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Andrew Saffrey

@mapsman.bsky.social

πŸ’Ό Transport planner, highway engineer and urban designer
❀️ Beer, language, architecture, active travel, food, music, geography, politics, fatherhood, Coventry Sphinx FC, Brentford FCβ€¨πŸ“ Costa del Stoke, Coventry 🐘mapsman@mastodonapp.uk ℹ️ Woke AF

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Post image 19.02.2026 19:42 β€” πŸ‘ 35521    πŸ” 13877    πŸ’¬ 466    πŸ“Œ 647

Great proposal this. Continues to be incredibly funny and incredibly stupid that for years we've *banned* bus and rail operators "colluding" to make their timetables integrate with each other.

16.02.2026 11:53 β€” πŸ‘ 436    πŸ” 122    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 7

To make it a true Winter Olympics, is there an event for running home from Lidl in the rain?

15.02.2026 22:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#Arsenal may be 4-0 up, but #Wigan only need one unconverted try to equalise. #facup

15.02.2026 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Burton v West Ham has upset written all over it. But if they play their strongest team, respect their opponents and stick to their game plan, Burton should be safe from embarrassment and make it through to the next round. #facup

13.02.2026 21:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Not sure why some random I’ve never heard of has blocked me?

13.02.2026 20:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A great visual metaphor for the reality of β€œjust go around” for people in wheelchairs etc

11.02.2026 09:23 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Actually, Leeds Bradford should close with operations transferred to Doncaster. Better scope for direct rail link (as a southward projection of the local stoppers that originate from Leeds) and better access to A1/M18 to serve as a regional airport for East Midlands and North East England as well.

10.02.2026 18:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Petition: Require female CPR manikins in all certified first aid training programs The Government should implement minimum standards for first aid training providers to ensure every trainee practises CPR and first aid on a manikin with female anatomy. All training providers should b...

Women are at a disadvantage when it comes to receiving CPR due to lack of female mannequins for first responders to practice on. You can help change this: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

08.02.2026 19:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Damn right. There's still time to transform a wasted govt into a transformational one. It's not as though nobody knows what needs doing, or we're lacking ideas about how.

Labour built the NHS in 3 years, and transformed the nation. They can this too. It just takes will.

08.02.2026 16:57 β€” πŸ‘ 449    πŸ” 108    πŸ’¬ 44    πŸ“Œ 5

One of the biggest signs that the UK is a deeply sick society is how much it hates and fears children.

08.02.2026 09:44 β€” πŸ‘ 277    πŸ” 49    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 4

Probably the most accessible ground by public transport in the country?

07.02.2026 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Golf? Gone down in my estimation.

01.02.2026 08:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Still from the IT Crowd with the caption below Jen (played by Katherine Parkinson) saying: β€œI’m too tired for revolution”

Still from the IT Crowd with the caption below Jen (played by Katherine Parkinson) saying: β€œI’m too tired for revolution”

Live scenes just in.

31.01.2026 13:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I mean why stop there? Houses are inefficient. You’re at work a third of the time, asleep a third of the time. So basically they just get in the way. Everyone should either live in their car or live at work if they don’t have a car.

31.01.2026 13:04 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But traders need access to Dixons

31.01.2026 13:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Turns out, if there’s an β€œAmerican” entertainer you really love, they’ll be either Canadian or dead, or sadly both.

31.01.2026 02:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Cities represent everything they fear.

31.01.2026 02:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It was built by MR so I’m guessing a way to reach London before their routes to Hitchin and St Pancras were built.

30.01.2026 06:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nuneaton Trent Valley sounds exotic. Anything that makes Nuneaton sound exotic has to be a win in my book.

29.01.2026 21:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Snip from: https://www.warwickshirerailways.com/lms/lnwrrm864.htm

Snip from: https://www.warwickshirerailways.com/lms/lnwrrm864.htm

29.01.2026 21:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Wolverton and Bletchley were intended to be renamed Milton Keynes North and South respectively.

29.01.2026 21:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Braverman says she's been "politically homeless" for over 2 years, which means she was reelected in 2024 as an MP for a party she didn't want to be a member of.

And she says Tories "failed Britain [on] Brexit and immigration". She was Brexit minister and Home Secretary. Twice.

But "vote for me!"

27.01.2026 02:08 β€” πŸ‘ 748    πŸ” 232    πŸ’¬ 33    πŸ“Œ 7

I see what you did there…

25.01.2026 19:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

When traffic accident media reporting techniques go mainstream.

25.01.2026 16:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
I support American's 1st and 4th amendment rights.
There is nothing wrong with legally peacefully protesting and videoing.
MAGA, consider it like this.
We lost our minds when we watched Biden's FBI track down and aggressively carry out home invasions and arrest on peaceful J6'ers who walked in the Capitol through open doors.
Imaging if one of our MAGA independent journalists or even just a MAGA supporter stood in the street outside a J6'ers house while Biden's
FBI carried out a law enforcement operation, home invasion, and arrest.
Then Biden's FBI goes to the MAGA guy videoing it all and shoves a woman with him to the ground and sprays them with bear spray then throws the
MAGA guy to the ground as MAGA guy was trying to help the woman off the ground. Then Biden's FBI beats MAGA guy on the ground, disarms MAGA guy, and then shoots him dead.
What would have been our reaction?

I support American's 1st and 4th amendment rights. There is nothing wrong with legally peacefully protesting and videoing. MAGA, consider it like this. We lost our minds when we watched Biden's FBI track down and aggressively carry out home invasions and arrest on peaceful J6'ers who walked in the Capitol through open doors. Imaging if one of our MAGA independent journalists or even just a MAGA supporter stood in the street outside a J6'ers house while Biden's FBI carried out a law enforcement operation, home invasion, and arrest. Then Biden's FBI goes to the MAGA guy videoing it all and shoves a woman with him to the ground and sprays them with bear spray then throws the MAGA guy to the ground as MAGA guy was trying to help the woman off the ground. Then Biden's FBI beats MAGA guy on the ground, disarms MAGA guy, and then shoots him dead. What would have been our reaction?

Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene on Twitter. It’s 2026 and one of the few Republicans who seem capable of acknowledging that 2+2=4 is the person who was first politicized by Qanon.

25.01.2026 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 778    πŸ” 170    πŸ’¬ 68    πŸ“Œ 31

Life is so bad now that people are trying to break into prisons in order to escape.

25.01.2026 08:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This should be a massive F You to anybody still alive who made transport policy in the 1960s

25.01.2026 08:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.

24.01.2026 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 26199    πŸ” 7954    πŸ’¬ 532    πŸ“Œ 275

Government: β€œWe have a shortage of plumbers, we are going to invest in training more plumbers”

Idiots: β€œwell there’s no way that *I* could be a plumber so this is a terrible idea of course”

24.01.2026 23:51 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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