Danny Yee

Us or US?

People of all ages and abilities walk, cycle, and drive along the low-traffic streets of Amsterdam, which are lined with buildings, trees, bike infrastructure, and prominent 30 km/hr signage.

People of all ages and abilities walk, cycle, and drive along the low-traffic streets of Amsterdam, which are lined with buildings, trees, bike infrastructure, and prominent 30 km/hr signage.

People of all ages and abilities walk, cycle, and drive along the low-traffic streets of Amsterdam, which are lined with buildings, trees, bike infrastructure, and prominent 30 km/hr signage.

People of all ages and abilities walk, cycle, and drive along the low-traffic streets of Amsterdam, which are lined with buildings, trees, bike infrastructure, and prominent 30 km/hr signage.

In late 2023, Amsterdam introduced a 30 km/h limit. A large number of arterials were lowered from 50 km/h, 4,500 signs installed, 140 lights reconfigured, and 200 km of markings adjusted. Aiming to improve safety, liveability and accessibility, 80% of the road network is now at this critical speed.🧵

YouTube video by VisitGent Life in Ghent is cyclical… bicyclical!

This is a promotional video for Ghent, but pretty funny youtu.be/SIpHIYpqwBU?...

Does anyone have an informative reading to suggest for understanding why the British Isles ended up rejecting articulated buses in favour of double-deckers on high-demand urban routes, unlike almost everywhere else on the planet?

Oxford is mostly flat too - it basically has one incline running between the east-south and the rest of the city. It's a bit of a barrier to cycling, but the lack of infrastructure is a much bigger problem.

Dutch cities are much better to walk around than UK ones! And providing proper cycling infrastructure avoids a lot of foot-cycle conflicts

Maastricht is hillier than Oxford (UK) but has at least twice the number of people cycling.

So how can people be complaining that the road is too narrow!?

How wide is the carriageway? It looks enormous in the photos (though where I am in Oxford 3m lanes are normal).

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

I certainly hope the county council doesn't take any notice of Oxford Labour resiling from fifty years of supporting bus prioritisation measures.

And an informal one at Cherwell

There’s the long-standing one at Phil and Jim’s, too!

genocide in Gaza www.btselem.org/sites/defaul... (B'Tselem) "the unequivocal conclusion that Israel is taking coordinated action to intentionally destroy Palestinian society in the Gaza strip. In other words: Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip."

‘They all looked the same, they all dressed the same’: has Hollywood distorted the Smurfs’ communist roots? In Chris Miller’s new film, a Smurf is told to ‘believe you were born great’. But does this approach contradict what Peyo’s original Smurfs stood for?

the Smurfs' communist roots betrayed www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

My article with a 20mph Zone traffic sign as the image. Do let me know if I can help with a plain text version.

My latest Highways Magazine article on 20mph speed limits which are, sadly a postcode lottery for many of us.

The digital issue is free to read as ever - edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/html5/reader...

Proper Sheffield stands, please, not wheelbenders like the Rusty

Minister for State claims Government not softening road safety approach but confirms default 30km/h abandoned In a statement issued just before 10pm on Saturday night, Minister of State with responsibility for Road Safety, Seán Canney, said he “rejected recent claims that the Government is rolling ba…

Ireland is backing off on default 30km/hr limits, but local authorities can _choose_ them. National secondary roads are going from 100 to 80km/hr (roughly 60 to 50mph) and local rural roads from 80 to 60km/hr (roughly from 50 to 37mph) irishcycle.com/2025/07/19/m...

Cracking Open the History of Fortune Cookies That crunchy confection whose unobtrusive vanilla flavor is always a welcome complement to a heavy, savory meal

fortune cookies were originally Japanese www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture... (Smithsonian Magazine)

Among yesterday's arrestees is Deborah Hinton, an 81-year old retired magistrate with an OBE.
That's Yvette Cooper's idea of a terrorist.
Language has been turned on its head.
The law has been turned on its head.
Murdering children is righteous.
Trying to stop it is terrorism.

If safety is really the concern, put in a 40mph speed limit and average speed cameras.

If safety is really the concern, why not a 40mph speed limit and average speed cameras? A damn sight cheaper than dualling, and won’t upset the snails.

40mph speed limit backed up by average speed cameras.

Fit every tenth bus with bulldozer blades and authorisation to use them.

Greater Oxford

But with compulsory voting, influencing people to vote wouldn’t be an issue.

“A person is guilty of treating if either before, during or after an election they directly or indirectly give or provide any food, drink, entertainment or provision to corruptly influence any voter to vote or refrain from voting.”

Can we make democracy sausages legal too, while we’re at it?

What's the proposed route for this? I can't find anything with any details at all, this link looks like it might be the right one, but doesn't work www.buckscc.gov.uk/services/tra...

My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people. Having grown up in a Zionist home, lived the first half of my life in Israel, served in the I.D.F. as a soldier and officer and spent most of my career researching and writing on war crimes and the Holocaust, this was a painful conclusion to reach, and one that I resisted as long as I could. But I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one. This is not just my conclusion. A growing number of experts in genocide studies and international law have concluded that Israel’s actions in Gaza can only be defined as genocide.

"I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one."

Omar Bartov, professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University.

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