Mike Cordingley

The city of #Ljubljana in #Slovenia, population 280,000, kicked cars out in 2007.

Since then, car use has dropped by 32%, black carbon emissions are down 70%, noise pollution is down by 6 decibels.

Unfortunately, going car-free has made the center a living hell, as this video shows:

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What's your favourite thing to do in Stoke? Assume you're still alive.

Slightly diminish a book: Toes!

Slightly diminish a book: Toes!

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I reposted your thread onto facebook and within 30 mins I've had people flagging that it's more difficult to get these onto modern buses, which surprised me. It's generated more interest than I expected.

An old lady pulling a shopping trolley

I’m talking about the humble wheeled shopping trolley - or as they’ve been unfortunately branded almost everywhere: the “granny trolley.”

No one owns the Water.
No one owns the Land.
No one owns the sand.
These are given by Our Mother.
The Planet provides for Free.
Only by the hands of the Greedy does the Earth require a Fee 🌺

Dear Britain, it’s now clear: 20mph zones save lives and don’t slow traffic. Implement them | Sadiq Khan There is too much bluff and bluster on this subject. Ordinary people just want safe streets for themselves and those they love, and we can achieve that, says London mayor Sadiq Khan

The evidence for more 20mph zones ⤵️

✔️ Cut deaths and serious injuries by 1/3
✔️ Protect children
✔️ Reduce crashes
✔️ Lower noise
✔️ Boost walking & cycling

touché.. you've got me there.

Oh goodness, thankfully there's nothing more serious going on in the world.

I confess I stood with the Dutch protestors a couple of centuries or so back when those earlier windmills started appearing.

Got to say that there's much water to flow into the sea before there's any opportunity for Corbyn's party to dent the polls. However, the impact on party discipline could be immediate and could go one way or both.

One of the biggest microplastic pollution sources isn’t straws or grocery bags – it’s your tires Rain storms wash those tire shards into streams and ultimately into lakes and oceans. That’s bad news for fish and other aquatic life.

Seems bad:

"We identified more than 30,000 tire wear particles in 24 liters of stormwater runoff from roads and parking lots after two rainstorms. In heavy traffic areas, we believe the concentrations could be much higher."

What's your favourite thing to do in Stoke? Assume you're still alive.

Have to say, the name’s a bit of a surprise.

No, of course not! Not that Jeremy Corbyn! You didn't think I meant that Jeremy Corbyn?

Oh, I can see now where I might have confused you. I should have spotted that.

People in casual summer attire walk and sit along the wide sidewalks of Gran Vía, Madrid’s central avenue lined with retail storefronts, tall buildings, shade trees, lighting fixtures, and wooden benches.

People in casual summer attire walk and sit along the wide sidewalks of Gran Vía, Madrid’s central avenue lined with retail storefronts, tall buildings, shade trees, lighting fixtures, and wooden benches.

People in casual summer attire walk and sit along the wide sidewalks of Gran Vía, Madrid’s central avenue lined with retail storefronts, tall buildings, shade trees, lighting fixtures, and wooden benches.

People in casual summer attire walk and sit along the wide sidewalks of Gran Vía, Madrid’s central avenue lined with retail storefronts, tall buildings, shade trees, lighting fixtures, and wooden benches.

Gran Vía, Madrid’s iconic central avenue, has long been the cultural and commercial heart of the city. But by the mid-2000s, it had become overwhelmed by private cars, and noise and air pollution that failed to meet EU standards; reflecting the car-centric urban planning paradigm in post-war Spain.🧵

Love that the Evening Standard carried this complaint about Neil Young as genuine.

A third viewer added: “Fuming about Neil so-called Young just miming in front of a strobe light while writhing around in a pair of leather Y-fronts. This sort of pop outrage is killing live, quite dull dadrock.”

The scourge on Greater Manchester roads that should shame our region The city-region has been shamed as a national hot-spot

Good to see the MEN giving coverage to the dreadful rates of dangerous driving in Greater Manchester.

Stockport has the 18th highest rate in the UK – but it's less than a third of the number in Bradford.

#weWantSheffieldStands 😅

Terrific thread on facilities for girls (and boys).
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The US will take part in Russia’s Intervision Song Contest, a Eurovision rival created primarily for Soviet Eastern Bloc countries during the Cold War, RIA Novosti reports.

Totally agree with Caroline on this. Well argued. Cars are getting too big and lives are being put at risk.

via Wild Bird Scoop

If The Fast Show is ever revived, could Ed Miliband be a character? He's very funny.

ZAC Boucicaut - B+A Architectes Construction in the heart of a block in the Boucicaut eco-district, of 60 homes for home ownership (77 parking spaces), wpml_nbspuron the base of the land released from the former Hospital (Semparisei...

60 homes in what looks like (3) connected point access blocks

next to a park

for less than $180k per home

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I still think Davey has work to do to make himself vitally relevant. Farrage's rise will squeeze Davy in the cities, but it might work to his favour outside. Labour worries me. Too many islands of reassurance - I can say that because I think Trafford is one such. I want Davey to get serious.

The BBC also reinforcing the 'fact' that white men don't do terrorism. Quite a relief to Manchester.

BBC carrying the police request not to speculate on the Liverpool tragedy. Immediately followed by lots of speculation by BBC, politicians etc.