicles. 166 vehicles stopped, with 24 drivers reported for offences ranging from No Licence to No Seatbelt. Additionally, 32 drivers received education for varying offences.

Police in Birmingham held a roads policing operation, supported by volunteer Special Constables.

In one evening on one road, they pulled over 166 vehicles and took action in a staggering 1 in 3 stops.

Imagine if Roads Policing was properly funded!

Things people often say when buying a bicycle which they ought to consider when buying a car: “it’s too big” and “it’s too heavy”.

Can we take a moment to remember how at the time this home-made bomb was ignited, the police's first instinct was to rule out terrorism? Would this have happened if the target of a home-made bomb had been literally anything else, I wonder? #motonormativity www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Need to engage with communities well, to listen better, to build common ground. But more, we need to explain schemes rationale but also limits of policy, consultation. We need to take 'do nothing' off the table explicitly & show real leadership. That's how we stop these people ruining our country.

Yet another report calls for a national urban/village default speed limit of 20mph. This time its from the Faculty of Public Health, Transport and Health Science Group and the Royal Society for Public Health. See action No. 5

www.fph.org.uk/media/tr2bnu...

Sadly this has become topical in our house again

Yes, that's a good point. I suspect many would argue this shows the road network is more resilient, but of course that's partly because we allow people to repurpose bits of it for uses they were never designed for

Yes, I've experienced DB first-hand! What's great is how they've recruited all the slowest and least empathetic people in Germany into their customer-service team

Rachel Reeves: "It is not right that people who don't go to university bear the cost for others to." I don't use local leisure centres and I don't drive, so will I be made exempt for taxation that pays for all that stuff? Or is it only education we'll be going after

Yes, I suspect you're right and this is the "normal" range of variability. It's not so much that this exists that strikes me, as the fact people don't see it the way they see bus and train uncertainty

People worry about public transport running late, but are blind to the enormous unpredictability of car trips #motonormativity.

Google's estimate of how long a car trip tomorrow might take, based on what I imagine is pretty solid data on millions of real trips, shows a 29% window of uncertainty

What have you spotted? I've not followed this closely, but I recall some worries from London that it was shifting short walking trips onto buses

Ban on ads for carbon intensive products, including meat! This is progressive

Excellent point. And if you want to hear me talk about motonormativity I'll be at it in Cambridge tomorrow...

Artificial... Impudence?!

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I mean, if there's one thing where delegating it would make us more productive...

Chat transcript in which Zoom refuses to say who is the worst person on the call

Zoom's AI feature can't even manage basic tasks

Dear Isaac Asimov. Now we have self-driving cars that are basically robots, we've figured out the real-world Law of Robotics. It's acceptable to kill humans provided the rate at which they do so is slightly lower than humans would otherwise so so.

60% of women limit how much they cycle due to safety concerns.🚲

Too often women must choose between busy roads with little protection or quieter routes with poor lighting. Both are unsafe.

I’m calling on the Government to build the infrastructure needed to make women feel safe on our roads.

Do read this thread. It covers the classic problems of govt IT ventures: capture by the providers, poor information management and huge security holes, improbably complex signup process, and low quality outcomes. Surely it might have been better to partner with a university than this corporate slop?

The dream team! Talking motonormativity!

Sidcup man convicted aover explosive attack on Ulez camera Kevin Rees's homemade bomb caused damage to vehicles and property including a child's bedroom.

Who radicalised him?
(If this article has been deleted when you see this post it’s because a sub editor woke up!)
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That would be a shame. One of my greatest professional sources of pride is that there are several people working in the area as a result of taking that course

Yep! Traffic and Transport Psychology course for quite a few years back in Bath

Labour risks election wipeout unless it improves Britain’s high streets, study finds Decay of town centres a top issue among voters especially Reform UK supporters and is fuelling resentment against Westminster

Labour keeps talking about saving the high street without naming the real problem. Car dependency. You cannot fix town centres while planning everything around driving. The internet is permanent. Retail only survives where footfall is dense, local, frequent, and cheap to access.

Really love this Bristol Declaration - signed by eminent public health and transport academics on how we need to shift away from car-centric planning.

Bristol Declaration on healthy transport The Faculty of Public Health, the Royal Society of Public Health and partners are supporting the Bristol Declaration - calling for the transformation of the UK to a place where healthy transport optio...

I led this! Please read news on "The Bristol Declaration" = massive transport + health impact. www.fph.org.uk/news/bristol...
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There's one near me who routinely does The Triple: 1 on the pavement, 2 at a junction, and 3 blocking a bus stop