It's Simon, yeah?

electric
dockless
citywide (near enough)

KenCycles hit a high of c11m trips in a year around 2018. There are 12k bikes
Lime figures are not public but rumours of 40k bikes and 16m trips in commuting hours alone in 2024

I wonder if it's an iOS update at the other end? same colour combination I saw on K's and not one I'd ever seen before.

It's very obvious that Lime bikes have been a complete game changer in terms of demographics. All sorts of ages and backgrounds riding for the destination. People riding in smart clothes for an evening out. Business men in suits. Teenagers on hacked bikes.

It's got them absolutely raging.

Is this apple and latest OS?

K was having similar issues. But can't remember how we solved it. Fully update OS and try with default settings for accessibility etc/text size first

Which would now be 24 years old. Fully repairable and have strong second hand value.

This scheme looks to be properly high quality, although I'm still dubious that 'uncontrolled crossings' have any place in a modern scheme. If theres a desire line should be ped priority

Awaiting usual incoming from charlatans who think one of these features is unacceptable but the others are fine

If someone wants a funeral procession of some kind it should be on foot and in a park or graveyard. That's what we've had for the woodland burials of a few friends. The whole funeral cortege thing is more mid century motor centrism.

Personally disagree. Driving at some ridiculously low speed on the m4 for my Dads funeral was frankly terrifying.

The whole idea of a motorised funeral procession is a relatively recent fad. Should do away with the whole thing. There is zero need for a convoy (even more so in London).

Clearly should have followed The Times recommendations and spent far more.

There are always receipts. £200 is the *cheapest* of the chairs the Times listed in their home working piece 5 years ago. Maybe the outrage is that he didn't buy anything decent?

I really don't know what could be clearer evidence of Musk's intentions to fully shift from facilitating networks of actual human interaction to providing a one-way brainwashing service for fascism.

Important context from @sustainabletall.bsky.social.

There is no point in talking about embodied emissions in concrete towers without considering the counterfactual, holistically.

How to pave the streets with gold On pedestrianising Soho

Pedestrianise soho

www.greaterlondon.co/p/how-to-pav...

Think one of the key things why adverts are such a thing with them is that people in ads are usually enjoying themselves and having a nice life; seeing non-white people be happy is something that drives your typical racist absolutely mad

Collins is on TREMENDOUS form atm.

MK was designed on a 1km grid for US-style car use. Even the Pedway network was an afterthought, and only designed after the car grid went in.

MK’s Redways were originally called Pedways. Only after they were built was the name changed. They were for pedestrians, not cyclists. And that’s why they’re not great for cyclists.

the law deals specifically with crops overhanging a footpath in the country. That it doesn't deal with cars in the city would seem ludicrous.

and you'd get short shrift if you built a bike shed not touching, but overhanging the pavement. This is a failure to enforce by councils - they just need to deal with the right offence. www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/6...

is that the law? it may well be for an on street parking bay, but those cars are obstructing the pavement and they're not in a parking bay, they're on private property (at least most of them is)

If your hedge starts to overhang and obstruct the pavement the council makes you cut it...

Reform’s Sarah Pochin forced to apologise after claiming adverts 'full of black people' drive her 'mad’ | LBC The Runcorn and Helsby MP was responding to a viewer live on air who complained about the demographics of advertising.

Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?

I have this deep felt temptation to spray paint a white line over the cars along the pavement line.

Or can I do the same with a garden deck or bike store, absolutely fine to cantilever over the pavement as long as it doesn’t touch the ground?

Uh hmm.

I wrote my dissertation on Heart of Darkness and it still floors me this time around. It feels like the twentieth century awakening, like a box of horrors opening. “Ah! but it was something to have at least a choice of nightmares.”

I've written about the conflict ridden scheme built on Windmill Drive before.

I was told the path couldn't be wider here as the overall Q5 scheme couldn't reduce the green area of the common, so the widening of the paths the never happened elsewhere was enabled by greening here.

4) Rookery Road was meant to get a Toucan crossing as well, and a load of other works to make it safer. But for some reason this one just got built as a basic (not parallel) zebra that's not even on a raised table.

3) got the toucan (cycle+ped) crossing that was in the 2015 QW5 consultation and you can see the 'shared use' sign for the pavement section).

But the widening of the paths on either side has never happened. Which is why theres no signage.

A history of failure.

1) LCN route on gravel track (all other park paths are tarmac)?
2) to meet a crossing clearly meant to link to the pink line and join the N-S cycleway.
But for LCN3 you were actually meant to us the A3 instead!

(Also note ASL *removed* a few years back ?!?)

This shows the 2015 Quietway 5 plans and what was actually built. The paths shown in orange on the map were all supposed to be widened but this work never took place and they've never been signed.

But Lambeth informally treats all park paths as shared use - and all power to them for it.

Decades of incomplete and part built cycle routes across Clapham Common

TfL's no longer recognise LCN era routes, even where they're signed and safe. A bizarre approach. But they mark C5 across the common, when it's never been built

@safecycleldn.bsky.social as ever is the reliable source