Everything has changed ... except the claims of the fossil fuel lobbyists who infest politics and the media.
www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/press-med...
He says it will industrialise the countryside. Which is already industrialised.
Tit.
Frankly anyone objecting to renewables now isn't patriotic. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ahh I see we have reached the stage of fuel suppliers being accused of profiteering.
Cos businesses making a profit is only bad when it comes to selling petrol for cars.
Funny how so many unwittingly become communists when it comes down to filling the suv.
You’d think in this era of “MPs face increasing danger” there would be more outrage at newly elected Green MP Hannah Spencer being assaulted by transphobes but it’s nowhere to be seen on BBC News app even if you search her name
"The argument for electrifying our railways will become clearer in time."
British Rail, 1979.
It's amazing how car blind uk society is. Replace e- bike and e-scooter with car in this article and you won't even get close to the scale of that problem.
Parked cars clutter every road snd footway, and destroy every verge they come across.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@infrastructure-ni.gov.uk today said "There has been no delay to the Belfast Rapid Transport 2 (BRT2) project". But the referenced press release from February 2025 says "Work will begin on this phase later this year [2025]." That looks like a delay to me. 🤔
there's currently a debate in nuclear circles on the relative merits of large reactors (~1500MWe) and small reactors (<400MWe).
the answer is, as ever, we can and should do both. being able to spec either one or multiple small units or one large one makes it more flexible as a tech class anyway.
What we need, desperately, is reconstruction, and that means massive investment. One of the few upsides of Brexit is we are no longer bound by EU rules on state aid - which means we could pump enormous resources into our own economy without (further) penalty.
And we're not.
It's completely beyond me how authorities can continue to ignore this fundamental issue, especially given that we KNOW that with climate breakdown floods will only keep getting worse.
Pay farmers to rewild NOW.
I may delete this because it’s a bit spicy but it shouldn’t be lost on us that games being turned into TV is essentially harvesting the stories written by those who don’t have union representation or healthcare with WGA by those that do. Our stories are good enough for TV but the writers aren’t?
Well there is no chance of me visiting Ireland again.
This is a victim blaming policy that will do nothing to reduce road danger (probably increase it actually) or KSIs.
All it'll do is reduce the numbers cycling even further. Ireland is not serious about road safety.
It's been fun seeing The Consultants lose their mind about how they don't get this ad, which is the coolest shit she's done yet.
(Also, yes, that's Matt Mercer, who I've come to learn since this ad dropped is more famous than Michael Jordan.)
Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York City campaigned on a promise of “fast and free buses.” One influential planning group is trying to change his mind with an even bigger moonshot plan: to expand the city’s century-old subway system.
I’m a lot more open to discussions of building aesthetics when they’re not about reducing density and housing supply.
Considering recent events, we're incredulous as to why the only place you can access real time updates on delays/issues/cancellations for Irish Rail is on X. We'll be writing to them next week calling for them to move this service off X & on to their website where it's more accessible for all users.
Privatisation has failed since 1989
People have no water because South East Water spent more on dividends that on infrastructure
Fines = irrelevant
Only way to get through to shareholders in 🇦🇺🇨🇦 is to take them out of the picture
PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Ed Miliband continues to preside over the only bit of the govt doing good stuff, today with the excellent announcement that the latest CfD auction has secured *8.4GW* of new offshore wind!
Ed: “This is the largest amount of offshore wind procured in any auction ever in Britain or indeed Europe”
🥳🏆
Why rail fares are so high and why nationalising the loss making operators will not solve the real problem bit.ly/4jugYE9 the massive profits (£380m in 2 years for just one) of the rolling stock leasing companies on the £4.1bn annual cost of leasing and maintaining trains
What transportation bike company wants to gift the NYC mayor's office a nice utilitarian bicycle? Seems like a prime opportunity.
Absolutely. People blame online retail (which I think I read somewhere was only 20-odd% of retail sales) or parking, but the inflection point in my home town of Bolton was definitely the “out of town” retail parks just on the periphery of the core town centre streets.
People wonder why town and city centres are struggling, then crap like this is approved. M&S opening in a tin shed, less than 2 years after closing it's city centre store.
Cheap tin sheds.
Low rates and rent.
No thought given to anyone not in a car.
Progress?
www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
Starmer and Farage both drape themselves in flags but once again it's really clear where their loyalty really is.
It's Trump first. They will always be on the side of the super rich and powerful - no matter how heinous the crime.
This is not patriotism. It's subservience.
The Finch LRT will hopefully force Toronto to reckon with two things: that street based transit will *almost* never compete with driving (especially in the burbs) and that people really care about speed. My new piece in the Toronto Star highlights that and makes the case for subways and railways.
I haven't made a video in a year, but Oh The Urbanity has, and today they released an amazing piece on trams as a little Christmas Gift to the world!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLzk...
I see there’s a post about microplastics going around with a photo of drinking straws, so here is my semi-regular reminder that the 3 biggest sources of microplastics are tires (45%), synthetic clothing particles (35%) and paint (~10%).
Lay article attached:
Yes. In addition to long-term street redesigns, we need to enforce traffic laws.
We currently have a culture that doesn’t consider road rules (like speed limits) to be legitimate or real.
Some jurisdictions — Ontario, Alberta — have banned/restricted automated speed enforcement. That’s bonkers.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/light-r...
A depressing read in so many ways
Belfast would be much different today if we had heavy rail or trams running along the old County Down railway
We’re now 23 years on and we still require a mass transit solution for east Belfast,Newtownards and beyond
Don't hold your breath.
Labour absolutely stinks when it comes to walking and cycling.
The only transport mode they seem to care about is driving.
