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Said the same once to a taxi driver in Manchester who’d pulled into the bike box at some traffic lights. I was on the cargo bike. He obviously missed my point and agreed that the Load 75 was a nice bike. We had a nice chat through his window - which was nice for a change.

It’s both, not just street design. Even if our local authorities had the budget to redesign every street they don’t have the capacity to do it at pace, and street design won’t stop speeding on roads that are designed for 70mph or have variable limits.

* also let’s have street and road design that invites and encourages driving at an appropriate speed. Yes some dick will see it as a challenge, but it at least reduces speed for most.

Annoyingly I have to turn it on in our car. It’s an awkward swipe and a click (give me effin buttons!) and then another click i can only do once moving at 20mph. From then on it’s mostly great - especially in towns and cuts down on any peer pressure from behind. Should be on by default. *

This guy is a terrorist according to English law. He's blind, disabled and in a wheelchair.

I dunno labour, maybe you fucked up on this one.

Cyclist injuries dropped by half after “hated” cycle lane installed, but mayor still claims scrapped lane largely used as “bike run” for drug dealers to “get through traffic” One of Britain’s most controversial cycle lanes is set to be removed at the end of August, though other road safety features, including a 20mph speed limit, road narrowing measures, and no-entry side ...

Middlesbrough is apparently such a cycling hotspot that all drugs are moved by bike.
Either that or the mayor is going to have to start ripping up or closing roads used by cars.
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If the bike lane feels lethal, take the sidewalk.

Don't be an asshole, respect the space and safety of those walking, and don’t let some loud mouth transportation purist bully you into riding where you don’t feel safe.

I think perhaps he was referring to the single pivot calliper brakes.

“Watch for cars backing out”… maybe the road layout designer should have oriented the echelon parking bays so it forced reversing IN. Why do they always get this wrong and defend it as “being confusing” otherwise.

Government review of law on mobility aids could prove ‘absolutely transformative’ Disabled campaigners have welcomed the government’s announcement that it will review the laws around powered wheelchairs and mobility scooters, and examine how new mobility technology could be “saf…

Interesting article, I use an ebike with a low speed throttle to get me started off and I am always worried that my ebike will be confiscated. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/government-r...

Black and white photo of Alex Moulton, in a shirt and tie, working on the front end of a bicycle. The bicycle is on a stand and Moulton is underneath it.

Color photo of Alex Moulton, in a casual outfit, standing astride a yellow small-wheeled mountain bike on a log bridge in a forest.

Alex Moulton with the Moulton AM-ATB mountain bike. Produced from 1988 to 1992, the bike is credited as being the first full-suspension mountain bike.

@gazza-d.bsky.social 👀

Meth lab?

A small colourful can of non alcoholic beer by Vandestreek brewery.

I’ve been enjoying the non alcoholic beers brewed by Vandestreek recently. Leffe 0% is also very good.

We welcome ex MP Mr Rupert Lowe to the Wheelie Bin Federation Search and Recovery Team.

So far he has found 2 ford Fiestas, an old phone box and a stone in his shoe.

The man is bloody useless!

When will HR stop employing these useless tossers!

Why haven’t #NotJustBikes or @rmtransit.bsky.social covered this? It has a serious impact on density of development.

The reason for the minumum distance between twe frontages specified in UK planning, according to the often-told story, is because that's the distance at which you can no longer look out of your front window and make out the clothed nipple someone in the house opposite. (1/2)

'No excuse': People speak out after dog walker pushes cyclist into canal A cyclist being pushed into canal by dog walker on Ashton Canal path has sparked a fiery debate

“Opinions have been divided”

How can the MEN justify both sidesing an unprovoked attack?

Residents of Dipton in co Durham are kicking off cos the council wants to RAISE the speed limit from 30 to 40 cos few drivers stick to 30.
Maybe site a camera van there a few times a week.
www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/2537084...

Clearly if drivers aren’t naturally slowing the road needs a redesign to make it feel more appropriate to drive slowly - not raising the speed limit. It sounds so preposterously motonormative that I was expecting to read it was a Reform councillor’s idea.

My shock is reading a Reform councillor speaking sense!

I think we should make more use of short “time out” bans with fixed penalty offences like speeding. A month maybe? Or from the moment of receiving the notice until a speed awareness course. I know enforcement might be an issue, but if penalties for breaching it are high it might work.

Calls for drivers to put down phones after fatal crash on A303 A man whose fiancé died in a road crash asks drivers to

More needless tragedy and suffering.
Interesting nugget is that Surrey police are using undercover cops cycling on roadside cyclepaths trying to catch drivers using phones.👍

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I think they know - they’re looking up!

(Taste aside) I don’t even think they look that special. To me they resemble a black cab.

What the hell is this? It’s like Max Headroom combined with Worzel Gummidge.

This is why I don't cycle close to parked cars. #DNRPoliceScotland

Is it a coincidence we came to use this sign given the etymology of deer? I believe Old English used deor for animal, just like most other germanic languages use similar. E.g Dutch = dier, German = tier, Swedish dyur, Norwegian and Danish dyr. We went and changed the use to a particular animal.

love this new york times clip. they recently did a story about how sesame street's set has changed over the years, along with our urban politics.

IG nytimes